Produced by × JIU TIMES Vol. 2 FALL 2012 Malaysian Tourism Minister receives honorary doctorate by Naho Fujisawa Student, Mizuta Graduate School of International Administration On September 3, Malaysian Minister of Tourism Dato’ Sri Dr. Ng Yen Yen received an honorary doctorate from JIU. On this special occasion, Dato’ Sri Dr. Ng Yen Yen also gave a commemorative lecture at JIU’s Kioi-cho Campus in Tokyo. Her lecture was titled “The Vision of Malaysian Tourism in the 21st Century.” She explained that about 24 million tour- ists travel to Malaysia every year. This means that Malaysia is the ninth largest tourist destination in the world. Also, some Honorary doctorate recipient Dato’ Sri Dr. Ng Yen Yen (center, with certificate), 410,000 people go to Malaysia from Japan Malaysian ambassador to Japan Datuk Md. Som Shaharuddin (second from right), every year. Tourism is one of the main ser- JIU President Yanagisawa (far right), Chancellor Noriko Mizuta (second from left), vice industries in Malaysia, and it contrib- with Dr. Ng’s husband, Dr. Chin (third from left), and son Justin Chin (far right). utes to a high proportion of the country’s GDP (gross domestic product). Mizuta, emphasized that Dato’ Sri Dr. Ng and Josai University. For instance, recently, Dean Kanae Iida of the Department of Nursing Studies along with other nursing department faculty ceremonially place caps on Dato’ Sri Dr. Ng Yen Yen also went on to Yen Yen is the first Malaysian-Chinese some 100 students from JIU and JU went to nursing students during an event held on the JIU Togane Campus. say that to have a tourist industry a country woman to hold a cabinet position, and Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman in Petal- must have peace and that tourism can also only the second minister in charge of the ing Jaya, Malaysia. become a vehicle for changing visitors’ per- Ministry of Women, Family and Commu- In my opinion, I believe this shows that Nursing students receive caps, badges ceptions. She added that because Malaysia nity Development. In 2009, she was ap- our relationship will deepen, and I hope is a multicultural country, it is therefore a pointed Malaysian Minister of Tourism. we can receive many exchange students by JIU Times Dr. Noriko Mizuta, and President Hakuo caring for sick people. colorful and wonderful place for tourists She has initiated many projects. To men- from Malaysia in the near future. Malaysia Yanagisawa, together with mayors of adja- During the ceremony the teachers to experience. In the future, Malaysia aims tion just one, she set up a project called can teach the world a lot about cultural On September 25, a capping ceremony cent local communities, managers of local placed a nurse’s cap on the head of each to try to increase the number of Japanese “My Second Home,” which is designed to harmony and intercultural exchange. Here for the 120 nursing students was held at hospitals and parents. female student and a badge on the left arm tourists to more than a million arrivals. attract retired people from other countries in Japan, too, with increasing globalization, the Mizuta Memorial Hall at the Togane This ceremony was especially de- of each male student. On September 4, there was a Congratu- to set up a second home in Malaysia. this will be a challenge for current and fu- Campus. signed to impress upon the nursing stu- As a declaration of their determination latory Ceremony for Dato’ Sri Dr. Ng Yen Dato’ Sri Dr. Ng Yen Yen has also ture generations. ✯ Various dignitaries took part in the cere- dents the significance of their vocation to become accomplished nurses, the stu- Yen’s honorary doctorate at JIU’s Togane worked on developing the relationships (Read the interview with Dato’ Sri mony, including the university Chancellor, and the responsibility that it entails in dents held candles in their hands. ✯ Campus. The Chancellor of JIU, Noriko between Malaysian universities and JIU Dr. Ng Yen Yen on the back page.) tival is! We don’t really have anything like New Josai/Nikkatsu JIU Festival set for November 3-5 this at university in Canada,” she said. Melike Yildiz, a third-year undergrad from Production Center by JIU Times memorating the many sister-school rela- Drammen, Norway, sold waffles, chocolate tions JIU has established over the past two and soup together with other members of opening in 2013 JIU school festivals emphasize the in- decades, as well as information on the activi- the Norwegian delegation last year. ternational nature of the university and its ties of current and former students abroad “It was my first time ever joining a school by Benjamin Collins programs and this year’s festivities will be at Café Parabéns, organized by the 40-some festival and actually making and selling Student, Faculty of Media Studies no exception. students in Professor Ichiyama’s seminar. food to students and other people visiting International exchange students from Canadian student Sharla Hinskens, an the festival. I had a great time doing all that. Josai International University has part- China, South Korea, Hungary, France, International Exchange Studies major in It was a really good experience.” nered with Nikkatsu Corp. to develop an Norway, the U.S., Canada, Finland and her third year at JIU, will staff Professor The opportunity to interact with stu- on-campus post-production center. Taiwan, as well as Japanese students will Ichiyama’s Brazil booth and café this year: dents outside her regular circle of friends Post-production is the general term for all be participating this year in an effort to “We will be serving coffee and snacks, and classmates stands out in her past fes- the process of editing and adding various share their cultures with each other and as well as performing Brazilian dance and tival experience. effects after the actual shooting of a film. with members of the community at large. songs,” she said. “This year we’ve added “Joining the festival gave us the chance The Josai/Nikkatsu Production Center Examples of popular foreign foods and a new section, so we’ll be participating in to talk to students we usually don’t meet of- will open at Josai University’s Kioi-cho treats will be available for purchase at stu- the research presentation competition as ten and we also got to become good friends Campus in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, in 2013. dent-staffed booths all over campus. well and we’ll be talking about ecology with the students from the Hayashi-zemi The staff of Nikkatsu Corp. will be using Also, various presentations on aspects of education all over the world and more that were helping us with our booth. We the facility for their projects, giving Josai both foreign and Japanese cultures will be specifically in the Amazon area and about worked well together and there was abso- students the hands-on experience on the made at specific times across campus. the important connections between Japan lutely no miscommunication between the A Hungarian student models a handmade embroidered dress from her homeland film making by professionals. International exchange students at JIU and Brazil.” Japanese and the international students.” while French exchange students encourage festivalgoers to visit their booth at the Nikkatsu and Josai University Educa- JIU Festival. involve themselves both in the studies of Hinskens, who hails from Victoria, Brit- Department of International Exchange tional Corporation started the joint pro- Japanese language and of culture — both ish Columbia, set up a Canada booth at Studies senior Daiki Inayoshi of Sosa City, gram as of June 2010. ✯ traditional and popular — as well as serv- last year’s festival and since she was the Chiba, has taken part in the JIU Festival for teamwork, time management and respon- International University’s 20th anniversary. ing as ambassadors of their respective na- only Canadian student on campus, staffed the past three years. sibility, Inayoshi said learning about fair- We have a lot of students who have been tions. Past and current exchange students her booth with an international group in- “When I was a sophomore, I worked for trade was a new experience. to other countries and have a good career. join their Japanese counterparts in student cluding students from Japan, China and the Kokusai Kaihatsu Kenyukai. We sold “Fair trade and the sale of secondhand We will interview some of those graduate Inside This Issue: clubs, whose activities include learning Korea. secondhand clothes and learned about clothes was something new to me. It was students. We’ll also be focusing on agro- traditional Japanese tea ceremony, flower Hinskens reports that some of the prof- fair-trade practices. The year after I was a very important first step toward learning forestry and the Japanese mentality on arranging and calligraphy as well as more its from last year’s Canada booth were in Prof. Ichiyama’s seminar, so I worked what international exchange is.” environmental preservation. Our zemi is Scene on Campus pop-culture pursuits such as playing in the donated to relief efforts in Tohoku in the in the Brazil booth. We sang Aquarela do Participants in last year’s Brazil booth working very hard to make this year’s JIU Page 2 brass band and in club rock bands. aftermath of the March 11, 2011, disaster. Brasil and displayed posters on the Boi were able to raise ¥300,000, which was do- festival a great experience. So if you have In addition to typical school festival fare, “I just want to emphasize what a great Bumba Festival in the Café Amazonas.” nated to charity. time, please come visit our booth and join ▶ Plutschow, Oba Memorial festivalgoers can also view displays com- way to connect with other students the fes- Besides learning valuable lessons in “This year we are going to focus on Josai in our song!” ✯ Symposium ▶ Ferenc Kósa Photograph Exhibition Off-campus environmental study program in Shikoku offers real-world education by Mitsuo Namoto partment was established, for freshmen to see products has increased in number around Honshu and Shikoku.