Maharashtra’s deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis has been bestowed with an honorary doctorate by Koyasan University of Japan. He is the first Indian to receive such an honour from the prestigious institution that started as a small school in 1886.

Fadnavis, who is on an official tour of Japan—with whom Maharashtra has developed a partnership for infra and transport projects—visited the university on Tuesday. Ryusho Soeda San, President of Koyasan University, announced that the Mayor of Koya-cho Yoshiya Hirano will ceremonially hand over the doctoral citation to Fadnavis in Mumbai later this year.