New Year Festivities in Japan and Taiwan (Series #034)

The topic for the 34th presentation in the series was on new year festivities of Japan and Taiwan.

The presenters were Saiki Manami, a freshman from the Faculty of Economics and Chang Hsu Han from the Graduate School of Economics.

 There were nine students attending the presentation.

 The presented centered on the traditions and food of the new year in Japan and Taiwan.

 

Questions from the floor touched on things like the practice of gifts (especially 'money' gifts to children) and the playing of fire-crackers.

Thai trip (Series #033)

Two freshman students from the Faculty of Economics made a joint presentation for the 33rd session in the series. 

Mako Kuzunishi and Miyuu Takeue spent a vacation in Thailand and they took this opportunity to share their experiences today.

There were 14 people in the audience, including 2 international students. 

The session was moderated by Junpei Morikawa.

A comparison between Japanese & American Geography, Climate, & Famous Locations (Series #032)

For the 32nd session in the presentation series, we had the pleasure of listening to Daniel Johnson and Hiroaki Fujisawa from the Faculty of Engineering...

Dan is an exchange student from Toledo University in Ohio, USA, and Hiroaki is a freshman in the faculty.

Their topic is on the comparison of the geography, climate, and famous sites of Japan and US.

There were 13 participants in total, with two being international students.  

Traditional clothes of Japan and Malaysia (Series #031)

After the summer vacation, the presentation series resumed with a talk on traditional clothes...

Sakiko Shimada, a sophomore from the Law Faculty, focused on traditional clothes in Japan...

 Meanwhile, Marcus Khoo from the Faculty of Education talked from the Malaysian aspect...

 The topic ranges from formal clothes to clothes used in weddings, festivals, and even graduation ceremonies...

 Since this is the start of the fall semester, students are trying to re-adjust to the class schedules... there were 15 participants, including 3 international students...

Sakiko presented very well in English... her pronunciations were good...  and Marcus did a fine job in delivering the talk in Japanese...

Superstitions of Thailand and Japan (Series #030)

Wongworapat Kraisate,a student from the Agriculture Faculty, and Yano Natsuki, a student from the Education Faculty preparing to make the presentation...

The topic for this session focuses on superstitions...
 
There were a total of 19 students in the audience, including 8 international students.


This is the last session for this term and we look forward to holding more presentations starting from October.

For the record, a cumulative total of 148 students took part in the LP Meeting for this term. Of these, 98 were Japanese students and 50 international students.

Japanese and Chinese Gift-Giving Etiquette (Series 029)

The topic for the 29th presentation in the series was 'Japanese and Chinese etiquette in gift giving'...

 Twenty students, including five international students attended the session today...

Kaho Kobayashi from the Law Faculty gave a talk in English about the Japanese practices of gift giving...

 Students enjoy their lunch while listening to the speakers...

 The Chinese side of the story was presented by Tou Houi who hails from Beijing Technology University...

There were several questions touching on matters such as why the numbers 4 and 9 were not favored... on why the color red or silver and not black is used for wrappers... and the rationale of the green cap implying infidelity of the wife in China...

The moderator was Fan from China...

Noodles of Malaysia and Japan (Series #28)

Today, Azalia and Sayaa Nishizaki made a presentation on noodles...

Sayaa introduced several varieties of noodles in Japan...

Examples are soba, ramen, udon, and somen...
Her favorite is Tokushima ramen and she recommended us to go to Tokushima to get the real taste of the noodle...

Azalia presented details on three popular noodles in Malaysia...
According to her, a plate of noodles costs about 100 yen, cheap when compared to the prices in Japan...

There were laksa, char koey teow, and mee goreng mamak...
Her favorite is char koey teow and she suggested that Penang is the best place to eat this dish...
There were 23 students today, with 6 of them being international students...

Customs of Japan and Germany... Series #27

The 27th presentation in the series brings us to a talk on Japan-Germany 'Customs'.

Robin Lendel and Martin Schneidereit talked about the Germany side, while Matsushima Yoshika gave a glimpse of how things are in Japan.

There was a total of 25 people in the audience, with 7 being international students.

Next presentation shall be on 'Noodles' of Japan and Malaysia...  the date is 4th June, Monday... 12:00 noon at the International Exchange Space...

Japanese food guide for foreigners, etc... (Series #26)

Today, we start off with a new 'experiment', with two speakers presenting on the same topic... 

 

 One speaker is an international student, and the other student, a Japanese student...

 Gleb Gagauzov is from Russia and he has been with us for just over a month... 

He is currently polishing up his Japanese language skills before moving on the the Faculty of Economics to continue his studies... 

Chisachi Takezaki is a sophomore at the Faculty of Education. She is the President of ICES (Inter-Cultural Exchange Society) which works closely with KUFSA. 

 

The were 21 participants in the audience today, including five international students. 

 

The presentation focused on the Japanese food and delicacies served in Russia. 

 

There were some rather unusual dishes which drew surprises from the audience.