{"id":2920,"date":"2016-10-19T13:47:39","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T04:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/cms\/?p=2920"},"modified":"2016-10-19T13:47:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T04:47:39","slug":"presenting-the-why-waseda-video-why-waseda-why-tokyo-the-answers-in-3-12-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/cms\/news\/2016\/10\/19\/2920\/","title":{"rendered":"Presenting the \u201cWHY WASEDA?\u201d video: Why Waseda? Why Tokyo? The answers in 3 1\/2 minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2015, Waseda University launched the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/whywaseda\/\" target=\"_blank\">WHY WASEDA? website<\/a>, which is dedicated to sharing the unique attributes of Waseda University in 13 languages. Over 100,000 users accessed the website from more than 50 different countries after the website&#8217;s release. This year, the University proudly presents the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yDPxTXJOTWU\" target=\"_blank\">WHY WASEDA? video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yDPxTXJOTWU\" width=\"692\" height=\"389\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yDPxTXJOTWU\" target=\"_blank\">WHY WASEDA? video<\/a>, narrated completely in English, was created for prospective students overseas who are unfamiliar with Waseda University and Japan as a whole. The video aims to share the attractive features of studying at Waseda University in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>Under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/research\/data\/about\" target=\"_blank\">Waseda Vision 150<\/a> strategic plan, the University aims to enhance the quality of educational research as Asia&#8217;s leading university and continue to make contributions to society. As of today, more than 5,000 international students are present at Waseda, making us the #1 globalized university in Japan. Furthermore, we are eager to invite more talented individuals from around the world to become an internationally competitive institution and promise to promote a more inclusive, diverse community.<\/p>\n<p>This video will provide a glimpse to what Waseda is like for interested students worldwide, and we hope this will take a step closer to fulfill our commitment for nurturing global leaders working towards world peace and happiness in human society as well as creating a better society for a brighter future.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2015, Waseda University launched the WHY WASEDA? website, which is dedicated to sharing the unique attr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2921,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-2920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}