Centenary Celebrations of Hindi-Urdu Teaching in Japan

Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan celebrated the 100 years of Hindi Urdu Teaching in Japan. It was the perhaps the very first university in the world to initiate the teaching of Hindustani language in the year 1908. In 1958, Hindi and Urdu began being taught separately. From December 12-14, 2008 a conference was held in order to celebrate this momentous event.