Greeting to honorable readers
Recently, I've been seeing the name Georgia a lot in Japan. Georgia's success in the recent Tokyo Olympics, Georgian sumo wrestlers, traditional cuisine such as Shkmeruli and Khinkali, and above all, Georgian wine. There seems to be a growing interest in Georgia in the fields of culture and art, such as the poet Shota Rustaveli, the painter Niko Pirosmani, and Contemporary Georgian Films.
As a tourist destination, it has been attracting increasing attention along with its neighbors Armenia and Azerbaijan. Although the global corona outbreak since last year has temporarily slowed down tourism, more and more people will come back to enjoy the rich natural scenery and fascinating traditions and cultural heritage.
Our JICA Georgia office was established in May 2017 in order to strengthen the cooperation between Japan and this fascinating South Caucasus Countries, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.
JICA's cooperation itself has been steadily continuing since some time before, but we are now making preparations with various related organizations to further evolve and develop this cooperation in a multifaceted manner.
In particular, we are focusing on expanding people-to-people exchanges between Japan and the three South Caucasus countries, and are making preparations to increase the number of foreign students studying at Japanese graduate schools as well as experts dispatched from Japan.
We are also planning to start dispatching JICA volunteers to Georgia in FY2022.
We will continue to form and implement important and highly effective development projects, and strive to become an office that is friendly to the people of the South Caucasus region.
MORI Hiroyuki, Resident Representative
JICA Georgia Office
November, 2021
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