APU 25th Anniversary Event: “Art and D&I: ‘See, Create, Think’” Panel Discussion｜APU開学25周年企画「アートとD&I『みる・つくる・考える』」パネルディスカッション

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Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University held an experiential event titled “Art and D&I: ‘See, Create, Think.’” In collaboration with Heralbony Co., Ltd., the art NPO BEPPU PROJECT, and others, the university implemented a program that allowed students, faculty and staff, and local community members to experience diversity through art. A total of 45 participants, including students,

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仏教と科学のサロン vol.74 “The Wartime Generation and the Baby Boomer Generation: Buddhism’s Responsibility for the War—Is It the Individual or the State?”｜「戦中の世代と団塊の世代 仏教の戦争責任 ～個人なのか国家なのか～」

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The main session was a seminar featuring a dialogue between His Eminence Otani, the Head Priest of the Gomon-shu, His Eminence Guen, the Head Priest of the Gomon-shu, and Professor Hirahara on the theme “The Wartime Generation and the Post-War Generation: Buddhism’s Responsibility for the War—Is It the Individual or the State?” The two speakers

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Kyushu University Beppu Hospital and the Ritsumeikan Group Team Up!｜九州大学別府病院と立命館グループでコラボレーション！

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I was largely delighted that Professor Takahashi from the School of Integrated Psychology at Ritsumeikan University OIC came to visit me “yet once again” (this is the second time in the last 10 days…)! The purpose of this visit was to hold a strategy meeting—with about five of us, including Dr. Mimori, the director of

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Kids see right through our “intellectual humility”｜「知的謙虚さ」を見透かすこどもたち

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素材記事：https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/even_young_children_prefer_people_who_act_with_humility素材写真：the same as above site Despite being only children, or, because of being children? Psychological experiments have shown that even children as young as five years old have a very keen sense of the “intelligence” displayed by adults. It turns out that children prefer people who have “intellectual humility,” who “humbly ask for instruction on

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Top scientist demands more inclusivity｜トップ科学者の包括性メッセージ

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素材記事： https://engineering.berkeley.edu/news/2025/06/leadership-and-legacy/写真クレジット： from the above site｜上のサイトから How many more years do we have to wait for a female scientist to sit at the top of the engineering faculty at a leading Japanese university? I seem to recall a bit of such talk at Tokyo Institute of Technology once, but it did not surface at full.

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【education】Certificate of Appreciation for the webinar for medical students back in May｜5月に行った医学部生向けwebinarの感謝状が届く

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Today, I received an email from the organizer with a certificate of appreciation for the webinar for medical students hosted by UMMC (University of Malaya Medical Center) that I did in May this year. It was already half a year ago. Time flies, man. Coincidentally today, I left Japan for Malaysia for the final procedures

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【education】Steering Committee Meeting for Self-Instructional Material (SIM)｜修士コース教材の開発のための広域会議

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Last week we had a wide-ranging meeting regarding the production of SIMs (Self-Instructional Material) for the new Master of Digital Health course that we at the eHealth Unit have been working on for the past few years. A SIM is a series of instructional materials designed to allow students to learn at their own pace,

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