The JICUF is launching a one-month campaign in North America in support of the ICU Sakura Fund. We will be featuring original haiku composed by and/or photographs of sakura taken by the following five members of the ICU community on a weekly basis during the month of April. Please scroll below to see the first installment in this series. We hope you enjoy!
ICU student and Study Abroad Scholarship recipient Mari Ohgushi shares her experience on what it’s like to study abroad at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ.
Thomas John Hastings, JICUF Senior Research Fellow in Science & Religion, is organizing an academic conference titled “The Presence and Future of Humanity in the Cosmos: Why Society Needs Both the Sciences & the Humanities”. The conference will be held on the ICU campus from March 18-23, 2015 and bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan.
Emiko Imori is an ICU student spending her junior year studying abroad at the University of California, Berkley. She is also one of four students to receive the JICUF’s Study Abroad Scholarship, which was inaugurated this year.
The Japan ICU Foundation conducted a recent interview with Kosinara Sok, a recipient of the jointly funded Japan ICU Foundation/ICU/United Board Peace Studies Scholarship. He is a graduate student in Peace Studies at ICU.
Thomas John Hastings, JICUF Senior Research Fellow in Science & Religion, has been busy this past year organizing an academic conference and completing a book on Kagawa Toyohiko.
Anatolii Yonathan Ast studied East Asian Studies at University of Virginia and spent one summer at ICU’s Summer Courses in Japanese program. Anatolii now lives in NYC where he is focusing his studies on classical Japanese, translates Japanese to English for Japan Today and tutors Japanese language students via Skype. In this interview he tells us more about his passion for the Japanese language and what ICU means to him.
Yuki Nakao is an ICU student spending her junior year studying abroad at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also one of four students to receive the JICUF’s Study Abroad Scholarship, which was inaugurated this year.
ICU President Junko Hibiya was recently quoted in an article by Devin Stewart in Foreign Affairs, a publication of the Council on Foreign Relations. President Hibiya was interviewed late last year by Stewart, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, as part of his research into the changing role of women within Japanese society.
The 34th Joint ICU-Sophia International Symposium was held on the ICU campus on December 20. This annual event, co-sponsored by ICU and Sophia University, brings together an international group of noted scholars to discuss specific interdisciplinary themes related to peace and conflict resolution. This year’s symposium was titled “Beyond Nationalism? Peacebuilding and Religion in Asia.”
