The 1st Committee for Japanese Universities’ International Exchange Program with Africa

Day and Time: 16 March 2021, 17:30-19:20
Language: Japanese

Program

Time	Chair: Motoki Takahashi, Director, the Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University
17:30–17:50	Opening address Takao Hirajima, Executive Vice President (Information Infrastructure, and Library Services), Kyoto University Jun Matsukuma, Vice President (International Affairs, Personnel), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
17:50– 18:10	Addresses from Honored Guests Kuniaki Sato, Chief Higher Education Policy Planning Division, Higher Education Bureau, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and Director of Office for International Planning Ryuichi Kato, Vice President of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
18:10– 18:20	Introduced of the Platform Project Motoki Takahashi, Director of the Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University
18:20– 19:00	Introduction of Committee for Japanese Universities’ International Exchange Program Utsunomiya University: Shinso Yokota, Professor, Department of Forest Science, School of Agriculture Yamaguchi University: Daisuke Hayasaka, Professor, Joint Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Hokkaido University: Motohiro Horiuchi, Dean, Professor, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine Akita University: Yohei Kawamura, Professor, Graduate School of International Resource Sciences, Department of Earth Resource Engineering and Environmental Sciences Hiroshima University: Shinji Kaneko, Professor, Executive Vice President (Global Initiatives) Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences Nagasaki University: Satoshi Kaneko, Professor, Institute of Tropical Medicine Tokyo University of Agriculture: Yoichi Sakata, Professor, Direcor, Center for Global Initiative Kyoto University: Masayoshi Shigeta, Professor, Dean, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies Tokyo University of Foreign Studies: Shinichi Takeuchi, Professor, Director, African Studies Center
19:00– 19:10	Discussion, Q&A session Motoki Takahashi, Director, the Center for African Area Studies
19:10- 19:15	Closing address Masayoshi shigeta, Dean, the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies
19:20	Closing