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IUJ ULIS have signed a MoU
The International University of Japan (IUJ) and University of languages and International Studies- Vietnam National University, Hanoi (ULIS) signed MoU on June 6th, 2015.
President Nguyen Hoa and , Vice President Ngo Minh Thuy and 2 staff of ULIS visited IUJ, where the signing ceremony was held.
The president of ULIS, Ngyen Hoa, said “This MoU will be a really significant step towards fostering professor and student exchange .
We have cooperated with The Center for Language Education and Research, at IUJ. We’re going to promote Japanese language education based on this MoU.”
The president of IUJ, Shinichi kitaoka stated “We agreed the first overseas office will be established at ULIS. We would like to cooperate with each other not only as two universities, but also as two nations.”
IUJ will hold training for Vietnamese teachers of Japanese for 2 weeks at ULIS this year based on this MoU.
The first overseas office at ULIS will be established in March 2017.
* ULIS belongs to agroup of elite universities in Vietnam, and they have a top-notch Japanese language department.
IUJ President Kitaoka(Left), President Hoa (Right)
Change in IUJ Leadership
Mr. Shoei Utsuda, Former Chairman of the Board of Directors at Mitsui & Co. Ltd., assumes the position of IUJ Chairman as of June 1, 2015. He succeeds Mr. Yotaro Kobayashi, who has served as Chairman of the University since May 2003.
Mr. Shoei Utsuda served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Mitsui & Co. Ltd. from October 1, 2002 to April 2009. He was the Chairman of Mitsui & Co. Ltd. since April 1, 2009 until April 2015. He also served as the Vice Chairman of the Japan Business Federation “Nippon Keidanren” from 2007 to 2011,Counselor to the Policy Board of the Bank of Japan from 2007 to present, and Chairman of the Japan Foreign Trade Council, Inc. from 2010to 2014. Mr. Utsuda received his degree from Tokyo University.
IUJ welcomes Mr. Utsuda to this post.
Since IUJ’s establishment in 1982, the former Chairman Kobayashi has made great contributions to the development of IUJ with his excellent leadership. He served as the Board of Directors from 1982 to April 2003, and served as the Chairman from May 2003 to May 2015. In recent years, through his contribution, IUJ concluded an agreement on an incorporated alliance partnership with Meiji University in January 2013, and was selected for the Top Global University Project of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) in September 2014.
“Roundtable on Building Education and Research Capacity in Africa”
Poster Exhibition and Session Participation in “Roundtable on Building Education and Research Capacity in Africa”
In accordance with the 4th Global Research Council (GRC) annual meeting, a roundtable discussion on “Roundtable on Building Education and Research Capacity in Africa” was held in collaboration with JSPS and NRF.
We participated in the poster session aimed at networking toward the strategic development in Africa which is one of IUJ’s SGU activities.
In the poster session, we presented our general school information, achievements in hosting students from Africa in the past (ranked at #1 in terms of the number of successful applicants in the 1st batch of ABE Initiative and broadening alumni network), and strategic educational development in African countries in the future ( increasing the number of foreign students and expanding the number of affiliated schools for academic interactions including student exchanges and faculty invitations). The number of IUJ alumni from Africa reached 168 from 27 countries (as of Sep. 1, 2014) and we especially stressed a strong network with 51 alumni in Ghana, through which we already have a base for strategic development in Africa.
At the social gathering after the poster session, we had the privilege of talking to Ms. Eudy Mabuza, Minister-Counsellor and Mr. Daisuke Tanaka, Liaison Officer of the Department of Science and Technology, South African Embassy Japan. Mr. Tanaka expressed his interest in IUJ and would like to visit us in the near future.
We will connect the network built in this poster session to our strategic development in Africa.
“Roundtable on Building Education and Research Capacity in Africa”
Date and Time: May 26, 2015 (Tue) 12:00-17:00
Place: Hotel Okura, Tokyo, Japan