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a-history-of-international-exchanges00
- 150 -It was my pleasure that I could teach the foreignstudents a part of Japanese manners and attentionthrough tea ceremony. I also learned a lot byteaching. Until I retired from Miyazaki University inMarch, 2014, tea ceremony teaching was my firstmeaningful international exchange in my life.(3) Miyazaki University Foreign Students Association (MUFSA)(ⅰ) Three Faculties were integrated into one campusIn August 1988, after theFaculty of Education finishedmoving, three Faculties werejoined on the Kibana campus.The number of the foreignstudents of the whole universityat that time totaled about 20.It was a sharp increase,considering there were only 5ten years ago (1979). The firsttime almost all the foreign students came together was a farewell luncheon party for two exchangestudents of the Faculty of Education held at the university cafeteria on theKibana campus. Ward Kranz and Elizabeth Tate, who spend one academic yearas exchange students on the Funatsuka campus with Japanese governmentscholarships of ‘Japanese Studies,’ rode a bicycle all the way to Kibana campuswith their advisor Mr.Hirase and attended the party.I talked with Mr.Taiji Adachi, then Chairman of International ExchangeCommiittee of the Faculty of Agriculture, who moved to Osaka PrefectureUniversity in 1999, about organizing a ‘Lunchtime meeting’ once a month, whereteachers, foreign and Japanese students of MU, guests from outside, can attend.
