{"id":41091,"date":"2016-04-28T18:56:53","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T09:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/?p=41091"},"modified":"2016-04-28T19:30:19","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T10:30:19","slug":"waseda-opens-new-european-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/news\/41091","title":{"rendered":"Waseda opens new European office"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">Belgium\u2019s Princess Astrid attends opening of Brussels Office<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-41105 alignnone\" alt=\"DSC_0140-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSC_0140-1-610x473.jpg\" width=\"610\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSC_0140-1-610x473.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSC_0140-1-2000x1553.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">On April 25, Waseda University opened its new European hub for students and researchers, located on the campus of ULB (Universite libre de Bruxelles) in Brussels.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The opening event was attended by Princess Astrid, the sister of King Phillippe of Belgium, as well as the Japanese Ambassador to Belgium, Director of International Cooperation in Research for the European Commission and officials from both universities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41107\" alt=\"brussels 01 kamata\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/04\/brussels-01-kamata1-610x406.jpg\" width=\"610\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/04\/brussels-01-kamata1-610x406.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/04\/brussels-01-kamata1-2000x1333.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\">President Kaoru Kamata<\/h5>\n<blockquote><p>Waseda was founded not to gain benefits for just one country, but to seek harmony of East and West, for the good of the world.\u00a0Brussels and the EU are becoming more and more important in academia, so the new office will help deepen Waseda\u2019s relations with Belgium and the rest of Europe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-41102 alignnone\" alt=\"DSC_0116\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSC_0116-610x407.jpg\" width=\"610\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSC_0116-610x407.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSC_0116-2000x1334.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\">Rector Didier Viviers, ULB<\/h5>\n<blockquote><p>This is an important moment for Waseda and ULB. It is an historic and organic decision by one of Japan\u2019s best universities. The office will be the best link between our faculty, students and alumni.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belgium\u2019s Princess Astrid attends opening of Brussels Office On April 25, Waseda University opened its new Eur [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":41108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,117],"tags":[214],"class_list":["post-41091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-topic","tag-intl-office-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41091","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41091"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41110,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41091\/revisions\/41110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}