A pair of students from English Department won the second place of The 12th Annual Morita Cup and The Mainichi Cup Pair Presentation Contest on Japanese Culture held on December 15th this year at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies. Hitomi Matsui (left) and Satomi Honda (right)received Mainichi Cup as a prize as a pair. Along with the theme "Japanese culture shared by provinces, this 12th annual gathered applicants from the whole country and the 10 candidates in pair chosen among them joined the main contest, each giving a 10 minute long presentation in English.
Matsui & Honda chose the topic "Banquet on the River", which is one of the Japanese cultural banquet styles held on traditional houseboats, and sought factors which enabled the culture to have been passed for more than 100 years. They pretended to be a logic oriented scientist and an intuition oriented university students, who held a scientific and humorous debate on the topic. Their unique style of presentation attracted the audiences and was highly evaluated.
Matsui commented "I wanted to take on challenge before my coming graduation. I want descendants not to fear challenging and to make their university life fruitful." "Unlike the Hong Kong Cup I won last year, I could pair with Ms. Matsui, which was also hard but also fun too. I learned a lot through the pair work. I would like to express deep appreciation to Mr. Shimizu, friends and those who supported us." added Honda in her interview.

Exchange students have decorated our brand new Christmas tree for us.
They made lots of cute stars, snow flakes, ribbons and so on with Origami. It seemed difficult for them to make ornaments with origami, but soon they enjoyed it and started making a lot. You can see this sweet Christmas tree until December 25th in International Center. Please come and see it.

Special guests from Shandong University made an official visit to our university.
Shandong University and MWU has been a partner for long time and had various exchange programs. Currently, Two exchange students from Shandong University are studying in our university.
The visitors gave us a wonderful gift, a book with beautiful paper-cut works. You can see these beautiful works in International Center, located on first floor in MM building, so please stop by and see them.

The Head of International Relations in Chiang Mai University, Mr. Karim Hussain has visited our university. He observed a class of English Department and inspired students.
Chiang Mai University is a public research university in Thailand. Providing various study fields, Chiang Mai University holds a lot of international students. We hope MWU students can go and learn there
someday.

Exchange students showed deep interest in our historical architecture, Koshien Kaikan.
The tour took place on October 30th, and students learned the great history about the architecture.
The architecture was originally built in 1930's as Koshien Hotel. It is western sophisticated architecture, but also has many Japanese authentic features.
Students looked excited to look around this significant art.

It looks like students had very spooky lunch time in Halloween Party 2018.
The party was held as one of the Communication Plaza events. Club IEO members and exchange students enjoyed various activities related to Halloween.