varanasi ahead the visit of prime minister narendra modi with his japanese counterpart shinzo abe on december 12 japan foundation new delhi and banaras hindu university bhu signed a memorandum of understanding mou to promote japanese language in the city on thursday the mou was signed by director general of japan foundation kaoru miyamoto and bhu registrar kp upadhyay on thursday according to the chairman of international centre bhu prof hb srivastava so far the varsity has signed as many as 49 mous with international universities besides national institute of material sciences japan various universities including kansai university shimane university and kyoto university have signed mous with bhu as per the mou under the japanese language native salary support programme japan foundation will provide a teacher at the department of foreign languages of university and will also bear the emoluments the course books and support materials of japanese language will also be provided by the foundation