National Taiwan University (NTU) and the Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association (the Association) concluded a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to cultivate Taiwanese talents in Japanese studies on July 16, 2024. This MoU initiates the “Support Plan for Researchers in Japanese Studies,” under which the Association sponsors NTU’s Colleges of Law, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts to employ postdoctoral fellows specializing in Japanese studies.
Kazuyuki Katayama, the Representative of the Association, expressed the Association’s expectation that this collaboration with NTU would nurture Japan-related research and deepen mutual understanding between Japan and Taiwan. Wen-Chang Chen, the President of NTU, highlighted that NTU has already received donations from entrepreneurs to set up scholarships such as the “NTU Nitori International Scholarship” and the “NTU Chung-Te Study-in-Japan Scholarship,” aimed at supporting students conducting Japanese studies and those pursuing master’s and doctoral programs in Japan. The signing of this MoU, supported by the Association for postdoctoral researchers, completes the talent cultivation chain. President Chen believes that future collaboration between NTU and the Japanese academic community will become more profound and extensive, further strengthening the ties between the two nations.
Following the speeches, President Chen and Representative Katayama jointly signed the MoU, witnessed by Dean Huang-Yu Wang of the College of Law, Dean Yu-Yu Cheng of the College of Liberal Arts, Vice Dean Yeun-Wen Ku of the College of Social Sciences, Vice Dean Sieh-Chuen Huang of the College of Law, and Director Jing-Huei Tsau of the Department of Japanese Language and Literature.