Mr. Charles McJilton: "Passion is just a reflection of your values in practice."
Follow your bliss. Follow what makes you feel alive. For me, passion is just a reflection of your values in practice. I chose to go live...
Professor Okada Hanako: "My life has definitely had the lows, but I’ve had my highs as well.&qu
I was offered a job at an international school, but I had to leave a year later because I got very sick. After two years of battling my...
Professor Yuka Sugawara: "The only thing I want you to remember is my struggle."
This is for the future you. When I was a student, I remember one professor who was raising young children back then. She got a phone...
Professor Kukhee Choo: "I want to teach my students to see things in ways that are different fr
I want to teach my students to see things in ways that are different from what is conventionally taught in a Japanese classroom setting....
Professor Daisaku Higashi: "For me, the biggest challenge of being a professor is ensuring that
For me, the biggest challenge of being a professor is ensuring that the students care about peacebuilding in far away countries. Japan...
Professor Yoshiteru Uramoto: "Tomorrow is just like yesterday if you don’t have a dream."
I’ve spent close to 40 years living abroad out of the 68 that I’ve been alive. Even though I grew up in rural Kyushu, my turning point...
Professor Mathew Thompson: "the important part is always being able to allow a little bit of ma
After completing graduate school in the States, I came to do research in Japan where I met my wife one night at a Halloween party. We...
Professor Matthew Strecher: "Remember that you will get used to them, but they will never get u
I come from Minnesota, the whitest place I’ve ever been, and I’m not just talking about the snow. The population demographic in our city...
Dean Nakano Koichi: "I never felt truly at home anywhere in some ways."
I never felt truly at home anywhere in some ways. My first aspiration was to become a novelist when I was a child. I loved reading books,...
Professor David Slater: "In that gap between the representation and the reality, there is alwa
It was 1986: Japan was bubbling, it was the model for the rest of the world. Everybody was trying to copy Japanese education because the...
