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President Way Kuo of City University of Hong Kong Visits Josai, Gives Lecture

On April 30, President Way Kuo of the City University of Hong Kong (CityU) visited Josai University Educational Corporation’s Tokyo Kioicho Campus to give a lecture.
    Professor Kuo’s visit is a result of the academic exchange agreement that Josai formed with CityU last October, wherein a Josai delegation led by Chancellor Noriko Mizuta visited the Hong Kong Campus to finalize the proposal.

Professor Kuo, Honorary Professor C. T. Liu, and other members of the visiting CityU delegation convened in the international conference room in the newly completed 3rd building where they met with Chancellor Mizuta and other Josai executives to discuss concrete plans for the future of their academic exchange.

Following the meeting, Professor Kuo delivered his lecture entitled, “Reliability and Survivability: Nuclear Energy and the Future of Energy,” in the basement auditorium of the campus’ 1st building. Professor Kuo, as a world-renowned scholar in electronic system design, reliability modeling, and nuclear energy, gave a highly informative talk from a variety of scientific perspectives, providing many comprehensible examples to make it understandable to all. His lecture centered on the variety of nuclear and natural energy options available, a topic that has been widely discussed since the Tohoku earthquake in 2011 and the public reconsideration of nuclear energy following the disaster.
    Josai also has plans to publish a Japanese translation of Professor Kuo’s paper on the accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant as another cooperative project between our university and CityU.

After the lecture, the visiting delegation reconvened at the recently completed 3rd building where they were given a floor-by-floor tour of the facilities. The state of the art media studies facilities (a field also emphasized by CityU) and the fossil gallery were the subject of particular admiration by the group.
    On the following day (May 1), the CityU delegation paid a visit to Josai International University where, after meeting with the Chairs of JIU’s various departments, were given a tour of the campus’ main facilities including the Global Institute for Green Materials, the International Exchange Lounge, the English Floor (a place where both international and Japanese students are able to interact using English), the Information Science Research Center, and the Center for Lifelong Education. The delegation was also interviewed, in English, by JIU exchange students at the in-campus television studio.

The City University of Hong Kong was founded in 1984, and is a public institution located in Hong Kong’s Kowloon Tong. The university has seven schools in all including the College of Business, School of Law, School of Creative Media, and School of Energy and Environment, of which the School of Creative Media is the most well known. With an enrollment of 20,000, CityU has established alliances with many local industries to offer valuable on-the-job training to its students. In addition, CityU was ranked 95th in the 2012-13 QS worldwide university rankings.

Professor Way Kuo (center) and Honorary Professor C. T. Liu (L) provide introductory words at the conference

Professor Way Kuo (center) and Honorary Professor C. T. Liu (L) provide introductory words at the conference

Commemorative photo with representatives from Josai and CityU

Commemorative photo with representatives from
Josai and CityU

Professor Kuo during his lecture

Professor Kuo during his lecture

A look at the lecture hall in mid-session

A look at the lecture hall in mid-session

Professors Kuo and Honorary Professor C. T. Liu receive flowers from the students following lecture

Professors Kuo and Honorary Professor C. T. Liu receive flowers from the students following lecture

Professor Kuo and others tour the fossil gallery

Professor Kuo and others tour the fossil gallery

Interacting with students at the English floor

Interacting with students at the English floor

Interviewed by JIU exchange students (streaming video)


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