{"id":8236,"date":"2023-01-13T11:22:22","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T02:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.c3.kumamoto-u.ac.jp\/?p=8236\/"},"modified":"2023-01-13T11:22:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T02:22:22","slug":"international-student-symposium-was-held%ef%bc%81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.c3.kumamoto-u.ac.jp\/en\/8236\/","title":{"rendered":"International Student Symposium was held\uff01"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 On Saturday, December 17, 2022, the International Student Symposium was held at Kumamoto City International Center in person and online. There were 35 participants including international students studying at universities in Kumamoto and Japanese high school students. Under the theme of \u201cHot news topics in my country\u201d, 6 international students (from Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Germany, China and Swiss) including 2 KU students gave presentations about hot topics in their countries in Japanese.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 An international student from Indonesia talked about a big earthquake which occurred in Indonesia in November 2022 and other recent natural disasters in the country. \u00a0When the earthquake happened, people in the country fell into confusion and it is said that there seemed to be some reasons in terms of infrastructure why the damage was so severe. \u00a0Now people prepare for bigger natural disasters in the future, she said, and she was praying for the people\u2019s safety.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Another student from Switzerland gave a presentation about the invasion of Ukraine by Russia that has started since February, focusing on the difficulty of being the permanently neutral power.\u00a0 Regarding the weapons made in Switzerland, she explained that there happened to be a quarrel between Switzerland and the Government of Germany, which is the country imports the weapons. As a citizen of Switzerland, she said Switzerland shouldn\u2019t have made weapons because Swiss is a Permanent Neutral Country and should pray for world peace.\u00a0 She felt sad that the country thinks only about its own safety.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 All presentations were very interesting and they made the participants think critically. The symposium became a very good opportunity to share the news of the world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.c3.kumamoto-u.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/DSC_0028.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-8243 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.c3.kumamoto-u.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/DSC_0028-450x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"578\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.c3.kumamoto-u.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/DSC_0028-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.c3.kumamoto-u.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/DSC_0028-675x450.jpg 675w, https:\/\/www.c3.kumamoto-u.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/DSC_0028-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.c3.kumamoto-u.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/DSC_0028-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.c3.kumamoto-u.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/DSC_0028-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 578px) 100vw, 578px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 On Saturday, December 17, 2022, the International Student Symposium was held at Kumamoto City International Center in person and online. There were 35 participants including international students studying at universities in Kumamoto and Japanese high school students. Under the theme of \u201cHot news topics in my country\u201d, 6 international students (from Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Germany, China and Swiss) including 2 KU students gave presentations about hot topics in their countries in Japanese. &nbsp; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 An international student from Indonesia talked about a big earthquake which occurred in Indonesia in November 2022 and other recent natural disasters in the country. \u00a0When the earthquake happened, people in the country fell into\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.c3.kumamoto-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.c3.kumamoto-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.c3.kumamoto-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.c3.kumamoto-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.c3.kumamoto-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8236"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.c3.kumamoto-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8246,"href":"https:\/\/www.c3.kumamoto-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8236\/revisions\/8246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.c3.kumamoto-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.c3.kumamoto-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.c3.kumamoto-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}