Issued by : Kanazawa University Alumni Office 2016/3/11
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On November 1, 2015, the 9th Kanazawa University Homecoming
Day was held at the Kakuma campus with more than 170 participants,including alumni, their families, faculty and staff members.
At the beginning of the welcome ceremony, President Koetsu
Yamazaki delivered a welcome address. This was followed by acongratulatory address by Chairman of Kanazawa University Alumni
Association, Tamotsu Yamade (Faculty of Letters and Law, 1954) . The
h ichairman remarked; ”Every member of the Alumni Association wishes for the further
development of his or her alma mater."Then, Trustee and Vice President, Chisato Mukai, gave up-to-date information on
the university, including its latest research projects and activities.
At the end of the Ceremony, Professor Wang Anlin, Chairman of the Alumni
Association in China, who completed the Graduate Course of Natural Sciences in 1993,
made a speech on his experience as a student and on his life after graduation.

▲ Koetsu YAMAZAKIPresident

The Mori-no-miyako Boys and Girls Choir sang Mori ni Hairo(Let's Go into the Forest), a theme song for the Kakuma forest. Thissong was created as theme music for the specified non-profit
corporation, Kakuma Satoyama Mirai, and was presented for thefirst time at Kanazawa University. Kuma Satoyama Mirai is
supporting Kanazawa University's Satoyama conservation project.

▲ Yasuo SUZUKI
President of ARRK Corporation(Faculty of Engineering, 1970)▲ Chisato MUKAI
Vice President▲ Tamotsu YAMADE
Chairman of Kanazawa
University Alumni Association▲ WANG Anlin
Chairman of the Alumni
Association in China

In the memorial lecture session, Mr. Yasuo Suzuki,
President of ARRK Corporation, delivered a lecture
entitled "Business Reformation: Key to its Success andFailure."
His lecture focused on what he encountered whenbusiness of the company where he had worked met
failures and what he learned in reconstructing companies
in which he was directly involved in Japan and overseas.
He told us that important factors in managing andoperating a company are selecting and focusing on thebusiness fields, fostering employees' sense of belonging to the company, and pursuing theoptimum conditions of the entire company rather than those of individual departments.

The 5th Executive Meeting of Kanazawa
University Alumni Association
After the memorial lecture, the 5th Executive
Meeting of Kanazawa University Alumni Association
was held in the same room.
First, an election took place to select executives forthe next period. Chairman, Vice Chairman,
Representative Trustee, Trustees and Auditors wereselected. Their service term starts in November, 2015,
and lasts for 2 years. The current Chairman, Mr.
Yamade, was reelected unanimously.
Representative Trustee Hiroshi Yamamoto(Kanazawa University Trustee and Vice President)
reported
theadditionoftwoalumni
associations—one in Thailand and the other inChina.

In the evening, a banquet was held at the South Restaurantof the University Cooperative.
At the party, pasta with herbs from the university herb
garden and Kanazawa University Co-op's original Japaneserice wine, Kakuma no Sato, were served along with otherdishes.
Dr. Acep Purqon joined the banquet as Chairman of theAlumni Association in Indonesia, established in January, 2016,and spoke about his resolution for the association's activities
as a representative of the fifth
alumni association outside ofJapan.
Thereafter, some of thealumni volunteers sang theuniversity song and dormitory
song in a uniform happi coat;
everyone had a blast.
▲ Acep PURQON▼ Alumni singing the school song

Chairman of the Alumni
Association in Indonesia

and dormitory song

▲ A snapshot of the Executive Meeting

On November 1, 2015, “The Forth International Student
Homecoming Day Symposium” took place together with theNinth Homecoming Day, and approximately 100 persons
including international alumni and international students frominside and outside the university.
At the beginning, Vice President Hiroshi Yamamoto delivereda welcome address.
This was followed by the presentations by our alumni, Dr.
Pastsakorn Kitiyodom, Chairman of Alumni Association inThailand (currently Executive Director of Geotechnical &Foundation Engineering Co., Ltd), Prof. Anlin Wang, Chairman ofAlumni Association in China (currently the Director of School
Construction Machinery, Tongji University), and Assoc. Prof. Acep
Purqon, Chairman of Alumni Association in Indonesia (currently an associate professor of Bandung Institute ofTechnology) established in January, 2016.
To participants’ surprise, Mr. Hiroshi Hase, the Minister of MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport, Science andTechnology), stopped by the Symposium. Many international students enjoyed active conversations. The Homecoming
Day Symposium and the subsequent luncheon party were closed with a promise of another meeting in the next year.