Food Culture Of Each Region Of Japan (Series #22)

Hotaru Ikehira, a freshman at the Faculty of Law, gave a presentation on the food culture of Japan. 

She separated the presentation into different regions of Japan...

The moderator was Marcus Khoo..

There were 13 people in the audience, including five international students.

“MAINZ am Rhein” (Series #21)

Today, we had a presentation from WOEBER Jonas (Johnny), an exchange student from Germany. 

He talked about the city of Mainz, an old city situated be the River Rhein.
 

He highlighted the city is famous for being the place where the printing press was invented. 

The city is also well known for the Johannes Gutenberg University and the Mainz Cathedral.

According to Johnny, the people of Mainz like to enjoy going to clubs and parties.

There were 16 people in the audience, of which 7 were international students.

The Symbols of Kojima, Okayama (Series #20)

Hayato Morimoto, a freshman from the Agriculture Faculty, made a presentation on his hometown, Kojima.

He did a very commendable job presenting in English, focusing on the main symbols of Kojima such as the marine products and the manufacture of jeans.

There were 14 people in the audience, with international students making up half of it. Wan Bunna was the moderator.

Mad about Malaysia (Series #19)

Marcus Khoo, an international student from Malaysia who is enrolled at Kagawa University under the Teacher Training Program, gave a presentation on Malaysia.

Marcus focused on the food of Malaysia and introduced five popular dishes.

There were 19 people in the audience including 8 international students.

A member of the audience asking a question to the speaker...

Marcus talking about the tea drink in Malaysia...

And demonstrating how to make the tea...

Local culinary specialties in Kagawa (Series #18)

Ai Matsumoto, a sophomore at the Faculty of Economics, introduced three dishes that are unique to the Kagawa area. 

The dishes are Mamba no kenchan, Shipoku udon, and ozoni. 

Mamba no kenchan is a vegetable dish made from a mustard green that is widely grown in this locality. 

Shipoku udon is a winter season noodle dish that consists of many varieties of vegetables and chicken. 

And ozoni is a specialty that is normally eaten during the new year season. 

There were 17 people in the audience, including 8 international students. 

Korea, from the eyes of a Korean (Series #17)

The Lunch Presentation Meeting for the second semester in 2011 started off with a presentation by a graduate student from Korea...

He introduced the participants to some parts of Seoul as seen by a Korean like himself...

There were 16 participants today... 6 of which were international students...

Among the questions were the distance between the sub-cities within the metropolis of Seoul... 

Some students also asked about the reason why he came to Japan and what he plans to do after he graduates...

2011年後期、LP会及びランチ交流会の日程や発表者の案

平成23年後期、LP会及びランチ交流会の日程や発表者の案を発表します。ご意見・提案などがありましたら、ご連絡下さい。

No.	日にち	発表者等	テーマ
1	2011年10月17日（月）、12:10～12:45	元南雄（韓国） Won Namwoong (Korea)	韓国人が見る韓国ソウルの感想 Korea, from the eyes of a Korean
2	2011年10月24日（月）、12:10～12:45	日本人学生
	2011年10月31日（月）	大学祭の片づけ
3	2011年11月7日（月）、12:10～12:45	Markus Khoo（マレーシア）
4	2011年11月14日（月）、12:10～12:45	日本人学生
	2011年11月21日（月）、12:10～12:45	第1回ランチ交流会
5	2011年11月28日（月）、12:10～12:45	留学生（ドイツ）
6	2012年１2月５日（月）、12:10～12:45	日本人学生
	2012年１2月12日（月）、12:10～12:45	第２回ランチ交流会
	2012年１2月19日（月）、12:10～12:45	第３回ランチ交流会
	2012年１2月26日（月）	予定なし
7	2012年１月16日（月）、12:10～12:45	留学生（インドネシア）
	2012年１月23日（月）、12:10～12:45	第４回ランチ交流会
8	2012年１月30日（月）、12:10～12:45	日本人学生

Louyang my hometown (Series #016)

For the 16th presentation in the series, marking the final one for the semester, a freshman from the Engineering Faculty, Du Jinlong, presented about his hometown, Louyang...

Louyang has a colorful history in that she was one of the old capital cities of China before Beijing came in...

 

Du Jintong making a point here...

The moderator was Kanta Kou, a freshman from the Agriculture Faculty...

There were 22 participants in today's session, including 8 international students...

About Rugby (Series #015)

For the 15th presentation in the series, Kenji Deshima from the Faculty of Agriculture presented a talk on rubgy...

This topic provides a change from the presentations focusing on one's birthplace...  

He presented in English, and made a very good effort at it...

Kenji provided an interesting comparison between vairous aspects of the rugby game with that of American football...

There were 23 participants today, with 5 being international students...

The moderator was Lei Kun, from the Faculty of Economics...

There were many questions, some of which asked about whether the players traded punches as is commonly seen in soccer and ice hockey games... 

Apparently, within the High School rugby tournaments in Japan, Shikoku high schools are not known to be strong teams...
High schools in Fukuoka, Kanazawa, Osaka are the strong teams in these tournaments... 

Angkor Wat in Cambodia (Series #014)

For the 14th talk in the series, we have an international student from Cambodia...

Wan Bunna is an English teacher in Cambodia...

He is here to research on how English is taught to students...

The topic today focuses on Angkor Wat, one of two world heritage sites in Cambodia...
Wan Bunna made a very good try to present in Japanese language, with a little mixture of English...
His effort to do so was very commendable...

There were 26 participants, including 7 international students...

The moderator was Ryusuke Hoshikawa, a sophomore from the Economic Faculty...

Japanese sub-culture (Series #013)

Soma Kawaguchi from the Faculty of Agriculture gave an interesting talk on Japanese sub-culture focusing on Japanese anime.

He presented almost thoroughly in English, holding the audience in attention...

The moderator this time was a student from Korea, Cho Sang-Chan, a sophomore at the Faculty of Economics...

There were 43 people in the audience, the largest so far...
Out of this, 17 were international students... among them were 12 students from  Fu Jen Catholic University, Aletheia University (Taiwan) and Korea Maritime University who just arrived to attend our two-week Japanese Language and Culture Program...

Soma asked the audience to identity three sets of anime...
While one participant got the first one right, none in the audience could do so for all three anime...

When asked why he chose this topic, he said that he likes anime and that he wanted to present something different from the others who mainly talked about their hometowns...

All in all, the talk was interesting and well attended...

Fujian Province… my hometown (Series #012)

For the 12 presentation in the series, Yang Yumei, a freshman at the Faculty of Economics, talked about her hometown, Fujian Province, China...

After giving an outline of Fujian Province, she proceeded to introduce the audience on the world heritage sites of the province...

Next, she spoke about the capital city of the province, showing pictures of beautiful gardens and night scenes...

Today, we had 16 people in the audience, with 5 of them being international students...
The moderator was Takezaki, a freshman at the Faculty of Education...   

An interesting local food in Fujian is the fishballs...
Unlike others, these have pork meat stuffed inside... 

On this day, a professional photographer was called by the university to shoot pictures for a mmgazine...