The Japan Foundation, in cooperation with International Education Center and Hachinohe City, Aomori Prefecture, hosts the 60th International Speech Contest in Japanese to be held on June 1, 2019
12 participants from 11 countries were chosen out of 123 contestants from 29 countries/regions in the preliminary round to participate in the Contest

More than 900 people came to watch/listen to the interesting speeches about what the participants think and feel through their daily life in Japan and exchanges with Japanese people

As the result of the contest, following awards were given to the participants who were highly evaluated by the judge/audience.

Foreign Minister’s Award

Kim Dongsoo

(Korea, Coordinator for international relations, Goto city office)

Educational Minister’s Award

Mohamad Owais Albarri

(Syria, Japanese language school student, Meisei Institute of Cybernetics)

Organizer’s Special Award

Liang Yucheng

(China, High school student, Mie High School)

Audience-Judge Award

Ayedoun Emmanuel Sylvestre Olayinka

(Benin, Graduate student, Osaka Prefecture University)

(This contest is to be broadcasted on the NHK Educational TV at 2:00p.m. June 29.)

Outline

Overview

Date	Saturday, June 1, 2019 Starting time: 1:00 p.m.
Venue	Hachinohe City Public Hall Access Hachinohe City, Aomori Prefecture

Participants

For the previous contests

• The list of past contests (in Japanese)