On February 4th 2020, two our exchange students, Ms.Nana Miyamae and Ms.Mika Haruki, who are going to start to study abroad at our partner universitys, visited to our president's office.

Our President encouraged them, and commenting "This experience will enhance your future career with enlarging your perspectives and making you more courageous women."

Mukogawa Gakuin celebrated its 80th anniversary on November 11th with 2000 distinguished guests invited to the ceremony.

A traditional Korean clothes exhibition, "Hanbok" is currently held in Interdisciplinary Research Center by Prof. Kim and her graduate students are from our partner university, Hannam University. The opening ceremony for the exhibition was held on October 28th at noon with welcome greeting given by our Vice President, Mr. Kawai and the host of the exhibition, Prof. Ushida, who is the dean of Human Environmental Sciences Department.

Our brand-new campus, "Mukojo Station Campus (MSC)" has finally launched at Naruo station with a opening ceremony held on October 6th.
Chancellor, Prof. Okawara hoped the campus to be a campus connected to the region. "I hope MSC will help our university to corporate with local more" stated the Chancellor in the ceremony. Our president, Prof. Seguchi also expects lots of locals use the campus so that MSC can help the region enhance more.
After the ceremony, Dean of Human Environmental Science department, who was in charge of the whole project, guided the guests to Lavy's Cafe which is one of the main features of MSC and Minato bank.
The two opening staffs of Lavy's Cafe described that the cafe was "the 19th "Siru-Cafe" opened in Japan, which is one type of cafe aiming to let students and firms interact with each other." "It is a place to have not only opportunities to talk with entrepreneurs but also time to think about their own careers. With the access ease, students can stop by this cafe anytime they want and get change to think about their future." they added.

Koshien Hall, which is one of the most beautiful and precious architectures of all Mukogawa, is a main campus of Architecture Department and it is why we welcomed the U.S. based architecture foundation, Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.
Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation was established to commemorate Frank Lloyd Wright's works and his contribution to architecture. Deriving its name from one of the three most famous architects in the world, the foundation hails its vision as "inspire the world through beautiful spaces that are thoughtfully designed and experienced" (referred from its website).
As they took a 10-day tour from Tokyo to Hiroshima to observe archetectures inspired by Wright's works, including Koshien Hall. Koshien Hall was built by Arata Endo, one of Frank's apprentices, as Koshien Hotel in 1930. For Frank-inspired architectures are rarely left in Japan, there are increasing number of people visiting there from overseas. Guests from Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation are not exception; we have welcomed 351 visitors fromt the foundation in total since 2005.
This year, one graduate student, Rino Uema who is currently studing architecture at Master's degree level at MWU took them to a Koshien Hall tour in English. Since it was not her first time to guide them, she proudly explained about the architecture with so fruent and excellent English that they praised it as "very good".
The Koshien Hall English guide performed by post graduate students at Architecture Department started along with the rapid increase of visitors to Koshien hall one of whose reasons was its 150th anniversary. 260 visitors out of 517 hosted within two years from 2017 to 2019 have enjoyed the students' tour.

Matsuri Arai (freshman at Health and Sports Sciences Department) has successfully marked the 2nd place for high diving at Japan Indoor Sports Tournament held from 19th to 21st of April.
She passed the qualifying round with score 328.60 and marked 321.25 at the final which made her won the 2nd place of the competition. Along with this great result, she is now chosen to participate World Tournament held in South Korea. If she can finish this cpmpetition with 12th palce or higher, she will be assigned to 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.