In 2017 Temple University, Japan Campus (TUJ) celebrates its 35th year of providing unique educational and research opportunities to students and faculty from around the world as the oldest, largest and leading foreign institution of higher education in Japan.
To mark the occasion a series of public events were organized during the fall 2017 academic term.
All 35th Anniversary events have passed.
Developed and organized by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for the past 12 years and hosted by TUJ for the first time as an official "school partner", the event will feature a documentary highlighting the lives of individual refugees across the world.
Organized by TUJ Communications and Marketing Support
For more information contact: [click-for-email].
October 20, 2017
A pop-up art gallery of memorabilia from the school's archive highlighting unique, interesting and important moments in TUJ's history from 1982-2017.
Organized by Professor Tina Saunders
For more information contact TUJ Institutional Advancement: [click-for-email].
Theme:
TUJ: A History of Globalizing Higher Education
Date:
October 20, 2017
Time:
11:00-19:00
Venue:
Azabu Hall, Parliament Student Lounge, First Floor
Temple University, Japan Campus
2-8-12 Minami Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0047
(Access)
Free and Open to the Public.
October 21, 2017
"Developing a Successful Overseas Branch Campus: TUJ Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow"
A symposium on the history, mission and academic vision behind the creation of a successful and thriving American institution of higher education in Japan, including institutional strengths and strategies that led to TUJ's success, and its plan for the future. The event features two former deans of TUJ, Rich Joslyn and Kirk Patterson, and the current dean, Bruce Stronach.
Organized by the Office of the Dean at TUJ.
To be held at Showa Women's University (SWU)
Time:
14:00–16:00
Venue:
Aurora Hall, 6F of Building 8
Showa Woman's University Campus
Registration deadline is October 16.
October 21, 2017
A special anniversary party for Temple University alumni, faculty & staff, students & special guests organized to mark the past 35 years and to celebrate the new TUJ and SWU initiative.
Registration deadline is October 16.
October 23-28, 2017
"Mediation: 15 Years of Art from Temple University Japan Campus", exhibition of artwork by select alumni and faculty of the Art Department at TUJ. We are pleased to announce this exhibition—the first TUJ alumni and faculty show since the creation of an art major at TUJ 15 years ago.
"Mediation" will be held at UltraSuperNew Gallery in Kita-sando, close by Harajuku. The exhibition is from Monday, October 23 to Saturday, October 28, 2017 from 1100 to 2000 daily. We will be holding a closing party from 1700 to 2000 on Saturday, October 28.
Venue:
UltraSuperNew Gallery
1-1-3 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku,
Tokyo, Japan 150-0001
(Access / Google Maps)
Organized by Professors Ian Lynam, Takayuki Kubota, Kaoru Sakurai and Shinya Watanabe
October 25, 27, 31, November 6, 8 2017
A series of five public lectures on the theme of "35 years," organized as part of "Minato Citizen's University," an adult education initiative of Minato City and local institutions of higher education. In this series, TUJ faculty will examine what the past 35 years has meant in the context of their areas of expertise. TUJ has been offering the only courses in English since 2007, with approximately 2,000 residents taking part to date.
Organized by TUJ Community Relations, Office of the Dean
Registration deadline is October 20 at 17:00.
November 28, 2017
In celebration of the 35th anniversary of Temple University, Japan Campus (TUJ) and TUJ's new partnership with Showa Women's University (SWU), we invite you to attend a discussion with Professor Takagi, SWU and Robert Dujarric, ICAS on "ブラック企業" (exploitative enterprise or "black" kigyo) in Japan. A reception with light refreshments will follow the discussion.
Registration deadline is November 15, 2017.
Date:November 28, 2017
Time:18:30 - 21:00
December 4, 2017
To celebrate TUJ's 35th anniversary, the Communication Department has produced a number of documentaries on TUJ alumni that will be premiered on this exciting evening with delicious pizza and American sodas.
Entry free and open to the public.
Organized by Professors Ronald Carr, Irene Herrera and Karl Neubert
TUJ was established in Tokyo in June 1982 as the Japan campus of Temple University, a U.S. comprehensive public research university located in Philadelphia, PA. Temple University was the first foreign university to realize the importance of having a presence in Japan at a time when the country was reaching the pinnacle of international prominence following three decades of postwar economic growth. Temple's example was soon followed by many other foreign universities.
Today, TUJ is the only foreign university undergraduate and graduate branch campus remaining from the original 1980's wave of institution building. It has persevered with Japan through the country's travails from the collapse of the bubble era and subsequent "lost decade" of the 1990s, to the tragedy of the March 11, 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami.
That TUJ remains in Japan, where others have faltered, is a testament to Temple University's commitment to Japan and to international higher education. In partial recognition of this commitment, TUJ won formal recognition by the Japan Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in February 2005 and was officially designated a Foreign University, Japan Campus.
In June 2017, TUJ announced a new initiative with Showa Women's University (SWU) to share a campus in Setagaya-ku, Tokyo. TUJ will move its entire operation from its current locations in Minato-ku, Tokyo by September 2019 to a dedicated six-story building on SWU's existing campus. This agreement is the first of its kind between Japanese and American universities and marks an unprecedented step to promote the globalization of Japanese universities, and re-affirms the commitment of Temple University to Japan.
A new chapter in TUJ's 35-year history begins.
