{"id":8163,"date":"2011-03-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/news\/8163"},"modified":"2014-10-22T15:36:15","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T06:36:15","slug":"messagefrompresidentforpartneruniversitiesinstitutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/news\/8163","title":{"rendered":"Message from President for Partner Universities\/Institutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size:x-large;\">WASEDA UNIVERSITY<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:large;\">OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:x-small;\">1-104 TOTSUKA-MACHI, SHINJUKU-KU, TOKYO 169-8050 JAPAN  March 16, 2011<\/p>\n<p>Dear Presidents of Our Partner Universities\/Institutions<\/p>\n<p>On behalf of Waseda University, I would like to extend my most sincere gratitude for  all of your concerns, encouragements and favors that we have thankfully received since  the earthquake last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>In Tokyo, damages directly caused by the earthquake are very limited, and most  aspects of our quiet lives have been restored. However, aftershocks still continue and  the reduced public transportation services due to the scheduled rolling blackouts have  hindered some of our staff to commute to our offices. In spite of the impact on our daily  administration, we fully exert ourselves for all the international students, both  currently studying at and going to enter the University, to live quiet lives and focus on  their study and research without worries.<\/p>\n<p>Things over the nuclear plants in Fukushima Prefecture still require due attention,  and Waseda University is closely monitoring the situation. Tokyo is approximately  250km far away from these plants and we expect no imminent effect on our activities.  However, should any need arise to take new measures depending on future  development, we will provide the update information on our website  (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/index-e.html\">https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/index-e.html<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Many national governments have issued recommendations for their citizens living in  or planning to visit Japan. If any university agrees to these recommendations and  instructs its own students to return to their countries, including temporary return, we  will respect its decision.<\/p>\n<p>Waseda University is determined to fully commit ourselves to cooperate with the  government and the local communities to overcome the difficult situation triggered by  this earthquake, the biggest natural disaster in Japan since the World War II.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, I truly appreciate your continued friendship and kind concerns and  encouragements for Waseda University.<\/p>\n<p>Yours respectfully,<\/p>\n<p>Kaoru Kamata  President  Waseda University<\/p>\n<p><a href=\".\/110316president.pdf\">PDF version of this article <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/common\/images\/icon_pdf.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASEDA UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT 1-104 TOTSUKA-MACHI, SHINJUKU-KU, TOKYO 169-8050 JAPAN March 16, 201 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8267,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-8163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-announcement-en","lang-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8163","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}