Yugo Kadota, a graduate of Tenri University’s judo club, who will be dispatched to Egypt as a JICA Overseas Cooperation Volunteer, visited our university on October 25th, along with JICA Kansai Deputy Director Daitami Hanatate, the director of our university’s judo club, Associate Professor Takamasa Anai, and others. , gave a departure greeting to President Hinao Nagao.
Last November, our university, JICA Kansai, and Tenri City signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Collaboration with Tenri City, Tenri University, and Japan International Cooperation Agency Kansai Center. In order to promote international cooperation in developing countries and develop human resources who can contribute to international cooperation, which is one of our collaborative activities, we will continue to send people for a two-year period until 2027, and we will continue to send people for a period of about one month. We will send several short-term dispatchers to Egypt each year to improve the skills of the Egyptian national judo team and to spread judo in Egypt. The first one is Mr. Kadota, who departed on October 29th.
Since this dispatch is a two-year long-term dispatch, we put out a call for recruitment at Tenri University for graduates of our university’s judo club, and Mr. Kadota was selected from among the applicants and was dispatched after training. have become.
At the meeting, Mr. Kadota talked about his motivation for applying to join the JICA Overseas Cooperation Volunteers.When he was a student at Tenri University, a Portuguese world judo champion took a technique course at Tenri University, and senior members of the judo club communicated with him in fluent English. I explained to President Nagao that my experience of being both surprised and admired by the university was what led me to apply this time.
After that, Mr. Kadota received advice from his seniors on how to communicate with overseas players and study methods to improve his language skills, and he studied English hard during the year when he was unable to practice due to injury.
After returning from injury, he worked hard at training with the judo club, and has supported the university’s judo club in various ways, such as actively taking on the role of attending to athletes from overseas, and has found this dispatch to be a unique opportunity. He said he had captured it.
President Nagao said, “Although you may have concerns not only about communication but also about your daily life, I want you to take care of your body and do your best without worrying about it.It will be a long period of two years, but you can set goals for yourself each year. “I think it would be a good idea to spend your time while building your own mindset. I would be happy if you could convey the spirituality you cultivated through Tenri Judo to the people of Egypt. I hope you come back two years from now with lots of souvenirs and stories.” I encouraged Mr.
In addition, based on the collaboration, a “Volunteer Collaboration Project Preliminary Inspection” was held in March this year with our university, JICA Kansai, and Tenri City, and at a subsequent report meeting, “JICA short-term dispatchers”, who are scheduled to be dispatched for about one month, were announced. Recruitment. Director Anai reported that arrangements are currently being made for the dispatch to take place in February next year, as requests to participate have been received from members of the judo club.
●Comment from Yugo Kadota
“Although I am in a position to be sent as a leader, I would like to go to Egypt with the intention of learning. Although I am worried that I might unknowingly do something rude due to the cultural differences, I want to do my best.”
●Comment from JICA Kansai Deputy Director Hanatate
“It is rare for a long-term dispatch to the national team level in the sports field, let alone in the sport of judo, and I am very happy that Mr. Kadota has been dispatched this time after the cooperation agreement we signed last year. I would like to see a continued combination of long-term and short-term dispatches in order to improve the level of training and promote the spread of training.”
●Comment from Director Anai
“There are many athletes from our university’s judo club who represent the world, but in addition to these athletes, students who learned judo at Tenri, like this one, are also active as instructors in various parts of the world. I hope that by doing this, Tenri Judo will become a window for us to spread our wings around the world.As a director, I am working to develop human resources so that we can send as many students as possible to such places. I feel a sense of mission, and I look forward to continuing to provide solid guidance.”
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