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Soka University held its 42nd entrance ceremony, which was held in conjunction with Soka Women’s College’s 28th entrance ceremony at the Central Auditorium on April 2. Soka University presented Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua an honorary doctorate on the occasion, which was followed by the ambassador delivering a commemorative address.

Soka University’s Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning held a final Good Practices (GP) briefing on integrated learning support regimes, drawing over 100 educators, faculty members and students from Soka and other schools and universities on March 24.
The 38th Soka University and 26th Soka Women’s College commencement ceremony was held at the Ikeda Auditorium on March 21. On the occasion, the Bataan Peninsula State University (BPSU) of the Philippines presented Soka University founder Daisaku Ikeda with an honorary Doctorate of Letters.
The Japan Association of Private University Libraries will present its 2011 JAPUL Award to Soka Book Wave, a Soka University initiative to promote reading among students, at a general meeting to be held in August 2012. The association is dedicated to the improvement and development of university libraries, with more than 500 libraries of private university—approximately 90% of the total in Japan—taking part.
On February 21, 2012, Soka University was honored as an outstanding institution engaged in the productive use of electricity and advancement of energy conservation for the year 2011.
The university administration has announced that it will extend special assistance to Soka students whose home residences are located in northeastern Japan, which was devastated by a giant earthquake and tsunami that struck on March 11, 2011.

A team of Soka University students captured first place in the 16th university-level Economics Record Examination (ERE) organized by a national association of economics education.

Japanese publisher Jiji Press Service, Inc. has recently released Sekai kijin no jugyo wo tsukure—kiseki wo unda keizai gakubu IP (tentative translation: “Creating a Global Academic Standard: Stunning Feat of a Faculty of Economics IP”), which examines the Faculty of Economics of Soka University and its International Program (IP) and other scholastic successes.

Soka University’s men’s ekiden—a road marathon run in relays—team won first place in the 62nd All-Kanto Hachoji Ekiden Race held on February 5. The race ranks among the largest of its kind in Japan that is held on public streets, with the latest contest pitting 487 teams in all.
Soka Women’s College announced that Keiko Ishikawa has been appointed president of the college.
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