The Josai University Educational Corporation invited Professor Paul Schalow from Rutgers University to the "Global Café" event in the International Conference Room of Building No. 3 on the Tokyo Kioicho Campus. About 80 attendees, including students and faculty, gathered to listen to Professor Schalow.

Professor Schalow specialises in Japanese literature, and is currently researching a Heian period courtier’s diary written in Sino-Japanese. He lectures at Rutgers University on atomic bomb literature, samurai traditions of the Edo period, and East Asia. He is also a visiting professor at Josai International University, where he lectures about the samurai culture of the Edo period for the Global College.

His illustrated presentation entitled "My Global Life", which started with the story of his ancestors who emigrated from Germany and Norway to America, and the experience of his journeys, searching for his roots in Europe. Professor Schalow also touched upon Germany at the time of World War II, Norway, and the Vietnam War, and talked about how his feelings about discrimination of the vulnerable during wars are connected to his current research.
　 During the Q&A time, an exchange student from Europe asked Prof. Schalow how they can discover their roots, when their ancestors had been illiterate and had not left any records of themselves. Prof. Schalow suggested trying the local church as one method, as churches tend to keep old records. Prof. Schalow was surrounded by students, who had many questions, even after the Global Café had finished.