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174with a particular MU professor. It was at the end of the 1980s and thebeginning of 1990s that MU started concluding exchange agreements eitherbetween universities or faculties. Even after the exchange agreements wereconcluded, many exchange programs became mere name without anysubstantial exchanges.Considering students most important, sister colleges were selected usingthe following three criteria: an appropriate academic level for the EnglishDepartment students of MU, a good study environment, and the financialburden on students’ parents. This selection method may be one of the reasonswhy the student exchange programs with TESC and DCE has continued fora long time. The exchange program with TESC has been lasted for 30 yearsas of 2017, but that with DCE ended after 20 years in 2007, when DCEbecame part of University of Otago. The teachers, mainly those of EnglishDepartment, and the members of SEC of the Faculty of Education andCulture have definitely carried on the work of those went before and havecontinued to send students to the sister colleges.Mr. Nagatomo, who moved from Ochanomizu University to the Faculty ofEducation and Culture of MU in 2003, gave Miyadai the opportunity to startsome exchange programs with universities in Taiwan. When he had taughtin Ochanomizu University, he had a strong connection with universities inTaiwan and started student exchange agreements with these universitiessoon after his arrival at MU, first with Soochow University in September 2004and then with National Chenguchi University in March 2009. Throughthese exchange programs, Miyadai has been carrying out substantialexchange activities. After his retirement from MU in 2012, he got a full-timeteaching job at Kai Nan University (2012~2015), and then at Da YehUniversity (2015~) in Taiwan. He made an effort to conclude exchangeagreements with both of these universities.This booklet is the history of international exchanges of the Faculty ofEducation and Culture from 1974 to 2012, when I retired from MU. I triedto make the description as accurate as possible, but there may be some errorsbecause of forgetfulness, misunderstandings, and lack of materials. Thisbooklet is the record of the past, but it can also be a help to promote theinternational exchanges of MU and, in particular, the Faculty of Educationand Culture of MU in the future.Following two big ‘pioneers,’ Mr. Butterworth and Mr. Nagatomo, the