{"id":29477,"date":"2025-10-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/29477\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T12:20:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T12:20:12","slug":"tokyo-university-presents-prestigious-shokumon-award-to-omani-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/29477\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo University  presents prestigious Shokumon Award to  Omani Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The University of Tokyo<\/a> in Japan has presented the prestigious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/ja\/society\/funding\/shokumon_award.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shokumon Award<\/a> to the Government of the Sultanate of Oman in recognition of Oman\u2019s outstanding contributions to advancing scientific research and promoting academic and cultural exchange in the field of Middle Eastern studies.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-95252 size-fusion-800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/wp-content\/uploads\/Japan-2-1-800x533-1.jpg\" alt=\"Tokyo University presents prestigious Shokumon Award to Omani Government\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The award was received on behalf of the Government of Oman by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/tokyo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr Mohammed Said Albusaidi, Ambassador of the Sultanate of Oman to Japan.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The award reflects the pivotal role of the Sultan Qaboos Chair for Middle Eastern Studies, established at the University in 2011.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-95257 size-fusion-800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/wp-content\/uploads\/Japan-3-1-800x533-1.jpg\" alt=\"Tokyo University presents prestigious Shokumon Award to Omani Government\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Shokumon Award is the highest honour granted by the University of Tokyo to individuals and institutions that have made significant and lasting contributions to the University\u2019s progress and academic mission. Oman\u2019s receipt of this award marks a historic milestone, as it is the first foreign government ever to be honoured with it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-95260 size-fusion-800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/wp-content\/uploads\/Japan-4-800x600-1.jpg\" alt=\"Tokyo University presents prestigious Shokumon Award to Omani Government\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is an unofficial English version of an Arabic report. To view the official Arabic text, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/%d8%ac%d8%a7%d9%85%d8%b9%d8%a9-%d8%b7%d9%88%d9%83%d9%8a%d9%88-%d8%aa%d9%85%d9%86%d8%ad-%d8%ac%d8%a7%d8%a6%d8%b2%d8%a9-%d8%b4%d9%88%d9%83%d9%88%d9%85%d9%88%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b1%d9%85%d9%88\/?lang=ar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The award recognises Oman\u2019s contributions to advancing scientific research and promoting academic and cultural exchange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29478,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,111],"tags":[266],"class_list":["post-29477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-posts-and-videos","category-news","tag-japan-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29477"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29912,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29477\/revisions\/29912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}