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a-history-of-international-exchanges00

- 167 -*the recipient：Meng Xiang (China)(MU graduate student of Agriculture)[From December 1993 to November 1994]・’Miyazaki Nishi Rotary Club Subsidy for Research (\300,000 a year)’*the recipient：Ronack Khan (Bangladesh)(a graduate student of Miyazaki Medical College)[For two years (1994 and 1995)]③ A lecture at a regular meetingA foreign student was invited and asked to give a short introducation ofhis or her home country in Japanese. The meeting was usually held overlunch.（ⅷ）Visits to all kinds of educational institutionsUnder the pretext of ‘Globalization,’ there has been a steep increase in theopportunities for schools to invite foreigners to ask them to introduce the cultureof their home countries or schools to promote direct exchanges between theirpupils (students) and invited foreigners. As MU foreign students are relativelyyoung with more free time, it is natural for an educational institution to ask MUto send some of them to the institution. After 1988 when there were 25 foreignstudents studying at MU, the number of foreign students has increasedgradually until May 2009 when there were 100, and then 141 in May 2015. Itwas much easier for each institution to ask MU to send some foreign students,as they thought they could get hold of good number of foreign students. Theysometimes directly asked me, but I asked them to submit necessary documentsto the General Affairs Department of the Faculty. When the request came tome, I asked the foreign students in my Japanese classes if any of them wereinterested in participating in the school visit. Then I made a list of the students,which was sent to the man in charge at the institution concerned. The details ofthe events were discussed between me and the man in charge, after the visitingmembers were chosen. Many foreign students in the Faculty of Educationhoped to be teachers in the future, especially those from Dunedin College ofEducation. They were deeply interested in having contact with elementaryschool pupils, junior high school students and young people, and in observingthe Japanese educational interface. Therefore, it is not difficult to find thevisiting students. There were also many foreign students in the other facultieswho were interested in school visits.