(Front row from left) Chairman, Board of Trustees, YANAGIYA Takashi, Table Tennis Club’s honorary general manager KODAMA, Professor LIU Wei and Professor DEMISE
(Back row from left) Vice President ISHIZU, President UENO, FU Pei (interpreter), and General Manager (Academic Strategy and Planning Division) YAMADA
(Back row from left) Vice President ISHIZU, President UENO, FU Pei (interpreter), and General Manager (Academic Strategy and Planning Division) YAMADA
On January 27, LIU Wei, a professor at Peking University's Department of Physical Education and the table tennis club’s general manager, paid a courtesy call on UENO Masao, the President, and YANAGIYA Takashi, the Chairman, Board of Trustees, in Surugadai Campus. KODAMA Keiji, Meiji University Table Tennis Club’s honorary general manager, and DEMISE Nobuyuki, the General Manager (professor at the School of Commerce) also attended the session and have supported the club’s table tennis exchange with Peking University since 2017.
In the course of the meeting, President UENO expressed his gratitude for the long-standing exchange between the two schools’ table tennis clubs, which had been ongoing even before the pandemic. He also conveyed his intention to further promote exchanges and explore opportunities for future collaboration. Acknowledging the long-term friendship between the two clubs, FU Pei, the professor/general manager, expressed that she hopes to see further development of exchanges with Meiji University in academic fields beyond table tennis.
Peking University is China's first national university, founded in 1898. Meiji and Peking University have been in an inter-university agreement since 2009. In November 2014, the Meiji University Manga Library Reading Room opened in the School of Foreign Languages of Peking University, to promote cultural and academic exchanges through exhibitions of Japanese manga and anime culture.
In the course of the meeting, President UENO expressed his gratitude for the long-standing exchange between the two schools’ table tennis clubs, which had been ongoing even before the pandemic. He also conveyed his intention to further promote exchanges and explore opportunities for future collaboration. Acknowledging the long-term friendship between the two clubs, FU Pei, the professor/general manager, expressed that she hopes to see further development of exchanges with Meiji University in academic fields beyond table tennis.
Peking University is China's first national university, founded in 1898. Meiji and Peking University have been in an inter-university agreement since 2009. In November 2014, the Meiji University Manga Library Reading Room opened in the School of Foreign Languages of Peking University, to promote cultural and academic exchanges through exhibitions of Japanese manga and anime culture.
President UENO handed the Meiji University’s original Edo-kiriko glass to Professor LIU Wei
The glass, "KIKKA Shikon," was crafted featuring the school’s signature bluish-purple as its motif, by MISAWA Sena, a Horiguchi-kiriko artisan who graduated from the School of Commerce in 2012