León, Gto., April 11, 2016. The General Rector of the University of Guanajuato (UG), Dr. Luis Felipe Guerrero Agripino, assisted the commemorative reception at the opening of the General Consulate of Japan in Mexico, the first at the country, in command of Mr. Yasuhisa Suzuki.

For 26 years, UG has established a solid relationship with higher-education Japanese institutions. As a result, the House of Studies from the state has seventeen partner universities in the oriental country, with whom they carry out exchange programs where students, professors and researchers participate.

Derived from this collaboration, UG adopted the model of the national institutes of technology or Japanese "kosen", to create the Technological Baccalaureate with International Profile (BTPI), developed in agreement with the Kosen of Fukushima, Ibaraki, Nagaoka and Oyama. With this program, the opportunities to make residencies in Japanese institutions extend to the students in UG's high school.

These programs join the agreements of double degree in the programs of Master and Doctorate degrees in the area of Chemistry maintained with Nagaoka University, and currently they are negotiating another with Hiroshima University, in the area of Engineering.

Other Nippon universities, such as Setsunan, Shiga, Chubu and Soka, have tightened the liaison with UG through academic-cultural stays that, although short, they get Japanese students closes to the Mexican culture.

The opening of this Consulate, located within the city of Leon, inaugurates a new stage in the bilateral relationships between Mexico and Japan, expressed the Minister of State of Exterior Relations of Japan, Mr. Yoji Muto, who trusted in building "a bridge for the better understanding and more exchanges."

In the same sense, State Governor, Lic. Miguel Márquez Márquez, said that the installation of Japanese companies in the state represents opportunities in the areas of innovation, culture and generation of knowledge.