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Japanese student arrives at graduation ceremony posing as Volodymyr Zelenskyy

March 28, 2023

Tokyo: A Japanese university student dressed as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at his graduation ceremony in solidarity with Ukraine. According to the report, the student has been identified as Amiki, a student at Kyoto City University of the Arts. The institute allows students to wear whatever they want during the unique graduation ceremony.

Amiki was dressed in a khaki green long-sleeved top and matching trousers, like the Ukrainian president. He told Japanese network Yomiuri that it took him three months to grow a beard like Zelenskyyy’s. Amiki was quoted as telling the network that when he was growing his beard, people said he looked like Zelenskyyy. This was the university’s first graduation ceremony in three years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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