{"id":62089,"date":"2018-10-29T19:10:07","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T10:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/?p=62089"},"modified":"2018-10-30T09:38:49","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T00:38:49","slug":"%e6%97%a9%e7%a8%b2%e7%94%b0%e3%81%ae%e3%80%8c%e3%81%84%e3%81%be%e3%80%8d%e3%82%92%e6%84%9f%e3%81%98%e3%81%a6%e3%80%80%e7%ac%ac53%e5%9b%9e%e3%83%9b%e3%83%bc%e3%83%a0%e3%82%ab%e3%83%9f%e3%83%b3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/news\/62089","title":{"rendered":"Waseda welcomes alumni back on campus and celebrates 53rd Home Coming Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On October 21, the 53<sup>rd<\/sup> Home Coming Day was held on Waseda campus to welcome alumni back on campus. Every year, Waseda University invites former students who graduated 15, 25, 35, 45 and 50 years ago back to Waseda on this special occasion to have them experience the present-day Waseda. Aside from those being invited, there were many from the public who came to immerse themselves in the atmosphere of the Home Coming Day.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/10\/181026_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Waseda Campus on the 53rd\u00a0Home Coming Day<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As the Waseda Arena is still under construction, this year\u2019s memorial ceremony for the Home Coming Day was held at the Okuma Auditorium instead. Campus tours were also conducted by current students to take alumni around the campuses which might have changed drastically from when they were still students.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/10\/181026_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Current students conducting campus tours for alumni members every year on this special occasion<\/p><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/10\/181026_03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/10\/181026_04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parade on Home Coming Day<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The University hopes that all alumni and visitors present on that day had enjoyed themselves and looks forward to inviting them again in many more upcoming years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 21, the 53rd Home Coming Day was held on Waseda campus to welcome alumni back on campus. Every year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":62008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-62089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-alumni-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62089","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=62089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}