Lunch Presentation Meeting (Series #054)

For the 54th session in the Lunch Presentation Series, the students wanted to try out doing it in another format. Thirteen international students and fourteen Japanese students attended this session. In the first half of the session, they organized themselves into five groups and discussed what they liked and disliked about Japan. In the later part of the session, one representative from each group presented a summary of what they discussed. One of the aims of this format is to encourage inter-changes of viewpoints in small groups. I think the session went pretty well, and the objective largely achieved.

"La France et ses régions" and " Kompira Kabuki" (Series #041)

For the last presentation in the year 2012, Clement Heirwegh from France made a presentation titled 'La France et ses régions'. Meanwhile, Hikaru Makino from the Economics Faculty gave us an introduction on the Kompira Kabuki. The presentation was attended by 8 international students and 5 Japanese students.

The beauty of the Philippines, On Japanese Idioms (Series # 039)

Ivy Santiago Liwa from the Philippines made a presentation on the Philippines while Fumi Osaka, a freshman from the Education Faculty presented on some interesting Japanese idioms. Ivy covered various aspects of the Philippines, ranging from traditional clothes, religion, food, climate, etc. Fumi made a very good effort to present in English and I commend her for that. There were nine international students and five Japanese students attending the presentation. Thank you to the both of them for their presentation.

"Traditional clothes of Japan & Vietnam " (Series #037)

We had the pleasure of listening to two students presentaing on the topic of 'Japanese and Vietnamese Traditional Dress'... Nguyen Thi Ha Phuong, a freshman from the Faculty of Economics, donned the traditional dress of Vietnam while Junpei Morikawa, a sophomore at the Faculty of Law was dressed in the traditional attire of the Archery Club. There were 17 students attending this session, with 7 being international students...