School Corporation Hamana Yamate Gakuin was held on September 9th (Sat) at the Kobe Yamate Campus Building No. 25 Large Lecture Room with about XNUMX participants including guests and invited guests. , we held a commemorative event for the merger of Hamana Gakuin and Kobe Yamate Gakuen as an educational corporation, taking thorough infection prevention measures.
On April 2020, 4, Kobe Yamate University School of Contemporary Society, which was established by Kobe Yamate Gakuen Educational Corporation, was transferred to Kansai University of International Studies, and the university was integrated. was merged to form the Hamana Yamate Gakuin School Corporation.
The ceremony began with an opening address by Executive Director Toshihisa Yokota, followed by a speech by President Atsushi Hamana, followed by a video message from guests Yoshinori Hakui, former Director of the Higher Education Bureau of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and Motohiko Saito, Governor of Hyogo Prefecture, and Kijun Park. Consul General of the Republic of Korea in Kobe, Kizo Hisamoto, Mayor of Kobe City (reader), Hidefumi Koide, Executive Director and Secretary General of the Association of Private Universities of Japan, Osamu Murata, Chairman of the University Consortium Hyogo Kobe, and President of Kwansei Gakuin University gave congratulatory addresses. .
After that, a XNUMX-minute video introducing the new corporation was shown, and it ended with a closing address by Executive Director Kiyoshi Kusumi.
Following this, a symposium was held on the theme of "Possibilities and Challenges for Inter-University Collaboration, Collaboration, and Mergers."
First, Executive Director Yokota explained the purpose of the event, and then three symposium speakers, Akio Omori, President of Kyoai Gakuen Maebashi International University, Noboru Okubo, President and CEO of Uchida Yoko Co., Ltd., and President Hamana, provided topics for discussion. After receiving comments from Mr. Hiroshi Kobayashi, Director of the Recruit Research Institute, we had a question-and-answer session.
On the day of the event, people from various fields, including government officials, educators, business people, local residents' associations, and people from our university, participated and had lively discussions.
This ceremony and symposium were also streamed online, and about XNUMX people from all over the country participated.
To all of you who participated in person at the venue and those who participated online, this time it was held on our own campus, so there were many things that went wrong, and we apologize for the inconvenience. .
In order to meet everyone's expectations, the school corporation Hamana Yamate Gakuin is determined to push forward with the development of the school and the promotion of education through the combined efforts of its officers, faculty, and staff.
School Juridical Person Hamana Yamate Academy
