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a-history-of-international-exchanges00

- 28 -was a project leader of “Model education for heavily handicapped children,”and she could work for one year in New Zealand as a voluntary teacher. Shehad invaluable experiences working in classes for handicapped children,inspecting support centers, working on the staff at group homes managed by theAssociation of Mentally-Handicapped people. She also worked as an assistantteacher of Japanese culture for Mr. Maxwell at DCE.＜Reminiscence (7) ～A scholar of Japanese history～＞Mr. Maxwell came back to Japan to do more research on Japanese history after he retiredfrom DCE. First he was going to live in Kyoto, but then he decided to live in Miyazaki, nearto his good friend, Mr. Butterworth. His interest in Japanese history centered mainly onthe Meiji Restoration, which produced drastic change to Japan. He answered the interviewby Miyazaki Nichi Nichi Shimbun as “I am interested in two aspects of Japanese peoplewhich can be seen in the two big figures in the Meiji Restoration period; Takamori Saigo,who regarded the tradition very highly; and Toshimitsu Okubo, who can easily adapthimself to the times.” (September 5, 1987). Then he taught at Miyazaki MunicipalUniversity as a part-time teacher, worked as an advisor for the exchange students fromDCE to MU, and sent some newspaper articles about life in Japan to Otago Daily Times.He got married a Miyazaki native and went back to New Zealand in the same year (2002)when his friend, Guy Butterworth, went back to America.(ⅱ) The conclusion of an exchange agreement (1987)Soon after we sent Kaoru Kojima and Mayumi Hosokawa to DCE (1986),Principal Taylor sent us a message that DCE also wanted to send its studentsto Miyazaki. In response to Dean Kitamura’s message, Principal Taylor senthim a letter:“Dunedin students who are going to be school teachers can haveexperiences of learning Japanese language, visiting elementary schools,and teaching English to Japanese people. One student is interested instudying at Miyazaki, who has been studying Japanese language for fiveyears....”Dean Kitamura mailed the following documents to Principal Taylor: (a) Aprovisional student exchange agreement drafted by SEC of MU; (b) ApplicationForm for Mombusho scholarship (Japanese Studies)[the deadline had alreadypassed]; and (c) The list of the courses.In January 1987, the student exchange agreement was concluded throughmail.【Reference ②】 But the student who was supposed to come to Miyazakidecided not to come for financial reasons. Elizabeth Tate, who was placed onthe waiting list, applied for the Mombusho scholarship and was successful inobtaining it. She came to Miyazaki in October 1987 as the first exchangestudent from DCE. With some small revision (the item of tuition waiver), thefinal version of the student exchange agreement was concluded in March 1988.