League-led lockdown, Japanese embassy event postponed

Staff Correspondent

The grand finale of the “1st Japanese Speech Contest, 2025” organized by DJS Japanese Language Club, Department of Japanese Studies, Dhaka University, was scheduled to be held tomorrow, November 13. However, due to unavoidable circumstances, the scheduled schedule has been changed and the competition will now be held on Sunday, November 16, 2025. The venue has been decided to be the Muzaffar Ahmed Chowdhury Auditorium, Faculty of Sociology, Dhaka University.

Although the club’s general secretary, Piyas Kumar Pal, sincerely regretted the change due to unavoidable reasons on behalf of the organizing committee and wished the enthusiastic presence of the participants, guests and language lovers in the competition on the changed date; it is known from sources that the law and order situation in the capital Dhaka has become quite delicate due to the lockdown called by the Awami League on the occasion of the 13th. At the same time, street politics have become heated. Therefore, the sponsors of the event, the Japanese Embassy and the Japan Foundation, did not agree to continue the event on the 13th. It is known that an influential teacher of the Japanese Studies Department, who is a white party member, insisted on organizing the event on the 13th, but later it did not survive the wash.