On March15, 2015, while in Sendai to attend the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, His Excellency Sergei K. Rakhmanov, the Ambassador of Belarus, and Counsellor Sergei Terentyev visited Tohoku University. He paid a courtesy call on Executive Vice President Toshiya Ueki and Professor of the Graduate School of Agricultural Science Akihiro Kijima.

The parties discussed the possibilities of academic exchanges, as well as cooperation in regional industry between Belarus and Japan.

There are hopes for future cooperation in the fields of disaster recovery (with a focus on removal and decontamination of radioactive waste and soil), Law, Medicine, Education and Agriculture.

EVP Ueki, Ambassador Rakhmanov and others