Congratulatory Address by President Saeki

A completion ceremony for the Intensive Japanese Course at the International Student Center was held at the Clark Memorial Student Center on February 12. This is a six-month training initiative aimed at providing preliminary Japanese language lessons primarily to Japanese Government Scholarship Students recommended by their respective embassy - specifically, research students planning to proceed to graduate schools at Hokkaido University or other universities in the prefecture, students aspiring to pursue teaching professions who will enter Hokkaido University of Education, and those on the Japan-Korea Joint Exchange Programme for Undergraduate Students in Science and Engineering due to enroll in the university's Faculty of Engineering after finishing the course.

Commemorative Photo

A total of 31 students completed the course. Including 10 Japanese Government Scholarship Students who enrolled in October last year and 6 students on the Japan-Korea Joint Exchange Programme for Undergraduate Students in Science and Engineering, and 15 current students enrolled before October, 2008.

At the completion ceremony, President Hiroshi Saeki handed a completion certificate to each of the students, and delivered a congratulatory address and wished the students great progress in their future work. The ceremony was concluded with a commemorative photo session, and the students continued to take photos of each other and enjoy conversing even after the ceremony was over.