Spring 2019 Issue

Global Campus, Global Future

Construction is on schedule and underway at the New TUJ Campus.

Image: April 2019

5 Things You Didn’t Know about the New TUJ The current TUJ campus is located in Minami-Azabu, a largely
By Morgan Zalot and Motoko Mita-Hasegawa
After 36 years in Tokyo and more than two decades in its
current location, Temple University Japan Campus (TUJ) will
move this August into a brand new six-story building on thecampus of Showa Women’s University (SWU).
The new building, specially designed for TUJ, will enhance thecampus’ offerings and significantly shape student life. Below
are five facts you might not have known about TUJ’s new
campus and its transformative effects on its student body.
For the first time in the campus’ history, it will provide a
traditional university setting for TUJ.
Since its opening in 1982, TUJ moved a few times, and thecampus has been spread throughout three separate officebuildings in Tokyo since 1996. TUJ’s move to a true college
campus will be transformative for student life. “We will have a
dedicated building for our sole use, outdoor space (a sort ofquad) and access to athletic facilities. That alone is a gamechanger,” said Scott Hughes, a corporate relations specialist at
TUJ.

residential and business district in Minato City, Tokyo. The newcampus will be located in Tokyo’s Setagaya City.
The new campus will give TUJ room to grow.

As TUJ’s student body has been increasing in recent years, and is
expected to grow from roughly 1,200 students to 1,400 in thenext five years, TUJ’s new campus at SWU will provide
flexibility to continue to accommodate a growing student body.
The new academic building for TUJ will be more than 93,600
square feet.
The partnership between TUJ and SWU is the first of its kind
between Japanese and American universities.
The partnership marks an unprecedented step in promoting the
globalization of Japanese universities by sharing a physicalcampus and will provide for the creation of a new undergraduate
double degree (3+2) program, as well as new research
opportunities for faculty and students alike. The double degree
program will give SWU students in the Department ofInternational Studies and the Department of English Language
and Communication the opportunity to attain baccalaureate
degrees from both institutions after studying for three years at
SWU and for two years at TUJ.
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The campus will provide for a truly international experiencefor students from both universities.
With TUJ’s move, students from more than 60 countries will beenrolled in a close-knit academic environment. This will increase
opportunities for TUJ students to meet and befriend SWU
students, as well as improve accessibility to credit-exchange
programs between the two universities. Students in both
universities will benefit from the SWU-TUJ student exchange
program.

Did you know?
One of the greatest benefits of donating to TUJ is knowing thatyou are making a real difference in the lives of dedicatedstudents.
Temple University, Japan Campus receives no financial support
from the Japanese government, or subsidies from its main
campus in Philadelphia. The university relies on tuition
revenues, and donations from generous supporters to fund its
operations and build its future.

You can have your name inscribed on the grounds of the newcampus.
TUJ has an ongoing fundraising campaign to cover the design,
outfitting and physical move to its new campus. Gifts of $300(¥35,000) or more are eligible for an inscription at the groundsof the new campus.
Other opportunities to leave a meaningful legacy, such asnaming rights, are also available.

Paint the Town Red!

New University Board Members Welcomed
Six leading individuals have been appointed to the Temple
University, Japan Campus (TUJ) Board of Overseers, joining
seven other distinguished members.
The new Board members are:Laurence W. Bates
Executive Officer, General Counsel, Chief Risk Officer andChief Compliance Officer, Panasonic Corporation.
The first non-Japanese to serve on Panasonic’s Board of
Directors, Mr. Bates has spent over 30 years working in the legal
profession in Japan, China and Hong Kong.

TUJ launched a new advertising campaign this spring on selectTokyo city buses to promote the university in advance of its
pending move. A fast-paced video of the Temple RED Bus,
including its transformation to school colors is available online
on the TUJ website. Watch it Now!

The TUAA is Now Online!
Just us on Facebook and Stay informed of Alumni
Events in the Tokyo Area.
Tokyo Chapter

Jason Hyland
Representative Officer and President, MGM Resorts Japan LLC.
Formerly Charge d’Affaires and Deputy Chief of Mission for the
U.S. Embassy Tokyo, Mr. Hyland has received numerous
awards from the Department of State, including Superior HonorAwards.
Ernest M. Higa
Chairman, President & CEO, Higa Industries Co., Ltd.
Named as “Entrepreneur of the Year” in 1990 by New Business
Conference, a Japanese semi-governmental organization. Also,
serves as a Member of the Board of Trustees of Showa Women’s
University.
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An Open Letter to All TUJ Alumni
To all TUJ Alumni:
It is an exciting and transformative time in the history of our university. Later this year TUJ will relocate to a brand-new
and purpose-built campus in Setagaya-ku, Tokyo.
The New TUJ Campus will provide students with an enhanced learning environment including:
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A single building in a traditional university setting
Usable outdoor space and access to athletic facilities
A 50,000-volume library
Expanded studio space for art and photography programs
A dedicated art gallery for the exhibition of student art
Modern classrooms with integrated IT infrastructure
Expansive student common areas and study spaces

The move will also strengthen the growing academic partnership between Showa Women’s University (SWU) and TUJadvancing US-Japan cooperation in higher education, including an undergraduate double degree (3+2) program, a student
exchange program and joint faculty research.
None of this, however, is possible without your support.
Because TUJ receives no financial support from the Japanese government, or subsidies from its main campus in
Philadelphia, the university relies on tuition revenues, and donations from generous supporters to fund its operations.
Tuition money alone, however, cannot build The New TUJ.
A campaign is now underway to help fund the relocation of TUJ and the establishment of a new campus in Setagaya-ku,
and I am inviting all TUJ Alumni to donate to this cause. Gifts of at least ¥35,000 ($300) will be permanently recognizedon the grounds of the New TUJ Campus, and gratefully acknowledged in the following way:•••

¥35,000 / $300
¥100,000 / $1,000¥250,000 / $2,500

Donor name inscribed on a Paving Brick on the Exterior Walk
Donor name inscribed on a Library Carrel
Donor name on the Major Donor WallNaming rights for classrooms and public spaces, and other opportunities to create a lasting legacy benefitting future
generations, are also available. Information on the campus, and details on how you can donate, may be found online
through the following link:

The New TUJ Campus will advance a global vision of higher education pioneered by Temple University in the 1980s thatrecognized that the free flow of information and ideas across cultures was critical to the creation of knowledge, and vitalto fostering universal values and understanding. TUJ has been providing a superior American-style education in Japan forover 35 years. Your support can be a critical part of the next and most important chapter of our history. Donations in
any amount help TUJ create the best possible physical learning environment for students and faculty.
Thank you for your contribution.
Sincerely,

Bruce Stronach
Dean, Temple University, Japan Campus

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New TUJ Board Members
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Paul Kuo

Akiko Yamakawa

CEO, Edinburgh Enterprises.

Partner, Vanguard Lawyers Tokyo.

Served as CEO of Credit Suisse Japan, Board Member of Tokyo
Stock Exchange, Chairman of International Bankers Association,and is actively involved in supporting entrepreneurs as an angel
investor.
Norishige Morimoto
Vice President, IBM Research and Development, JapanIBM Japan, Ltd.
Has more than 20 patents in digital watermarking and copyrightprotection, and several publications in innovation managementwith his extensive research experience and engineering
background.

A member of the Dai-ichi Tokyo Bar Association and the New
York Bar. Won Asian Legal Business Japan Law Awards 2016
and ranked in Asia Pacific Chambers and Partners 2017.
The TUJ Board of Overseers, established and authorized by thepresident and the Temple University Board of Trustees’
Committee on Trustee Affairs in February 2011, serves anadvisory function to provide TUJ with informed support on bothacademic and administrative matters from experts outside TUJ.
With the campus move to Sangenjaya this fall, TUJ plans tocontinue its educational initiatives in global higher education andimprove its presence in Japan with the support of these new andcontinuing distinguished overseers.

Many things have changed since we moved to our present
location in Minami-Azabu. For one, TUJ has become a much
more stable entity. We’ve been here at San-no-Hashi for 22
years, but in the 14 years from 1982 to 1996, TUJ had four
different campuses. TUJ has also grown as an academic
institution, adding more undergraduate majors and graduate
degrees. However, the greatest change is the change in ourstudent body. In 2005 TUJ was the first institution to be
designated by the Ministry of Education, Sports, Culture,
Science and Technology as a “Foreign University, Japan
Campus,” and with that designation came, among other things,
the ability to support foreign student visas. That meant that wewere able to recruit students from all over the world. Previously,
TUJ students had been predominantly Japanese, and American.

Dean Bruce Stronach

An Update from the Dean
Moving On with Our Students
As we approach the end of the last year at our present campus
there is a natural desire to look forward and look back. I am in
the very pleasant position of doing both at the same time.
When we moved to the present campus 22 years ago, Rich
Joslyn was dean at TUJ and has since been a professor at Main
Campus in the College of Liberal Arts. Professor Joslyn and I
are working on a book about the history of TUJ. He is writing
about the years from TUJ’s founding in 1982 until the mid2000s and I am writing about TUJ from the mid-2000s until
now, and on into the future. The book is not just about TUJ’s
history, it is also about how Japanese-American relations overthese 36 years have shaped who we are (and I hope we’ve had atleast some influence on those relations), as well as how TUJ’s
development as an overseas branch campus of an American
university in Japan has also been an excellent example of the
globalization of our world.

When I walk around TUJ and think about where we are headedwith the move to the new campus next year, it is the tremendous
diversity and global nature of our students that I see. I have spent
the past 42 years of my life working in Japanese and American
universities, and I never never worked anywhere as diverse, andexciting, as TUJ. Part of that is due to who we are, an American
university in the middle of Tokyo. Part of that is due to the very
diverse and interesting staff and faculty members who do such agreat job. But for the most part it is the students. When I see ourstudents, I see the future of the world. Or, rather, it is the futureof the world as I hope it will be.
When you bring people from over 60 countries together, putthem in close proximity to each other, and ask them to discussand debate such topics as business, economics, politics, art,
religion, and social mores, there are bound to be disagreements. I
am a firm believer in the dialectic. In my world as it should be,when there is intellectual struggle, when ideas are hotly or coolly
debated, then the end result will be a coming together that forms
a synthesis of those ideas.
But for this to happen there must be preconditions: respect,
openness, and the ability to change one’s thinking. I always say
the same thing to in-coming students at orientation.
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Dean’s Update
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When you meet people from other countries, cultures, religions,or ethnic groups, you don’t have to like everything they do,
wear, eat, or how they behave. We are all human beings, notsaints, and we all have our built-in cultural, ethnic, and religious
biases. However, what we all must do is respect others, andmake the effort to understand why they are different and where
those differences come from. By doing that we not only gain agreater understanding of the world around us, we also gain agreater understanding of who we are and where our biases
originate. We also have to be open with one another; there canbe no hiding from the world. If we challenge others
intellectually, then we must also challenge ourselves. We must
especially challenge ourselves to remain open to change, to see
what we thought strange as normal, to see the merit in otherness.

The world today is beset with questions about how we canremain open to each other. As problems created by technologicalglobalization grow, we all want to crawl back into our safe
spaces. But we cannot. We cannot hide from the conditions on
this earth that have been caused by human behavior, whether it isenvironmental change, ethnic struggles, trade wars, or politicalconflict.
Pardon me if I sound hyperbolic, and hackneyed, but the purpose
of TUJ is to educate those people who will lead us into a newworld. The near future will be all about the struggle tounderstand and manage our world as a global entity. We willneed people who can lead, who are not afraid to open themselvesto different ideas and to others who are different. I have every
confidence that TUJ is headed toward a future made brighter by
its students.

TUJ Panel Analyzes Ghosn Case
By John Szales
The Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies (ICAS) hosted apanel discussion on March 25 to provide insight into thecriminal case against Carlos Ghosn, former chairman and CEOof Nissan Motor, and CEO of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi
Alliance, the third largest automotive group in the world.
The panel began with Hiroki Sasakura of Keio Law School, whogave an overview of the Japanese criminal justice system anddiscussed the legal basis for pre-trial detention as applied to Mr.
Ghosn. David Litt, also of Keio Law School, compared how
analogous transactions would be treated in the U.S. criminal
justice system.

The TUJ Diamond Dinner
The annual Diamond Dinner at Temple University, Japan
Campus (TUJ) brings together members of the university
community with friends and donors in a year-end celebration on
the eve of the school’s commencement weekend. The evening
also serves as an important fund-raising event featuring live andsilent auctions, with all proceeds benefiting student scholarships.
The 2019 dinner will be held at The Tokyo American Club on
May 31st.
The Diamond Dinner regularly attracts members from theinternational business community in Japan, as well as prominent
alumni and parents of enrolled students. Approximately 120 130 individuals attend annually, and the evening generates about¥2,500,000 for student scholarships.
More than half of TUJ undergraduate students depend on
scholarships and other forms of financial aid to meet theireducational expenses, and the school receives no subsidies orfinancial support from the Japanese government or its Main
Campus.
Additional information, including images from recent dinners
may be found online at: Diamond Dinner 2019.
It is a fun evening for a great cause. Join us next year in Tokyo!

Moderated by Professor Stephen Givens of Sophia University,
the discussion also delved into the types of criminal charges
filed against Mr. Ghosn. Mr. Givens led the panel’s analysis of
issues of corporate governance, followed by Akiko Yamakawa
of Vanguard Tokyo law firm, who discussed filing false
securities reports and the basis for individual criminal liability.
Yoichiro Yamakawa of Koga & Partners examined the scopeand precedents of breach of trust law in Japan.
“It’s amazing how [ICAS] bring[s] together such expertise andinsight on topics of importance,” Tom Havens of Northeastern
University commented regarding the event, noting that ICAS
hosted “some of the most enlightening and intellectuallystimulating events available in Tokyo.”
As the Ghosn trial develops, ICAS will hold a postmortem withfurther analysis for the international and Japanese community inTokyo.

Savoring Every Second of Every Day
By George Miller, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
My buddy John is the most sentimental person I know. He’s
constantly making jokes from 30 years ago, posting picturesfrom when we were kids and trying to get our old crew back
together again.

One of the first things I did when I arrived in Tokyo last August
was buy a bicycle. It’s opened up a world to me. I started biking
a few miles every day after work, and spending my weekends on
the road.

It’s great to have that person in my life. As a sentimental person,
I appreciate his efforts and when we all get together, it’s a blast.
But when we do reunite, for me it’s less about waxing nostalgic
and more about doing silly stuff with people I feel supercomfortable with.

I bought my bike from a shop in Koenji and picked it up on thefirst day of their famous Awa Odori matsuri. There were morethan 10,000 performers and hundreds of thousands of spectators.

Because you can’t recreate the past. You can only create newmemories.
I think about that a lot while here, in Japan, nearly 7,000 miles
away from where I grew up, largely removed from a life I
cultivated over 47 years. It’s easy to be homesick, as many of
our students surely know.
Rather than think about what’s missing, I try to savor every
second of every day.
After all, I live in Tokyo, and the potential for adventure isendless.
I always tell students that your college experience is about morethan the lessons you receive in the classroom. It includes thepeople you meet along the way — classmates, teachers and staff,
as well as the place in which you study. Experience it all.
Tokyo is not just the place where TUJ exists. It is a laboratory
for learning, where students can discover history and culture,
meet people from around the world, get practical work
experience and build an outlook on life that is difficult to match
anywhere else.

By biking around the city, I’ve stumbled across many festivals
and all sorts of performances, like this bon-odori in Nihonbashi
and a Latin Festival in Sangen-jaya.
I often get lost while roaming, thinking that my memory is better
than the GPS in my pocket.

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One time, on a Saturday evening, I stopped at a vending machinenear Skytree and noticed a nearby bookstore with English
writing in the window. I walked in and found a dark, smoky
room with a ton of books and a bar in the back. As I neared thesmall seating area, I saw a bunch of people playing guitars. And
as I sat down with my new book and a pint, the guitar players
started singing Beatles’ songs.
It was magical.
And while I was roaming aroundShimokitazawa with friends one day last fall, a young man called
to me and said, “Don’t you teach at Temple University?”
When I said yes, he told me that he was in my 200-student
lecture hall class in Philadelphia a few years ago. So random.
I used to be a photojournalist. That means, everywhere I went, I
looked for different ways to see the world. It helped develop akeen way of examining my everyday surroundings, finding
details and patterns and beauty that might otherwise beoverlooked.

In 2012, when my grandmother was in hospice care, I visited hernearly every day. Eventually, she barked at me, saying, “Get outof here! Go live your life!”
It wasn’t that she didn’t want me there. She just didn’t want me
wasting my life sitting there crying.

In 2009, after about seven years as a reporter, I realized that I
wasn’t seeing beyond the obvious like I did when I was aphotographer. So, on New Year’s Day in 2010, I began a photoof-the-day project that I’ve been doing ever since.

After she passed away, I visited my grandfather once or twice a
week, every week, until I moved to Japan. We’d go out todinner, fix up the yard, play cards, put together puzzles, eat
pudding and hang out with our dogs.

Now, I look for the unusual, the things that stand out, like thisstrange scene in a warehouse near Shibaura.

And I documented all of it. He passed away in January, while I
was here in Tokyo. I feel bad that I wasn’t there in his final days
but I know that during the previous six years, we made the mostof our time together.
It would be easy to be sad, as family are irreplaceable. But I
know that’s not what he’d want.
So, I just keep hitting the road and exploring, constantly seeking
new ways to enjoy my time in this most amazing city, in thisbeautiful country.

My eyes are always open and my camera is always within arm’s
reach.
It can be a challenge to see new things all the time so I force
myself to travel different routes, to talk to strangers and witness
as much as possible, from women’s professional wrestling tosumo to yakyu to monks playing soccer.
I hope my students are doing the same.

In this monthly column, George Miller, TUJ’s Associate Dean
for Academic Affairs (ADAA), shares what’s going on at Temple
University, Japan Campus (TUJ) and with his life in Tokyo. For
this edition, he writes about taking the time to enjoy life beyond
campus.
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Calling All Owls!
Please join us for the 3rd Annual TUJ Graduation BBQ as theTemple University Alumni Association Tokyo Chapter
welcomes the Class of 2019 to its ranks with a roof-top party inOdaiba.
The BBQ brings Senpai and Kohai alumni together incelebration of our alma mater and honors the graduating class.
This year’s event is co-sponsored by Weber-Stephen Products(Japan) GK, and all attendees will have a chance to win some of
their finest grills.
Many of your favorite TUJ faculty and staff will also attend!
The event is free, but space is limited and tickets are available ona first come, first serve basis.
The May 17 deadline has been extended until Thursday, May 30
for alumni only.
Click Here to Register:
Questions: tujalumni@tuj.temple.edu
We look forward to celebrating with you on June 1!
Mayumi Alice Kitaoka, Class of ’94 (UG) and Class of ’14 (EMBA)
Chairperson of Temple University Alumni Association, Tokyo Chapter

Top Minds Gather to Discuss Emerging AI
The Future of Artificial Intelligence and Humanity led by While Morimoto offered an introduction of the topic
Vice President for Research at IBM Japanhighlighting present day AI developments within IBM, and the
By John Szales
On Thursday February 28th Temple University Japan hosted its
2nd annual Executive Leadership Series Seminar, a small-groupinteractive discussion that brings together senior leadership inindustry, academia, media and government to discuss emerging
trends and developments in the world of business, law and public
policy. The series format is structured to allow extensive
discussion.
TUJ Board Member and Vice President of IBM Japan’s
Research and Development Division, Norishige Morimoto, led
the two-hour discussion on the current development of AI, andthe implications the rapidly expanding technology holds forindustry and humanity. Joining the conversation were invitedCEOs and corporate presidents, professors, researchers, as wellas Temple alumni and TUJ faculty.

projected impact upon society in the near and medium term
future, the floor was kept open to regular questions andcomments from the audience. A particular emphasis was placedon the growth and promise of quantum computing and its
exponential impact on data processing and information growth
supporting machine learning.
Morimoto argued that quantum computing has allowed the scaleof information and data gathering to accelerate machine learning,
so that within the next decade, the impact and role of AI ineveryday life will become increasingly apparent revolutionizing
and eliminating not only whole categories of jobs, but alsosignificant components of existing roles, thereby reshaping themand transforming them into entirely new human endeavors.

Morimoto was confident that while particular job categories may
be lost, more workers will be freed from routine work to
maximize productivity, and entirely new fields of work should
emerge over time. However, it was cautioned that short-termlosses are to be expected and potentially severe, with negative
impacts among older workers and those less adaptable to change
and reskilling.
The free-wheeling conversation also touched on the need forvigorous and effective government policy, especially regarding
data privacy, job-training and the mitigation of the worst aspectsof potential near term job loss.
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Team TUJ with Andrew “Scootie” Randall, a 2013 Temple graduate, the Ibaraki Robots

TUJ Students and Alumni Cheer on Former Owls
By John Szales
TUJ students and alumni organized a joint road trip in March to
enjoy a unique Japanese B-League basketball game featuring
two Temple Main Campus alumni athletes now playing
professionally in Japan. Wayne Marshall, a 2008 Temple
graduate and member of Shinshuu Brave Warriors, faced off
against Andrew “Scootie” Randall, a 2013 graduate currently on
the roster of the Ibaraki Robots.

Although the game was fairly close, Wayne and the Shinshuu
Brave Warriors proved victorious in the end at 67-78.
Afterwards, the TUJ contingent had a chance to meet the alumni
players in a brief photo-op. It was inspiring to see how far
Temple graduates can go in the world.
Just like for Wayne and Andrew, the future is filled withlimitless possibilities for us “Temple Made” students.

TUJ alumni and student who participated noted that the event
felt like a “major league game with a small town vibe” and gave
thumbs up to festive atmosphere, including the food trucks
serving up cheap and delicious snacks including everything fromkaraage and okonomiyaki to takoyaki and kebabs.
Although the stadium was not full, the enthusiastic crowd filled
the arena with team chants, with each pause in the match
accompanied by a stadium-wide coordinated dance.
The Robots official dance team led robust cheers and danceroutines employing hoverboards and pop music, they had a great
variety of routines. But the real props, according to fans, go to
the girls of Mito Shogyo High School and Meishu Hitachi HighSchool’s cheerleading teams. They put on heartfelt pregame andhalftime show, the latter featuring a live singer, that had thecrowd roaring with approval.

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Thank You to Our Alumni Donors
To the New TUJ Campus
PatronAnonymous
Toshiaki Yokozawa

Benefactor
Yuki Ikeda
Saori Kayama
Stephen Patrick
Haruka Yasuda

FriendYukie Akagawa
Keiko Aoyama
Pankaj Garg
John Katsuyasu Ida
Tomoko Kaneko

Jean-Pierre J. Richard
Yuriko Takatsu
Yukiko Ozawa
Mihoko Yamagata

Owl
David M. Allen
Isaac Alston
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Naoya Arakawa
Nobuko Arakawa
John Boylan
Brenda Irene Bushell
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Erika Chibazakura
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Chisa Fujita
Koreaki Fujita
Raymond Gasu

Yuri Kurashima Harada
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Yuki Ota
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Kenji Tomizawa
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Toshiaki Uchiyama
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Mami Kadena Yashiro
Shiho Yatabe
Masaki Yokota

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The New TUJGlobal Campus, Global Future
Opening 2019

Location

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