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Donostia-San Sebastian.  According to the Etxepare Basque Institute [Etxepare is the Basque Goverment dependent institution whose aim is to help internationalize Basque language, culture, its artists and their work], the agreement with the Japanese University will be signed next fall (fall in the northern hemisphere) and through this the University commits to introduce studies in the Basque language, culture, society and history at its School of International and Area Studies and at the School of Language and Culture Studies. 

In addition, they are committed to include these into their Bachelors and graduate studies programs and guarantee that they will correspond to the same number of credits that any other course of similar duration and level would include.  The university will also organize other activities to promote and research areas related with these studies such as seminars, conferences, colloquiums and symposiums, etc. 

The mission of the University of Foreign Studies in Tokyo is the research and teaching, theory and practice, of world languages and their respective cultures, to provide the basis for establishing new lines of international cultural cooperation and deepen the understanding of different peoples of the world from their tongue.  About 50 languages are taught and with many others being researched. 

The Etxepare Basque Institute wanted to take advantage of this announcement to thank the Japanese Euskaldunak Sho Hagio, Nami Kaneko and Hiromi Yoshida for their work over the years in favor of the dissemination of the Basque culture in Japan, as well as for their support of the Institute.