Dr. Mohamed Abdel-Sameia, President of Assiut University has signed a memorandum of understanding to set means of scientific and cultural cooperation between Assiut University and Tokyo Institute, Japan. The memo aims at stating methods and mechanisms to enable the cooperation between the two parties in such fields as: teaching, scientific research, mutual exchange of activities, publications, conferences, seminars, and exchange of expertise, the memo also included exchange of faculty members and students.   Dr. Ahmed A. Gaeis, Vice President for Graduate Studies and Research has indicated that this memo is a step towards opening venues with Arab and foreign universities and research institutes to promote the level of graduate studies and research in addition to developing the various educational programs in all fields.