On June 8, 2010, a group of representatives of Josai University Educational Corporation visited the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Canada and signed a memorandum on academic exchange, mainly between UBC’s Department of Asian Studies and Faculty of Global Humanities of Josai International University.

Founded in 1908, University of British Columbia is a leading state university in Canada and the largest in Western Canada with the number of enrolled students being more than 40,000. The University is proud to have vast campuses, including the main campus in Vancouver. There have been many years of exchanges between the University and JIU with the regular exchange of visiting professors every year, starting with Chancellor MIZUTA’s stay at the University as a visiting faculty member in the early 1990s.

The Department of Asian Studies has a Japanese language teaching team, one of the best on the west coast of North America. Nitobe Memorial Garden located in the campus is indicative of its very close tie to Japan. The University of British Columbia expresses its deep interest in the Japanese language education and academic degree courses offered in English at JIU. It has been decided that Japanese language instructors will be sent from JIU to the University in September.

It is expected that cooperative relations will also be established in the areas of business school and welfare studies in the future.