On December 18th, Wednesday, the International Exchange Party 2024 (hereinafter referred to as “party”) hosted by the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences was held at the SAKULA (1st floor of the Kuramoto-kaikan on Kuramoto Campus). This exchange event was started in 2005 with the aim of enabling international students from the Kuramoto area, who live far from their home countries and are now living in Tokushima, to deepen their relationships with each other, as well as with Japanese students and faculty members, and to bring back fond memories of their time in Tokushima to their home countries. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the event could not be held for three years from 2020, and exchanges were suspended, but it resumed last year for the first time in four years. When we called for the event to be held again this year, 80 people from 11 countries (Bangladesh, China, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Japan) participated.
¡¡The party began with an opening address by Professor Akaike Masashi, Dean of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, and participants enjoyed a meal and friendly conversation. During the meal, Mr. Tapu S M Tafsirul Alam, a Bangladeshi international student in his second year of the doctoral program at the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, performed songs such as "Furusato (Hometown)" in Japanese. Then, Assistant Professor Matsuura Yukie from the Department of Reproductive and Menopausal Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Associate Professor Tran Hoang Nam from the Center for Higher Education Research, and Assistant Professor Takahashi Kumi from the Department of Child Health and Nursing, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and her children performed songs such as "Jingle Bells" in a homely atmosphere.
¡¡Finally, all participants took a commemorative photo and the Party came to a close with fond memories.
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¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡Opening Address by Professor Akaike Masashi,¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡Tapu S M Tafsirul Alam (right) is singing¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡
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¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡Assistant Prof. Matsuura, Associate Prof. Tran Hoang Nam
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¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡Assistant Prof. Takahashi and her children
Participants take a commemorative photo with Dean Akaike (fifth from the left in the front row)