A group of five, including Zhang Dexiang, Secretary of DUT Party Committee, paid a visit to Chancellor MIZUTA at Kioicho Campus on June 7, 2010.

Chancellor MIZUTA, Advisor Takashi Murai, and Presidents and Vice Presidents of Josai University and Josai International University greeted the group under a banner saying: A big welcome for Secretary of DUT Party Committee Zhang Dexiang.

In her welcoming speech, Chancellor MIZUTA said, “We successfully opened the Japan-China Joint Ph.D. Program as well as Dalian Office thanks to the cooperation of Secretary Zhang and the faculty of Dalian University of Technology. We would like to keep working for closer and more productive relations.”

Secretary Zhang replied, “Thank you very much for your warm welcome. The opening of Japan-China Joint Ph.D. Program and Josai’s Dalian Office is symbolic of the friendship between the two universities in China and Japan. We would like to continue our efforts toward increased cooperation with Josai as a partner.”