Poland's First Lady

First Lady of Poland

Poland's First Lady gave us the honor of a visit on April 12. She came to our Kioicho campus for a talk on children's rights.

New Hungarian Students

My new advisees from the College of Nyiregyhaza, Hungary, arrived in Japan and will be studying here with us for one year.

Freshman Seminar in Kamogawa (April 6 & 7)

Kamogawa: April 2012

Honorary Degrees: Dr. Kaplan and Dr. Lemkow

Dr. Ann Kaplan from the United States and Dr. Louis Lemkow from Spain received honorary degrees from JIU on Tuesday during the Opening Ceremony.

The day after the ceremony we had a traditional Japanese meal in Togane.

The evening of the ceremony we had a banquet and three of our foreign students were there as well. We took a photo after the party in front of the beautiful flowers.

Wow! What a huge box?

What a big gift? Guess what's in the box?


Yes, lots of great Norwegian chocolate. A gift from Patrik and his parents who were recently in Japan. Needless to say how lucky I felt!

April 2: "Jirei"

We usually receive our "Jirei" on April 1st, but as it was a Sunday, we received our appointments officially today. I was reappointed chair of the Department of International Exchange Studies and will continue as chair of the Center for Language Education and Associate Director of the Center for International Education. This is going to be another busy year.

Satoko's wedding

Satoko had a great wedding party here in Chiba today. She looked really happy and was so beautiful in her traditional kimono, white dress and then the last ocean blue dress. Congratulations, Satoko. I wish you all the very best!

With her JIU seminar classmates--a great reunion.

Her colleagues from ANA.

Welcome, Argel & Jaron

We invited Argel and Jaron to a small welcome dinner at Yutaka Friday evening. They just arrived in Japan from Hawaii and are transferring to JIU as third-year students.