Professor Sukhee Battulga, Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Environmental Studies (Professor at the National University of Mongolia), has been awarded the Foreign Minister’s Commendation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan for 2025.
This award recognizes individuals and organizations with particularly outstanding achievements among the many who actively contribute to various fields of international relations and significantly enhance friendly relations between Japan and other nations. The award was given to Professor Battulga for “promoting academic exchange between Japan and Mongolia.”
At the National University of Mongolia, Professor Battulga has dedicated himself to research and education in the fields of Japanese studies, cultural anthropology, and international relations. In collaboration with faculty members at Nagoya University, he co-founded the Cooperative Center for Resilience Research and conducts research on topics such as disaster prevention and climate change countermeasures. Professor Battulga also contributes to academic exchange, mutual understanding, and the promotion of friendship between the two countries through proposals supporting Mongolia’s development and lectures on Japan’s modernization and history of overseas development cooperation.
