Spring and Summer 2018 Double Issue

Global Campus, Global Future
Jichinsai Marks the Start of Construction

Continued from column 2This mound, serving as a representation of the“ground” to be broken, is a key focal point of
the Jinschinsai event. At the foot of the shrine
wooden tools for “breaking” the mound areplaced; notably a sickle, hoe and a spade.
Upon arriving at the TUJ construction site in
March, guests led into the makeshift temple,
and then directed to a hand washing area where
they could perform ablutions. In the front row,
Chancellor Mariko Bando, Chairperson Midori
Kaneko, and Dean Bruce Stronach sat to theright of the center aisle, with members of
Tokyu Construction company to the left.

What is Jichinsai?

A Shinto priest performs the traditional ground purification

An Auspicious Beginning
By Rasmy Nguyen
Staff Writer
Representatives from Temple University, Japan
Campus (TUJ) and Showa Women’s University(SWU) gathered with officials from Tokyu
Construction on March 13th to perform the
Jichinsai, or groundbreaking ceremony, for the
New TUJ Campus project.
The ceremony, held to gain the blessings of thelocal Kami and mark the beginning of apromising construction schedule, took place atthe building site in a purpose-built shrine.
Neatly piled mound of dirt for the ceremony
The Jichinsai ceremony is one of the few purely
Shinto traditions still performed today, anddates back to before Buddhism was introduced
to Japan. It is a cornerstone of construction
projects across Japan.
Having completed the Jichinsai for TUJ’s new
campus, workers from Tokyu Construction canfeel at ease knowing that any bad luck in the area
has been dispelled and that the local Kami has
granted them safety and good fortune.
Symbolically, the ceremony also marks the next
step in SWU and TUJ’s ongoing collaboration.

The ceremony itself takes just under thirty
minutes to perform, although hours of planningare often necessary. About forty people attended
the TUJ event, including the two Shinto priests
who presided.
Before the Ceremony
A large red and white tent was erected justoutside of the main construction area, serving as
an ersatz temple meant to house a Shinto
himorogi, or temporary shrine; constructed forthe event between two bamboo trees.
In front of the himorogi, two rows of chairs wereplaced, divided down the middle by an open
pathway, as key element of the ceremony. This
path, or sando in Japanese, is the main approachthat symbolically allows the Kami to enter andexit the area.
The Himorogi
In addition to the central path, offerings to theKami are also traditionally set out upon the
Himorogi and include Yamanomono (food fromthe mountains), uminomono (food from thesea), as well as rice and jars of sake.
In proper fashion these were all arranged on theshrine for the TUJ ceremony; alongside a neatly
piled mound of dirt topped with a few blades ofgrass just to the right.

Jichinsai, or land purification ceremonies, areperformed before the beginning of construction
on any new building to invite the local Kami,or god, to the site and gain it’s blessing.
Typically, a Shinto priest performs theceremony on the construction site, withmembers of each party involved in the building
in attendance. The priest purifies the land toprepare for the presence of the Kami, guides
the Kami to the site, bestows prayers andgratitude, and finally guides the Kami back to
whence it came.
Once everyone was present at the TUJ
ceremony, the two priests began the ritual byoffering prayers before the shrine. Guests
watched in silence as the priests begancleansing the area of bad luck and malicious
spirits. The first priest waved a wand of leaves
in the direction of the four corners of the room
while the second scattered petals on the
ground.
After the cleansing, the priests began
summoning the local Kami, first by chanting in
unison, and then shifting to a steadily rising“ahhhhh” tone. Attendees were asked to standand bow their heads while the rising tone hit a
climax and then steadily decreased until thechanting was complete.
The Kami is summoned
Having broken the “ground,” the priests called
representatives
from
SWU,
Tokyu
Construction and TUJ forward to pay respects.
Each participant was presented with a small
wooden relic and directed to the altar whileothers stood in unison, bowed, clapped andprayed.
The ritual ended with a celebratory drink ofsake, with guests drinking in unison to the final
blessings of the priests, and more chanting tosend the Kami off in thanks.
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Anticipation …..
Enthusiasm Grows as Building Takes ShapeBy Keili Hamilton-Maureira
TUJ’s move is on the horizon, and anticipationis already stirring among students and faculty.
The new location in Setagaya-ku is not only
more accessible to popular areas of Tokyo like
Shibuya, but promises a larger campus, withshared facilities such as gyms, auditoriums, apool and cafeteria. For students, this means anmajor improvement to campus life and theexperience offered by TUJ.
“A new environment and change of place willdefinitely uplift the students,” remarks Aimer
Imai, a Psychology major at TUJ who is looking
forward to an opportunity to enhance herstudies, “if we’re in the right environment thenwe have the right mindset to study and learn.”

Perspective image of the new TUJ building

College Sports Reformers Stay Positive Despite Setbacks

With particular hopes geared towards more
facilities and proper canteen areas, students
should find the new campus location better
suited for their needs.

By Kaz Nagatsuka

Jose Flores, a student worker at TUJ’s Help
Desk, expressed his anticipation for a more
spacious building, suggested that it would aid infunctioning of services like computer services
and information technology, “it’s definitely
going to be neater and more organized,” heremarked.

That is apparently the case for the leaders
working to revamp the landscape of college
sports in Japan. It has been a couple of years
since discussions aimed at forming a Japaneseorganization similar to the National Collegiate
Athletic Association, which oversees college
athletics in the U.S., and establishing athletic
departments at universities began.

Network Administrator Thomas Gurney
proposed that the new campus should affect thestudent experience positively. “As staff,” heoffered, “I’m most excited about the newlocation and environment that is definitely
better suited for students.”

These reform measures are intended to give
more legitimacy and governance to college
sports in Japan. Sports teams at Japanese
universities are given access to school facilities
and some subsidies, but are not formallyrecognized as belonging to the school.

TUJ’s current campus in Minato-ku is housed in
an office building shared with a Japanesecompany. Although it has served admirably forover 20 years, the current space is not a
traditional campus, a problem the new facility
will address.
Students and faculty expressed excitement at theprospect of an enhanced undergraduate
University experience, with a majority feelingthat the new campus would promote a much
more close-knit environment with the newlocation providing a real sense of place and astrong Temple identity.
“We will finally transition from working in astandard office building to working in a
traditional university setting,” remarked one
staff member. It is exciting, and and “it is great
to see the enthusiasm from students and staff
about the move in 2019.”

Keili is a Communications Studies major at TUJ. When she is
not writing or working, she can usually be found watching
reruns of American talk shows or telling her husband to standstill while she draws him.

Japan Times Staff Writer
Change can be a painful procedure

In order to change this, a joint project between
the University of Tsukuba, Temple University
and Dome Corporation has carried out researchon collegiate sports in the United States to
examine what would work in Japan.
The project is divided into three phases, with
Tsukuba as the test case. The project has
recently completed its second phase, which was
devoted to preparing an athletic department witha “transitional athletic director” at the Ibaraki
Prefecture-based national institute.
Speaking to the audience in a report event at
Tsukuba’s Tokyo campus on Wednesday,
Jeremy Jordan, an associate professor for the
School of Sport, Tourism and Hospitality
Management at Temple, emphasized — as hehas repeatedly done — that the aim of the
project is not to copy the U.S. model, but tocreate one suitable for Japan.
“Hopefully, by sharing information about
what’s happened over the hundred years in the
U.S. in terms of college athletics,” said Jordan,an NCAA faculty athletics representative andone of the project leaders.
“It helps you build a model that fits here in
Japan, maybe skip some of the painful points

that we’ve had in the U.S. in terms of college
athletics, and continue to help student-athletes
develop both in the classroom and athletically.”
Tsukuba was originally scheduled to start up its
athletic department in April, after this past
year’s transitional period.
But Shinzo Yamada, one of the sports
administrators at Tsukuba, said his teampushed back the launch to give the transitionalteam another year of preparation.
Tsukuba has more than 40 sports teams but
their reactions to the formation of the athletic
department, which is a step into the unknown
for them, has been muted.
In fact, only three teams — the baseball teamand the men’s and women’s handball teams —have agreed to act under the umbrella of theathletic department. The men’s and women’s
volleyball teams have agreed to take part asassociate members.
But the project team is not disheartened by theblunt response. The members are not naive andknew it would not be easy to change the cultureof something that has been in place for decades.
Jordan hinted that things are moving slower
than they originally thought. But he added thatit’s probably “how it should be,” to allocate
more time to educate those who are associatedwith college sports in Japan.
“So that people can really be thoughtful about
why they want it to happen, why this change
should happen,” Jordan said.
Daniel Funk, a professor in the samedepartment as Jordan at Temple, described the
project as “a big ship in the ocean,” because
once it starts moving, it becomes “very hard toturn.”
Still, Funk seemed a little perplexed to see
resistance from sporting officials at Japanese
universities, because universities havefacilities and already let their students playsports, yet have left them as “privateorganizations” to act outside their institutional
systems.
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So looking back at the last two years serving as
director of the research project, Funk said thatthe group has tried to come up with “a change
management strategy.” The idea is to persuade
officials of universities and college sports clubs
to understand why the moves are necessary andhow it benefits them.
“So moving forward, I think that would be adirection to help other universities deal withboth the external and internal politics change,”
he said.
Yuhei Inoue, an assistant professor in sports
management at the University of Minnesota
who has also been a key member on the research
project, insisted that developing relationships ishighly important in Japan when you attempt tomodify something.
“So whatever model you try to bring over here,
how you explain it to people like coaches andschool officials is important,” Inoue said. “I
think that it is really significant to communicate
with them well and earn cooperation fromthem.”The NCAA was founded in the U.S. in 1906 (itwas initially called the Intercollegiate Athletic
Association of the United States), essentiallybecause there were too many injuries and deaths
related to college football.
I hope Japan is “not forced to move quickly,

Members of the research project on college sports in Japan (from left) University of Tsukuba associate professor Tsuyoshi Matsumoto, Temple
professors Jeremy Jordan and Daniel Funk, Yuhei Inoue, an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota and Shinzo Yamada, an
administrator at Tsukuba, pose after their presentations on March 7.

because of a crisis,” Funk said. He wants college
sports in Japan to promote “well-being” for the
students and student-athletes.

seems there’s a lot of discussion, thegovernment wants to create this – Japaneseversion of the NCAA.”

Despite meeting more resistance than originally
anticipated, Jordan remains optimistic that the
project will eventually work due to growinginterest from collegiate officials in Japan.

The project will next go into the third and final
phase, in which Tsukuba will designate its
director and vice director of athletics andprepare to actually run its athletics department.

“It seems like for their interests, because every
time we come over here, there’s more and more
schools that are coming to these functions, itThis article first ran in The Japan Times on March
12, 2018. Reprinted with permission

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Students and Faculty Present at The Global Temple Conference
Temple University, Japan Campus (TUJ) sent adelegation of six to attend the 12th annual
Global Temple Conference (or “Global
Temple”) held on Main Campus in Philadelphia
on November 15.

The conference featured papers, panel
discussions, film screenings, performances, andposter presentations on a wide range of global
topics by over 150 faculty, students and staff in
the Temple community.

This was TUJ’s first ever participation bymultiple faculty and students together withaccompanying staff.

“Highlights of the trip were presentations by
Hikari Hida and Jeffrey Mazziotta at the Global
Temple,” said Associate Professor Mariko
Nagai, who moderated the TUJ student panel.
“They represent the best of TUJ – high-level
academicwork
deliveredconfidently,
embodying diversity and multiculturalism, andinternational outlooks.”“We’re especially proud in this 35th
Anniversary Year to be represented at the
Global Temple by two respected professors andtwo talented students,” said TUJ Chief
Academic Officer Alistair Howard. “It’s been agreat pleasure for our group of faculty, students
and staff to meet President Englert and Provost
Epps in historic Sullivan Hall.”
The 12th annual Global Temple was a wholeday symposium showcasing “Temple in theWorld and the World at Temple.”

Nagai herself presented “Occupied Bodies in
Shizuko Suzuki’s Haiku,” touching on the
Occupation period state-sanctioned prostitution
portrayed in a series of haiku written by aforgotten Japanese female poet, Shizuko
Suzuki.

Hikari Hida, a sophomore political science andAsian studies double major, presented“Forging Identity: Being Hafu in the
Monoracial Japan,” discussing the historicalimage of mixed-race Japanese and her own
experience as a half-Japanese woman.
“I am so grateful to have gotten the opportunity
to go to Main Campus and explore Philly forthe very first time,” said Hida, who wasrecommended by two professors as one of thetwo student presenters. “Highlights of the trip
included…the warm response I received after
my presentation that apparently resonated witha crowd that I wasn’t sure would.”Presenting“Defending
Freedomand
Democracy: F.P.A. of the U.S. Escalation in
Vietnam,” Jeff Mazziotta, Class of 2017
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Global Conference, cont. from page 3(Political Science), shared his views andanalyses on the implications of the war. The
recent graduate was recommended for his
award-winning capstone paper.
“The opportunity to take part in the Global
Temple was both rewarding and inspiring,” said
Mazziotta. “The meeting with the President andProvost was also particularly rewarding and it
was a wonderful chance to nourish theseimportant relationships.”“The trip exceeded my expectations in almost
every way and was an experience I will cherish
for a long time,” he added. In the faculty panel,
Associate Professor James Brown presented“Russia’s North Korea Policy: Facilitator of
Belligerence or Contributor to Peace?,”
exploring his insights on the political behaviorsof Russia, the U.S., and China towards North
Korea. Brown echoed Nagai on the excellenceof the two student presentations and added, “Ialso valued the opportunity to introduce myself
to faculty at Main Campus.”
With fruitful exchanges and successful
participation by the delegation, CAO Howard
concluded noting, “We look forward to next
year.”Do You Recognize these Alumni?
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From the TUJ Archives
New Computer Facilities at TUJ
By Taku Shinohara
Temple University Japan (TUJ) opened a newcomputer room in Spring, 2000. Along with 20
new computers, the lab has external hardware
such as an MO drive, a scanner, a CD writer,
earphones, microphones and applications in avariety of areas that are all available to students
and staff.
TUJ has two new servers available for student
and staff to save their work, according toProfessor Flex Odiala, the director of thecomputer program. He added, “There will befour more computers added to the lab and one
G4 Macintosh computer for scanning added
sometime very soon.”

TUJ Librarian Tom Boardman

Connecting You to a World of Resources
By Keili Hamilton-Maureira
The library at Temple University, Japan
Campus (TUJ), located on the 4th floor of
Azabu Hall, is a quiet refuge for students andfaculty alike. The shelves are filled with acarefully maintained collection of academic
materials and leisure reading, with over 60,000
books and numerous journals and periodicals.
Personal Selections, Made for Students
Head Librarian Tom Boardman takes great carein his selections for the library, reading 600-700

reviews a month as a part of his process. The
TUJ Library’s collection is constantly updated
as majors, classes, and faculty change over time.
Current specialties include linguistics, Asian
history, art and photography, and more,
dedicated to both the students’ needs andrequests by faculty. “Our collection is verymuch curriculum-driven,” explains Boardman,“and we are lucky to have access to all the Main
Campus [material], as well.” The library’s link
to Main Campus in Philadelphia is a relationshipunique to TUJ as an international branch
campus, and extends their abilities as a fullservice library.
Continued on page 5

The new computers have Celeron 400 MHz, 64
MB memory and 6.4 GB hard-disk. Along withgeneral software such as Microsoft Office,
Netscape Communicator and others, they all
have applications such as Sound Forge forsound editing, Media Studio Pro for video
editing, Adobe Photoshop 5.5. Illustrator 8.0
and PageMaker 6.5 and other applications forvarious classes and student’s needs. Also,
Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 Enterprise forprogramming is available and will be installed
into all computers in the near future.
“I would like to see more students trying out
these new applications and hardware which
many students generally do not have access tobecause they are too expensive to buy,” said
Professor Odiala.
This article first appeared in The Temple VoiceMarch 3, 2000 (Issue No. 42)

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Resources,

cont. from page 4

The students and faculty are able to requestthat Main Campus send them articles andtextbook chapters, and provide students
remote and on-site access to Temple’s wealthof online databases and resources. Boardmanstresses the importance of online resources,and often visits classes to demonstrate
database usage and resource availability.
“There is just so much on the portal,”
Boardman said excitedly, “For example, if
you’re a movie fan – to go into Kanopy, whichis streaming international video – that is justamazing, and every student has access tothat.”
Community Values
Even with its close ties to Temple Main
Campus, the TUJ library is still able toexercise independence in its selection ofmaterial. While most research materials havegone online in recent years, Boardman
explained that the library makes conscious
decisions to keep certain materials available
in paper, such as those related to art andphotography as well as subscriptions tolinguistics materials. These choices support
the library’s community ties, as the libraryalso lends material to Minato-ku libraries.
And residents of Minato-ku are able to apply
for a TUJ library card through the TUJ –Minato-ku Guest Patron Program, which
provides residents with the ability to check out
books and videos.
A Labor of Love
Besides its collection of books, periodicals,and extensive databases, the library supports
faculty in other ways. Library tours are given
to TUJ classes. The library tries to maintain atleast one reserve copy of every textbook used
at TUJ.

Born and raised in Wisconsin, Boardman has
moved around a lot, in that way sharing a similar
experience to TUJ’s own global student body.
After graduating with his masters from the
University of Oregon, he moved to Fairbanks,
Alaska and worked as a librarian there for ten
years. Needing a change of scenery, he foundhimself working at San Francisco Public
Library.
He traveled to Japan for the first time in the
1990s, discovering his love for Tokyo. “To me,
Tokyo is the ideal city,” he announced. Luckily,
during his job search in Tokyo, TUJ had job
openings, and he became the school’s librarianin 1992. Though other American universities
existed in Tokyo then, Boardman affirmed
Temple’s unique commitment to its Tokyo
branch campus, “Temple has made aconsiderable investment in its facilities here.”Flipping Pages Towards the Future
As TUJ concludes its 35th anniversary,
Boardman reflects on TUJ’s past changes andhis hopes for the future. The fully equipped
library has been in place for over 30 years, andfollows Temple Main Campus’s lead when it
comestotechnologicaladvancements.
Boardman expressed his hope that the TUJ
library will remain a quiet, analog refuge, as
TUJ prepares for its move in 2019, to share a
campus with Showa Women’s University(SWU) in Setagaya-ku, located in central Tokyo
near Shibuya.
The TUJ library is Boardman’s labor of love. It
provides not only extensive resources andmaterials for study but also demonstrates acommitment to meeting the individual needs ofstudents and faculty. Walk into the library andyou’ll be met with a friendly face and a helping
hand.

Did You Know?
TUJ Alumni Have Library Privileges

In Memoriam

More TUJ News: www.tuj.ac.jp/news

Alumni may use the TUJ libraries in Tokyo
and Osaka, and may check out up to three
items at a time. You can access the TUJ
library simply by presenting your TUJ alumni
card. Alumni can also take advantage of themany TUJ library periodical subscriptions,both in paper and online.

Sumiko Iwao, 1935-2018
Sumiko Iwao, Ph.D., a TUJ Board of Overseers
member died on January 11, 2018. She was 83.
Dr. Iwao received her Ph.D. from Yale, taught atthe Harvard Graduate School of Education andthen became a faculty member at Keio
University. She was an early leader in Japanesewomen’s studies and social psychology, and anational figure serving on many government
committees and commissions including being
Chair of the Gender Equality Council and amember of the National Public Safety
Commission. In her “second life” she microfunded the Sakura Secondary School for Girls in
Tanzania.
Reflecting upon Iwao’s career and life, Bruce
Stronach, Dean of TUJ noted that she, “was amodel for Japanese professionals, male andfemale, and we will miss her valued advice andinfallible charm.”

Dean’s Spring 2018 Update2018 Challenges, 2019 Campus Move,and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Contact tujalumni@tuj.temple.edu
When new faculty come in or a new course isoffered, Boardman asks what materials theyneed specifically for their courses. “We
expect our faculty to take an interest incollection development,” he said. In searchingfor materials relevant to new TUJ courses, healso cross-references syllabi of similarcourses at other universities.

In a video interview format published on-line,
TUJ Dean Stronach discusses collaboration withShowa Women’s University and TUJ’s move in
2019, what the Tokyo Olympics andParalympics in 2020 will mean for TUJ, as well
as challenges facing the university in 2018.

The Man Behind the Books

Q: More and more Japanese universities are
beginning to face declining enrollment. How
will this trend affect TUJ?

So who is Tom Boardman, the head librarian
responsible for selecting and maintaining
TUJ’s unique and extensive collection?

Highlights from the interview:

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Stronach: “It’s certainly possible that within thenext couple of years a substantial number ofprivate universities may go out of business.
Certainly that’s a dire problem for Japan, butquite frankly I don’t really see it at this point intime as a problem for TUJ.
One of the reasons for that is of course the basicsocial problem behind this is the decline in the
youth population, but there is a secondary
problem that is the decline in population in therural areas of Japan in particular. So, many of
those universities are in rural areas. The
important thing about TUJ is that we have avery good sense of mission. We know who weare, we know what we do, and we arerecognized as one of the most global institutionsof higher education in Japan.

Construction underway at the New TUJ Campus in Setagaya-ku

Our brand as an American university in Japan,
as the only foreign university in Japan, is verystrong. The more Japan stresses the need for
global education, the stronger we’re going to bein the market, the better brand we’re going tohave, and quite frankly, as an American
university, I think that our educational strengths
in global higher education are very obvious.”

Lastly, TUJ has been chosen by the Ministry of
Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) as one of2000 companies around the country which will
be supported in our investments in the future
development of the region in which we exist.
So, as we move to Setagaya-ku, we will beworking with SWU and corporate partners with
Setagaya city.”

We as an institution will also be supporting the
Olympics in various ways. We will be in
Setagaya City at that point, and the American
Olympic team will also be in Setagaya City, so
we anticipate that we will be supporting them.
We hope that we will be able to have some
Temple University sports teams here to playwarm-up games with Japanese national teams.

Q: How will TUJ further collaborate withShowa Women’s University this year?

Q: How does TUJ plan to leverage theupcoming 2020 Olympics?

Stronach: “Now that we have the basic
agreement for the lease done, that’s really justthe start. There’s so much more to do.

Stronach: “As a university, first and foremost,
we’re interested in any program that supports
the academic development of our students. So
we think that the 2020 Olympics andParalympics are going to be a great resource forour students.

So there are many ways in which I feel we will
benefit both academically, and that we will beable to support the main campus in theirinterests. We as an institution will be able tosupport the city of Tokyo and also the Olympics
Committee in fulfilling their mission. In doing
all of that, we think this is yet another very good
opportunity for us to brand TUJ in Tokyo andin Japan.”

Right now what we’re working on is primarily
the facilities aspect. We are working with ourown design architects, and also with the main
campus, in order to come up with what we feel
will be the best interior design for the building,as well as external landscaping. So that’s still apriority at the moment. We’re also developing
more and more discussions with [SWU] on, firstof all, the academic relationship.
We’ve gone a long way in terms of our
discussions on a dual degree program, in which
students will study at both SWU and also at
TUJ, and receive diplomas from both. We also
have to talk about what the rules are going to be
for students on both sides of the campus.
One of the best things about this is going to be
the flow of students from SWU to TUJ and fromTUJ to SWU, so in that mixing of students on
both campuses we have to come to anagreement on whose codes of conduct, whoserules of behavior et cetera, pertain to whichsituations. So, there are many things left todiscuss, and we are beginning those discussions
now. They will be ongoing over the next year
and a half.

First of all, just in terms of academically, I’msure there are faculty members, particularly
those who teach contemporary Japanesesociety, Asian society, politics, will be able tolink the Olympics to their courses.
But also there are going to be many, many
opportunities for internships, and also forservice learning for our students. So that will be
important. As the various committees develop,
then our students will have the opportunity towork with those committees, work with thenational sports teams, et cetera.
Another area that I think is very important isthat there are people on the main campus whoare very interested in the Olympics andParalympics and being in Tokyo in 2020. For
example, the main campus television station
will be sending over reporters to broadcast andwe will be supporting them.

Continued, next column

The full version of the video interview can be foundon the TUJ website’s “About Temple”

www.tuj.ac.jp/about/japan-campus/dean

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Masaaki Ogawa
Muhammad Auon Shahid
Yoko Sugiyama
Takafumi Suzuki
Yumiko Tabo
Harue Takasaki

Master of Laws
Noriko Akazawa
Assadullah Amini
Minori Asahara
Celia Guignet
Masaaki Ishida
Noriko Ishii
Kaori Kamahori
Kaori Kobayashi

Master of Business Administration
Julio Cesar Delacruz
Takaki Egawa
Sean Ian Fischer
Heewon Jeong
Tomohiro Kanno
Keiji Kinui

Charlie Ko
Noriko Kosugi
Errol Lee Jr.
Daniel Marter
Shyretta Rochelle McCrackin
Katsuo Nagasawa

Yoshihiro Noda
Chikara Okawa
Jose P. Sierra
Teymour Miserez
Jeremiah Townsend
Sean WhittHONORS LIST SYMBOL KEY***summa cum laude,**magna cum laude,*cum laude

Bachelor of Science
Lama Ahmed Alkhunaini
Megumi Aoki
Manley-Rudolph Barnard
Simon Fernando Castro
King Chan
Anthony Joseph Chaulklin
Shu-Yu Chen
Erika Marciana Chong-Munoz
Ryan Michael Connery
Brandon Stefen CookNathan De Joseph
Adrian Delgado Amador
Adriel Delgado Amador
Omar R. Dixon**Andrew Terry Fast

James Michael Gaither
Ken Hioki
Ayami Ikeda
Takaaki Izawa
Linh Hoai Lai
Brian Girard Lavassaur
Seung Hoon Lee
Eli Salvador Lopez
Evan Ahlering MannoMark Anthony Marquez
Kazuki Matsumoto
Jacob Allan Middleton
Keito Mifuji
Haruka Miyamoto
Jeanette N. Nguyen

Jakub Olesniewicz
Pedro Henrique Oliveira*Nami E. Ooki
Syed Mohammad Ali Oshiro
Steven Joseph Pendleton
Matthew James Perez
Alyssa Mae Remo
Aki Sakurai
Barbara Serra Hospital*Nicole Rae Stagg
Chizuko Suzuki
Stiven Vargas
Alejandro Velez
Richard Yang
Daniel Zarate

Tamara D. Evans
Stephen James Fernandez*Masaki James Finch
Martin Jeffrey Fisher
Reginald Andre Flowers*David R. Fontanez
Olga Franckiewicz**Paul Matthew Freelend
Jonathan R. Freiermuth
Reeves Taylor Froning
Clayton William Fujino
Shamsurahman Ghulam*Alberto Melvin L. Gomez
Jorge Luis Gordillo
Mariley Marquise Grissom
Ayana Goto Hadley
Gregory Dane Hamric
Carolinne Miho Hanaoka
Chishio Haraguchi
Elizabeth Cooper Hardman
Ross Allen Harper
Randall J. Harris
Matthew Bernard Hartman
Miho Hiramatsu
Phoebe Nicole Ho*Daniel Keith Horne
Daniel Alan Howse
Anderson Huang**Shelby Marie Hummel
Mari Inoue
Shoko Ishii**Douglas Lamar Johnson
Abigail Rochele Johnston

Douglas Jones
Jian Bernice Harada Joyner
Kaytlen Renee Judin
Lina Lindani Kadzamira***Yuki Kaito
Kirk Quijano Kalaw
Gary Michael Kamykowski
Shoya Kato
Tetsuya Kawanabe
Evan John Kemp
Charles Stewart Kennedy
Ashley Lanette Kessler
Chinatsu Kikuchi
Tomohito Kikuchi
Da Hee Kayla Kim
Keisuke Kimura
Masami Kobayashi
Jana Lena Kohfahl
Taichi Kondo
Jonathan Yoni Kopelman
Max Milo Kornek
Lisa Denise Koski
Yin Lin
Karis Sakura Loritz
Chiaki Maeda
Jeetesh Maharjan
Miku Mantani
Angela Rika McNatt
Daniel Patrick Mirsalis
Jonathan Yoshihiro Mita
Hiroshi Mitsuo
Marika Miyamoto
Yui Miyanaga

Bachelor of Arts
Metab Othman A Altawill
Adam Min Adachi**Savannah Nickole Leinaala Adams
Hafed Hassan Ali Almusrati
Richard Jefferey Anders
Yuumi Aoyama
Joseph Michael Balash
Brandon Baumeister
Jahanzaib Ali Behlum
Jordan Abraham Allen Berger
Meghan Anne Bowman
Monica Leigh Braley
Ciro Bravo Jr.
Sebastian David Buettner
Emilio Xavier Burnett
Bryce William Calabria
Darcell Caliste
Jarvis DeAndre Carreker
Rebecca Jean Carrubba
Alfredo Casas***Christopher Lee Catt
Ting yu Chang
Huixian Charis Chia
Ying Lam Chiu
*David John Cortez
Samantha Paz Cubbison-Peters
Thomas Edward Cude
Cristina Marie Deane
Patterson James Deppen
Talia Alexandra Desiongco-Moore
Rina Rachel Deyama***Alexander David Dubinski
Joseph James Elam

Bachelor of Arts, cont.
Maribeth Dapilan Mockovak
Juan Julio A. Montanez
Juan Morales
Hanako Mori
Toru Moriyama
Sato Nakanishi
Chi Wai Sandy Ng
Shun Nozaki
Saeko Numajiri
Raditya Halimawan Nuradi
David Michael O'Brien
Takahiro Ogawa
Yurina Ogura
Moe Osada
Emika Osada
Anna Osato
Kento Oshizaka
Michisuke Andrew Studstrup Ota
Hikari Otomo
Camilla Ou
Magdoulen Ahmed A Own
Eduardo Antonio Pabon
Si Hyeong Park
Benjamin Taylor Payne
Jasmin Acosta Pendon***Dante Emmanuelle Libunao Perez*Hannah Cherish Peters
Tomoru Owen Place*Matthieu Daniel Plourde
Maressa Carolina Ramalho Jorge
Jessica Marie Ramirez
Alexandra Marie Ramsey
Alicia Jasmin Reed
Brazos Nicole Roberts
Pedro Del Rodrigues**Jonathan Rossman
Natsumi Sahashi
Tomoru Sakama
Courtney Aiko Sakamoto*Hikari SakuraiPeter David Salzman
Prajan Sanku
George Stephen Saxton
Katelynn Ann Scheel
Colin J. Sheldon
Yunmei Shih
Lawrence Shane Shimamoto
Tsubasa Shimaoka
Tomas Sta. Maria Sicat
Jonathen Robert Smith
Sigrid Andersen Solheim
Callian Jordan Moore Stokes
Jillian Toshie Suyono
Masataka Suzuki
Lovelylily Sydney
Kurara Takahashi
Chinami Takayama

Erika Ann Take
Yuhei Takeshima
Hinako Takimoto
Niina Tanaka
Yuki Tanaka
Miyuki Taniuchi
Victoria Shannon Thomas**Lucas Mitsuharu Tokuda
Yuka Tokuyama
Noa Tomizawa
Yurie Uno
Arthur Valaer
Sterling Vicenti
Dustin Jager Walker
Jinchen Wang
Yu-Han Wang
Reo Watanabe
Brian Michael Wheeler
Sekani Arcadio Wilson
Derek Richard Winston
Ai Yamaguchi**Hirotsugu Yamamoto
Anna Yamamoto
Fu YenTsz Kiu Yip
Junhyeok Yoon
Shengming Zhang
Fei Fei Zhang
Jacob Lawrence Zumpano

Building a Family Network to
Benefit TUJ Students
By Paul GaspariTUJ Office of Student Services
Temple University’s Japan Campus is an
integral part of Temple University’s expansive
global community and the school prides itself
on its role connecting students from around theworld. One of the primary goals of the Officeof Student Services (OSS) is helping students
develop a strong bond among themselves andwith TUJ immediately after their acceptance tothe university.
The Office of Student Services is the firstwindow into TUJ for newly admitted students
from the time of their admission until theirarrival on campus for New Student Orientationand class registration. After Orientation, OSS
continues to support students during their entire
tenure at the university. Services include
student visa-sponsorship, facilitating student
housing, organizing student activities andexcursions, organizing on-campus events, andproviding on-going assistance in adjusting tolife in Japan.
For most students the transition to higher
education can be stressful.
For Japanese
students, this may be the first time they are in
an English-only learning environment, while
for international students this may be the firsttime they are away from home and, for many,
the first time in a foreign country. OSS works
closely with students and their families to makethe transition to TUJ as successful and assmooth as possible.
To better meet our goal and fulfill our mission,
the Office of Student Services is seeking a more
active engagement with student families
leading to an expanded support network thatwill directly benefit TUJ students.
Currently OSS organizes a welcome reception
for the families of students matriculating in thespring and fall terms. In the immediate future,
the Office would also like to establish an
affinity committee composed of a dedicatedcohort of interested parents and guardians, andmembers of the university administration. The
affinity committee will serve as an advisory
body for OSS providing input, ideas andcounsel as the Office seeks to improve andenhance student services at TUJ.
If you are interested in having a more active role
at TUJ and participating in this initiative, pleasecontact us at: tujdev@tuj.temple.edu
Temple University, Japan Campus is a uniqueeducational environment, and we look forward
to working with you as we make the institution
a better place for your student to learn andacquire the skills necessary for a successful
future.
Paul Gaspari is the Assistant Director of OSS

Honoring History
Looking to the Future
By Geo Otsu
A reunion dinner welcoming former TUJ Board
Member, Takao Tanimoto, and other senioradministrators instrumental in the foundationand early development of TUJ was held on
February 28th at the Tokyo American Club.
Takao Tanimoto, Chairperson of TUJ’s Boardof Overseers in the mid-1980s who had a later
career as president of his family’s steel trading
company, was the honoree. Fondly remembered
as a generous supporter of students, Tanimoto
was also regarded as a capable administrator
who helped shepherd TUJ’s first move from its
original campus site in Shiba Koen to its next
location in Shibuya-ku.
In recognition of his service and efforts in the
1980s, Temple University in Philadelphia
established a scholarship in honor of his father
and namesake, Takao Tanimoto (Sr.) who diedduring the younger Tanimoto’s time at TUJ.
The “Takao Tanimoto Memorial Scholarship”
helped underwrite tuition expenses for TUJ
students studying abroad at Main Campus in
Philadelphia.
In addition to Tanimoto, guests included thedistinguished lawyer, diplomat and former
Japanese Ambassador to Ghana, Kazuko Asai,
who was advisor and counselor to theleadership of the TUJ and the TUJ Board during
Tanimoto’s Chairmanship.
Welcomed by TUJ’s Dean Stronach, Senior
Associate Dean Chie Kato, and longtime
Facility Manager Kiyomi Hirooka, thegathering was an opportunity to reconnect andhonor TUJ’s impact across the generations.
Joining the festivities were several alumni fromthe 1980s, some of whom were recipients of theTanimoto Scholarship and were eager give theirregards to Tanimoto himself.
TUJ alumna Okitsu, who attended the event,said she was honored and grateful for theopportunity that the scholarship provided. After
graduating from Temple Philadelphia she went
on to receive a Doctor of Medicine degree from
University of Miami Medical Center. A letter of
thanks from another recipient of the scholarship
was presented to Tanimoto during dinner. The
alumna, Meiko Sperbek, currently living in theUS, wrote that she had eventually earned her
Ph.D. from the Graduate Center of the City
University of New York, eventually working as
an adjunct Associate Professor at Adelphi
University and John Jay College of Criminal
Justice.
Guests of the dinner shared conversation andmemories, as well as photos of the early days of
TU President Richard Englert. The legacy of the
Takao Tanimoto Memorial Scholarship
recipients has left a valuable mark, and we hopethese lasting connections will continue to foster
ongoing support of TUJ.
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The New TUJGlobal Campus, Global Future
Opening 2019

Location

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