Aung San Suu Kyi travels to Kyoto university

Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has traveled to Kyoto, western Japan, on the 2nd day of her weeklong visit to Japan.She is visiting Japan for the first time in 27 years at the invitation of the Japanese government.

At Kyoto station on Sunday, her compatriots living in Tokyo and tourists cheered as Myanmar's democracy movement leader appeared.She inspected a small hydro-electric power generator utilizing the river current of Katsuragawa at Arashiyama mountain.A group of people who installed the system gave her an explanation of how it generates electricity.

She is said to have had a keen interest in visiting the facility, which she hopes could help resolve the problem of unsteady electricity supply in Myanmar.Aung San Suu Kyi stayed in Kyoto from 1985 to 1986 as a researcher at Kyoto University. She will visit a research institute where she studied and deliver a lecture at the university on Monday.