“Festina”: Tohoku University’s Indonesian Students’ Festival 2012

Konnichiwa! In this opportunity allow me to introduce Indonesian Students’ Festival called “Festina” that held on the last April at Sendai Fukushi Plaza Fureai Hall. This festival aim is to introduce the diversity of Indonesian culture. Hence, we hope that cooperation and relationship among Indonesian students and Japanese also other countries would be maintained even tighter as well.

This festival’s opening ceremony was chaired by Indonesian Ambassador, Mr. Muhammad Luthfi. After that, Prof. Kimura Toshiaki from Graduate School of Arts and Letters gave some experience when he stayed in Indonesia. He described a story about “how to learn local wisdom of Indonesia's society." Not forgotten by him to mention several Indonesian cuisines that “unforgettable” for him, because of its spicy taste.

Figure 1.    Opening ceremony by Indonesian Ambassador and some experiences by Toshiaki Sensei

Interview for Human Security Program’s Students in Indonesia

Dear all! Human Security Program of Tohoku University is a joint educational program organized by four Graduate Schools of the university, incorporating their rich experiences in academic researches and international cooperation. The program aims at contributing intellectually towards building an international society where people enjoy secure and stable life free from fear and want. Each graduate school offers its own program: Food & Agriculture for Human Security, Public Health Sciences for Human Security, Human Security and Society and Human Security and Environment respectively. Human Security Program also affiliated with Future Global Leadership as Graduate school English course. For more detail, please see this link http://human-security.jp/.

Anyway, since 2009, this program has been conducting the Linkage Course Program with Brawijaya University of Malang, Indonesia. The students are selected Indonesian Civil Servants who got a scholarship from the Indonesian Government. I want to take this opportunity to tell you a story of my journey assisting Prof. Hitoshi Yonekura and Assoc. Prof. Nina Takashino from Graduate School of Agricultural Science, to interview the Indonesian students who apply to Human Security Program.

Interview process.

Tohoku University's Aikido Circle

One of Tohoku University’s circles that has a long history is the “Gakuyukai Aikido” circle—the Student Union’s circle dedicated to the art of weaponless self-defense.