Opening Ceremony of Global Japan Office Held in University of Salamanca

On Wednesday, December 2nd the 2nd of December 2015 (Wednesday) , the opening ceremony of the seventh Global Japan Office was established took place. The office is located in the Faculty of Philology, University of Salamanca , and an opening ceremony was held . Mª Ángeles Serrano , the vice Vice - R r ector of University of Salamanca, Vicente González Martin, the D d ean of the literature department of the same University , the president of TUFS, TUFS President Tateishi and others involved with both Universities including Mr. Yoshida Yoshida Masashi who is , the Director of The Japan Foundation, Madrid, were amongst the guests who attended the ceremony. Both V v ice- R r ector Serrano and P p resident Tateishi  spoke delivered speech es at the opening ceremony. Afterwards, in front of the Global Japan Office sign the was revea led ling of the sign took place .

The University of Salamanca was first visited by the royal e E mperor Akihito in February 1985 (crown prince at the time) and after this time since , many imperial officials often visited and had deep ties with the Japanese imperial family, it is said that this led to people involved with University of Salamanca having a very strong interest in Japan. As the visit of the Spanish-Japanese Cultural Centre (University of Salamanca) to TUFS in2008, it became an opportunity to strengthen the academic cooperation,  In 2008 this University TUFS took the opportunity to sign ed the academic exchange a comprehensive agreement with University of Salamanca. This University It is expected to be a key place for strengthening of academic exchange and cooperation in Japanese studies as TUFS opening the GJO office within University of Salamanca .  which is the Centre for Japanese education and Japanese Culture Education establishing a branch office within the same University means that there are high expectations for the strengthening of exchange in the field of learning between Japan and Spain. Specifically, Moreover, for the Japanese curriculum course that was established at University of Salamanca this September, a Japanese lecturer has been dispatched from TUFS in cooperation with TUFS and the Embassy of Japan ,  in cooperation with The Japan Foundation, Madrid, and University of Salamanca  are planning to send a Japanese teacher and make a speech on Japanese language and culture through the office .

After the opening ceremony, President Tateishi and Prof . Ito, Director of the Japanese Language Centre for International Students, TUFS, both gave a lecture in the auditorium entitled “ From the world to Japan, from Japan to the world -the University network core to provide global human resources and knowledge ” .

In order to play a "strengthening of the outgoing power to the world from Japan," "University of globalization support" in the TUFS operates Global Japan Offices in major partner universities abroad, as key place s for Japanese studies and education which is a part of the functions of Top Global University Project. super gl