A Japanese visiting professor of the Department of the Far East Al-Farabi Kazakh National University attended to the event “Art Night”.

On October 25, 2019, the event “Art Night” was held at the State Children’s Library named after Begalin. A Japanese visiting professor of the Department of the Far East Al-Farabi Kazakh National University Ninomiya Takashi, attended to the event. The Japanese professor held a trial lesson in origami, which is a kind of Japanese culture. Along with Kazakh students having studied at the University of Tsukuba and Osaka University, students from Japan who was studying Russian at KazNU also took an active part in the lesson. Kazakh children were very pleased to make a “Crane” with their own hands. The paper crane represents people’s wishes for peace. Also, they made the Samurai’s headdress “Kabuto”. The number of interested children was about 200. On the day, the Japanese students had the opportunity to practice the Russian language with native Kazakh or Russian children.