WHAT’S NEW WITH APP?

In May 2004, the Academic Preparation
Program (formerly IELP) will institutea revised, more-intensive curriculum
intended to foster more rapid language
acquisition and, thus, speed the progressof APP students through the program.
New courses designed specifically for the
purpose will systematically address thedevelopment of basic vocabulary and reading skills. In response to APP students’requests, the new curriculum will also
include listening and speaking courses
and explicit grammar instruction within
the context of core reading courses at alllevels. The current curriculum of reading-based writing, content, and TOEFL
preparation courses will continue to betaught, but the new courses will supplement it. To accommodate these changes,
student class hours will be expanded
to 24 hours per week for all students,
making the APP truly intensive.
In addition, the current three levels of
the APP will be expanded to four so that

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY JAPANeach level comprises a morenarrow range ofEnglish proficiency. Advanced
MEd student
interns under
the close supervision of masterteachers willteach about onequarter of the
24 class hours.
Qualified MEd
A recent survey indicates that more than 95% of APP students welcome the new curriculum.
students will also
APP students’ exposure to spoken English
work as teaching assistants (TAs) in classes with master teachers as part of a practifor communicative purposes and perhaps
cum added to the MEd course lineup. It isinteresting the undergraduates in a language teaching career. The idea is to inteanticipated that the TAs will learn a great
grate the APP with the College of Liberaldeal by getting actual classroom experience under seasoned professionals, but it
Arts and the graduate TESOL program
for the benefit of all concerned. From APP
is also expected that the master teachers
students’ point of view, the new curricuwill benefit from mentoring their TAs.
lum should make for faster progress and,In addition, the APP plans to hirenative English-speaking undergraduates
perhaps best of all, will be offered to themfrom the College of Liberal Arts to assist inwith no accompanying increase in tuition.
classes as teacher’s aides, thereby raising

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TUJ TIMESNEW TOURISM
AND HOSPITALITYMANAGEMENT MAJOR

a mandatory aspect of, the major in the
United States and Japan is an internshipprogram. An advisory board of industryrelated individuals will help arrange
internships for students, provide advice,and help raise funds for the program.
In Japan, the government is emphasizUJ welcomes another addition to its
ing tourism as a key 21st-century busigrowing Undergraduate Program.
ness. The Visit Japan Campaign launchedby the government aims to increase
Beginning summer 2004, TUJ will
inbound tourism to Japan. This willoffer a Bachelor of Science in tourism and hospitality management (THM).
increase demand and employment opportunities for people whose skills include
Students will take two years of entrylevel courses at TUJ before transferring
the training and international experience
gained through the THM major at TUJ.
to Temple University’s main campus
Dr. Elizabeth H. Barber, STHM’s assoin Philadelphia for a final two years ofupper-level curricula in the School ofciate dean, comments: “We are delighted
to extend our
Tourism and Hospitality
Management (STHM). TUJ’s
program offerings to TUJ. With
THM major responds to thecurrent and prospective needJapanese tourists
for trained, globally respontraveling aroundsive professionals in tourism
the world andand hospitality management.
with the Japanese
The THM major at TUJ
government’s tourwill train students for posiism-promotion
Vivaqua Hall is home to THM at the main campus.
campaign, tourism
tions in the tourism and hospitality management industry. Students
and hospitality management represents
a very exciting career path for Japanese
will acquire industry-specific skills inmanagement, marketing, planning, andstudents. And, in addition to helping TUJ
students, this new relationship between
information technology to prepare for convention and conference, hotel and lodging,
STHM and TUJ will benefit main campus
restaurant, theme park, cruise, transporstudents, by providing them with interntation, and other tourism and hospitality
ships in Japan and opportunities for crossmanagement positions. Central to, andcultural exchange.”

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MEXT EDGING TOWARD
FOREIGN UNIVERSITYSTATUS FOR TUJOn March 29, Japan’s Ministry of
Education, Culture, Sports, Scienceand Technology (MEXT) announced
the suggestions made by its advisorycommittee on recognizing the quality ofthe branch campuses of foreign universities. Among them was to recognize students at branch campuses as qualified toenroll in Japanese graduate schools andto accept their credits as transferable to
Japanese universities if their main campus is accredited in its home country.
MEXT has a contradictory policy of
not recognizing the branch campuses offoreign universities either as Japaneseor foreign institutions. Credits earned
at TUJ are not transferable to Japanese
universities, but the same credits earnedat the main campus are. It is hoped thatthe committee’s suggestions lead MEXT togrant qualified branch campuses foreign
university status soon.
For MEXT, the advisory committee’s
suggestions represent a major effort
toward internationalizing Japanese higher
education. TUJ, however, sees the suggestions merely as an indication that reality is catching up with the government.
MEXT policy notwithstanding, many
Japanese graduate schools admit TUJ
graduates, and numerous Japanese universities accept TUJ undergraduates astransfer students.
TUJ nonetheless hopes that even
MEXT’s merest leaning toward officiallyVol. 2
Summer 2004

TEMPLE UNIVERSITYPRESIDENT ADAMANYTO ATTEND TUJGRADUATION CEREMONY

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emple University president David
Adamany will come to Tokyo for
the TUJ graduation ceremony andrelated events in June 2004. This
will be Dr. Adamany’s first visit to TUJ
since he became Temple’s president in2000. Dr. Adamany holds a BA and a JD
from Harvard and an MS and a PhD, inpolitical science, from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. He served as president of Wayne State University in Detroit
and was interim chief executive officer ofthe Detroit Public Schools under a state
reorganization of the school district. Dr
Adamany also served in several government posts in Michigan, including as
secretary of revenue and as a memberof the Public Service Commission.
Dr. Adamany serves Temple University
and TUJ through avaluable mix of qualities. He is both visionary and practical toa local and a global
degree and is committed to offering thefinest, most-responDr. David Adamany, Temple
sive education posUniversity's eighth president.
sible. His goals for themain campus show a fine appreciation
for the traditions of Temple University
and parallel TUJ’s goals. In pursuingthose goals, he will benefit the students
and faculties of both campuses and will
have a positive impact on both countries
and, ultimately, the world. TUJ looks
forward with pleasure to his visit.

recognizing the quality of education at
TUJ convinces the Ministry of Justice andJapan Rail to be more open minded about
TUJ’s long-standing fight for visa andstudent discount train pass recognition.
MEXT recently promised Dean Patterson
to actively help in the negotiations withthese bodies. This is definitely the closestthat TUJ has gotten to a solution to theseoutstanding issues in its 22-year history.

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ALUMNI NEWSWHAT ARE TUJ
ALUMNI UP TO?

Send your news to alumni@tuj.ac.jp

Undergraduate Program
Yuko (Masuyama) Hashimoto (BA ’96)
worked at Dentsu, Young & Rubicam, an advertising agency, after graduating from TUJ. She
spent a very busy four years there, working till
midnight almost every day and making businesstrips to Sweden. In 2001, she got married and left
the company. Now she enjoys meeting her friends
from school and studying things that interest her,things she had little time for when she was working. Yuko and her husband love traveling, so whenhe’s able to take time off from work they travel
around Japan or go abroad. yukohash@nifty.com

accounting and general affairs. Stern Stewart isselling EVA (Economic Value Added) in Japan.
“If you use EVA, you can impress your banking
friends!” she says. nsera@sternstewart.co.jp

Kazushi Kato ( AA ’93) got married two years
ago. After graduating from TUJ, he got his nursing license and is now working as a nurse inTokyo. He studies karate and is cycling to build
up stamina for those long hours at the hospital. He cycles from Koto Ward, where he lives
with his wife, Shiho, to work in Edogawa Ward.
rkko701237@paw.hi-ho.ne.jp

transferred from State Street Trust andBanking to State Street Global Advisors Co.,
Ltd., in 2001 and got married in July 2003. She
now lives in Yokohama City with her husband.
norikomakita@hotmail.com

Hiroko Kamo (AA ’97) went back to her homein Hokkaido after graduation. After working fora Japanese university for awhile, she became an
English teacher and taught for three years. Thenshe spent some time in Nagoya and Osaka volunteering as a Christian missionary. Now she’s backin Hokkaido and works for a company. “Currently
I’m working for a company, but I’d like to build up
a career as an English teacher and make it mylifetime job, especially teaching English for children,” she says. Living in Hokkaido, she doesn’t
have much contact with her classmates andwould be pleased to get e-mail messages from her
old friends. kamohiroko@dk.pdx.ne.jp

Tomomi Kaneda (BA ’00) graduated from

College of Education

Noriko (Makita) Matsuura (BA ’99)

Kanagawa University
and became an English
teacher. After giving
birth to her first child,
Ryuta, she returned toschool at TUJ. Raisinga child and studying ata university at the sametime is not easy, but she
earned her second BA and was summa cum laude
in American Studies. Ryuta is now 11 years old,and Tomomi had her second baby, Chika, lastDecember. tommyknd@hotmail.com

Narihiro Niitsu (BA ’97) thinks that without
TUJ he wouldn’t be where he is now. “I changed
jobs a couple of times after graduation, but one
reason that I was always able to find a position at
a company doing business with foreign countries
was that I was confident and proud to have completed the tough program at TUJ. I’m currently incharge of marketing medical instruments, introducing American and European products to Japan.
It requires very high communication and language
skills, but I’m managing it because of the education TUJ provided. I would like to brush up myskills at TUJ in the future. I hope that the school
continues to prosper, providing high-quality education to students wishing to work not only in Japanbut all over the world” nnaruhiro@yahoo.co.jp

Machiko (Sato) Osaki (AA ’91) is now themother of two girls. Her eldest daughter, Yuka,
is five, and her youngest, Miyu, is two. The family just bought a new house in Kawasaki, not far
from where they live now, and anticipates moving
in mid-April. Machiko has few chances to see her
friends, so she looks forward to hearing from herclassmates. makoyuka@fo.freeserve.ne.jp
Naomi Sera (AA ’91) transferred to the
University of Washington after obtaining her
AA at TUJ and got a BA in political science in
1994. She has been working as an office manager
at Stern Stewart LLC, an American businessconsulting company, since 1998, dealing withnewsletterVol2.indd 3-4

Sae Matsuda (MEd ’90) and Robert Sanborn
Brown (MEd ’92) are married and live in Kyoto
with their daughter, Mona (5), and their dog, Nina
(7). Sae has been working as a part-time teacher
at Kyoto Sangyo University, Doshisha University,and Kyoto University of Foreign Studies. As of
April, though, she will begin working full-timeat Setsunan University. Her research interests
include the individual differences among learners,
computer-mediated communication, and action
research.
Sanborn is a fulltime teacher at
Osaka Kyoiku
University. He
writes, “This is along commute fromhome in Kyoto, but the students are creative andfunny and serious. I teach English, translation,
and, in the fall, an evening class to adults. My
research interests are related to bilingual education and socio-linguistics. Aside from work, my'passion' is the three web sites that I co-direct.
Soccerphile.com, which is dedicated to the big
events in world soccer: this summer’s Eurocup
in Portugal, the World Cup in Germany in 2006,
etc., JapanVisitor.com, which is for residents
of Japan and tourists alike, and a final site,
GoodsFromJapan.com, supports the other twosites. No money, but a lot of fun. Please have alook.” saesanborn@yahoo.co.jp

Haruka Yasuda (MEd ’98) tells us that “learning is a lifetime affair. It’s never too late to start
studying again.” He was a corporate employee mostof his life, until he joined TUJ’s MEd programat age 59. After retiring from his job, he earned
his MEd. He then started teaching at Otsuma
Woman’s University. In addition to his regularcourses, he’s teaching multinational enterprise
theory. He’s also a student at Columbia University
Teachers’ College. He tells us, “I’m swimming akilometer every day. It’s my tip on how to keep
active and vigorous.” hyasuda@ruby.famille.ne.jp

Laurie Waye (MEd ’01)
met a TUJ APP teacher
at TUJ’s graduation
ceremony and got hiredby the program a few
months later. Between
working on and off at
TUJ, Laurie taught in New Zealand for fourmonths, got married, and had a baby. After 11
years in Japan, she plans to return to Canada
this summer. waye@tuj.ac.jp

Executive MBA Program
Koji Taguchi (EMBA’02) is working for AES
Japan, where he’s incharge of marketingand sales. AES Japan ispart of the Exxon Mobil
Group, which produces
and trades petrochemicals. Koji was moved to the
Nagoya office last year. He says, “What I learnedin the EMBA program is especially useful for
meetings with client’s top management and formarketing.” Koji takes great pleasure in spendingtime with his wife and their son, Takamasa, who
was born last November. dtaguchi@anet.ne.jp

Yudi Mashudi Hamka(EMBA ’02) recently was
rewarded with a career
promotion to senior manager of sales at his company, Datacraft Japan.
The EMBA program hashelped him to cope withhis challenging job in the
IT service industry andhas provided a strong
business footing as a specialist in serving clientswith their IT strategies
with the vision to deliver business-driven IT
solutions. Last fall, Yudi moved into a new housein the Chofu area near the beautiful Tamagawa
River. The house has a morning view of Mt. Fuji.
He and his wife, Tomoko, planned and built theirhouse based on their own design. “I would liketo invite all of you to come over to my house for agreat BBQ,” is Yudi’s message to his classmates.
Yudi.Hamka@datacraft-asia.com

Law School
Yoko Onishi (LLM ’04) enrolled in the Law
Program at TUJ in 2001 after working as a patent attorney. At the same time, she also took
graduate courses at Waseda University andworked part-time at home. Today, she works
in the Intellectual Property Division of Taito
Corporation, a leading computer game company,
where she oversees patent applications and lawsuits. “I’m relieved and happy that I have a newjob and am able to be with my family again. I
spent one semester at the main campus, awayfrom my family, and missed them very much,especially my five-year-old son, Kensuke. He andmy husband are both very proud that they survived the period without me,” she says. She also
advises law students to get as much information
as far in advance as possible about the main campus program, from alumni (TLSJSBA: Temple
Law School Japanese Students Bar Association)and from the Law Program office, so that they are
well prepared. HasegawaYOK@aol.com

FUND-RAISING DRIVE
OFF TO A GOOD STARTTUJ launched its first-ever fund-raising campaign in fall 2003, and it’s off
to a great start. So far, we’ve collected
more than ¥15 million in donations
and pledges toward our goal of ¥20 million
for this year.
Sources of Donations and Pledges 03-04(¥15,691,218 raised as of April 7, 2004)
Faculty/Staff Members
8%

Donors List 2003–2004
Institutional Donors

APP Parents
13%

TUJ Patrons
Philip Morris Japan K.K.
Supporting Sponsors
Citigroup International
Gold Owl Supporters
Ogasawara Foundation

Alumni13%

Silver Owl Supporters
Vodafone K.K.
Corporations
66%

Koji Shimada’s (TU, EdD ’75) recent
pledge of US$1 million (¥105 million)
toward the TUJ building project is a financial and psychological boon for the drive,
even though it’s not included in this year’s
pledges and gifts. APP students’ parents
have also been very generous, and many
people—faculty, staff, and alumni—have
given graciously to support student scholarships. TUJ alumni have given ¥2 million.
Thanks to all who dug deep into theirpockets to make TUJ an even better place.
In our ongoing effort to support our students, our fund-raising campaign continues and needs your support to reach its
target: ¥20 million for the year. You canmake a difference! And if you donate morethan ¥50,000, you’ll get 20% off on a purchase of the TU goods available throughour Information Center. For details, please
see the last page.

Individual Donors
Diamond Donors
Mamoru Shimada (BA CLA ’98/staff)
Gold Owl Supporters
Takayuki Adachi (student’s parent)
Minako Fuoti (BA CLA ’99/staff)
Hisao Karube (EMBA ’01)
Koichi Onoe (MA Econ ’00)
Hiroyo Shiroyanagi (student’s parent)
Silver Owl Supporters
Kozo Aihara (student’s parent)
Yasunobu Arai (MEd ’00)
Takao Hatogai (student’s parent)
Harumi Imai (student’s parent)
Yukio Ishii (student’s parent)
Hideo Kobayashi (student’s parent)
Sachiko Nakajo (BA CLA ’93)
Yasuhiro Ogawa (student’s parent)
Tadashi Omori (student’s parent)
Lee W. Schvaneveldt (MEd ’00)
Yuka Takashima (AA CLA ’97)
Satoshi Takayama (student’s parent)
Hideaki Tsukuma (student’s parent)
Toshizumi Yamawaki (student’s parent)

Membership Levels
Bronze Owl Supporters
Silver Owl Supporters
Gold Owl Supporters
Conwell Contributors
Diamond Donors
Supporting Sponsors
TUJ Patrons¥10,000–¥49,999¥50,000–¥99,999¥100,000–¥499,999¥500,000–¥999,999¥1,000,000–¥2,499,999¥2,500,000–¥4,999,999¥5,000,000 and above

Bronze Owl Supporters
David Baca (MEd ’88)
Thomas Boardman (staff)
Alan Brender (EdD ’02/faculty)Peter Castagnaro (MEd ’91/faculty)
William Clark (faculty)
Scott Dotterer (MA CST ’80/faculty)
Leonard Horton (faculty)
Michiko Ikuta (staff)
Christina Junko Itaya (MEd ’90/faculty)
Neubert Karl (faculty)
Chie Kato (staff)
Fujiko Komatsu (MFA ’70)
Tadashi Kushibuchi (MEd ’91)
Toyotsugu Matsui (MEd ’02)
Takashi Matsuzawa (MEd ’02)
Frederick Myers (faculty)
Mariko Nagai (faculty)
Bungo Ohata (BA CLA ’02)
Shohei Okano (EMBA ’02)
Noriaki Okuda (LLM ’02)
Hiromi Overton (staff)
Patrick Rosenkjar (EdD ’95/faculty)
Kathleen Schmitz (faculty)
William Schrade (faculty)
Miyuki Shoju (staff)
Kathleen Summers (faculty)
Roberta Takahashi (MEd ’99/faculty)
Hiromasa Tanaka (MEd ’95)
Yukiko Toyama (BA CLA ’94)
Tomoko Yamada (staff)
Mihoko Yamagata (MEd ’97)
Akira Yamamoto (BA CLA ’95)
Asuka (Takada) Yamamoto (BA CLA ’96)
Keiko Yamazaki (BA CLA ’92)
Akinobu Yoshikawa (student’s parent)*The list includes
donors whose
donation was confirmed as of April
7, 2004.
*Pledges with nopayment confirmed and anonymous donors are
not included.
*The list is regularly updated on the TUJ alumni website,
at http://www.tuj.ac.jp/alumni

Koji Shimada, who pledged US$1 million for the construction of the planned Temple
Educational Center, has recently joined the TUJ Board of Governors.

04.5.10 1:05:53 PM