Mr. Masao Hara, the Deputy Director of Japan Future International Exchange Group (a Non-Profit Organization, NPO), visited the School of Foreign Languages and donated 50 copies of Understanding Sounds through Pictures to support the cultivation of Japanese major students on the morning of August 13.
The donation ceremony was attended by Vice Dean Li Jiajun, Director Guo Guifeng, the former investigator of the Zhenjiang Municipal Foreign Affairs Office, Zhang Jiuru, the former Party Secretary of School of the Environment and Safety Engineering, Li Xin, the Deputy Director of the International Education Center of the School of Management, Zheng Minxue, the chairman of the union at School of the Environment and Safety Engineering, and some alumni of Mie University, as well as Dai Lin and Cao Yajie, the deputy directors of the Japanese Department, and representatives of graduate and undergraduate students from the School of Foreign Languages.
Li Jiajun first extended a warm welcome to Mr. Hara and introduced the development of the Japanese Department. He also expressed gratitude to Mr. Hara for donating Japanese books to support the cultivation of talents in Japanese majors.
Mr. Hara recalled his working and studying experiences in Zhenjiang in his speech. He introduced that the original intention of compiling Understanding Sounds through Pictures was to help foreigners learning Japanese understand Japanese onomatopoeia and mimetic words. Following the speech, a book donation ceremony was held between the two parties.
Mr. Hara studied Chinese at Jiangsu University in September 2011. He co-founded the NPO Japan Future International Exchange Group in 2013 with Mr. Kazuhiko Ueda, who once worked at the School of Foreign Languages. Through people-to-people diplomacy, they have been committed to promoting international exchanges between Japan and other countries.
Japanese contains numerous onomatopoeia and mimetic words, and understanding and memorizing these words is a challenge for many Japanese learners. To assist foreigners learning Japanese, Mr. Hara and his team compiled a guide to commonly used onomatopoeic words, Understanding Sounds through Pictures. The compilers selected 100 onomatopoeic words from Japanese dictionaries and provided illustrations as well as explanations in Chinese, Vietnamese, Nepali, and Indonesian. Yao Yong, a graduate of the Japanese Department, participated in the Chinese translation. The book was previously reported by Global Times. Teachers and students of the Japanese Department engaged in a harmonious exchange with Mr. Hara, expressing their hope that this book donation could contribute to the development of Japanese major students.
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