What we are doing does not matter so much as what we are learning from doing it. (Anon.)

Enjoy your time in Japan!

“Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us.” (James Harvey Robinson)

I think that International Christian University is a very good university providing its students with high quality knowledge and professors have effective teaching methods.

Moreover, Japanese Language Classes are at very high level. University has a wonderful campus and a very diverse environment.

I am proud to be a student of International Christian University and a JDS Fellow as well.

Hi! friends, my name is Guo Daping, from Beijing, China. Before coming to ICU, I am a public servant working for SIPO, the State Intellectual Property Office, China.

I am so lucky that I could become a JDS Fellow and a student of ICU. ICU, not a big university as we know, is a very famous private university in Japan, with its strong strength and reputation in the liberal social science!

ICU creates such a great international and multicultural study environment! Here are my personal impression on the ICU: there are many famous teachers from Japan and abroad, and many international students from Asia, America and Europe,etc.; the local Japanese students whose English are very good and apparently better than those outside of ICU, are more open-minded and more international; the faculty staffs here are friendly, hard working, and always waiting for offering help to you; the campus is small, quiet, but pleasant and lovely.

As a Chinese student, thanks to Japanese government, JICE and ICU, I can study in this beautiful campus and dive into the Japanese culture and society, sharing with my other international classmates.

To a student from China, a special more significance will be even added to my study here, because that currently there are difficulties and challenges between Japan and China politically, and more exchanges between the people, especially the young people, of both nations are needed.

A recent poll conducted in China shows that nearly 70 percent of surveyees consider the relationship between Japan and China is important. I can't agree with it more! For the long-lasting peace and prosperity of two neighboring nations, or even the whole Asia, we need more exchanges, more trust, more understanding, more cooperation and more friendship!

Studying here at ICU, I, in fact, have already become a participant for the exchanges between the people of two nations. Again, I'd like to say: I feel lucky and appreciate for becoming a JDS Fellows and an ICU student! Anyway, I like ICU, its beautiful and quiet campus, unique multicultural setting, and ICU people!

It is my great honor to become a JDS Fellow, especially the first student from Mongolia, at this wonderful university, ICU. As JDS Fellows, we are responsible for devoting all what we learnt to the development of our home countries and make a tangible contribution in it to our best ability.

As ICU is a community in which people from different nations and cultures are placed and asked to live, study, and work together, I expect to learn a lot from it.

Finally, I wish all JDS students a great success in your study and research work.

Studying at International Christian University through JDS Scholarship was an opportunity for me.  I experienced to mingled with other foreign students, share ideas, and learn more things.  CU is a very good university.  Being an international school, all the facilities especially the library are rich of reference materials that we need and we use in preparations of our final papers.  Our sensei are very kind to impart with us what they know in respective to our subjects. ICU staffs are very accommodating.  The environment is very conducive for learning.

After two years of studies with ICU for my masteral course in public administration, I believe that my personality being a citizen, a civil servant and ambassador will be more developed. With my early months of experience here in ICU and living in Japan, I noticed the different values of cooperation, good governance, hard work, good leadership, etc. Values that must be possess by any employees that are pledge to serve his fellowmen and most of all, his country. This is my chance to show the changes I have when I came here in Japan and when I go back to my country, Philippines.

In my opinion education in International Christian University will grant me the opportunity to better comprehend the essence of profession I have chosen. Because in International Christian University the quality of education and professors teaching methods are in a very high level.

When I come back after I graduate I can realize my plans and goals, contributing to the further development of democracy, and also foreign and economic affairs of Uzbekistan.

At the same time I will continue my scientific research activities to pursue further education to receive PhD and also lecturing in the universities of Uzbekistan with the purpose to share the knowledge that I have with the new generation of my country.

I am grateful to the people of Japan for making this wonderful opportunity available to us! I feel that their expectation of the scholarship recipients is that we maximize its benefits to our countries by thoroughly researching the problems faced, with their causes and consequences, and helping to come up with concrete solutions.

I feel the only way to repay is to commit ourselves to further ensuring their implementation, whatever we do, wherever we are in the future. Moreover, I feel this requires us to be the living embodiment of a vision, a vision to see our countries develop and prosper, both materially and intellectually.

"Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down"

“The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind.”

-Dr. Wayne Dyer