Director Tsuzuki (3rd left), Superintendent Ikegami (4th left), Governor Suzuki (5th left) & Director-General Peng (6th left) after the signing

The Ministry of Education’s Primary and Secondary School International Educational Exchange Alliance was set up in 2023 to nurture the core values of multiculturalism and international understanding among students, in response to the globalization trends in primary and secondary education.

On February 19, 2025, it signed a memorandum of understanding on educational cooperation with the Shizuoka Prefectural Board of Education and with the Sports, Culture and Tourism Department of Shizuoka Prefecture to enhance the understanding of each other's culture and history of primary and secondary students in Taiwan and those in Japan, and promote educational exchange trips.

The MOU was signed by Peng Fu-Yuan 彭富源, Director-General of the K-12 Education Administration of Taiwan’s Ministry of Education, by Prof. Ikegami Shigehiro, Superintendent of the Shizuoka Prefectural Board of Education, and by Mr. Tsuzuki Naoya, the director of the Sports, Culture and Tourism Department of Shizuoka Prefecture.

The Taiwanese delegation included Chen Yuen-Ju 陳韻如, the principal of National Tainan Chia-Chi Senior High School, who serves as Deputy Executive Director of the Primary and Secondary School International Educational Exchange Alliance; Yang Yi-Qiang 楊益强, the principal of Daan Vocational High School; Cheng Wen-Yi  鄭文儀, the principal of Kaohsiung Girls' Senior High School; and personnel from the Education Division of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in Japan. The approximately 40 Japanese attendees included officials from the Shizuoka Prefectural Board of Education, and the Sports, Culture and Tourism Department of Shizuoka Prefecture, and media representatives.

Immediately after the signing ceremony, the Taiwanese delegation met with Mr. Suzuki Yasutomo, the governor of Shizuoka Prefecture. Governor Suzuki said that educational exchanges help deepen international understanding, and he expressed hope that this MOU would strengthen friendly relations between Taiwan and Japan.

In 2024, Shizuoka Prefecture hosted seventy educational exchange trips by students from schools outside Japan, and 30% of these exchange trips were undertaken by students from Taiwan. It is hoped that the signing of this memorandum of understanding will increase educational cooperation between Shizuoka Prefecture and Taiwan, promote mutual exchanges between schools, and provide more opportunities for international student exchanges that will help their students develop core competencies in multiculturalism, and international understanding.