Mar.

On March 8, a special exhibition commemorating the opening of the HOSEI Museum, "The City and the University: Looking at Tokyo from the Perspective of Hosei University," will be held. Today, the symposium "The City and the University: The Origins of the Three Universities" was held online in conjunction with the opening commemorative special exhibition. The three universities are Kansai University, Meiji University, and Hosei University, which have concluded a partnership agreement, and this symposium was held as a joint project of the three universities. All three universities were founded by the founders who were trained in French law by Boissonade. Located in two of Japan's largest cities, Tokyo and Osaka, they were born as law schools in the midst of the transition from Naniwa to Osaka and from Edo to Tokyo, respectively, when expectations for a law-governed society and a law-governed nation were on the rise. Based on this shared history, I began my presentation with the title "Three Young Men: Building a Law School in Tokyo" by explaining that both Meiji University and Hosei University were founded by three young men, all of whom came from local clan families (samurai) and studied law in clan schools and private schools in Tokyo in the early Meiji period, He talked about how the schools were created in the midst of the liberal civil rights movement, and how both schools began in what had been samurai estates in Edo, mainly Surugadai and Jimbocho.

Next, Mr. Kan Yabuta, Professor Emeritus of Kansai University, gave Report 2, titled "Kansai University, Naniwa Osaka, and Senriyama: A Literary University in Osaka." The Kansai Law School was founded in 1886 (Meiji 19) in a temple in Osaka City, and 35 years later in 1921 (Taisho 10), it was difficult to obtain land in the central part of Osaka, He told us how, with the support of a railroad company and a real estate company, a site was obtained in Senriyama, along with the development of suburban railroads, and the school was upgraded to a university the following year.

He then introduced the special exhibition commemorating the opening of the university via video, which was followed by a discussion on "From 'Edo and Naniwa' to 'Tokyo and Osaka'". The panelists were Dr. Yabuta and myself, the coordinator was Associate Professor Tomomichi Suzuki of Hosei University, a member of the University History Committee, and the discussant was Tatsuro Furumata, a full-time staff member of the HOSEI Museum. It was interesting to see the difference between Tokyo, where private universities were established in the center of the city, and Osaka, where they were established in the suburbs. He was envious of Osaka, where modern university education was available in the suburbs and private schools still existed in the center of the city, but for Dr. Yabuta, he was envious of the existence of student districts such as Kanda in Tokyo. The theme of the symposium was the history of the university up to its promotion to a university, and we hope that a follow-up symposium will be held next year.

The degree conferment ceremony will be held on the 24th, and the last Executive Trustee meeting will be held on the 26th. On the 30th, there will be a meeting of the Board of Trustees and a general meeting of the Japan Association of Private Colleges and Universities, which will also mark the end of my work with the association.

Therefore, today will be the last day of the President's Journal. Thank you very much for your long support.

I met Mr. Katsuki Suzuki, a major donor, in person and expressed my gratitude to him. Mr. Suzuki is an alumnus of our university's aikido club. Therefore, Mr. Masamichi Nagakura, an officer of the alumni association, was also present on the day.

After that, I cleaned up the President's office and prepared for the move, and later, as Executive Trustee of the University Accreditation Association, I held a meeting of the Public Relations Committee. If not only the universities themselves, but also high schools and society at large, do not know what this organization does, trust in the quality assurance of universities will not grow. The role of public relations is important. There was a proposal to create a short video guide as well as text, and a lively discussion ensued about what evaluation means in a standards association. This was the last of these meetings.

The Global Strategic Headquarters meeting was held. Afterwards, I met directly with Mr. Akiyasu Fukuda, a major donor, to thank him for his support, and later I met directly with Mr. Shinji Satto, another major donor, to thank him for his support. He is a great-grandson of Masakuni Satto, the founder of this university, and donated a large sum of money in accordance with the wishes of his late mother.

After that, I held my last meeting with the deans. The deans, who were the link between the Executive Trustee and the faculties, did a particularly difficult job this year in holding these discussions, and they did so with great enthusiasm and without giving up. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to them.

Executive Trustee and Crisis Response Headquarters meetings were held.

After that, I gave a lecture at the "University Education Research Forum" hosted by the Center for the Advancement of Higher Education Research and Development of Kyoto University. The overall theme of the forum was "Prospects for a New Normal in University Education," and it was a forum to consider new forms of university education in the future. Under the title of "From Teaching to Learning," I discussed the need for universities to become places where students can decide their goals and learning methods, to envision learning supported by multiple people, to reaffirm the importance of involvement, to enrich cooperation and encounters with people of all ages, and to review the Standards for the Establishment of Universities to realize these goals. He also discussed the need to review the standards for the establishment of universities in order to realize these goals. After his lecture, he discussed with Professor Toshiya Yoshimi of the University of Tokyo's Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, Mr. Hiroshi Kobayashi, editor-in-chief of Recruit's "College Management," and Professor Toru Iiyoshi, director of the Center for the Promotion of Research and Development in Higher Education. Mr. Yoshimi's question, "Why don't we stop calling it a university? The call from Mr. Yoshimi, "Why don't we stop calling it a university? The keynote speeches and discussions were both very interesting.

After the symposium, I returned to the meeting to hold another Information Security Committee meeting.

Attended the Suntory Foundation for the Arts Trustee meeting. The Edo Tokyo Research Center annual report meeting was held. During the course of the meeting, I gave a speech at the beginning of the Faculty of Social Sciences meeting on my retirement as a faculty member.

The last Gender Equality Promotion Action Plan Formulation Task Force Meeting and the last University-wide Quality Assurance Meeting of the year were held.

I gave a lecture to the students of Toshimaoka Girls' High School and had a discussion with nine students. The students were asked, "I think it is strange that there is a division between the sciences and humanities. What do you think? I'm going to study science. Do I need to study the humanities? I want to work in a leadership position. What should a leader be like? These are all excellent questions. Many of the students at this high school are going on to national science programs. I felt very hopeful for the women of the future.

Afterwards, I gave a speech at the "Mass Communication Orange Club," a gathering of mass communication professionals from Hosei University, consisting of members from a wide range of fields in the mass communication industry, including newspapers, publishing, broadcasting, advertising, movies, and music. This year, the meeting was held on the web. The interviews with active editors were very interesting. It would be good to introduce videos of graduates at work on our website.

The last meeting of school heads for this academic year was held. The Trustee in charge of affiliated schools and the President's Office Director greeted the retiring faculty members as they were to return to the field of education. He also greeted the Principal of Hosei Junior and Senior High School and myself as we were retiring. We received special commemorative gifts. The gift was an assortment of eco-persons in various costumes, etc! and more. The presentation was made online and I look forward to receiving it. Thank you to all the school principals for your hard work. Thank you so much.

The faculties held a self-assessment meeting. He spoke about the faculty's particular attempts and experiences in the Corona Disaster and his thoughts from them. After that, we held a crisis task force meeting.

The Executive Trustee, Trustee, and Board of Trustee meetings were held. The Trustee meeting was the last of the current fiscal year, as well as the last of this term's Board of Directors, which has lasted for four years. There, we handed out certificates of appreciation and commemorative gifts to the outgoing Trustees and Auditors, and took pictures with them. The Trustees, like myself, have served for seven years. To the outgoing Trustees and Auditors, thank you from the bottom of my heart for all your hard work and dedication. Thank you so much for your hard work.

I attended a meeting of an outside firm. After that, the Executive Trustee meeting of the Japan Association of Private Colleges and Universities was held. Further after that, I recorded a video message to those who passed the National CPA Exam. We hold a celebration party every year, but this year we decided not to hold it. Therefore, we decided to deliver a congratulatory message. After that, I attended the celebration ceremony for the successful completion of the bar exam. This was a face-to-face ceremony without a reception.

A Gender Equality Task Force meeting was held.

Mr. Yasuaki Kato of Kato Fort, who has run the university's photo studio for about 50 years and has taken pictures for events and materials, will be leaving the company. He has been a great help to me in many ways, from making slides for teaching materials. Mr. Kato was also active as a food photographer throughout Japan. Today, I handed him a letter of appreciation to express my gratitude for his many years of support. Mr. Kato, thank you very much for your long years of service.

Afterwards, I chaired a meeting of the Evaluation Response Committee of external evaluation experts of the Science Council of Japan. President Takaaki Kajita and other vice presidents attended the meeting, where the evaluation committee members expressed their opinions and engaged in a question-and-answer session, and the evaluation report will be compiled based on this dialogue.

As an advisory board member, I participated in the final session of the Hyper-EditingPlatform [AIDA], a course for working people organized by the Editorial Engineering Institute. The theme for this season was "Between Life and Civilization," and the students submitted their final reports, which I called "Ma-ron (Ma-ron). We read and commented on the reports and discussed the vision of society in the future. The topics discussed were too interesting to be described here.

We had a discussion with Dr. Mariko Hasegawa, President of the Graduate University for Advanced Studies, at Sokendai in Hayama, Japan. Ms. Hasegawa is a behavioral ecologist and natural anthropologist. The conversation will be uploaded to Sokendai's YouTube channel at a later date. I have always wondered why some people can empathize with others and others cannot. Mr. Hasegawa has the same question, and in his books, he always presents his biological view of empathy. According to recent brain research, people have the same active brain regions when they feel their own physical pain and when they feel social pain. The same areas are activated when we see others feeling physical pain. However, when they see another person's social pain, the prefrontal cortex is activated instead of that area. In other words, we empathize only when we understand the situation of others. Being educated and having the habit of reading and thinking is extremely important for empathy. One can guess why politicians who disregard learning do not have their own language and are insensitive to the social pain of others.

The HOSEI 2030 Promotion Headquarters Meeting, the Special Subcommittee for the Restructuring of the Expanded Campus, and the Dean's Meeting were held.

A meeting of the Executive Trustee was held. This was followed by a round-table meeting of the Executive Trustee on two different topics, as well as a meeting of the Crisis Response Headquarters.

A retirement party was held. I was the organizer, but also the recipient of the party. President-elect Hirose handed me a letter of appreciation, which, to my surprise, was from TANAKA Yuko to TANAKA Yuko. To put it another way, it was a letter of thanks from President TANAKA Yuko to faculty member TANAKA Yuko. Although the address was given not as a retiree but as the President, the words came out unintentionally as a retiree. Until last year, I used to tell retirees to enjoy their second life, but now that I am in that position myself, I realize that there is no such thing as a second life," he said. The days ahead are not a grandiose "life," but rather "precious days when you don't know when you will die. I want to live each day fully and carefully.

The Asahi Shimbun is running a campaign called ThinkGender, which I sometimes see in the paper. Japan ranks 121st out of 153 countries in terms of gender inequality. It is not only women who find it difficult to live in this society. We aim for a society where there are equal opportunities regardless of gender, and where everyone can live their lives "as they are. Let's think together about gender, a socially and culturally constructed difference between the sexes. ThinkGender will hold an online event, "ThinkGender: Explore with You, Decide with You," on March 14. The facilitator of the event is Asako Takada, a professor at Hosei University's Graduate School of Management, with whom we had a discussion on Hosei Online, and she asked me to be one of the relayers of the message to be broadcast on the day through Professor Takada. Today, I recorded the message on video.

BCN stands for Business Computer News and is the only IT industry newspaper in Japan. Of course, there is also an electronic version. In the "Weekly BCN" section, there is a column titled "Thousand Person's Circle," which is modeled after the 1,000-day circular pilgrimage of Mount Hiei. It is a series of interviews focusing on one person. I decided to accept the interview because it was recommended by Mr. Katsuki Suzuki, an alumnus of the university and chairman of Prosip Corporation, a major donor to the university. He asked me about my personal history up to the present and my future plans.

He then recorded a message for the presentation of the "Rikuzentakata SDGs Workshop" by students based in Rikuzentakata. Even in the days when they are unable to visit the area, they are starting new activities by sharing ideas with producers and managers in Rikuzentakata. I think it is wonderful that he is passing on the memory of the Great East Japan Earthquake by sustaining such activities.

Later, Mr. Katsuhiko Shirai, former President of Waseda University and Trustee of JMOOC (Japanese Massive Open Online Course), visited us.