Ahead of President Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s visit to Japan, the State Committee for Tourism Development of Uzbekistan and the Embassy of our country, organized an information tour to the Republic for representatives of leading Japanese media.

The delegation included representatives of such leading media as the NHK Television and Radio Company, the JIJI Press news agency, the newspapers Mainichi Shimbun, Sankei Shimbun, To-o Press, Chunichi Shimbun, as well as the Globe-Trotter Travel Guidebook travel magazine.

It should be noted that representatives of the Japanese media intend to widely cover the visit of Shavkat Mirziyoyev to Japan in December.   

Deputy Prime Minister Aziz Abdukhakimov met with the delegation of Japanese journalists and informed them about the major ongoing reforms in Uzbekistan in the field of education, tourism, sports and others. 

Japanese journalists expressed interest in the changes taking place in Uzbekistan in various fields, political processes, Uzbekistan’s transition to a policy of openness and transparency, cooperation between Tashkent and Nagoya and tourism infrastructure. 

During the visit, representatives of Japanese media travelled to Tashkent, Samarkand, Surkhandarya and Fergana regions. The Archaeological Museum of Termez in Surkhandarya, Archaeological sites of Buddha, Fayaztepa, Karatepa and Alexandria Oksianskaya (Kampirtepa) left a great impression on them.