Kirov - Tokyo: Students and teachers of VyatSU and University of Soka built a friendship bridge

 An online meeting, which started the interaction between universities, was held on the platform of regional library  "A.I. Herzen"

September 17th, the State Universal Regional Scientific Library "A.I. Herzen" was a venue for an unusual event - online format meetings, whose participants were students and teachers of Russian and Japanese universities: Vyatka State University and Tokyo Soka Gakkai University.

As told by the head of the information and bibliographic department of the library Olga Kosheleva, representatives of the University of Japan themselves initiated a meeting, showing interest in Russian students. This is not surprising: at the University of Soka there is a 'Russian center', and the university has been studying Russian at the philological faculty.


    On our side we are always ready for dialogue and hope that today we will have new friends - -

Told the associate Professor of the Department of Foreign Languages ​​and Methods of Learning Foreign Languages ​​VyatSU, Tatiana Shcherbakova. She told about the history and modern state of the largest university of the Kirov region - the message of the teacher was complemented by videos about Vyatka State University.

Japanese colleagues, in turn, presented their university. The University of Soka is included in the "University Support Program Super Global"  of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technologies of Japan. The university's mission is summed up in these words: "Being the best institution of humanistic education. Be a cradle of a new culture. "

The key part of the meeting was the speeches of students. The Japanese side has prepared an interesting message about the traditional cuisine of countries, the features of the menu in Russian and Japanese restaurants and dining rooms. The presentation of the sophomore of philological faculty of the University of Soka, Ryoko Chicara, who told about her passion to the game on Koto, a traditional plucked musical instrument. The girl demonstrated her skills, as well as showed the possibilities of sound of the Japanese citra combined with the piano on the example of the excellent melody of Flowers Will Bloom.

Students of the Faculty of Linguistics VyatSUu returned the favour - they also prepared informative presentations. Irina Kozlova and Vlad Bobin told Japanese peers about the wealth and variety of nature of the immense Russia, and Yulia Yurlova shared the experience of student life, summarizing:

    Vyatka State University is a place where every student can realize their creative, intellectual, sports abilities.

Speeches, questions and answers, exchange of views - one and a half hours, allocated to the meeting, flew by. During this time, distant Japan became closer to Russian students; And their peers from the Tokyo University learned a lot of interesting things not only about Russia, but also about the small homeland of students VyatSU.
We will be friends with universities! All participants came to this decision.
 

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