On December 12, 2011, Josai formed an academic exchange agreement with Malaysia’s Tunku Abdul Rahman University.

Josai University Educational Corporation Head of Management, Namikawa Katsuhiko, and Director of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sugibayashi Kenji, visited the campus on Chancellor Mizuta’s behalf. After meeting for a discussion with President Dato’ Dr. Chuah Hean Teik and university administrators, the academic agreement was finalized.

After being founded as a college in 1969 as an extension of the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA), Tunku Abdul Roman was then upgraded to an interdisciplinary private university in 2002 as part of the Ministry of Education’s national plan to bolster education. With more than 19,000 students and departments in social sciences, media studies, engineering, physical science, and pharmaceutical sciences, Tunku Abdul Roman offers many possibilities for exchange with Josai.

Josai has made several efforts to expand exchange with Malaysian universities via discussions with the Malaysian embassy and Ministry of Tourism, but it was with the visit of Minister of Tourism Dato’ Sri Dr. Ng Yen Yen last November that Josai was able to establish a connection with Tunku Abdul Rahman.

During this trip, the Josai delegation was also able to visit esteemed national university, Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM), as well as the Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology (MJIIT), an engineering school that naturally possesses a deep connection with Japan. With the expansion of English education in Malaysian high schools, we at Josai can expect many fruitful opportunities for academic exchange in the near future.