GRIPS Newsletter No. 2 (150212)

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GRIPS NEW YEARS PARTY

ISC Events & Activities

Big thanks for Jiang Hua Chen who

performed us the saxophone, and special

thanks for the JSC team organizing us a

very fun match of the arm wrestling, as well

as Atari-san from the student office who led

the sing of Japanese traditional New Year

song. Our congratulations to the prizes

winners of the Lucky Stars, the biggest

prizes were GRIPS jumpers, which you can

also find and own one at the student office.

At the party, we had a chance to countdown

together to the New Year, even though it

was a make-up one but the excitement was

just like on the day itself. Last but not least,

our traditional fun with dance music by DJ. Emmanuel who made the dance floor

more special than ever. For us the ISC, it was our first party; we realized the mistakes

and appreciated your kind suggestions. We promise to continue to make a wonderful

year of our fellow friends and even make it better. We will meet again at another party

GRIPS

2012Winter Issue

ISC NEWSLETTER

In this issue

GRIPS New Years

Party

GRIPS Marathon

GRIPS Movie Night

Monthly Poster

Toilet Academy

The Trip

Whats in the future

It was successfully organized and re-

ceived attentions, the GRIPS 2012 New

Year Party. If you have noticed that the

date was 12 in the year of 2012, such a

good day, wasn't it?

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On a very cold winter day,

40 brave GRIPS students

and staffs gathered at the

Imperial Palace for the 2nd

Annual GRIPS Marathon.

Imoto-San with the unbe-

lievable time of 18 minutes

(5km) won the trophy! For

female division, Honda-San

beat the defending

champion Karin-san

with a near dead-heat.

Congratulations! Here

are the winners!

GRIPS Marathon

and more are in the waiting. Andif you have an ingenious idea for agreat movie night, then just sendus a mail and we'll try our best to

host it. The most recent movieshown was shown on the 14th ofFebruary, Tuesday, a brilliant doc-umentary "Inside Job" about theUS subprime financial crisis of

2008 (Lecture Room L, 16.40,

Tuesday 14th of February)

The ISC has been holdingfour movie nights so farsince December. Some-

times in lecture room L,and sometimes (whenever

its available) in ourgorgeous Soukairo Hall.Also for the next fewmonths we are planning toshow more and more

movies! Documentaries,love stories, action thrillers,

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1st Position: Shoji Imoto

2nd Position: Mikio Miura3rd Position: Ggombe Kasim

Munyegera

1st Position: Mariko Honda2nd Position: Karin Hillen

3rd Position: Kasumi

ISC Events and Activities

GRIPS Movie Nights

We are making poster that shows a simple

phrase in many different languages in every

month. Its on the 5th floor. Check it out and

express your own language!

Did you find it useful for you? Go check it out

when you are in the toilet. We are postingmore and more caring information for you

guys

Monthly Poster

Toilet Academy

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an hour at 8PM, and the

patrol and cleaning route is

just near our campus. This

month event will be on

February 9 and 24. If you

are interested, please checkout the Toilet Academy in

the nearest toilet for more

information. If you are not

available this month, you

can also join next month

Recruiting Foreign Nationals

for Community Volunteer Ac-

tivities (joint activities). Many

people from all over the world

may be impressed by the

cleanness of Japans streets. In

Roppongi, the shop owners of

this area organized a group to

do the weekly patrol and

cleaning up, making Roppongi

area an artistic street for a

carefree walk. Twice a month,

they will recruit foreign volun-

teer to join the activities. Each

event will take approximately

events and so on. Thanks for

Michael C. Huang, our

Ph.D. student for sharing us

this very nice event. This

will also strengthen the

relationship between GRIPSstudent and Roppongi

community. See you!

MEP Trip

IMF scholars from Macroeconomic Policy

Program had a trip to Nagoya, Nara, and

Kyoto from 2 to 4 February 2012. They were

accompanied by Prof. Wade Pfau, Prof.

Alistair Munro, and Prof. Julen Esteban-

Pretel.

Whats in the Future

Japanese Garden. Of course, the climax was a

chance to seek the A-grades by visiting and pray-ing at the IQ-knowledge giving shrine called

Dazaifu Tenmangu. Social and informal interac-tions across nationalities, GRIPS professors andstudents and gender made the trip a useful avenuein building a truly global network of leaders.

Arigato Goizaimasuta to the entire IPT team, thesponsors for greatly subsidizing the trip costs andthe tour guides for a job well done.

Fukuoka Trip

The annual overnight Field Trip to Fukuoka for

international programs students was held on Feb-ruary 3-4, 2012. Like most of the foreign studentshave come to expect from the ever efficient Japa-nese system, the memorable excursion was profi-ciently organized by the IPT team. Its coming

right after the end of the now unforgettableGRIPS Fall term made it a worthwhile event tounwind and re-energize for the winter and springschedule. The trip included a visit to the Toyota

Plant, Kokura city sightseeing, Kokura Castle and

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We welcome suggestionsand constructive

comments. Please email to

[email protected]@grips.ac.jp

YLP-School of Government Workshop in Okinawa Prefecture

On 1st to 3rd Febru-

ary 2012, a group of

students from YLP-

GRIPS School ofGovernment led by

Professor Komatsu

M a s a y u k i a n d

accompanied by

M r . M i y a z a w a ,

p r o g r a m

coordinator of YLP-

SOGA, and Ms.

Teruya from the

Office of the External Affairs to visit Okinawa region to meet with the government

officials and entrepreneurs and to broaden their understanding and learn new policies

on-site. During the three-day and two-night visit, the students met with the regional

and local government officials and entrepreneurs in many different places in Okinawa

prefecture as well as Naha and Ginowan City Hall, the US General consular and

the ANA international cargo office, Tomari fishery harbor and Mizuho Shuho winery,

and the Shurijo castle.

YLP-School of Local Governance visits Gunma Prefecture

Through the efforts ofthe Young Leaders Pro-

gram-School of LocalGovernance spearhead-ed by no other than theits program director,Prof. Kiyotaka Yoko-michi, and his able staff,AsakoNoguchi, studentswere able to successful-ly undertake the 1st

Workshop in GunmaPrefecture. The actualexperience of visiting a

local government inJapan has given the

students a wider appreciation of Japanese local governments. The students metwith the Vice-Governor of Gunma Prefectural where they had the chance to askquestions about the functions of the prefecture. The students visited the City ofTakasaki and the Kawaba Village and had a side trip to the Kusatsu Ski Resort andDoll Factory.

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