World News | Japanese students dress like Zelensky at graduation

TOKYO, March 27 (AP) — Wearing his signature olive-colored tight T-shirt and khaki pants, a Japanese student showed up at a graduation ceremony with a lookalike of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to express his love for Ukraine. Support against Russia.

Most graduation ceremonies in Japan feature graduates in suits or formal attire. But Kyoto University has its own tradition, and students will choose different attire on special days.

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This year, Zelensky was the star of the event.

“I am President Zelensky,” the student told local TV network the Yomiuri Shimbun. He said it took him three months to grow the beard.

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He decided to imitate him at Friday’s graduation ceremony because “since December, when I grew a beard, I was told I looked like President Zelensky.”

His performance is more than a hilarious cosplay.

The student, known by his Twitter nickname Amiki, held up a sign with a message expressing his support for Ukraine and a quote from Zelensky’s speech to the U.S. Congress in December.

In the Osaka TV video, he said he respected Zelensky as “a real man among men”.

“We support Ukraine! Justice will eventually prevail, I hope. Glory to Ukraine,” he tweeted.

The student was also holding a wooden shamoji — a spoon for serving rice — like the one Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida gave Zelensky as a gift during his secret visit to Kiev last week.

The rice spoon is a specialty of Hiroshima, where Kishida was born. It carries the wish for victory, but it is denounced as “nonsense” by members of the opposition party.

Giving food spoons to leaders of countries at war seemed inappropriate, the student said.

“Nevertheless, if the Ukrainian people are happy and the traditional prayer behind it is expressed, I am happy.”

Ukraine’s ambassador, Sergiy Korsunsky, retweeted a scene from Zelenskyy’s look-alike video, along with a student’s tweet, expressing solidarity with Ukraine. (Associated Press)

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