Students from Yamazaki's seminar won the Grand Prize, Excellence Prize, and Special Prize at the 2nd "Minna no Taiwan Shugakuryo Navi" Taiwan Educational Trip Planning Awards.

On Thursday, December 26, 2024, the selection results for the 2nd "Everyone's Taiwan School Trip Navigator" Taiwan Educational Travel Planning Awards were announced, and students in Teikyo University's Faculty of Language Studies Department of Language Studies Professor Naoya Yamazaki's seminar received the Grand Prize, Excellence Award, and Special Award.

This contest was held to design an attractive Taiwanese education plan using the learning site "Minna no Taiwan Shugaku Ryoko Navi" operated by the NPO Japan Taiwan Education Support Researchers Network (SNET Taiwan), an organization of researchers that supports learning about Taiwan. Many applications were received from universities across the country. Yamazaki's seminar, which specializes in regional studies in Chinese-speaking countries, organized six groups of four people for the contest as a task for the second half of 2024, and designed original plans on the themes of art, health management, faith, manufacturing, nature, and war, and all of the works were highly praised. The four works that won the Grand Prize and Excellence Prize will be published on "Minna no Taiwan Shugaku Ryoko Navi" at a later date.

award recipient

Grand Prize (1 winner)

• "Tour of Taiwan through Art: A creative journey interwoven with everyday life and history"
  Fourth year Faculty of Language Studies: Haruka Saito and Yumena Sakairi
  Third-year students Faculty of Language Studies: Hinano Ubukata and Kaho Shimazaki

Excellence Awards (3 entries)

• "Taiwanese-style health management techniques to balance the mind and body"
  Fourth year Faculty of Language Studies: Kaneko Kanan and Kudo Airi
  Third-year Faculty of Language Studies: Kana Saito and Riri Ota

• "Taiwan's Mazu Belief and Religious Diversity"
  Fourth year Faculty of Language Studies: Chie Oguri and Miwako Tezuka
  Third-year Faculty of Language Studies: Kanamaki Ai and Takubo Marina

• "Taiwanese Manufacturing: A Journey of Tradition and Innovation"
  Fourth-year students Faculty of Language Studies: Lee Yong-seok, Kudo Sota, Yoshimura Sho, and Seki Daisuke

Special Awards (2 winners)

• "Taiwan North-South Nature Journey"
  Fourth-year students Faculty of Language Studies: Natsuki Iwanami, Suzuhisa Sato, Nami Hasegawa, and Yukie Matsushita

• "Learn about war through travel"
  Fourth-year Faculty of Language Studies: Miho Inaba, Shunsuke Kikuchihara, Tatsuya Fujishiro, and Yumeka Omizo

Click here for the selection results
Click here for more information about Taiwan School Trip Guide
For more information about Professor Naoya Yamazaki, click here

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