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According to an article written by journalist Toshihiro Yamada for the 16 June 2017 issue of the “Weekly Post" magazine, Mohamed Shokba, an Al-Azhar University graduate and an interpreter and translator living in Cairo, watched the video clips of Koike's interviews and said “Her Arabic is so bad I doubt that she graduated from Cairo University and worked as an interpreter even taking into account that it was forty years ago. Sentences are incomplete and she uses strange words which we never use".
Embellished Academic Records
Apart from the dubious claim that she graduated from Cairo University, Koike has lied, or given inaccurate statements, about her own student life and grades.
The most obvious one is that she claims to have graduated from Cairo University as the No.1 student. Koike wrote a book titled "Learning Arabic in Three Days" (published 1983). According to this book, "(Koike) is the second Japanese person and the first female Japanese national to have graduate from Cairo University. Koike claims that she graduated as “the No.1 student" from the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts".
However, the diploma that Koike recently showed briefly on Fuji TV states her overall grade is "jaiid" (good). Cairo University's grades are, from the top, "imtiyaaz (mumtaaz) (excellent)", "jaiid jiddan (very good)", "jaiid" and "maqbool (accepted)". If the grade is below "maqbool" it is failure. Koike’s grade of “jaiid" is second from the bottom among passing grades and obviously it is impossible to be the No.1 student among about 150 students (most of them are Egyptians).
There is another lie. In Koike’s book “Furisode (Japanese Kimono) Climbing the Pyramid" (published 1982) Koike wrote "I entered the Department of Oriental Studies at the American University in Cairo (AUC) in 1971 and completed the course the following year". However, there was no such department in AUC at that time.
In another profile Koike wrote "I graduated from the Department of Oriental Studies at the American University in Cairo". This profile does not mention Cairo University. (The two profiles are shown below.)
Koike’s profile in “Furisode Climbing the Pyramid", a magazine and "Learning Arabic in Three Days"拡大画像表示
The website of the American University in Cairo states that Koike attended a non-degree Arabic language course for foreigners at its foreign language school CASA (Center for Arabic Study Abroad).
Contrary to what Koike writes, “Department of Oriental Studies" did not exist at AUC then.
CASA's Arabic language courses have three levels; elementary, intermediate and advanced. A Japanese businessman who studied there in the same year as that of Koike confirmed to me that she was in the elementary class. This is consistent with her level of Arabic.
Furthermore, Koike claims to have entered Cairo University in October 1972 and graduated in October 1976. But in her book “Furisode Climbing the Pyramid" she states that she failed in the first year and was unable to advance to the second year. If that is the case, the graduation would be after 1977, as journalist Taeko Ishii, author of " Fake CV " points out. I was also told by many Egyptian state university graduates that if you fail in one year, there is no way to graduate in four years and it is exactly like the system of many other countries. Koike has yet to explain about this accusation to us.
