On April 11, 2018, JAXA President Hiroshi Yamakawa met with Bhutan Prime Minister H.E. Tshering Tobgay. Bhutan’s first small satellite (developed under the BIRDS Project of Kyu-tech University) is expected to be deployed from the Japanese Experiment Module “Kibo.” Through this activity, they discussed the furthering of space cooperation between JAXA and Bhutan as well as potential cooperation areas such as education.