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Tokyo Kioicho Campus Unveils the Newly Completed 3rd Building

On April 12, Tokyo Kioicho Campus held a ceremony to unveil the university’s newly completed 3rd building, inviting more than 300 members of the local community, Josai faculty, building designers and planners, ambassadors from some of the many sister universities with which Josai shares an exchange agreement, government workers and financial groups, corporate affiliates, and journalists.

The festivities began with a ribbon cutting ceremony in front of the building’s north entrance conducted by Chancellor Noriko Mizuta, Josai University President Yasunori Morimoto, Josai International University President Hakuo Yanagisawa, President Keiichi Okamoto of the Nikken Sekkei architectural firm that designed the building, Vice President Tadahiko Noguchi of the Obayashi Group who were in charge of construction, and representatives from the parents’ association of both schools. Chancellor Mizuta gave a brief speech before the ceremony, saying, “Thanks to the great efforts of all those involved, particularly residents of Kioicho and Hirakawacho, we are finally able to announce the completion of the 3rd building that we’ve all been waiting for. This occasion marks the beginning of a new learning opportunity for the students of Josai and JIU. With the addition of the Oishi Fossils Gallery and other resources in the new building, Tokyo Kioicho Campus aspires to become a place with which members of the local community can become familiar and contribute.” Festivities then reconvened in a second floor classroom, where invitees celebrated the completion of the 3rd building by holding a ceremony to admire the structure’s excellent construction and pray for the future safety of the campus.
    This was followed by a self-guided tour beginning on the first floor cafeteria in which invitees enthusiastically explored the interior of the building with pamphlet in hand. The international conference room on the 5th floor, the Oishi Fossils Gallery, and the Mizuta Museum of Art, which held a special exhibition of modern bijin-ga (ukiyo-e depicting beautiful women) in conjunction with the unveiling, attracted a particularly large number of visitors. Meanwhile, many of the classrooms were used to introduce the new resources available to students and reveal research findings that used these new resources. And in the basement studio a presentation featuring dance performance, literary readings, demonstration of TV drama production, and research from the media studies department was held.

The exterior of the 3rd building

The exterior of the 3rd building

With the completion of the 3rd building, Tokyo Kioicho Campus is lent a new start as a facility built to support the growth of newer academic fields such as Josai’s newly designed course in applied mathematics, JIU’s programs in International Administration and Global Communication, and JIU’s new media studies course in the cinematic arts.

The new 3rd building consists of five stories plus a basement level with a total area of approximately 7,700 square meters. There are large classrooms that accommodate up to 250 people, in addition to small and mid-size rooms. The 5th floor houses the international conference room replete with a simultaneous translation booth. Facing the conference room is a spacious outdoor terrace where one can enjoy the various flowers and plants that change with each season between conference sessions.
    The building itself has been designed with state-of-the-art earthquake proofing and its own private generator. There is also an emergency storeroom equipped with relief supplies to be used in the rare case of an evacuation.

Finally, there are many points of interest housed in the basement floor, including the Mizuta Museum of Art gallery and the large fossil collection housed in the Oishi fossils gallery.

5th floor international conference room

5th floor international conference room

Classroom in the new 3rd building

Classroom in the new 3rd building

Media studies demonstration of CG technology

Media studies demonstration of CG technology

Exhibit in the Mizuta Art Gallery

Exhibit in the Mizuta Art Gallery

Display of a tyrannosaurus skeleton in the basement 1st floor courtyard

Display of a tyrannosaurus skeleton
in the basement 1st floor courtyard

Display inside the Oishi fossils Gallery

Display inside the Oishi fossils Gallery


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