TUJ TIMES

Vol. 5Fall
2005

U.S. AMBASSADOR GIVESKEYNOTE ADDRESS AT
MILESTONE TUJ GRADUATION

for TUJ’s ability to offer its students beneﬁts

he said, “supported and encouraged theselong denied them.

graduates, and in many instances you have

It was ﬁtting, therefore, that whatmade signiﬁcant personal sacriﬁces forfollowed Ambassador Schieffer’s remarks

them. This day of their accomplishment is

On June 11, 2005, TUJ held its ﬁrst

was the reading of a telegram from Japan’salso your day.”commencement ceremony since its

Minister of Education, Nariaki Nakayama.

designation as a Foreign University, Japan“Over many years,” the minister graciously

Campus, by Japan’s Ministry of Education.

stated, “TUJ has contributed signiﬁcantly to

The ceremony featured a keynote speech

the internalization of higher education in

by U.S. ambassador to Japan J. Thomas

Japan and to the development of a stronger

UNDERGRADUATE BOOM
BREAKS RECORDS

Schieffer, who

friendship between

TUJ is bigger, better, and more international

addressed theJapan and the U.S.

than ever. The number of undergraduate

graduates at Tokyo’s

I would like tostudents in the fall semester reached 575, far

Radisson Miyako

congratulate all theexceeding the previous record of 496, with

Hotel. In addition,

graduates and lookthe number of full-time students up almost

the commencement

forward to your50%. And among those full-time students

witnessed thecontributions inare nearly 100 foreign students, including

1,000th graduate

various ﬁelds around73 (another record high) study-abroadof the Master ofthe world.”

students from the United States and about

Education in TESOL

Representatives(teaching English to
speakers of otherlanguages) program,

U.S. ambassador J. Thomas Schieffer gives his keynote
address at the TUJ graduation.

20 students from around the world whofrom the graduating

have chosen to do full degree programs atclass then addressed

TUJ. This latter group of foreign students isthe audience, andbeneﬁting from TUJ’s new ability to sponsor

which was the ﬁrst degree program to be

their comments were followed by thestudent visas as a result of the designation

offered by TUJ after it opened in 1982.

highlight of the ceremony—the presentationfrom Japan’s Ministry of Education.

Ambassador Schieffer is the ﬁrst
U.S. ambassador to Japan to attend aof diplomas.
TUJ dean Kirk R. Patterson closed the

To better serve the increasing number offoreign students, TUJ established the Ofﬁce

TUJ commencement. In his address, he

two-hour ceremony by congratulatingof International Students (OIS) on July 1. The

congratulated the graduates on their

the graduates and by recognizing thenew ofﬁce is managed by Dr. Kyle Cleveland,

accomplishments and wished them

contributions of TUJ faculty and of families

who also continues his responsibilities as ancontinued success. He added, moreover,and friends to graduates’ lives. “You have,”

undergraduate professor of sociology andthat the “Temple University, Japan Campus,

the director of the Institute of Contemporaryclass of 2005 is unique. You will be,” heJapanese Studies.

proclaimed, “the ﬁrst class to graduate sinceMore students, of course, also mean athe government of Japan declared Temple

larger faculty. Many of the new members

to be a foreign university with a Japanto the faculty at TUJ are highly respected

campus. Hopefully, other universities willteaching professionals and researchers inreceive similar declarations, but no matter

their areas of expertise.

how many may follow, you will always be

To accommodate TUJ’s growing student

the ﬁrst, and that will continue to be a

and faculty populations, TUJ has added thesource of pride.”“Annex”—the ﬁfth ﬂoor of a building on

Ambassador Schieffer’s comments camea street adjacent to the TUJ campus—to its

after more than 20 years of negotiations

facilities. The Annex houses TUJ’s humanbetween TUJ and the Japanese Ministry of

resources, communications, and accounting

Education. His address underscored how

ofﬁces and is only a three-minute walk frommuch the ministry’s designation of TUJ asa Foreign University, Japan Campus, means

Japan’s minister of education, Nariaki Nakayama, sent thistelegram congratulating TUJ and TUJ graduates.

the main facility.
Stay tuned for further exciting changes!

TUJ GRADUATES ITS 1,000TH
MASTER OF EDUCATIONIN TESOLTESOL doctoral program in Tokyo andof the strongest festivals since NextFrame

Osaka. The M.Ed. program currently has acame to Japan.”

On June 11, 2005, Nami Nakayama had thestudents are Japanese, and the rest are

showings by guest speakers from Japan’s

distinction of being TUJ’s 1,000th recipient

Americans and other nationalities. Almost

movie industry. Professor Neubert, however,of a Master of Education (M.Ed.) in TESOL

70% of these students are actively teaching

admits that “there is still a long way to go to(teaching English to speakers of other

English at universities and colleges,

making our event an acknowledged festival

languages).

senior and junior high schools, and otherin Japan!”yearly enrollment of about 260 students.

An extra treat at this year’s NextFrame

Approximately 50% of the program’s

Nippon were the talks provided after ﬁlm

educational institutions in Japan.
As an indication of the continuing
strong demand for TESOL education, TUJ
launched new doctoral cohorts in Tokyo
and Osaka in September 2005. The total

MASTER OF LAW STUDENTS
IN JAPAN GET GOOD NEWS

enrollment of 58 students is far ahead of

Temple University just made it easier for

initial projections, even though many well-

its law students in Japan to complete their

qualiﬁed applicants were rejected.

degrees. Students can now complete 18 of
their 24 credits at TUJ. Only the remaining
6 credits must be completed outside Japan

Nami Nakayama, the 1000th graduate of TUJ’s M.Ed.
in TESOL program, is being congratulated by program
director Dr. Ken Schaefer.

TUJ’S FILM FESTIVAL
PROVES A SUMMER HIT

in a single summer session at Temple’s

NextFrame Nippon 2005, an international

students had to spend a full ﬁve-month

student ﬁlm festival presented annually bysemester at the main campus, making it

TUJ, attracted 700 ﬁlmgoers during its one

difﬁcult for students working in Japan

week in Tokyo in July. This year’s festival

to complete the program. For more

Philadelphia main campus (seven weeks)or Rome campus (ﬁve weeks). Previously,

included entries

information about the TUJ

from Belgium,law program, visit

Canada,http://www.tuj.ac.jp/law/.

Germany,
Lebanon, theTUJ INTRODUCESITS PRE-MBA
PROGRAM

United States,
Ms. Nakayama, who studied at

Slovakia, and the

TUJ’s Fukuoka campus, was as surprised

United Kingdom.

as everybody else when she crossed the

The entries

podium to receive her diploma at TUJ’s

were culledcommencement ceremony and was heralded

from NextFrameas the 1,000th graduate of TUJ’s M.Ed. in

Nippon’s

TESOL program. The distinction earned hersister festival,a bouquet of ﬂowers and special remarks

NextFramefrom Dr. Kenneth G. Schaefer, who has

UFVA’s Touring Festival of International

for a full MBA to take related businesstaught and directed the program sinceStudent Film and Video in the United States,classes while continuing to work.

1984. “In 1985,” he said, “we granted theand spanned a variety of themes and genres,ﬁrst Master of Education degree at TUJ.

from the traditional love story to abstract

to take up to three MBA classes without

Now, 20 years later, it’s clear that many ofanimations.

admission to TUJ’s MBA program. Full credits

TUJ now offers MBA courses
From left: NextFrame Nippon 2005’s curator Tomo
Suzuki, ﬁlmmaker Travis Klose (“Arakimentari”), and
NextFrame Nippon’s director and TUJ faculty member
Karl Neubert speak following a ﬁlm showing.

to nondegree students. This
option enables aspiring
managers who aren’t readyfor the challenge of studying

The Pre-MBA program permits students

the very best language teachers in Japan

NextFrame is the 1993 brainchild of

are TUJ graduates. We are proud to marka graduate student in ﬁlm and media arts

are given for these courses and may be
applied toward an MBA should the students

this important milestone: master’s degreefrom Temple University in Philadelphia. It

enter the degree program.

number 1,000.”

arrived in Japan under TUJ’s coordination

Enrollees in TUJ’s new Pre-MBA

The Master of Education in TESOL

in 1999. NextFrame Nippon 2005’s director,

program beneﬁt from the same highprogram is designed primarily for people

Karl Neubert, a professor of ﬁlm studies atstandards that are the hallmark of all TUJ

who teach English to speakers of Japanese

TUJ, thanked his students for helping toprograms and courses. They study alongside

and other languages. It is one of the top

sell tickets, write subtitles, and manage thefull- and part-time students, are taught byprograms of its type in the world and offers

event, of which he said, “we were able to

U.S.-based professors, and increase theirstudents a unique blend of theory andmore than doubleinternational exposure and career potential

practice. It was the ﬁrst degree program

our audiencethrough interaction with peers and faculty.

offered when TUJ opened in Tokyo andcompared with last

For more information about the Pre-MBA

Osaka in 1982. In 1988, TUJ launched theyear, and I think weprogram, please visit www.tuj.ac.jp/mba.

program in Fukuoka and introduced aput together one

ALUMNI NEWS What Are TUJ Alumni Up To?
Undergraduate Program

Send your news to alumni@tuj.ac.jp

the Ministry of Justice, Olympus, Pﬁzer, andMorgan Stanley. In addition, he has appeared on

MBA Program

Michiyo Matsuoka (BA, ’93) worked for TUJ

four major and independent releases in Japan as

Ian Pulford (MBA, ’01) was recently appointed

until last year as a sales executive in Corporatea guitarist and can be heard every Friday night

president for British Telecom’s Japan operations,

Education. During her time at TUJ, she participatedat Eddie’s Lounge in Kita-Senju. He and his wife,

BT Japan. Previously, he led the company’s

in one of the programs in Continuing Education

Yuko, are expecting their ﬁrst child this December.

wholesale operations in Asia-Paciﬁc, the Middle

and learned how to become an entrepreneur.

greyblooz@mac.com

East, and Africa as vice president.

worked in the U.S. (San Diego, CA) for a couple ofHiroshi Koito (BA, ’04) works at a top afﬁliate of

Makoto Hirano

years in the hospitality industry. Since then, I havethe online marketing company ValueCommerce,(MBA, ’02) left

always wanted to own my own business—to bewhich pioneered the industry, and has been

NTT and is now

an entrepreneur. Temple has taught me to be a

instrumental in helping customers and media

a professor atgoal achiever, to be independent, responsible, andpartners to manage, scale, and generate sales

Kochi University

conﬁdent. I achieved my ﬁrst goal—to becomeand revenue from their online channels. He

of Technology. He

a business owner—in ’98. After that, I had thedeals with how merchants and media partners

recently publishedopportunity to help another person launch his

can beneﬁt by providing more efﬁcienta book in Japanese,

new business, and right now, I am again excitedtechnology. He is increasingly interested incalled Gijutsusha

to set up another new business with my businessprogramming and building online purchase forms.

no Tameno Kigyo

associates. Without having studied and learned

koitohiroshi@hotmail.com

Manual (A Venturing“After graduating from the main campus, I

different skills at Temple, I would not be where

Manual for

I am now. I still have a lot of good friends andYuichi Takahashi (BA, ’04), president of the TUJEngineers), through Soufukan Publishing Co. In his

mentors at Temple, and I hope that I can keep

student government in ’04, graduated in spring

book, he describes how impressed he was by thegood friendships with everyone in the future as2005 and started working at GE (General Electric,education he received in the MBA course at TUJ.

well.” michiyotokyo@hotmail.com

Inc.) as a member of its Financial Management

hirano.makoto@kochi-tech.ac.jp,

Program (FMP). FMP is one of GE’s best leadershipmakoh@kt.rim.or.jp

Ayumi Suzuki (BA, ’95) has worked for the

programs for developing world-class ﬁnancial

Coalition for Legislation to Support Citizens’

leaders and consists of four rotation assignments in

Greg Kreuer (MBA, ’03) moved from Tokyo to

Organizations (known as C’s) since 1995. C’s,

different business sections for two years. He works

Singapore in 2003 and was recently promoted

established in 1994, is a nonpartisan, independent

hard every day and learns ﬁnancial, management,

to head Parker Hanniﬁn’s Fluid Connector Group

organization comprising 70 citizens’ groupand leadership skills from both on-the-job andoperations throughout the Asia-Paciﬁc region.

members and supported by about 600 NPOs,

course-work training. Upon his employment, heThis new position will be based in Shanghai,individuals, and for-proﬁt organizations. C’s focuses

moved to the Azabu Juban area and so is still

where Greg will be relocating in October. His new

on establishing legal frameworks to support

able to visit TUJ occasionally and meet up with his

assignment includes the P&L, manufacturing,NPOs and played a major role in the process offriends. yuichiworldnet@gmail.com

sourcing, and marketing responsibilities of all

establishing systems such as the NPO Law in 1998
and a law providing for the tax deductibility of

Fluid Connector Group operations within Asia.
The position focuses on expanding manufacturing

donations for incorporated NPOs that meet certain

College of Education

criteria in 2001. At the TUJ library, Suzuki found a

Akiyo Hirai (EdD, ’01) was one of the ﬁrst Ed.D.

and increase market share. Greg will also bebook written on East Timor resistance that led to

students at the Osaka campus in 1995. After

responsible for Fluid Connector Group acquisitions

her interest in becoming involved in the NGO/NPO

completing all the required courses at the Osakaand joint ventures in Asia. Greg states that his

ﬁeld. She says, “to establish a law through Citizens’

campus, she moved to the Kanto area to accept

educational experience at TUJ greatly enhanced

Organizations was challenging. I spent some tougha teaching position at the University of Tsukuba

his knowledge and skills required by today’s

days during the ﬁrst legislative activities, but itand so completed her dissertation work at the TUJbusiness environment. gkreuer@Parker.com

became a great experience for me. I would likeTokyo campus. She is now an assistant professor

to continue to work on Japan’s NPO reforms, andand teaches evaluation theory, psycholinguistics,

I wish for the day when NPOs take a certain andand some applied linguistics–related courses to

Law School

active part in resolving public issues.” She marriedboth undergraduate and graduate students in the

Kazuko Shimizu (LLM, ’01) received her degreein 2000 and now lives in Nakano.

doctoral program in modern cultures and public

at Temple’s main campus in Philadelphia and now

asuzuki@fancy.ocn.ne.jp

policies at the Graduate School of Humanities andworks as an assistant professor in the Department

Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba. “My lecturesof International Paralegal at Babel University

Adam Smith

are based on what I learned in the Ed.D. program.

Professional School of Translation in Japan. She

Lieberfarb (BA, ’00)

I enjoy teaching very much,” she says. She would

also teaches English for use in international legal

is still in Tokyo. He

like to see her fellow alumni from the ﬁrst Osakaaffairs at a community college. At both schools,

recently changed jobs

campus Ed.D. class.

she teaches translation skills speciﬁcally related

and is now working

hiraiaki@sakura.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp

to common law, and her lectures are based on

as a researcher for

platforms in Asia to enhance customer service

material she learned from core courses and the

Human Associates,

Mihoko Yamagata (MEd, ’97) is a Japanese-Intellectual Property Law course in Temple’s law

Inc. Prior to that,

language teacher. She uses the teaching methods

program. “Since teaching always calls for self-

Adam spent ﬁve

and ideas for classroom activities that she learned

improvement, I’m taking courses in the law

years working as

at TUJ in the TESOL program and adapts them forprogram again. Being a student at Temple is partan English instructor for various institutions,

the Japanese-language educational environment.

of my continuing education, and I enjoy being a

including Tokyo’s prestigious Hibiya High School,

She says she enjoys teaching very much.

student and a teacher at the same time.”

A FRIEND LEAVES TUJALUMNI ASSOCIATION

Gold Owl Supporters (¥100,000–¥499,999)
PricewaterhouseCoopers

Career Development manager Yuko Komiya

Over 160 alumni,

Individual Donors 2004–2005

left her position at the end of August after

faculty, and staff

18 years at Temple. As one of TUJ’s longest-

members attended

serving staff members, Ms. Komiya helped

the Alumni Reunion

numerous alumni gain employment through2005 at the City

her tireless efforts on their behalf.

Club of Tokyo on

Gold Owl Supporters (¥100,000–¥499,999)
Ronald J. Anderson (BOG)
Shin Heng Chong (Student’s parent)
Simon Locke (Faculty)
Masaaki Matsuoka (Student’s parent)
Masaru Miyata (Student’s parent)
Etsuko Nakahara (Student’s parent)
Sachiko Nakajo (BA ’93)
Michiko Ogawa (Student’s parent)
Sachiko Ogawa (Student’s parent)
Asami Ozeki (Student’s parent)
Robert Scheele (Faculty)
Lee W. Schvaneveldt (MEd ’00)
Koji Shimada (EdD ’75/BOG)
Atsuko Teramoto (Student’s parent)
Michael Williams (Med ’84/faculty)
Hiroto Yamamoto (Student’s parent)

Ms. Komiya’s initial responsibility afterNovember 8th.

coming to work at TUJ in 1987, however, wasYuichi Takahashi (BAfor tuition payments and for recruiting. She’04), former president of the TUJ student

moved to the Ofﬁce of Career Development

government, volunteered to be the ﬁrst

in 1993, and since 1996, when TUJ moved topresident of the TUJ Alumni Association andMinami Azabu, Ms. Komiya alone organized

made an announcement outlining his ideas

and managed important employment-

and asking for more volunteers.

related events and job-ﬁnding services
for students. This included holding jobplacement information sessions, coordinatinginternships, and hosting career fairs andworkshops. Only recently was Ms. Komiya

DONORS’ LUNCHEONRECOGNIZES SUPPORTERS

joined by Hanako Tokita, who, as internship

TUJ held its ﬁrst annual Donors’ Luncheon

coordinator, shared in developing andon Wednesday, September 7, at the Tokyo

managing career development programs.

American Club. The purpose of the event
was to show appreciation for Gold Owl
Supporters and up—those who donated¥100,000 and above in the ﬁscal year from
July 2004 to June 2005.
Dean Patterson reported on recent
developments and issues at TUJ, including
the new designation from the Japanese
Ministry of Education, the ongoing tax

Career Development manager Yuko Komiya
with her supervisor, Associate Dean Romam
Cybriwsky.

Before Ms. Komiya’s departure, staff

issue, plans for a new TUJ building, student
enrollment, and future fund-raising
initiatives. Also in attendance and activein discussing these developments andmembers held a surprise farewell party toissues with donors were Board of Governor

honor her for her dedicated work. Asked

member Midori Kaneko; alumna Sakito comment on her career at TUJ, she said,

Kojima; senior student Saki Kakimoto; and“I’ve learned many things at TUJ. Meeting

freshman Rory Pfotenhauer, who is one ofso many different students and alumni was

our ﬁrst College Student Visa holders.

a great experience for me. They always giveme courage and energy. Because of them
I was able to work at TUJ for such a longtime.”
Ms. Komiya, we wish you the very bestin your future undertakings!

DONOR LIST 2004–2005
Institutional Donors 2004–2005
TUJ Patrons (¥5,000,000 and above)
Philip Morris Japan K.K.
Diamond Owl Supporters (¥1,000,000–¥2,499,999)
The Ogasawara Foundation for the Promotion of
Science and Engineering

Silver Owl Supporters (¥50,000–¥99,999)
Osamu Akima (Student’s parent)
Masakazu Fukushige (Student’s parent)
Yukiteru Hata (Student’s parent)
Michiaki Hirose (Student’s parent)
Hideyuki Kando (Student’s parent)
Namie Katayama (BBA ’02)
Satoshi Kobayashi (Student’s parent)
Shizue Komatsu (Student’s parent)
Masaoki Matsumoto (Student’s parent)
Keiichi Mikami (Student’s parent)
Emi Mori (Student’s parent)
Dai Nochiide (Student’s family)
Fumiteru Nozaki (Student’s parent)
Kennichi Osaki (Student’s parent)
Mayumi Saito (Student’s parent)
Ryuichi Shioda (Student’s parent)
Seiji Suzuki (Student’s parent)
Seijiro Taba (Student’s parent)
Yoshiaki Tsukada (Student’s parent)
Yoshimitsu Yamagata (Student’s parent)
Bronze Owl Supporters (¥10,000–¥49,999)
Mitsuyo (Saito) Akiba (BA ’93)
Mitsue Allen Tamai (EdD ’00)
Ada Angel (MEd ’94/faculty)David Beglar (EdD ’00)
Thomas Boardman (Staff)
Scott Dotterer (MA CST ’80/faculty)
Bea Dwiwati (Faculty)
Jeffrey Hulihan (Faculty)
Kazuko Ikeda (MEd ’04)
Megumi Kawate-Mierzejewska (EdD ’02/faculty)
Fujiko Komatsu (MFA ’70)
Hubert Lerch (Faculty)
Shigeru Maruyama (Student’s parent)
Michiyo Matsuoka (BA ’93)
C. McDonald (TUJ friend)
Frederick Myers (Faculty)
Satoko Ohya (MEd ’04)
Paul Raudkepp (Staff)
Patrick Rosenkjar (EdD ’95/faculty)
Kathleen Schmitz (Faculty)
William Schrade (Faculty)
Hisa Shibata (MEd ’04)
Katherine Summers (Faculty)
William Swinton (MBA ’98/staff)
Yuka Takashima (AA ’97)
Noriko Tanaka (MEd ’84)
Michael Williams (Med ’84/faculty)

JAPANESE HOST FAMILIES WANTEDEVENT INFORMATIONEDITOR’S NOTESTUJ’s Ofﬁce of International Students (OIS) is

Effective Business Presentations for Non-native

Some alumni are taking the lead in forming an

seeking homestay families for its international

English Speakers.

Alumni Association Committee. The committee

students. Homestays are ideal for students seeking

Date: December 8-9 and December 15-16

will serve as the voice of alumni in advising TUJ

to learn Japanese culture and language. The

Cost: ¥99,750 per person (20% off for alumni

on various issues. Please contact us at alumni@tuj.

university will pay host families ¥80,000 a month to= ¥79,800) for two-day, 14-hour intensive

ac.jp if you are interested in joining the committee

cover basic costs.

course, from 9:30 to 17:30 each day.

or if you wish to recommend alumni for committee

For more information, call Junko Hirooka

For more information, call Corporateof the OIS at 03-5441-9800 (ext. 116), or e-mail

Education at 03-5441-9810, or e-mailOIS@tuj.ac.jp.

ce@tuj.ac.jp.

Temple University, Japan Campus
2-8-12, Minami Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0047
Tel: 03-5441-9800 Fax: 03-5441-9811 E-mail: alumni@tuj.ac.jp

Website: www.tuj.ac.jp/alumni

membership.
Editors: Chie Kato, Nida Sophasarun