On April 27, the Bishkek University of Humanities held the 23rd Central Asian Speech Contest in Japanese. The competition was attended by 15 contestants from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

As a result of the competition, the 4th year student of the Department of the Far East Bazilbek Madi took the 5th place and received an award from the Alumni Association of the Japanese branch of the BHU.