What Soka University Is
Toward 2020 and Beyond
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Soka University is presently in the process of earning government accreditation for the opening of its Faculty of Nursing in April 2013, joining the six undergraduate programs the school is already administering.

Soka University hosted its annual New Year’s dinner party for international students at the New Loire cafeteria from 4 p.m. on January 1.

I offer my heartiest greetings on the New Year and pray that 2012 will be a most rewarding year for all of you.

I wish to extend my heartiest greetings on the New Year. I hope 2012 will be a most rewarding year in which you enjoy the best of health and happiness.

On December 17, two Soka University literature majors—Kimiko Hanazono and Kohei Sasaki, both juniors—won second prize in an English speech contest organized by the Kyoto University.
A special system to ascertain the safety of students, faculty members and administration staff is now in operation at Soka University.

On October 28, Soka University’s World Language Center (WLC) organized and hosted “What You Can Do for the World,” a lecture by Dr. Toshiharu Yamamoto, M.D., representative of the nonprofit organization, Earth the Spaceship.

Soka University Department of Primary Education Professor Yoshiro Shimizu won the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award in a competition sponsored by The Japan Art Institute, a nonprofit organization for the promotion of Japanese artists and their creations.

Soka University carried out its first full-scale disaster response exercise with some 4,000 students, as well as members of the faculty and administration on Friday, October 21.

The 41st Soka University and 27th Soka Women’s College graduation ceremony was held at the Ikeda Auditorium on Saturday, October 8. The ceremony was originally scheduled to be held in March this year, but was delayed due to the giant earthquake and tsunami that struck northeastern Japan on March 11, 2011.
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