{"id":13754,"date":"2014-05-28T21:03:05","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T12:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/?p=13754"},"modified":"2014-11-04T18:33:41","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T09:33:41","slug":"bangladesh-pm-sheikh-hasina-visits-waseda-university-delivers-special-lecture-for-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/news\/13754","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina Visits Waseda University; Delivers Special Lecture for Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 27, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of the People&#8217;s Republic of Bangladesh was welcomed to Waseda University by President Kaoru Kamata, Vice President Katsuichi Uchida and other representatives, followed by a special lecture to a full house of 300 students, faculty and invited guests in Okuma Auditorium.<\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bangladesh_01.jpg\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>PM Hasina has a close relationship with Waseda, having received an honorary doctorate in 1997. On this, her second visit, she gave a speech titled &#8220;Education for the Empowerment of Youth&#8221;, touching on the friendly relations and similarities in the development history of the two countries, Bangladesh&#8217;s education policies and stressing the importance of education for young people.<\/p>\n<p>Following her strong desire to exchange views with students, she answered their questions graciously. The lively event ended with a photo session on the stage with a group of Waseda student ambassadors.<\/p>\n<h4><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\" alt=\" \" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bangladesh_02.jpg\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;\" alt=\" \" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bangladesh_03.jpg\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em;\">Links<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.681061715282107.1073741858.156128867775397&amp;type=3\" target=\"_blank\">Albums on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 27, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of the People&#8217;s Republic of Bangladesh was welcomed to Waseda Un [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[214],"class_list":["post-13754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-intl-office-en","lang-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}