The professor's job is to inspire the students. I wonder how good a job we are doing of reaching them. In addition to ICU, I teach at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and Waseda University. I have taught at Tokyo Christian Women's College, Asia University and Keisen Jogakuen Junior College. I am convinced that ICU is the best of all of these schools, but I want students here to study harder.
Students seem to lack the ability to discover what they want to study.
This may be a problem shared by all Japanese universities, but we have to think of a way to reinvigorate students who are tired out after studying so hard for the entrance examinations. It is rare to find a university like ICU in Japan. Students are expected to study really hard. What I want to emphasize to ICU students is that they should study as much as possible so they don't feel regret over not having learned more when they look back on their undergraduate days. I know students are tired of hearing this.