Fall 2017 Issue

The New TUJ Campus
Site Work Underway in Setagaya-ku

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TUJ Dean Bruce Stronach told the attendees thatthe partnership isn’t just about gaining access tocampus facilities, “We are so happy to be on a
campus finally and have our own building andall that is really, really great. But the real thing is
the education, and I think that in the end thisrelationship is just going to be tremendously
supportive of the global nature of the educationof both SWU students and TUJ students.”
In a phone interview, Stronach elaborated on thebenefits of the tie-up. The partnership will also
see stronger collaborative academic programs.
SWU and TUJ students will more easily be able
to take and receive credit for courses offered by
the other college.

Perspective image of the new TUJ building

December 1, 2017.
Demolition is now
underway to clear existing structures from the
new TUJ Campus site in Setagaya-ku. The firstsign of activity is a perimeter fence andscaffolding installed in October around buildingsslated for removal.
Site preparations arescheduled to continue during winter with actual
construction on the TUJ facility to begin in
2018.
For updates, photos and news about the new
TUJ Campus, visit: www.tuj.ac.jp/support-tuj

The New TUJ Campus
Campaign Slogan Competition
Deadline Extended until December 15, 2017
¥ 50,000 Prize for Winning Entry
In advance of the move to a new purpose-built
campus in 2019, TUJ is launching a marketingand fund-raising campaign to help underwrite its
transition, promote the new relationship withShowa Women’s University, increase TUJ’svisibility, and enhance its brand image.
Submissions for a catch-phrase / slogan to be
used during the campaign are welcome until
December 15, 2017. The winning slogan willappear online, in fund-raising and marketing
materials and during promotional events. The
competition is open to all TUJ alumni, staff,
faculty and students. Check your email for moredetails. To submit your entry, or for additional
information, write: tujdev@tuj.temple.edu
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Tokyo Campus Tie-Up could
offer Model for the Future
By James McCrostie, The Japan Times

Tokyo-based Showa Women’s University(SWU) and Temple University, Japan Campus(TUJ) have announced a unique campus-sharing
agreement that could offer a model to otherJapanese schools.
The universities first announced their plan toshare SWU’s Setagaya campus in June.
According to a press release, “This agreement toshare a campus is the first of its kind between
Japanese and American universities and marks
an unprecedented step to promote theglobalization of Japanese universities.”
By September 2019, TUJ will move to a new
six-story building on land that SWU owns justoutside its campus gates. SWU will constructand own the building, which TUJ will pay tolease. TUJ, whose current campus is located in
an office building in Minato Ward, will gain
shared access to SWU facilities such as sport
fields, gyms, auditoriums, a pool and cafeteria.
During her opening remarks to the audience at
TUJ’s 35th Anniversary Symposium held at
SWU last month, SWU Chancellor Mariko
Bando said, “SWU, through professional
education, has been making various efforts tofoster global female talent who can survive inthe 21st century, and this will be a huge boost.”

Universities allowing their students to transfer
credits for courses taken at another school isn’t a
new idea in Japan. Since the 1990s, universities
in different cities and regions have been
members of credit-transfer consortiums. The
consortiums became increasingly popular in the
2000s and there are now at least 15 throughout
the country, including five organized by Tokyobased universities.
Individual Japanese universities have also signed
reciprocal credit transfer agreements. For
example, several departments at Osaka
Prefecture University and Osaka City University
allow students to take courses for credit at theother institution.
However, Stronach says he hopes to take creditsharing one step further with something he calls“undergraduate-three-plus-two.”The
twoschools are working on a plan to allow students
to study for three years at SWU, plus two more
at TUJ, with the goal of graduating with degrees
from both universities.
The full time undergraduate population at TUJ isjust under 1100 students, of which 37% isJapanese, 41% United States, and 22% fromapproximately 60 other countries. Graduate andundergraduate enrollment in all degree programs
is now 1,389 students, with the total student
population exceeding 4,800.
SWU didn’t negotiate its partnership with TUJ
because of declining enrollment. Unlike someother women’s universities, SWU isn’t
struggling to attract students. In 2015 and 2016
the school exceeded its ministry-set enrollment
quota by 18 percent. In 2016 the school received
permission from the education ministry to open
a new Department of Food Safety andManagement as well as increase its total intake
quota. The school currently has about 5,600
students.
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One of TUJ’s Oldest Alumni is First to Donate to the New Campus

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While it is a women-only university, SWU isn’t
overly concerned about sharing space with co-ed
TUJ. SWU Chancellor Bando told attendees at
the TUJ symposium, “We accept all the TUJ
students, women and men.” Bando did estimatethat melding the cultures of the two universities
would take about two years and that SWU and
TUJ students would both need to learn the otherinstitution’s code of conduct.
Stronach says he isn’t aware of any Japanese
universities with a similar campus-sharing
arrangement. But he agrees the partnership could
provide a model.
“The conceptual idea of this kind ofcollaboration between Japanese universities as
they find themselves with larger and larger
problems because of decreasing enrollments andpopulation — this kind of campus-sharing may
be something that Japanese universities may
want to do.”For the future, SWU and TUJ plan to discuss tieups in the areas of extra-curricular student clubs
and joint workshops and research projects forfaculty and staff. Potential collaboration
between SWU, their Showa Boston campus,
TUJ and Temple University’s main campus in
Philadelphia are another possibility.
However, Stronach says there are no immediateplans to seek a similar campus-sharing
agreement for TUJ’s Graduate College of
Education Osaka Center.
This article first appeared in the November 15, 2017 edition of
The Japan Times. Enrollment figures have been correctedfrom the original. Reprinted with permission.

Alumni Celebrate TUJ’s 35th
The 2017 Alumni Reunion, organized to mark
TUJ’s 35th anniversary and to celebrate the new
TUJ and SWU initiative, was held on Saturday,
October 21 at Showa Women’s University.
The event kicked off just as a major typhoon
made landfall in Tokyo, and despite the rain andwinds, over 100 people turned out for the party.
Alumni from recent years and those from the
1980’s joined others visiting from as far away as
the United States.

TUJ alumnus Haruka Yasuda, age 81 (on the right) pictured with alumna Fusako Handa, age 86 (middle) and unknown guest

By TUJ Staff Writers

Haruka Yasuda prides himself on being one of
TUJ’s oldest alumni. The 1998 graduate wasalready in his mid-60s when he enrolled in the
Graduate College of Education twenty years ago
and now, at 81, he refers to himself goodnaturedly as an “Oldie.”Before attending TUJ, Yasuda earned a degreefrom a top national university in Japan andenjoyed a successful international career with aleading trading firm that included extended
professional assignments in the U.S., thePhilippines and Saudi Arabia. As a natural
polyglot and lover of languages, Yasuda studied
German, Spanish and Tagalog over the years,
but it was his desire to “soak in an academic
environment, and to retrofit and enhance his
English,” he says, that brought him to TUJ in the
1990’s.
“For the first time,” Yasuda recalls of TUJ, “I
could bask in an American education that
included many ardent professors. To study atnight after working all day was really tough, but

Notable alumni in attendance included Tomoko
Kaneko, one of TUJ’s first doctoral degree
recipients and now president of Showa
Women’s University. Fusako Handa (age 86)
and Haruka Yasuda (age 81), two of TUJ’s
oldest living alumni, who earned their Masters
in education degrees in 1992 and 1998
respectively also joined the party, as did Atsushi
Yamamoto (class of 1986) and Masami Yashiro(class of 1987), two of TUJ’s earliest graduates.
To celebrate the anniversary, the room wasdecorated with TUJ memorabilia. Also on
display was a scale model of the new TUJ
campus scheduled to open in 2019. A shortvideo presentation provided by the architects
showed the new building’s interior design andlayout. Live music was provided by jazz quintet
Magnum Six.
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Party goers celebrate at the 2017 TUJ Alumni Reunion

the degree gave me confidence to later teach at a
women’s university, and also inspired me tofurther my study of foreign languages.”
After retirement, Yasuda even took up Chinese,and has been studying the language for ten
years.
Since graduating from TUJ, Yasuda has been adedicated alumnus who often attends university
events and supports numerous Temple
initiatives, including the annual Diamond Dinnerthat raises scholarship funds.
Yasuda expressed his enthusiasm for TUJ’splanned move to a new purpose-built buildingon the campus of Showa Women’s University(SWU). “I’ve been living in Setagaya-ku formore than 70 years and Showa is not out ofwalking distance from my house. My years are
already numbered, but with the new campus of
my alma mater nearby, I will devote myremaining life to peace among Japan, the U.S.
and China - making full use of my knowledge ofthese three languages. I will try to be a good rolemodel for TUJ’s younger students.”

TUJ History Project Underway
In recognition of the 35th Anniversary of
Temple University, Japan Campus (TUJ),
Temple University President Richard Englert
and Provost Joanne Epps authorized the creationof a special archive on the history of TUJ in
December, 2016.
The TUJ Archive will reside in the Special
Collections Office on Main Campus, wherematerials will be stored, curated, and madeavailable to scholars interested in the history of
the Japan campus. Former TUJ Dean Richard
Joslyn is spearheading the project incollaboration with current dean Bruce Stronach.
According to Joslyn, “the focus of the archive
project thus far has been finding, reviewing andpreserving documents related to the Japan
campus, both textual and audio-visual;
conducting oral interviews with individuals
having extensive involvement with TUJ over the
past three and a half decades; and inviting
former and present TUJ alumni, faculty, andstaff to write personal essays about aspects of
their experiences at the institution.”
Joslyn and Stronach are particularly eager tolocate and preserve materials from the earlyyears of TUJ when the university had a Japanesebusiness partner (1982-1995), as those materials
and memories are most in danger of being lost or
forgotten. The ultimate goal, however, is tocollect a complete record of TUJ's 35-year
history.
Joslyn shared early findings of the archive on
October 21 during a special 35th Anniversary
symposium in Tokyo, "Developing a Successful
Overseas Branch Campus: TUJ Yesterday,
Today and Tomorrow." Both Joslyn andStronach were panelists at the event alongside
Kirk Patterson, another former TUJ dean. The
panel discussed not only the TUJ archive, butalso more broadly the history, mission andacademic vision behind the creation of TUJ,
which has evolved into a thriving American
institution of higher education in Japan.
The first phase of the archive project isscheduled to be completed by March 2018.

Diversity a Hallmark at TUJ
By Nicholas Seagraves, Freely Magazine

Temple University, nicknamed “The Diversity
University,” has in recent years been one of the
top schools in the country for the international
diversity of its students and faculty. In fact, on
Temple’s main campus, 128 countries are
represented by Temple students. According toTemple at a Glance 2016-2017 a report about
the student population at Temple, there are
currently 3,408 international students who makeup about nine percent of the total population.
Temple also has influence internationally, withlongstanding campuses in Tokyo and Rome.
Temple University Rome is a smaller campus
compared to main campus and is intended solely
for one semester or one academic year study
abroad programs.
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Dean Bruce Stronach (left) and former TUJ Deans Kirk Patterson and Richard Joslyn at the 35th Anniversary Symposium

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On the contrary, Temple University Japan, or
TUJ for short, not only has semester andacademic year programs but also is a degreeawarding campus. Unlike Temple University
Rome, at TUJ, students from Japan, the UnitedStates, and other countries around the world canbe enrolled in a full time degree program
without having to ever be enrolled at main
campus. But does TUJ embody the samecommitment to international diversity as main
campus?

Japan, Vietnam, India, and Great Britain, toname a few.

Although TUJ and Temple’s main campuses
don’t compare in size, they do share Temple
University’s commitment to international
diversity. From the “TUJ at a Glance” report,
59% of the TUJ student population is made up
of international students, including Japanese
students. I have personally seen the similarities
between the two campus’ internationally diverse
student communities having been at Temple
University for the past three years and now
studying at TUJ for the fall semester of 2017.
During my years at main campus I could namemore countries where students are from than thenumber of fingers I have on one hand! China,
Vietnam, Brazil, India, Nigeria, and Germany
are some that come to mind.
Although TUJ and Temple’s main campuses
don’t compare in size, they do share Temple
University’s commitment to international
diversity. From the “TUJ at a Glance” report,
59% of the TUJ student population is made up
of international students, including Japanese
students. I have personally seen the similarities
between the two campus’ internationally diverse
student communities having been at Temple
University for the past three years and now
studying at TUJ for the fall semester of 2017.
During my years at main campus I could namemore countries where students are from than thenumber of fingers I have on one hand! China,
Vietnam, Brazil, India, Nigeria, and Germany
are some that come to mind.
Even in my short time at TUJ I’ve met students
from an interesting mix of countries, such as

Other students have also noticed this same levelof international diversity amongst students.
Senior communications studies major, Tyler
Device, is happy to see the two separate
campuses both being very rich in diversity. “I
was surprised to see how similar the diversity ishere compared to main campus,” says Tyler. “Itmakes me happy, because it reminds me ofbeing back at main campus.”

TUJ is surprisingly more diverse than what I
was expecting, but I like it like that. It could
be more diverse in my opinion but [it’s] fine
how it is because diversity shouldn’t beforced, it should be accepted.
TUJ student Jared Pu’u-Robinson

Students from main campus are not the only
ones who have noticed the international
diversity at TUJ. At TUJ, full time TUJ students
and other study abroad students not from main
campus make up the rest of the study body.
Kaho Tsujimoto, TUJ junior communication
major, is envied by her Japanese friends forstudying at an English university. “My friends
praise me for being at an [English-speaking]university. I expected to see more American
students though because Temple is an American
university, but I like how diverse the student
population is,” says Kaho. “In the future theJapanese population will be much smaller and
we need to be globalized and diversity is a good
way to globalize.” Here, Kaho is likely referringto the fact that the Japanese population has
shrunk by more than a million in the past five
years, which is worrying many Japanesepolicymakers. Some experts have recommended
a more liberal immigration policy to attract
international talent and increase the population.
It could even be said that TUJ is helping to bringtalented students from all around the world toJapan.

Temple University Faculty Host NCAA President in Japan
Establishing a Japanese version of the NCAA under discussion

Help Build the New TUJ
www.tuj.ac.jp/support-tuj
From the TUJ Archives

Let’s Not Forget China
June 4 was the first anniversaryof the brutal suppression of Chinese student
demonstrations in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.
We can think of no event in recent years which
has so totally galvanized the attention of
thinking people of all political persuasions. The
spectacle of unarmed students and workers
confronting soldiers armed with tanks andmachine guns is one we will never forget.
June 11, 1990.

Yet many free world governments, with Japan in
the lead, seem to have short memories. Withinweeks of the atrocities at Tiananmen and the
suppression of all vestiges of free thought in
China, they were already knocking at the door of
Li Peng’s henchmen with loans in hand. This
month, the Japanese government proposed $800
million in loans to a government that has been
rejected by its own people and stands
condemned in the court of universal public
opinion.
We say to the banks of Japan: Wait aminute! That is our money you are offering to
China, the money of millions of hardworking
men and women who share the ideals of theChinese people and share their revulsion at thecrimes and corruption of their leaders. That is
our money and we refuse to lend it to criminals.
Accordingly, we call on all people of good willin Japan to commemorate Monday, June 4,
1990. We call on them for just one day towithdraw as much as they can from their bankaccounts to protest the misuse of their money.
We urge them to accompany their withdrawal
with a declaration to make their purpose clear.
And we pledge ourselves to do likewise, and tocontinue to do so until these loans stop or until
the freed of the Chinese people is restored.
The above editorial first appeared in the June 1990
edition of the Temple Voice, a student newspaper, andwas signed by 14 TUJ students and faculty members.

(From left) DOME Kevin Abe, University of Tsukuba Associate Professor Tsuyoshi Matsumoto, DOME CEO Shuichi Yasuda, NCAA President Mark
Emmert, and Temple UniversityAssociate Professor Jeremy Jordan at “State of College Athletics” in Ariake, Tokyo

August 30, 2017. Temple University (TU)
professors Jeremy Jordan and Daniel Funk
hosted NCAA President Mark Emmert on a visit
to Japan for lectures and panel discussions
concerning Japanese university athletics. The
sessions, targeted at individuals affiliated with
universities, sports associations, governmental
bodies and the industries, were held inconjunction with Temple’s joint research
project,
which
has
been
conducted
collaboratively with University of Tsukuba and
DOME Corporation since 2016. The sessions
were intended to widely share the expertise of
the American example before the Japanese
government establishes a “Japanese version of
the NCAA,” which it aims to launch in 2018.
The first lecture was held at a hotel in Tokyo
exclusively for university presidents. President
Emmert spoke to approximately 20 participantsfrom all over the country. He acknowledged thatfrom the beginning, the NCAA has been
supported by the leadership of university
presidents, spoke on the role of university
presidents in promoting university athletics, andexchanged ideas with those in attendance.
For an open-to-the-public lecture, roughly 200
people—individuals affiliated with universities,
sports associations, governmental bodies,industry figures and more, including journalists

crowded into the DOME Ariake headquarters.
After DOME CEO Shuichi Yasuda raised hisconcern over safety management and otherissues in Japanese university sports to open thesession, TU’s Professor Funk delivered an
overview of the U.S.-Japan joint research projecton university sports. In the following lecture,
President Emmert spoke about the current stateof the NCAA administration and thecircumstances which led to the NCAA’s
establishment, dating back to more than 100
years ago. During the panel discussion, TU’s
Associate Professor Jordan took the stage as oneof the panelists, discussed treating university
sports as a “value proposition” from a long term
point of view, and pointed out the importance ofshared information and perceived opportunities.
Jordan, together with President Emmert,
Tsukuba
Associate
Professor
TsuyoshiMatsumoto and DOME CEO Yasuda, had an
enthusiastic debate on stage.
On the same day, President Emmert’s delegation
paid a courtesy visit to Yoshimasa Hayashi,
Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Scienceand Technology, to discuss NCAA initiatives.

This article first appeared on the TUJ website
September 15, 2017. For up-to-date news andinformation about TUJ, visit: www.tuj.ac.jp/news

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