2026/7/10

On Friday, July 10, the facility "Navigating an Independent Non-stop Journey to Autonomy"—"NINJA" for short—hosted the Ninja Summer Festival at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies (KUFS).

Countless students from different departments and academic years attended, numbering around 250 in total.
The event included a raffle drawing carried out in the style of nagashi-somen, a summertime tradition where wheat noodles are sent down a flume and snatched up with chopsticks; a ring-toss quiz game that taught participants more about foreign cultures; and a cross-cultural bingo game, with players working together to come up with the correct answers. These and many other fun summertime events made for an enjoyable festival.

For this year's festival, large numbers of international students from the KUFS Kyoto Intensive Japanese Program took part.

Food trucks set up shop next to Building No. 2, serving up a variety of street-food dishes suited to the summer festival, and there were even fun activities using squirt guns to help complete the festive feel.
The venue was filled with smiles as people from different countries got to know one another while experiencing a truly lively and special day.
KUFS thanks everyone who joined the Ninja Summer Festival!

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