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Tokyo [Japan], July 6: O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU) efficiently convened the third India-Japan Higher Education Forum 2026 on the theme ‘Shaping Universities of the Future within the Era of Human and Artificial Intelligence.’ The Forum in Tokyo introduced collectively senior college leaders, diplomats, policymakers, lecturers and college students from India and Japan for a substantive dialogue on greater schooling, tutorial mobility, analysis collaboration, know-how, sustainability and schooling diplomacy. The Forum introduced collectively a former Prime Minister of Japan, a distinguished Indian parliamentarian, diplomats and senior leaders of Japan’s main universities to form the way forward for greater schooling within the age of synthetic intelligence at a defining second within the India-Japan Special Strategic and Global Partnership.
It assumed particular significance within the bigger context of the India-Japan Summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, which reaffirmed the depth and future path of the India-Japan Special Strategic and Global Partnership. At a second when each nations are advancing cooperation in know-how, innovation, synthetic intelligence, financial safety, resilience and people-to-people exchanges, the Tokyo Colloquium underscored the indispensable function of universities in giving mental, institutional and human depth to this partnership.
The Inaugural Session opened with a Welcome Address by Professor (Dr.) C. Raj Kumar, Founding Vice Chancellor of JGU, adopted by a Special Address by H.E. Mr. Hatoyama Yukio, Former Prime Minister of Japan. In his reflective deal with, Mr. Hatoyama remarked: ‘Japan and India share a relationship that goes past diplomacy and up to date cooperation. It is rooted in a deeper civilisational bond formed over centuries by Buddhism, moral thought and religious change. The philosophy of Yu-ai, or fraternity, speaks to mutual respect, mutual understanding and mutual help, and finds a pure resonance with Mahatma Gandhi’s beliefs of Ahimsa (Non-Violence) and Sarvodaya (The Welfare of All). In this shared inheritance, Japan and India have the chance to supply the world a imaginative and prescient of concord, human dignity and coexistence, impressed by the timeless Indian knowledge that the world is one household.’
He concluded by saying, ‘Education for younger folks is inseparable from the creation of our future, and I sincerely hope that deeper collaboration between JGU and Japanese universities will allow extra college students to take part in mutual change, strengthening Japan-India relations in academia, economics and tradition.’
Professor (Dr.) C. Raj Kumar then delivered the Inaugural Address, confirming JGU’s long-term dedication to Japan and its imaginative and prescient of universities as enduring bridges between the 2 nations. A Special Address was delivered by H.E. Mr. R. Madhu Sudan, Charge d’Affaires, Embassy of India, Tokyo, who conveyed the Mission’s heat assist for deeper tutorial and institutional cooperation between India and Japan and welcomed the Forum as a well timed contribution to the 2 international locations’ Special Strategic and Global Partnership.
This was adopted by the Keynote Address, delivered by Professor (Dr.) Tomohiko Taniguchi, Former Special Advisor to the Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who provided a thought-about perspective on the strategic dimensions of the India-Japan relationship and the function of information, innovation and better schooling in shaping the way forward for the Indo-Pacific and the world at massive.
A key spotlight was the Distinguished Public Lecture by Dr. Shashi Tharoor, Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha, India, and Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs. Addressing a full and distinguished viewers of college leaders, diplomats and college students, Dr. Tharoor mirrored on the evolving relationship between India and Japan and the function of upper schooling, concepts and people-to-people engagement in shaping the way forward for Asia in an age of speedy technological change. In the course of his remarks, he warmly appreciated JGU’s sustained and meticulous efforts in constructing deep and enduring tutorial ties with Japan, observing that institutional initiative of this type embodies the very people-to-people foundations on which lasting bilateral relationships are constructed.
The session additionally witnessed the launch of the JGU Sustainability Report 2026 by Professor Padmanabha Ramanujam, Dean, Office of Academic Governance, JGU.
The Forum’s Panel Discussion introduced collectively an esteemed gathering of senior leaders from Japan’s main universities on a single stage. Moderated by Professor (Dr.) C. Raj Kumar, Founding Vice Chancellor of JGU, the panel featured Professor (Dr.) Kaori Hayashi, Executive Vice President, University of Tokyo; Professor (Dr.) Shoichiro Iwakiri, President, International Christian University; Professor (Dr.) Noriyuki Takahashi, President, Musashi University; Professor (Dr.) Miki Sugimura, President, Sophia University; Professor (Dr.) Nobuo Haruna, President, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies; Professor (Dr.) Matthew Wilson, President and Dean, Temple University, Japan Campus; Professor (Dr.) Masahiko Gemma, Vice President, Waseda University; and Hon’ble Mr. Justice Michael D. Wilson, Former Judge, Supreme Court of Hawaii.
The Forum additionally hosted a Certificate Distribution Ceremony for practically 200 JGU college students who accomplished Short-Term Study Abroad Programmes (ST-SAPs) at JGU’s companion universities throughout Japan in Summer 2026, together with Chuo University, Kyorin University, Musashi University, Temple University, Japan Campus, the University of Tokyo and the University of Yamanashi. The ceremony was offered by Professor Hinaho Kishi, Assistant Professor and Assistant Director, Office of International Affairs and Global Initiatives, JGU, and Ms. Ananya Lall, scholar of the Bachelor of Business Administration (Hons.) programme on the Jindal Global Business School, JGU.
Speaking on the event, Professor (Dr.) C. Raj Kumar, Founding Vice Chancellor, JGU, stated: ‘The third India-Japan Higher Education Forum displays JGU’s abiding dedication to constructing enduring bridges between India and Japan by greater schooling, analysis, innovation, scholar mobility and sustained dialogue on the way forward for universities within the age of synthetic intelligence. As we embrace the extraordinary potentialities of know-how, universities have a accountability to make sure that synthetic intelligence deepens human understanding, advances the general public good and strengthens international cooperation. Universities should stay custodians of human values, crucial pondering, moral judgment and public goal at the same time as they put together future generations for a quickly altering world. It is on this union of technological ambition and humanistic goal that the colleges of the longer term shall be formed, and India and Japan are pure companions in that endeavour.’
Professor (Dr.) Akhil Bhardwaj, Executive Dean and Director, Office of International Affairs and Global Initiatives, JGU, stated: ‘JGU’s engagement in Japan extends far past a single occasion. The Forum displays a bigger institutional effort to create significant partnerships, deepen scholar and college mobility, and construct enduring platforms for sustained tutorial collaboration between Indian and Japanese universities. The Forum, our research overseas programmes and the breadth of our engagements with companions throughout Japan collectively signify a long-term funding within the people-to-people foundations of the India-Japan relationship.’
The third India-Japan Higher Education Forum 2026 affirmed that the way forward for the India-Japan relationship won’t be formed by governments and markets alone, but in addition by universities, students and college students who construct belief throughout cultures, generate new data, and put together the following era of leaders in each international locations to be taught with and from each other.
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