Recently, President Akihito Ishikawa of Nagasaki University of Foreign Studies in Japan was invited to attend the 110th anniversary celebration of China's higher maritime education and the founding of Shanghai Maritime University, participated in the celebration conference and the University Presidents' Forum, and visited the College of Foreign Languages in the afternoon of October 21. Zhu Yaobin, Secretary of the Party Committee of the College of Foreign Languages, Xu Xiuzhi, Head of the Department of Japanese Language, Wang Wenjing, Foreign Affairs Secretary, and Xiong Zixuan, a student of the Department of Japanese Language, attended the reception.
Nagasaki University of Foreign Studies, as the only foreign language university in Kyushu, Japan, offers English, German, French, Chinese, Korean and other foreign languages and has a high degree of internationalization for students. Since 2013, the College of Foreign Languages has established a cooperative relationship with Nagasaki University of Foreign Studies, sending about ten students to Nagasaki University of Foreign Studies for 2+2, 3+1 and short-term exchange programs every year. So far, it has been six years and nearly 100 students have been sent.
Secretary Zhu Yaobin firstly welcomed President Ishikawa to attend the 110th anniversary celebration of our university and visited the College of Foreign Languages, and expressed his gratitude for the cooperation between the two sides over the years and the care of Nagasaki University of Foreign Studies for our students. President Ishikawa congratulated the 110th anniversary of the founding of China Higher Maritime Education and Shanghai Maritime University, and expressed his appreciation for the continued dispatch of our students to study at Nagasaki University of Foreign Studies. He introduced that Nagasaki University of Foreign Studies participated in the 2019 Times Japanese University Rankings and reached the 10th place in Japan in the index of international students, and the achievement could not be achieved without the strong support of each overseas partner university.
Subsequently, the two sides had an in-depth exchange on the cooperation in the co-writing of textbooks, publication of papers, invitation to lectures by overseas experts, and summer retraining, and both sides expressed their efforts to further promote the cooperation between the two universities.
(Reported by the College of Foreign Languages office; Translated by Li Huixian)
