Hiromu Tanaka: "My dream is to find my favorite place with my favourite person, to live the lif
The summer of 2017. The last summer of my teens. I decided to go on a backpacking trip across east Europe for a month. Before the trip,...
Nicole Wang: "Let be be the finale of seem."
If 2017 was a chapter of my life I would title it "The year of Seijin 成人 (coming-of-age)". I thought I had already become an adult at...
Kaito Mori: "That was when it hit me- work should be about doing something I'm crazy about
2017 was a year of defeat. Though I’ve been managing my own business from before university, in my sophomore year I decided that I wanted...
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...
Daichi : "She told me “finally, it feels like an international housing event, compared to the l
It was already 2 in the morning when we had finished setting up decorations and posters the day before the “Triangle Festa” at the...
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...
Professor Sarajean Rossitto: "I can't believe you are letting your daughter go to Japan!&qu
My father was going to have an open heart surgery the week after my interview with the Tokyo YMCA. They told me I had two weeks to...
Professor Makiko Deguchi: "Makiko, you are the prettiest girl on the bus!"
When I was in the United States, I felt invisible. It was already ingrained in me that I didn’t meet their beauty standard of having...
Yuina Uno: I went to LA for an internship program and realized that feminism can actually be a profe
Seven years ago, I was so sure that I wanted to work with event planning but when it came time to choose my university major, all of a...
