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Kansai Gaidai University ASIAN STUDIES PROGRAM 50th ANNIVERSARY 1st HOMECOMING EVENT

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The first Asian Studies Program Homecoming Day Celebration, at Kansai Gaidai University , on Saturday, 27th of June 2023, was a legendary turnout. The academic gathering boasted 100 alumni, family, friends, and around 290 students participating in the Asian Studies Program as of 2023. Some of the homecoming event highlights included the morning ceremony and reception, with an impressive gourmet food buffet display for the Completion Ceremony of Asian Studies Program exchange students. The homecoming celebration began at 1:00 pm, where a one-hour presentation, in the TANIMOTO HALL at the GOTENYAMA CAMPUS GLOBAL TOWN, was hosted by Chancellor Eiko Tanimoto, President of the Board of Trustees, the legendary Professor Stephen Zurcher, Dean of the Asian Studies Program, and the inspirational Asian Studies alumnus Michael Shearer, Head of Region, Pacific, TRICARE Overseas Program, International SOS, and with a closing Jazz extravaganza performed by Kansai Gaidai alumna Yuko Kawabata and h...

“An African Abroad” Olabisi Ajala 1963

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Olabisi Ajala is the father of D. O. Ajala. Olabisi Moshood Adisa Ajala was an international world traveller, actor, journalist and Nigerian socialite. His biography was first published in 1963. This book has been reproduced in exactly the same words (verbatim) as were used originally. Republished by the author’s daughter, D. O. Ajala, (AKA Aurora Mizutani), with the exception of one edited photograph, this is an exact replica of the original 1963 publication by Olabisi Ajala. After early education in Africa and working his way through various colleges in America, Olabisi Ajala, a young Nigerian, determined to see the world in his own particular way. He bought a motor-scooter and, armed with a camera, journeyed across Europe and Asia and finally arrived in Australia. During his travels he made up his mind that he would see as many of the political leaders as he could, and he gate crashed everywhere (sometimes literally as through the Jordan-Israeli frontier) and his persistence wa...