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Beijing Film Academy President Zhang Visits Tokyo Campus of Josai University

On October 29, 2007 a visiting group of four persons from the Beijing Film Academy headed by Professor Zhang Hui-jun, President of that institution, paid a courtesy visit on Josai University Chancellor Noriko Mizuta at the university’s Tokyo Kioicho Campus.

An agreement had already been signed this July between Josai University’s Media Studies Department and the Art Studies Department at Beijing Film Academy for exchanges in the fields of academics, research and education. For the event entitled Kamogawa-City Installation Art Festival 2007, which was jointly staged this July by the Arts Studies Department of Beijing Film Academy and Josai University’s Media Department, 19 professors and students from the Chinese institution visited Japan. They teamird up with students from the Media Studies Department at Josai University in installing their works and jointly managing that event, which was a gteat success. In September, 25 sophomores and juniors in the Media Studies Department at Josai visited Beijing Film Academy, where they intensified exchanges with that institution’s Media Studies Department by taking special classes in for example VFX or visual effects technology.

In her greetings welcoming the President of Beijing Film Academy, Chancellor Mizuta stressed the importance of mutual cultural understanding between the younger generation in both countries via screen image culture. She also expressed hopes for further training of young talent, particularly in the East Asian cultural sphere that includes Korea, to achieve a deepening of exchange in academics, research and education among teachers and students in the field of film & media education. In his own comments, President Zhang cited the significance of joint production by the two schools of the Kamogawa-City Installation Art Festival 2007, and the need to further strengthen training of human resources involved in the film industry in the two countries via exchanges with Josai University. President Zhang also expressed his wishes to promote further exchanges in the film field, an example of which was the special screening of “My Dream” a film produced under the direction of Wang Hong-hai, Dean at Beijing Film Academy.

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   ・ Kamogawa City Art Installation

Chancellor Mizuta and President Zhang

Chancellor Mizuta and President Zhang

Chancellor Mizuta, President Zhang and Dean Yuan


Chancellor Mizuta, President Zhang and Dean Yuan

Together with faculty of the Beijing Film Academy


Together with faculty of the Beijing Film Academy


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