Spring 2017 Issue

Reactions to Globalization
An Update from Dean Stronach
TUJ is all about global education. If an
Americanuniversity-styleliberalarts
education is designed to produce good
citizens, then TUJ's education is designed to
produce good global citizens. We believe thatby educating people from many different
cultures, religions, ethnic groups and nations
through mutual interaction, the diversity of thelearning environment becomes a major factor
in preparing graduates to be ready for the
global workplace. It would appear that what
we are doing meets an international demand as
our undergraduate population continues togrow from 723 in the fall of 2013 to over
1,100 now.
However, many people still find the idea ofglobalization threatening. Although one canpoint to many reasons for the unexpected
election of Donald Trump, I believe that itcomes down to a combination of two
fundamental traditions in American politics —one old, one new. The old tradition is thefundamental distrust of the so-called "elite," orpolitical and media establishment, by many
See Reactions: pg. 4

Rome Campus Marks 50th
Celebrations coincide with Japan Anniversary
Temple University has more than one party
planned in 2017 to celebrate its growinginternational presence. In addition to the 35th
Anniversary at TUJ, the Rome campus will
mark its 50th with a great line-up of special
events spanning two continents.
The DVAA Gallery in Philadelphia kicks off
the party in March with “Yo, Piranesi!” anexhibition of eight artists and architects, six ofwhom are Temple Rome alumni, whose work
examines the cultural impact of the famed
18th century veduta (views) of Rome etched
by Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Other eventson tap include a week of food tastings, guest
lectures, film screenings and photography
exhibits that celebrate the food traditions andcultures of both modern and ancient Rome.

The 2017 TUJ Art Calendar announcing the Anniversary Year

2017: Celebrating a 35-Year Temple Legacy in TokyoA Milestone for TUJ
From the Bubble Era to the Global Financial
Crisis, from the devastation of the Tohoku
Earthquake to the budding promise of renewal
in the Olympic spirit of 2020, Temple
University, Japan Campus has been partner
and witness to remarkable change andendurance in one of the world’s great cities
and cultures.
2017 will officially mark the 35th anniversary
of TUJ, and plans are now underway to notethe occasion with a symposium of former
Deans whose leadership over the years
steadied and guided the institution from theoriginal vision to establish a permanent
American academic presence in Japan in the
1980s, through the many challenges along theway that shaped the contemporary institution,and even impacted modern Japan itself.

The Temple programs in Japan and Rome are
the embodiment of the University's goal ofproviding students in a range of academic
fields ready access to international educational
opportunities. Majors in fields as diverse as
Media and Communication, Business andEngineering, and Architecture and Urban
Studies have access to international study
options through Temple’s scope of offerings.
Students can opt to enroll for short study
periods during the summer or semester, or at
TUJ, for a complete degree program abroad.
See: Temple In the Vanguard of Global Education

TUJ is the only full service, degree granting
program at Temple where students can complete
an entire course of academic study outside
Philadelphia.
Despite changes over the years, which included
relocating the school four times since 1982, TUJ
has maintained its commitment to offering a highquality American-style education to both
Japanese and American students alike and prides
itself in its leading role in internationalizing
higher education in Japan.
The school has grown to 1,100 undergraduates
representing almost 60 countries. Today, it is
not only the largest foreign university in Japan,
but by perseverance and commitment to its
original mission, TUJ is now the oldest foreign
university in Japan as well.

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Curry and Rice and Everything Nice
Alumni Cooking up Some Love in Tokyo
Temple alumni in Japan will be cooking up alittle love on April 29 as part of theInternational Global Day of Service. They
join community- spirited Owls across theUnited States and around the world in late
April participating in a week-long series ofvolunteer activities sponsored by the Temple
University Alumni Association (TUAA).
In 2016 the Global Day of Service
successfully brought out over 450 Temple
volunteers in 17 cities who gave time andenergy to worthwhile local organizations.
This year the TUAA hopes to raise the bar
and motivate more than 500 members of the
TU community to pitch-in on projects ranging
from homeless outreach to neighborhoodcleanups and other initiatives intended to giveback to fellow citizens in need.
Joining the effort, the Tokyo Chapter of the
TUAA will visit Christmas Village, a local
children’s home. Volunteers will spend timewith the children playing games and making
curry and rice, a Japanese home-cooking
favorite. The project is being organized inconjunction with Hands on Tokyo, a highly
regarded local volunteer organization that
supports and promotes active projects in the
Kanto region of Japan to benefit people inneed.

Temple Owls Celebrating a Victory

Are College Sports in Japan’s Future?
Researchers Tackle the Question
Should Japan adopt US-style collegiate
athletics? That question is one of several
under analysis by researchers at Temple
University and Tsukuba University along withparticipating faculty from the University of
Minnesota. Preliminary findings of their joint
research project were first reported in a
symposium hosted by TUJ on December 16th.
The event brought three U.S. members of the
project team together in Tokyo with their
Japanesecounterparts,
offering
theresearchers a chance to present their
independent findings as a unified whole.
Associate Professor Tsuyoshi Matsumoto of
Tsukuba University opened the symposiumwith an overview of the questions the projectis considering which cut across the
economics, governance and benefits ofcollege sports.

See: Student Mentors Needed in Japan

Professor Daniel Funk of Temple University
offered his analyses of three contemporary

situations in the U.S. that spoke to the broad
benefit of college sport while fellow Temple
researcher, Associate Professor Jeremy Jordan,
explained the NCAA and its roles in standard
setting and governing tertiary sports programs in
the U.S. Lastly, Yuhei Inoue, an AssistantProfessor at the University of Minnesota, andTemple Alum, shared research into theeconomics of sports, using three U.S.
universities as case studies.
The sports project, launched in September 2016,
will draw to a close this year. Researchers will
gather for a final report and panel discussion on
March 29th at the American Center in Japan, ameeting venue run by the U.S. Embassy in
Minato-ku, Tokyo.
The project is being underwritten by DOME
Corporation, the distributor and agent for Under
Armour sportswear in Japan. Under Armour isthe official outfitter for Temple University’svarsity sports teams. For more information on
the March 29 event, please visit the TUJ Events
page.

Give a Hoot and Join!

Student Mentors Needed!

WHEN: Saturday, April 29, 2017.
10:15 – 14:00
WHERE: Meet at Kitasenjyu Staton at 10:15
West Exit / Bus Terminal(Hibiya-Line, Chiyoda-Line, JR-Line)
WHAT: Making Curry and a Difference
HOW:
Wear comfortable casual clothes thatyou don’t mind getting dirty.
WHO:tujalumni@tuj.temple.edu

Calling all Alumni in Japan
A generous grant from the Freeman Foundation
has been providing much-needed scholarships tohigh-achieving American students at TUJ since2014, allowing them the opportunity toparticipate in the university’s prestigious
internship program. But the program needs the
support of TUJ alumni to help sustain the
momentum.

For more information

The terms of the Freeman Foundation East Asia
Internship Program require that all scholarshipwinners be partnered with a mentor, ideally in a
related field.

New Doctoral Cohorts
Two new doctoral cohorts leading to a Ph.D.
in Education with a concentration in Applied
Linguistics will form this fall at TUJ; one at
the Tokyo Center and the other at the Osaka
Center. Applications for admission will be
accepted beginning March 6, 2017 and mustbe submitted by Friday, April 14, 2017.
Final selection of candidates will beannounced on or before Monday, June 12,2017. Classes begin September 8, 2017.
Information about the doctoral program andthe formal application process is available
online.

2017 Diamond Dinner Announced
Save the Date!
Join us for the Annual TUJ Diamond Dinner
on June 2, 2017. The evening offers a night ofgreat food, music, conversation with auctions
and raffles all for a great cause. Proceeds ofthe event benefit scholarships for new andcontinuing students at TUJ.
For more
information contact: tujdev@tuj.temple.edu
or visit the TUJ website under Events.

Alumni mentors agree to at least one in-person
meeting with the student offering generalprofessional advice and encouragement, andthen to make themselves available by email toanswer student questions on topics ranging fromlife in Japan to developing an international
career. The commitment runs for the duration of
the student’s internship - typically one semester.
If you would like to volunteer as a mentor,
contact the TUJ Career Development Office.
career@tuj.temple.edu

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The Power of Perspective
TEDxTUJ 2016
Thanksgiving weekend brought dedicatedTemple Owls who braved the winter weather toturn out in an impressive show of support for thesecond annual TEDxTUJ event held at Pasela
Resort Grand in Shibuya.
A total of 80 attendees came to watch a mix ofalumni, TUJ faculty, and local thought leaders
speak on a range of topics related to the theme,“The Power of Perspective”.
“The event was a huge success thanks to thegreat collaboration and hard work from our teamof current students,” said alumna Morgan
Whitmer who is credited with launching the
TEDxTUJ initiative while an undergraduate.
Whitmer noted that this year’s program wascapably led by club president Whui-Gyu Song,and that TUJ students were responsible fororganizing all details of the event from the lunchmenu to the vendor contract negotiations .
For those who missed out on this year’s event,
you can catch up on all of our past fun and keep
an eye out for future updates by checking out the
TEDxTUJ Facebook page.
Or you can head on over to the TEDxTUJ
website where you can meet the team, volunteer
for future events, purchase a ticket, and learn
about the history of this great organization!

Students and Alumni and Ham it Up for TEDx

Temple: In the Vanguard of Global Education
A Conversation with Hilary Link and Bruce Stronach

Debating the merits of global education and therole of Temple University brought Dean Bruce
Stronach together with Dr. Hilary Link for awide-ranging conversation emphasizing that
despite their differences in scale and scope, thephysical distance from one other, and theirculturally specific programming on offer, theTemple campuses in Japan and Italy share an
important academic mission.
Hilary Link, Dean of Temple, Rome stated thather program exists to “provide a multi-layered
learning environment for students … that allows
them to juxtapose the old and the new, theancient and the modern as well as the foreign
and the familiar in ways that they cannot on
Main Campus.”

Margaret Victoria Salazar’s Winning Design

Loyal Alumna Helps a TUJStudent be a Winner
TUJ art major Margaret Victoria Salazar won
first place this past fall in a design competition
sponsored by ITO Corporation, a Japan-based
mechatronics trading company. Salazar’s
winning graphic was selected by the company tobe the cover of their 2017 calendar distributed
throughout the firm and to its customers andclients.

She added, “Temple Rome provides students anopportunity to step away from their own culturalcontext and immerse themselves in the
linguistic, artistic and cultural context of Italy …
an opportunity that gives them a perspective on
Italy as well as upon themselves - as
Americans.”

Alumna Mayu Kikuchi who works in ITO’s
marketing department developed the idea for acalendar competition and proposed it to hercolleagues last year.
She was inspired bysimilar competitions held during her time at
TUJ, including the annual holiday card
competition sponsored by the Dean’s Office andthe TUJ Art Calendar that features original
student work.

“The use of red and the geometric forms was
inspired by the ITO modular logo,” Salazar has
stated. “One of the biggest impressions I had of
ITO was their passion for their craft. The
standard of quality the company strives for, as
well as the support they provide, demonstrate
how invested the company is in improving theindustry.” I wanted the design to “represent thecompany as a whole, their industry, and the
products they supply.” Adding that her goal wasto “create the feeling of movement andtransformation, referring to the products that
ITO distributes which contribute to the
movement and production of goods.”

Salazar’s winning design is bold and clean anddraws inspiration from the company’s products
and corporate culture.

Congratulations to Margaret Victoria Salazar,
and our thanks to TUJ alumna Mayu Kikuchi forpromoting Temple and TUJ!

Stronach agreed that a similar rationale exists
for the Japan Campus and that students
attending the school are not only studying inTokyo, but also in the context of an American
University that provides both a framework andreference point for analysis.
He stressed that it was in this everyday
environment, where students, faculty and staff
represent over 60 countries, that a truly global
experience and experiment was taking place.
TUJ exists as a microcosm of an increasinglyinterconnected world, and one that fosters
intellectual exchange and debate across multiple
perspectives.
“When we consider contemporary Japan or
Italy,” Stronach suggested, “it is imperative that
we look at these modern societies through a
global lens that acknowledges the impact that
[international] forces are having in politics,
economics and social structures.”
Link agreed, and stressed the added benefit ofboth programs being located in major world
cities, which are, by definition, cosmopolitan.
Both programs can use their diverse and global
cities as classrooms, thereby reinforcing
academic work and helping students develop
skills that will serve students well as they
graduate into an ever more globalized world.
“If the traditional liberal arts education isdesigned to produce good citizens,” Stronach
said, “then these programs are designed to
produce good global citizens.”
Link also pointed out the important value these
programs have to Main Campus faculty whocome to teach and occasionally use them as
research bases. The faculty will then return toPhiladelphia, she added, with a broader
perspective on the world to share with students
and colleagues on Main Campus.

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Survey Says…….
The results of the post-reunion alumni survey
are in! Thanks to all the Owls who participatedand provided important feedback on alumni
activities and the annual reunion specifically.

So, what did we learn?

2016 Reunion a Huge Success

More, more, more! Survey respondents wereunanimous in wanting more activities in Tokyo,
especially professional workshops, businessseminars, networking opportunities and culturalactivities. Alumni also asked for live music orentertainment at future reunions and a group
photo. Great ideas! We’ll work hard to makefuture events even better.

Owls Gathered in Shibuya
Over 100 lucky people turned out for an exciting
evening on October 21 that even President
Trump would have called, “The Greatest!
Absolutely Beautiful!” had he had the wisdom
to attend Temple University instead of that otherinstitution crosstown in Philadelphia…..
In a switch from previous years the venue forthis year’s party was wisely changed from the
Shinagawa Goos to The Legian, a Bali themed
event space high above the city featuring afantastic panorama of Tokyo and a curiously
placed pool that inspired at least one alumnus totake an impromptu late night swim.
When the doors opened at 7 pm, the restaurant
was quickly filled with enthusiastic alumni
transported back to their youthful college days
surrounded by familiar classmates and faculty.
One enthusiastic attendee was heard to exclaim,“if only TUJ had a pool, an open bar and apanoramic view of the city in our day I neverwould have left.” Proving that being an alum isdefinitely more fun than college itself!
The total number of attendees made thegathering one of the largest TUJ reunions todate, with one intrepid alumna traveling all theway to Tokyo from Okinawa to attend. Not only
did she travel the farthest, she represented one of
the earliest graduating classes in TUJ history:
1986. And with a few current undergraduate
students joining the festivities, the range of agespresent at the event really helped underscore thelongevity of TUJ and its impact acrossgenerations.
Late into the evening party-goers got into the
fun and took numerous group shots, including
an attempted selfie-stick shot of the entire
crowd.
Many of the more family-friendly
pictures we collected from the evening havebeen posted on the TUAA Tokyo Chapter
Facebook page. So please find us and like us on
Facebook. Thanks to Mr. Zuckerberg (not analumnus) it is the easiest and best way to learn
about future reunions and other alumni
activities.
And of course, if you attended the event andhave photos of the evening that you would liketo share, or photos from other alumni events,
please send them along. We’ll post them on
Facebook so everyone can enjoy! E-mail:tujalumni@tuj.temple.edu

You spoke and we are listening.
The TUAA Tokyo Chapter is now working withprofessional programs and administrative
departments at TUJ to provide additional
activities for alumni including professional
development opportunities.
We also promise
to improve future reunions based on feedback,and ramp up other activities and outings. So staytuned for more information in the year ahead.
We promise to have big news for the 2017
alumni reunion - our 35th Anniversary!

What can you do?
Get involved. The TUAA Tokyo Chapter is here
to serve you but we need your input. The
Chapter is looking for board members who want
to design and organize activities, help build ourmembership and get involved in TUJ. E-mail:tujalumni@tuj.temple.edu if you want to join in!
Please LIKE the TUAA Tokyo Chapter on
Facebook, stay in touch and update your contact
information.

Reactions to Globalization
Continued from front page
Americans. Those who know American history
can see the recent election as a re-run of the
upset of Adams by Jackson in 1824. The newer
tradition, one that has been around for about 45
years, is to combine the older distrust of theestablishment with the fear of globalization.
But this is hardly an American phenomenon.
Recently we have seen the rise of old school
nationalism in the Brexit vote, the backlash
against the TPP, Putinism in Russia, China
disparaging the UN arbitration decision on the
Law of the Sea, the German backlash against
immigration, and the French reaction to"burkinis," among many others. The truth is thathumans still need to find a place to belong, needa group with which to identify, need the securityof the collective. Unfortunately, for thousands ofyears the best way to define one's own group isby differentiation from other groups.

When I went to the Fletcher School of Law and
Diplomacy in 1974 to study international
relations and international law, everyone in thefield knew we were at the dawn of a new era ofintegration and super-state formation ininternational relations.
The end of WWII was only 30 years in the pastand most of us, no matter what country we camefrom, had close relatives who were involved inthat global conflict. The ideal of "never again"
had real meaning. The role of the World Bank as
an international institution that was intended tosupport developing economies, albeit withcolonialist remnants, had real meaning. Trade asa necessary economic mechanism but also as avehicle for cultural exchange had real meaning.
It was also the time when Rachel Carlson was
better known than Ayn Rand and ecology, thescience of global interrelatedness, was justbeginning to be recognized.
But even with all our idealistic enthusiasm for aconnected and integrated world, very few of us
were really ready to comprehend a system thatwould supersede more than a modified nationstate system. It has only been 200 years since
the foundation of the modern nation-statesystem was laid down by the Congress ofVienna and only 100 years since the nation-statesystem became truly dominant through theTreaty of Versailles. These are relatively shortspans of time in the history of human politicaland economic development, but the nation-statesystem has proved itself to be almost intractable.
Is this because it fits the Goldilocks model ofhuman psychology and identification—not too
big, not too small—or is it because theinstitutionsareself-perpetuating
those
psychological bonds through national educationand political indoctrination?
Whichever the case may be, the modes of
production in today's world are information andcommunication technologies, which know noboundaries, and the relative distribution of thefactors of production means that there can be no
economic development without trade. In
addition, the growth of the world's population,
the consequent economic demands, and the useof fossil fuels to sate those demands all meanthat neither problems nor their solutions haveborders. This was true 40 years ago, and it iseven more the case now. There is nothing wrong
with the nation-state system as long as thenations realize that their dealings with eachother have to be collaborative with multiple win
solutions, not zero-sum solutions.
That is why it is so important TUJ students learn
from each other that although each may need tofind a sense of identity in the self, there is also
room to identify with, and empathize with, theother. TUJ is dedicated to doing our part toeducate those future leaders who will understandhow to manage the reality of globalization.

Memorial Scholarship for former
TUJ Student
Aaren O’Connor slain in Chicago last year
Former TUJ study abroad student Aaren
O’Connor was sitting in her car on the eveningof February 5, 2016 in the Heart of Chicago
neighborhood on in the South Side of the citywhen she was struck by a stray bullet. Two days
later she was dead.

Do you recognize these Alumni?
They’re the TUJ American Football Club from 1992!

Class Notes

From the Archives

A fight had broken out nearby and a single
bullet fired during the argument pierced Aaren’t
vehicle window and struck her in the head.
Chicago police stated that O’Connor, who lived
on the same block, was not the intended targetof the shooting but rather an innocent bystander.
In a tragic twist, Aaren was speaking on herphone to her father in California when she wasstruck. Originally a San Diego native, Aaren
O’Connnor had moved to Chicago in 2015 tobegin a new job working as a brand manager for
TOMY, a Japanese toy company with US
offices in Oak Brook, Illinois. She attended
TUJ in the fall 2011 as a study abroad student
while completing her undergraduate work at the
University of San Diego.

Temple Holds First Graduation
Undergraduate Program

By Tae Yoshida (A&S)

2013

On December 16, 1984, the first graduation took
place at Temple University Japan in which
Associate of Arts degrees and Masters Degrees
in Education were conferred.

Andrew Hesse has joined Teneo Partners K.K.,
a securities broker dealer in Ginza, Tokyo, tohead up their fund marketing program. He has
also received his ‘Class-2 Sales Representative
Qualification’ from the Japan Securities Dealers
Association.
2014
Morgan Whitmer has recently taken on a twoyear expat position with Delta Air Lines, Inc.,
moving from Tokyo to Shanghai. This move
will allow her to continue managing the APAC
corporate contract portfolio while she helps toexpand Delta’s footprint in Greater China.
Morgan entered Delta two years ago after
graduating from TUJ with a B.A. in
International Business and was offered her role
after completing an internship organized throughthe business department. Despite having moved,
she still remains active at TUJ through the
TEDxTUJ club, acting as an advisor, and with
the Alumni Board.

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send us a note with details along with your full
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E-mail: tujalumni@tuj.temple.edu

The ceremony started in a somewhat unusual
mood, as not only the graduates but also theirparents and their teachers were nervous.
Starting with the speech of the Dean, Dr.
Wolfbein, other speeches were given by Prof.
Schaefer and the Associate Dean, Dr. Sharp, in
which they offered congratulations to thegraduates. Then the most exciting moment
came. Dr. Wolfbein conferred degrees on eachgraduate.
Two student representatives, Miss Anna
Lepkowska representing the A.A. graduates andMrs. Noriko Tanaka representing M.Ed.
graduates gave short speeches in which they said
the students were pleased to be among the firststudents to have graduated from Temple
University Japan.
Dr. Chikara Higashi, the President of Temple
University Japan made a speech in which heencourage the graduates to continue, from now
on, to make progress in each facet of their lives
and to make efforts to lead successful lives.
Peter Liacouris, president of Temple University
Philadelphia, sent a letter which was read at theceremony. “I think it is particularly significant,”
he said, “that while we at Temple University arecelebrating the very first commencement at our
new campus in Tokyo, half the world away …
today’s commencement [represents] a beginningin many ways, including a great start in
Temple’s evolving program in International
Education.
This article first appeared March 1985 in The Temple
News, a student newspaper.

Aaren O’Connor in Tokyo, 2011

Since the tragedy last year, over $40,000 has
been raised in honor of Aaren O’Connor, andthe goal is to reach $50,000 that will ultimately
fund a scholarship for study abroad in her nameat Temple.
“We want to make sure that something
constructive comes from this senseless tragedy,”friends and family have said. “Donations willfund a scholarship in Aaren’s memory that willbring hope and healing to the youth of Chicago.”
To donate online, see the O’Connor Scholarshipat the Temple giving website.

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