Special edition (No. 75)
Issued by: Kanazawa University Alumni Office
2016/11/30
Phone: +81-76-264-5081
Email: gakuyu@adm.kanazawa-u.ac.jp
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The 10th Kanazawa University Homecoming Day
On Saturday, October 29, 2016, the 10th Kanazawa University
Homecoming Day was held at the Kakuma campus covered
with beautiful autumn leaves.
We had a very successful and lively day with 176 people
attended in the welcome ceremony, and 150 graduates andtheir family members joined the banquet. The welcome ceremony began by singing the university song
together with the Kanazawa University Choir, Philharmonic Orchestra, and all attendees.

President Koetsu Yamazaki delivered a welcome
address. As the first year of the third medium-termtargets/medium-term plan period (FY2016 toFY2021), he indicated that Kanazawa University will
strive to be a world class university for academic
research, and shared some facts, including on two
major reforms; establishment of the Institute ofLiberal Arts and Science that will strongly propel
backbone education and drive an advanced level ofinternationalization for overall education in theuniversity, and establishment of two new schools,
President Yamazaki delivering
the Graduate School of Innovative Preventive
a welcome address
Medicine, and the Graduate School ofProfessional Development in Teacher Education. As part of its researchenhancement, the university invites the world’s most advanced researchers, ofNobel Prize winner caliber, as research professors, and one of them, Professor
Jean-Pierre Sauvage, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry this year.

Trustee Yamamoto reporting
the latest information onKanazawa University

On behalf of the guests, Mr.
Tamotsu Yamade, Chairman ofKanazawa University Alumni
Association,delivered
acongratulatory address and said
that the role of the Alumni
Association is to understand theenvironment and conditions thatnational universities face, and toexpress its opinions to the Chairman Yamade delivering
university and to society. He said, a congratulatory address(Law & Letters, 1954)“From among 86 nationaluniversities, Kanazawa University's selection of framework #3
out of three concentrated budget allocation frameworks that
the Japanese government requested", was a good choice forthe future.” And, he delivered a message of encouragementby saying “Please do your very best for the development of
the university as one team led by the President.”

Trustee and Vice President (in charge ofinternational affairs, university hospital andalumni association), Hiroshi Yamamoto,introduced the latest research and activities
by the university including ① current andpast of the campus, ② the most recent dataon Kanazawa University, ③ education andresearch activities (opening of Institute ofLiberal Arts and Science, the Japan
Academy awards, the Kanazawa University’s
touring thefocused research Chozen project, and the Participants
Exhibition of Inside Castle
Research Professor system), and ④Photographs held by theinternationalization (research on the ruins ofuniversity museum at thethe Mayan Civilization, super global ELP
Kahoku Gate of the Kanazawa
Castle.
center, etc.).

At the end of the welcome ceremony, the Mori-no-miyako Boys and Girlschoir (26 members) sang Mori ni Hairo (Let’s Go into the Forest) (Lyricsby Makoto Eguchi, music by Masato Kai), the theme song for theKakuma forest, with lovely voices. Mori ni Hairo was introduced as achoir song composed last year and as the theme song for the Kakuma
forest, where learning and playing in a forest are fostered with care in theforest through the efforts for forest conservation by community
collaboration among Kanazawa University and local companies,
kindergarten of the forest, and Mokuiku (education of woods) movement
to become familiar with trees since childhood.

On the morning of Saturday, October 29,
five courses (① School of Medicine, ②School of Health Sciences, ③ inside theold castle, ④ north of Kakuma, and ⑤south of Kakuma) of campus tour wereconducted, and a total of 80 people
participated. Inside the old castle, many
participants became emotional looking
at the location of the school buildingsthat they graduated from and the area
after the school ground where they
enjoyed their club activities.

The Mori-no-miyako Boys and Girls Choir singing

Alumni Newsletter No. 75 continued
For the special lecture, the President of Otaru University of Commerce, Tateo Wada,
gave a lecture titled “Placing myself in the University: A little Memoir.” His lecture wasdivided into four topics; I. University student days, II. Teaching staff days, III. University
reform days, and IV. National universities in the 21st century, and he talked about hisexperience as student, teaching staff, and the university and the environment
surrounding the universities from the view of University President.
I. During his university student days, students were able to live comfortably although
the Japanese economy was slowing down after the high growth period in the 1970s andsuffered periodic downturns. However, the economy continued to grow, and demand foruniversity graduates was increasing. Back then, the population of 18-year-olds was 1.95
million, and 23% of them continued their education at university. Currently, the populationof 18-year-olds is 1.2 million, and 56.5% of them go to university. This is an age of mass
producing university graduates.
II. In his teaching staff days in 1980s, he was devoted to his research, and had no interest in otheruniversity matters, but during this time, signs of reform (liberalization of education) began to appear innational universities.
III. University reform days in the 1990s, the time for university reform had begun.
IV. National universities in the 21st century, he took the position of Vice President in 2001. In 2004
national universities were privatized in response to the declining birthrate, the oversupply of universities andthe need for stricter fiscal discipline by the Government. In 2013, the national university reform plan waspromulgated. The reform proceeded to redefine missions and reinforce functions, and in 2014 he became
President.
Starting in 2016, the third medium-term target period began, and the national government requested
concentrated budget allocation in response to functional enhancement of budget estimates. The
government requested universities to choose one of three frameworks, and Otaru University of Commerce  Mr. Tateo Wada lecturingchose #1. At the end, President Wada concluded that he wished to play the role of developing human President, Otaru University of Commerce
resources by offering high quality education at low tuition fees as a national university while the national (Faculty of Law and Letters, 1975)
government requests further functional enhancement = branding of university.

In the 6th Executive Meeting of Kanazawa University Alumni
Association, some executive members changed and Chairman
Yamade introduced Chairman of Tsuruma Alumni Association
Kosuke Matsubara, Chairman of Alumni Association forKanazawa University School of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Chisato Mukai, and Chairman of Kanazawa Engineering
Association Shigeyoshi Kanoh.
Representative Trustee Hiroshi Yamamoto reported thatformer Chairman of Kanazawa University Alumni Association
Akira Miyama was approved to be Honorary Chairmen with therecommendation by the board of trustees and Chairman
requested on June 17, and two organizations, Kanazawa
University Alumni Association in Indonesia and Kanazawa
University Circle S OB Group “Shin-en-kai” were newly
registered as Alumni Associations.

The banquet in the evening started with a toast proposed by Chairman
Yamade. The Koto and Shakuhachi Club of Kanazawa University
performed Rokudan-no-shirabe before the opening and after the toast toadd a blast.
Thereafter, some of the alumni volunteers sang the university song,
Kita-no-miyako (northern capital), and Nankagun (Army going south) in a
uniform happi coat; everybody had a blast.
Lastly, Trustee Yamamoto made closing remarks with the schedule fornext meeting, on Saturday, October 28, and expressed his wish to see
everybody’s smiling face again.

A scene from the 6th Executive Meeting of Kanazawa University Alumni Association[New Executives of the Alumni Association(November 5, 2015 to November 4, 2017)]
Chairman

Alumni singing the school song and dormitory song

Tamotsu Yamade (Law & Letters)

Vice Chairman Tateki Ataka (Law & Letters), Shuro Kaneura (Education)
Takashi Nakanishi (Science), Shinichi Nakamura (Medicine)
Kosuke Matsubara (Health Sciences), Chisato Mukai (Pharmaceutical Sciences)
Shigeyoshi Kanoh (Engineering)
Representative Hiroshi Yamamoto (Trustee (in charge of Alumni Association) &TrusteeVice President of Kanazawa University)
TrusteeNobuhiro Torigoe (Law & Letters), Hitoshi Sawano (Education)
Masayoshi Yamamoto (Science), Akishi Ohi (Medicine)
Taro Matsuzaki (Health Sciences), Ryo Matsushita (Pharmaceutical Sciences)
Yoshio Iwata (Engineering), Soichiro Kita (Shiko)

Auditor

Mitsuhiro Tokuno (Law & Letters), Yasuo Iwata (Education)

Closing remarks by Trustee YamamotoPerformance by Koto Shakuhachi Club The university will never request vendors to create name lists. Please be careful when solicited by phone.
 Please contact the Alumni Association Office if you wish to provide updates on the activities of this alumni association such asregional, occupational, circles, and dormitory, dates for general meetings, receptions, and reports on the events in alumni newsletter.