Message from Chihiro

Hello! My name is Chihiro Yamashita and I鈥檓 in third year in the major of African Area Studies at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. I will study at University of Pretoria in South Africa for about a year. I鈥檓 in the faculty of Humanities, and I take classes of Education, Sociology and Criminology. Also I will take the class of local languages in next semester. I have wanted to study in African countries since I entered TUFS, so I鈥檓 glad to study at University of Pretoria actually. For two weeks since I came here, I went to Apartheid Museum, saw wild animals at the Nature reserve, and had parties with international friends. In Pretoria, there are a lot of dangerous areas so I can鈥檛 go to many places easily, but I like warmth of people, unique culture and atmosphere of Pretoria, and I鈥檒l try to learn a lot of things and improve myself a lot. Lastly, thank you for staffs of IAfP, and teachers and staffs of TUFS for supporting me.

Rosemond from University of Ghana, Vrishthi from University of Pretoria and Julia from Stellenbosch University completed their exchange program and returned to their home. They arrived in September 2023 and completed their half year ISEP-TUFS program.
We hope that our exchange will continue for a long time, expanding and deepening through their junior colleagues. We are wishing for their bright future.

Message from Emi

Hello. I鈥檓 Emi Mizuno. I belong to the School of Japan Studies. I will be a senior student from this April.

I will study at the Faculty of Humanities in University of Pretoria from this February to December for two semesters. In this first semester, I will take three modules: Education, Zulu, Setswana. Since my major in Japan is Japanese Language and Japanese Teaching, I would like to compare the language education in Japan and South Africa by learning these modules.

Though only 10 days have passed since I came here in South Africa, I have experienced a lot of new things like watching wild giraffes and zebras and enjoying braai BBQ.

Pretoria is not such a safe city as cities in Japan and it can be dangerous to walk outside alone. But there are strong connections with people. I feel the kindness of my friends.

I would like to express sincere thanks to the staffs of Innovative Africa and teachers supporting my exchange program.

Period: 2024/2/5-2025/1/31
Department:聽 Humanities
Courses: Education, Zulu, Setswana

In the fall of 2023, IAfP welcomed five new students from Africa. They have started their progrom from 28th September.

They are Mburukaga and Grace from Protestant Institute of Arts and Social Sciences (PIASS), Toose and Lita from 聽University of Zambia (UNZA), Lisa and Rosemond from University of Ghana (UG), Vrishthi from 聽University of Pretoria(UP, South Africa), Julia from Stellenbosch University (SU, South Africa).

This is the first time TUFS has been able to accept exchange students from the Stellenbosch University. Welcome Julia!!

Students from UG, UP and SU will stay at TUFS for one semester until Frbruary 2024. Students from PIASS and UNZA will stay at TUFS for two semesters until July 2024.

Please check the “Accepting” page for their self introduction.

In March 2023, the IAfP coordinator traveled to South Africa and visited the partner universities, University of Pretoria (UP)and Stellenbosch University(SU). She participated in the SIAN meeting and study abroad fair of Stellenbosch University with a staff of the Student Excange Division.
We deeply appreciate your kind cooperation.

Stellenbosch University

At Stellenbosch University, the coodinator participated in the SIAN (Stellenbosch International Academic Networks) Meeting to celebrate 30 years of internationalization, participated in a study abroad fair, coordinated exchange program with SU International office, and delivered certificates to students who participated in the Japan Online Study Tour held in February.

SIAN Meeting

The SIAN meeting is held every year to discuss networking and internationalization. Since this year marks the 30 year anniversary of internationalization, it was the largest meeting ever (number of invited institutions, days, etc.). As well as Stellenbosch University, we were able to deepen relationships between universities through exchanges with delegations from 76 institutions from 37 countries and regions.銆侟/p>

date锛?2-18 March 2023

13锛歁eeting銆€Parallel sessions (Town & Gown Relations/Africa multi-lateral and bilateral partnership meetings)
14锛歁eeting銆€Parallel sessions (Town & Gown Relations/Africa multi-lateral and bilateral partnership meetings/ EUTOPIA European Universities Alliance)
-Formalisation of the International Town & Gown Network (Crossley Room, Krotoa Building
-Capacity building in support of creating vibrant transnational research communities
15锛歁eeting銆€-Leveraging multilateral collaboration to build bilateral partnership capital.
-Embedding global education outcomes in institutional learning and teaching programme development: Only a challenge or possible reality?
-The Sustainable Development Agenda and Higher Education: Perspectives from Europe and Africa
-Contextualizing Inclusive Internationalisation
16锛歋tudy Abroad Fair
17锛歏isit to Stellenbosch Business School / Tygerberg International, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

Meeting

Study Abroad Fair

Visit to Tygerberg International, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

Meetign the participants of Japan Online Study Tour

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With the director of Stellenbosch University International聽

University of Pretoria

At the University of Pretoria, the coordinator held meetings with the International office about inter-university exchanges and exchange programs. She also met with Yuma who are studying at UP and Hanan who has studies at TUFS as an exchange students in AY2022. She delivered certificates of participation to students who participated in the Japan Online Study Tour. She also met with Dr.Karen and Dr.Gnisa, who are cooperating with the coordinator’s classes.

Meeting with International Office team

Meeting with Yuma, Hanan and the students participated in the Japan Online Study Tour

*Report or the IAfP coordinator’s business trip to South Africa from August to September 2022
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Stories of the students studied at TUFS

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Victoria Falls

I went to Victoria Falls and around the border of Zimbabwe and Zambia. From OR Tambo airport in Johannesburg to the airport around Victoria falls, it takes us about 2 hours. Around Victoria falls, everything was super expensive, people there use USD, so it seems more expensive to me. Of course, restaurants there also was expensive, so we decided to make food ourselves, like sandwiches and pastas. Our travel group was very international, from France, Netherland, Austria, US, and Italy.

One big surprising for me was the name Tanaka was popular among people from Zimbabwe. According to the language as Shona mainly spoken in Zimbabwe, Tanaka means happiness. I met 3 Tanakas for 3 days. Since my name is Tanaka, a lot of people are surprised to know that the name Tanaka is popular in Japan as well. As soon as they know my name is Tanaka, they become more friendly and welcome us with warm heart.

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Kruger National Park is one of the most popular tourists cite in South Africa. It is about 4 hours from Pretoria where I live. I went there with exchange students from other countries. We stayed at southern part of Kruger for 2 nights. Of course, Kruger is too big to go around for 3 days, but we were able to see many animals including all BIG 5, which are lion, leopard, elephant, buffalo, rhinos. These 5 animals are on the bills of South Africa, which are rands.

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I am Naosuke Tanaka studying in UP. I am going to write about an event mainly for exchange students in UP. Every October, there is an event called International Day in UP. The main purpose of International Day is to spread each country鈥檚 culture to South Africans students. In this event, every exchange student performs on the stage or sets stall to show their cultures. This year, exchange students participated from approximately 20 countries. To me, this event seems like GAIGOSAI in TUFS.

In the Japanese stall, people can write their name in Japanese with shuji equipment. It was about 300 students visited the Japanese stall. It was super busy, and everybody enjoyed it.

On the stage, I did kendama performance in front of 500 students.

Unfortunately, I didn鈥檛 get any prize but picture of me is on UP鈥檚 Instagram which made me quite happy. Through this event, I had a great experience that I can鈥檛 do in Japan and I made many friends.

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