Kojo Sebastian Amanor
September 28, 2019 - January 31, 2020
Republic of Ghana

May 2, 2020
Prof. Kojo Sebastian Amanor, a professor of University of Ghana, who has stayed in Japan as a visiting professor of our center from Septembe...December 12, 2019
Prof. Amanor delivered a lecture at our ASC Seminar on December 12, 2019. The theme of the seminar was "Land Administrative Reform and Comme...November 19, 2019
Prof. Amanor had a presentation at the 12th KU-TUFS Seminar held at Kyoto University on November 19, 2019. Please click here for the details...October 4, 2019
Prof. Amanor had his first class for graduate students on October 4, 2019. The title of the class is "Sustainable Development and Global Gov...October 1, 2019
Prof. Amanor's class for undergraduate students has begun on October 1, the first day of the fall semester 2019. The class is for second ye...September 28, 2019
The other our visiting professor, Prof. Kojo Sebastian Amanor has arrived in Japan on September 28, 2019. He is a professor of Institute of ...Wed., April 1, 2020
Dr. Teshome Emana, an assistant professor of Addis Ababa University who has stayed in Japan as a visiting professor of our center from Septe...December 19, 2019
Dr. Teshome delivered a lecture at our ASC Seminar. The theme of the seminar was "Land and Youth Migration in Africa: the Case of Two Distri...November 28, 2019
Dr. Teshome, our visiting professor, delivered his lecture at APL (Ajiken Power Lunch) of IDE-JETRO on 28th November. APL is a lunchtime wor...November 19, 2019
Dr. Teshome had a presentation at the 12th KU-TUFS Seminar held at Kyoto University on November 19, 2019. Please click here for the details ...October 4, 2019
Dr. Teshome's class for graduate students has started on October 4, 2019. The theme of the class is "Ethnography of Africa". Although he exp...October 2, 2019
Dr. Teshome had his first class for undergraduate students on October 2, 2019. The class is an elective subject for students and its theme ...September 27, 2019
Dr. Teshome Emana, who will stay in Japan from October 2019 to January 2020 as a visiting professor, has arrived in Japan safely on Septemb...September 30, 2019
Dr. Godfrey Hampwaye, who stayed from April to July 2019 as a visiting professor of our center, has sent us his essay on his stay in Japan. ...Monday, June 17, 2019
Institute of Developing Economies - JETRO, APL (Ajiken Power Lunch) seminar. Date and Time: June 17, 2019 13:30 - 15:00 Venue: C23 seminar r...3:00 - 5:00 pm, May 20th, 2019
On May 20, Dr. Godfrey Hampwaye gave a presentation at Kyoto University. The theme of the presentation was "Significance, and Institutional...Sat., May 4, 2019
On May 4, 2019, Godfrey was invited to Kurayami Festival, Japanese traditional festival at Fuchu city with Shukulu Murekatete and Rodrigue I...Tuesday, April 9, 2019
Dr. Hampwaye had the first class for undergraduate students today. Students belong to African Studies Course, and he will give them lecture...Friday, April 5, 2019
Dr. Hampwaye gave the first lecture for undergraduate students today. The theme of the class is "Planning for Sustainable Regional Developm...Monday, April 1, 2019
Dr. Godfrey Hampwaye arrived at Japan at the end of March. He will stay in Japan for four months untile July 2019 as a visiting professor of...January 27, 2019 - February 11, 2019
Dr. Benjamin Amoah, who stayed in Japan from January 27, 2019 to February 11, 2019 as a special visiting lecturer of ASC-TUFS, wrote his ess...Wednesday, February 6, 2019
On February 6, 2019, Dr. Amoah visited Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS), Kyoto University with Dr. Kazue Demachi. He made a prese...February 5, 2019
Dr. Amoah gave a lecture at the 31st ASC Seminar at TUFS on February 5, 2018. You can see the detailed report from here. ...Jan. 30, 2019 - Feb. 1, 2019
Dr. Amoah gave lectures during January 30 and February 1, 2019, as a winter intensive course at TUFS. The class was themed on "Development F...January 28, 2019
Dr. Benjamin Amoah finally arrived in Japan. He is a lecturer of Central University in Ghana, and we invited him as a special visiting lectu...October - December, 2018
Time flies, and Nisa and Mabutho will leave Japan after a week. Nisa wrote her essay about her staying in Japan. Both during her holidays an...Nov. 22, 2018
Dr. Gairoonisa Paleker had a lecture at 7th KU-TUFS Seminar at Kyoto University. The seminar was jointly organized by Center for African Ar...October 1, 2018 - January 31, 2019
Dr. Mabutho Shangase and Dr. Gairoonisa Paleker left Japan on February 1, 2019. They came to Japan on October 2019, and had stayed here for ...Tuesday, December 18, 2018 3:00-5:00 pm
Dr. Mabutho Shangase had a lecture at 8th KU-TUFS Seminar at Kyoto University. The seminar was jointly organized by Center for African Area ...Mon., July 9, 2018
Dr. Chitonge had a presentation at the academic seminar in Kyoto as below. The seminar was jointly sponsored by Center for African Area Stud...Thu., July 5th, 2018
Dr. Chitonge had a presentation about land restitution at the research meeting of KAKEN "Resource Management and Political Power in Rural Af...Mon., July 2nd, 2018
Institute of Developing Economies - JETRO, APL (Ajiken Power Lunch) seminar Date & Time: July 2, 2018 3:30-5:00 PM Venue: C23 seminar ro...November 25, 2020 -
Republic of Uganda
December 17, 2020
We held the online exchange meeting with Justus, Henri, the crowdfunding supporters, and TUFS students. Justus made a speech and expressed ...November 25, 2020
Mr. Justus Thembo, an exchange student from Protestant Institute of Arts and Social Sciences in Rwanda, finally arrived in Japan on Novembe...November 25, 2020 -
Republic of Burundi
February 16, 2021
Henri has established a refugee assistance program called "Enough is a little" after he entered Protestant Institute of Arts and Social Scie...December 17, 2020
We held the online exchange meeting with Henri, Justus, the crowdfunding supporters, and TUFS students. Henri made a speech and expressed h...November 25, 2020
Mr. Henri Fabrice Ndayizeye, an exchange student from Protestant Institute of Arts and Social Sciences in Rwanda, finally arrived in Japan o...September 24, 2019 - January 29, 2020
Republic of Ghana
Wed., April 1, 2020
Ruth, an undergraduate student of University of Ghana who studied at TUFS during Fall Semester 2019 with the financial support by Toyota Gha...October 10, 2019
Ruth, who came from University of Ghana to study at TUFS with a round-trip airticket supported by Toyota Ghana, sent us a hort essay. She wr...September 27, 2019
New exchange students from University of Ghana has safely arrived in Japan on September 24, 2019. They are Ms. Ruth Ofori from Department of...September 24, 2019 - January 29, 2020
Republic of Ghana
Wed., April 1, 2020
Clara, an exchange student of TUFS during Fall 2019 from University of Ghana, sent us an essay about her stay in Japan. Toyota Ghana provide...October 11, 2019
Clara, who came from University of Ghana to study at TUFS with a round-trip airticket supported by Toyota Ghana, sent us a short essay. She ...September 27, 2019
New exchange students from University of Ghana has safely arrived in Japan on September 24, 2019. They are Ms. Ruth Ofori from Department of...September 24, 2019 - August 3, 2020
Republic of Rwanda
September 29, 2020
Octave, a former exchange student from PIASS in Rwanda, wrote an essay to look back his 10 months in Japan. Because of COVID-19 pandemic, he...May 1st, 2020
Octave gives an interview with Helene to look back his life in Japan so far. He talks about what he expected to learn in Japan before coming...November 30, 2019
Octave and Helene went to study trip in Okinawa with Prof. Kazuyuki Sasaki who came back to Japan temporalily from Protestant Institute of A...November 29, 2019
Octave expressed his gratitude to his supporters at the exchange meeting held on November 29, 2019. He could meet his supporters who donated...October 24, 2019
It's been a month since Octave and Helene came to Japan. While being busy with classes and assignments, Octave also enjoys spending time wit...September 26, 2019
The new exchange students from Protestant Institute of Arts and Social Sciences (PIASS), Rwanda, has arrived safely on September 24, 2019. ...September 24, 2019 - August 3, 2020
Democratic Republic of the Congo
October 13, 2020
Hélène Mikanda Alinethu, our former exchange student from Protestant Institute of Arts and Social Sciences (PIASS), wrote an essay to look b...May 1st, 2020
Helene gives an interview with Octave to look back his life in Japan so far. He talks about what he expected to learn in Japan before coming...November 29, 2019
Helene expressed her gratitude to her supporters at the exchange meeting held on November 29, 2019. She could meet her supporters who donate...November 15 - 20, 2019
Helen and Octave visited Okinawa with Prof. Kazuyuki Sasaki from Protestant Institute of Arts and Social Sciences (PIASS) who had temporalil...October 28, 2019
It's been a month since Helene and Octave arrived in Japan. Since Helene seems calm and modest, we were, at first, worried whether she could...September 26, 2019
The new exchange students from Protestant Institute of Arts and Social Sciences (PIASS), Rwanda, has arrived safely on September 24, 2019. ...April 2, 2019 - July 18, 2019
Republic of South Africa
August 5, 2019
Wendy sent us an essay about her stay in Japan. She was an exchange student from University or Pretoria and studied at TUFS during Spring Se...Wednesday, April 17, 2019
Wendy, an exchange student from University of Pretoria, expresses her gratitude to Yazaki Corporation and our university for realizing her d...Friday, April 5, 2019
From left, Dr. Matsunami, Abigail from University of Ghana, Wendy, Dr. Kirikoshi Wendy-Rose Govender, an excahnge student from University o...September 25, 2018 - February 2019
Republic of Ghana
Sun., January 27, 2019
On January 27, 2019, Samuel attended "International Symposium on "African Potentials and the Future of Humanity"" held at Kyoto University. ...Oct. 11, 2018
Samuel looked back his days in Japan since he came to TUFS. We were worried about him because he caught a cold right after he arrived here, ...September 25, 2018 - February 2019
Republic of Ghana
September 25, 2018 - February 13, 2019
Nancy, a master course student of University of Ghana, sent us a report on her life in Japan. She is a master course student of University o...Sun., January 27, 2019
On January 27, 2019, Nancy attended "International Symposium on "African Potentials and the Future of Humanity"" held at Kyoto University. T...Oct., 22, 2018
Nancy sent us the message to express her gratitude to those who have supported her to come to Japan, such as Toyota Ghana who provided her a...September 23, 2018 - July 17, 2019
Republic of Burundi
April 28th, 2020
Rodrigue looks back his stay in Japan between September 2018 and July 2019. He has sent us this message for our 2nd crowdfunding project, so...November 29, 2019
Rodrigue sent us a video message. He made this for an exchange meeting we had on November 29, 2019 for Helene and Octave, our new exchange s...August 1, 2019
Rodrigue sent us his report on his stay in Japan. Now, he's enjoying reunion with his family and friends in Burundi. He was always earger to...Mon., July 22, 2019
Rodrigue, who left Japan in the mid-July, made a short documentary to introduce his school life at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. He p...Thu., July 18, 2019
On July 18, 2019, the next day after he went back to Rwanda, Rodrigue conducted the seminar on Japanese religions at Protestant Institute of...June 26, 2019
Rodrigue has joined Choeur Soleil, the chorus club at TUFS, from this semester. I visited the club the other day and found out he has alread...Sat., May 4, 2019
On May 4, 2019, Mr. Kazutaka Nakano, one of the supporters of Rodrigue and Shukulu, invite them and Dr. Godfrey Hampwaye to Kurayami Festiva...November 24, 2018 and on January 12, 2019
Rodrigue and Shukulu took part in events held by "Connecting Children of Africa and Japan". The institution aims at connecting Japanese and ...Nov. 5 - 7, 2018
Rodrigue and Shukulu visited Okinawa with Dr. Kazuyuki Sasaki as a study tour. They visited peace museums, cave, and U.S. military bases. T...Oct. 27, 2018
Rodrigue wrote his essay on "Ubumwe Vol.44", an newsletterr of the organization which supports Dr. Kazuyuki Sasaki and his activities to he...Thu., October 18, 2018
Rodrigue attended a conference held at Ikubunkan Global High School. He was one of three guest speakers from African countries. At the conf...Oct. 9, 2018
It's been 2 weeks since Rodrigue arrived at Japan. He sent us the message for all of the people who were involved in realizing his dream to ...Sat. November 29, 2018
Rodrigue attended a seminar on Africa at Ikubunkan Global High School. He met some students from the High School on last August when they v...September 23, 2018 - July 17, 2019
Republic of Rwanda
May 11th, 2020
Shukulu looks back her stay in Japan between September 2018 and July 2019. She has sent us this message for our 2nd crowdfunding project, so...November 29, 2019
Shukulu sent us a message about how she is doing after she left Japan. She wrote this for an exchange meeting we had on November 29, 2019 fo...July 31, 2019
Shukulu sent us an essay about her stay in Japan. We guess she couldn't write everything she has experienced in Japan, but she wrote about w...Sat., July 27, 2019
Shukulu's inverview was published on the Mainichi Newspaper. She talked about her experience in Rwanda and her thoughts after she visited H...Sat., May 4, 2019
On May 4, 2019, Mr. Kazutaka Nakano, one of the supporters of Shukulu and Rodrigue, invited them and Dr. Godfrey Hampwaye to Kurayami Festiv...Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Shukulu and Rodrigue will start their spring semester from tomorrow. It will be their last semester at TUFS. During fall semester, they took...November 24, 2018 and on January 12, 2019
Rodrigue and Shukulu took part in events held by "Connecting Children of Africa and Japan". The institution aims at connecting Japanese and ...Nov. 5 - 7, 2018
Shukulu and Rodrigue visited Okinawa with Dr. Kazuyuki Sasaki as a study tour. They visited peace museums, cave, and U.S. military bases. T...Oct. 27, 2018
Shukulu wrote her essay on "Ubumwe Vol.44", an newsletterr of the organization which supports Dr. Kazuyuki Sasaki and his activities to hel...Oct. 9, 2018
Shukulu looked back her two weeks since she came to Japan. She is taking Japanese class every day. She also positively communicate with Japa...April 1, 2018 - July 17, 2018
Republic of Ghana
Saturday, March 16, 2019
Charles, a student of University of Ghana who stayed in Japan as an exchange student last spring, took part in the 23rd Japanese Speech Cont...June 25th, 2018
If anything has to be true, then it is the fact that I have come to enjoy my stay in Japan with memorable experiences and exposure. But of a...April 11, 2018
I am Charles Acheampong Agyebeng, a political science major with a minor in Theatre Arts at Ghana's premier university, the University of Gh...