{"id":45630,"date":"2016-10-17T15:15:40","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T06:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/?p=45630"},"modified":"2016-10-18T13:29:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T04:29:46","slug":"waseda-confers-honorary-doctorate-to-timor-lestes-former-president-kay-rala-xanana-gusmao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/news\/45630","title":{"rendered":"Waseda confers honorary doctorate to Timor-Leste\u2019s former President Kay Rala Xanana Gusm\u00e3o"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Waseda University welcomed the first President and former Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, Kay Rala Xanana Gusm\u00e3o, and conferred the Honorary Doctor of Laws for his unfailing leadership and fortitude which have brought Timor-Leste to independence in 2002. Those affiliated with Timor-Leste, honorary guests, Waseda University students, faculty, and staff attended the award ceremony held at Okuma Auditorium on October 6. Now serving as the Minister of Planning and Strategic Investment, Minister Gusm\u00e3o delivered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/10\/8559971138c3d560632cde6eb744784a.pdf\">a special lecture<\/a> following the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-45567\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016106_193.jpg\" alt=\"2016106_193\" width=\"829\" height=\"549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016106_193.jpg 3696w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016106_193-610x404.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016106_193-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016106_193-2000x1325.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 829px) 100vw, 829px\" \/><\/p>\n<h5>Special lecture by Gusm\u00e3o and introductory address by President Kamata<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/10\/8559971138c3d560632cde6eb744784a.pdf\">Special lecture by Kay Rala Xanana Gusm\u00e3o<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/10\/3993b084fb61369f4c91765b289e598a.pdf\">Introductory Address by the University President on conferring the honorary doctorate (Japanese)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/10\/51e60227ad9cab9d64789620d38660bf.pdf\">Speech by Kay Rala Xanana Gusm\u00e3o on receiving the honorary doctorate (Japanese)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>About the honorary doctorate<\/h4>\n<p>An honorary doctorate is conferred to those who have achieved significant distinction is academia, culture, and other areas contributing to humanity. Waseda University has awarded 136 honorary doctorates thus far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waseda University welcomed the first President and former Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Timor-L [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":45588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,117],"tags":[43,114,221],"class_list":["post-45630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-topic","tag-announcement-en","tag-asia-en","tag-president-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45630","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=45630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45650,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45630\/revisions\/45650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}