Author: Sue Segar In 2013, whilst attending a conference in Yokohama, the leading Japanese immunologist and vaccine developer, Professor Yasuhiro Yasutomi, told the South African singer and humanitarian, Yvonne Chaka Chaka, (also a speaker at the conference), that his life’s goal was to find a vaccine for HIV. The 5th Tokyo International Conference on African…
Stellenbosch University Japan Centre (SUJC) was launched on 11 August 2022. The launch ceremony, which took place at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, formalised long-standing partnerships in research and student and staff exchange between Stellenbosch University (SU) and academic institutions in Japan. For more than two decades SU academics have been part of collaborative…
On 23 November 2022, Prof Scarlett Cornelissen was a panellist on a Chatham House webinar on ‘Africa-Japan relations and evolving multilateralism’. Your can read more about the panel discussion here.
Already by the morning of 28 September 2022, exactly 50 students from Stellenbosch University had registered for the info session on the Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme (JET). The JET programme is a Japanese government sponsored exchange programme that aims to improve foreign language teaching in schools and to promote international understanding. The info session…
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SUJC Celebrates Japan Day
The South African national holiday of Heritage Day, this year coincided with the 9th Japan Day which was organized by the Office of the Consul of Japan in Cape Town in collaboration with the Japanese Community in Cape Town and the City of Cape Town. This auspicious event took place on Saturday 24th September at…
The Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS) has had a memorandum of understanding with Stellenbosch University (SU) since July 2020. This MOU facilitates student and staff mobility between South Africa and Japan. Recently, between September 1-2, a representative from TUFS, Dr Chihiro KUMASHIRO visited SU. She used the visit to present on IAfP (Innovative Africa:…
Stellenbosch University (SU) officially launched the Stellenbosch University Japan Centre (SUJC), envisioned to be a leading hub for academic research and cultural exchange between South Africa and Japan. The SUJC is the culmination of a long-standing collaboration between SU and Japan in research partnership activities that span more than 20 years. Discussions to establish the…