“Finally, for real,” the University of the Ryukyus has their new student ceremony, which this year includes second-year students
University of the Ryukyu students who entered in 2020 having their new student ceremony one year later – at the Okinawa Convention Center in Ginowan (photograph by Naoya Oshiro)
April 6, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
University of the Ryukyus had both their 2020 and 2021 new student ceremony April 6 at the Okinawa Convention Center in Ginowan.
First, a ceremony was had for the second-year students who entered the university in 2020, then again for the new students entering in 2021.
The first group of second-year students had their original new student ceremony cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and around 1,000 students attended the make-up ceremony this year. Hidemasa Izena, a student in the Global and Regional Studies department who missed the ceremony last year said, “Since entering the school most of the classes have been online, so it hasn’t really felt like I had entered college. Today, attending the ceremony and meeting my classmates in person for the first time, it finally felt like I had entered college for real. I want to make a lot of friends.”
The new student ceremony for the second group was attended by around 1,800 new students. Takumi Horiuchi, representing the new students, strongly pledged, “We promise to be stimulated by our studies, have our humanity enriched, and to adhere to the school regulations starting with the regulations at this school. University president Mutsumi Nishida encouraged, “I want to show my respect for your cooperation in overcoming all of these uncertainties. I want you to think independently, and act independently within the guidelines.”
As part of the coronavirus policies, only the students attended the ceremony.
(English translation by T&CT and Sam Grieb)
A group of friends taking a picture commemorating the ceremony after the event (photograph by Naoya Oshiro)
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