On 14th of September 2015, at the Faculty Counsel at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, the members of the board unanimously approved the project proposal of Igor Dovezenski to open a „Laboratory for Eastern Cultures“ within the Institute, and for the first time in Macedonia, classical Japanese martial arts are taken to the academic level. With that, the students from the department IEA for the subjects „Ethnology of Asia“ and „Ethnology of Japan“ are going to have mandatory classes where through exercises, they will study the theory, as well as the
techniques of the arts that are taught in the Organization „Taiyou e no Michi“.
techniques of the arts that are taught in the Organization „Taiyou e no Michi“.The instructor Igor Dovezenski would like to use this opportunity to express his tremendous gratitude to the Head of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Dr. Ljupcho Risteski, and to his colleagues as well for the enormous support throughout the realization of the idea.
At the same time we inform all high school students in the Republic of Macedonia who are interested in the Eastern Cultures, and all fans of the culture and the tradition of the „Land of The Rising Sun“, that with the enrollment and studying at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology would have the opportunity to acquire knowledge from the physical, social and spiritual culture of Japan.