2023/1/24

Professor Akihito Ito of the Faculty of Foreign Studies’ Department of Brazilian and Portuguese Studies was awarded the Kyoto City Lifelong Learning Promoter Award for his achievement of supporting and promoting lifelong learning to the public for a long time.
Since the 1990s, Professor Ito has worked as a community translator for the Brazilian community in Aichi Prefecture to help with the social integration of immigrants. After joining KUFS, he has been supporting non-Japanese children to pursue further education and has engaged in activities and research on the promotion of international exchange among citizens.

Comment by Professor Ito
I have been engaging in activities with a sense of mission that as a university faculty, I had a great deal of responsibility to contribute to society and not just focus on education and research. I feel that there will be more cases where we would need to support residents of foreign nationalities in various situations. Not only would I continue pursuing this as my lifework, but I also hope to share my experience to my students as well.

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