Strengthening cooperation with Shukutoku University (Japan)

At the meeting, Prof. Dr. Nguyen Van Kim (Vice Rector of the University) expressed his thanks for the long-term cooperation between Prof. Tatsuru Akimoto and Shukutoku University. When he was the President of the Asia-Pacific Association for Social Work Education, Prof. Tatsuru Akimoto, together with professors and scientists from Shukutoku University, contributed to research and academic exchanges in the field of social work at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, such as contributing ideas to documents and textbooks on social work, participating in seminars held at the University such as the seminar "Buddhism and social work" held on March 21, 2012. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Van Kim said that the University wants to continue to receive cooperation from Prof. Tatsuru Akimoto and Shukutoku University.

Professor Tatsuru Akimoto thanked the USSH for its warm welcome and shared his desire to continue the collaborative research project on “Social Work and Buddhism”. Through this project, Shukutoku University will work with USSH to organize an international conference to exchange and discuss the relationship between Buddhism and Social Work in many different countries, including Vietnam and Japan, to analyze and compare the contributions of Buddhism to social work in diverse social contexts. The research results will be published in a monograph collection with contributions from many different countries.

Prof. Dr. Nguyen Van Kim presented gifts and took souvenir photos with Prof. Tatsuru Akimoto and the delegation of Shukutoku University.

Shukutoku University was founded in 1965 in Chiba, Japan and has had many cooperative projects with the University of Social Sciences and Humanities. In March 2012, a research delegation from Shukutoku University, Japan, came to Vietnam and discussed and signed a contract to coordinate research and implement the research project "The role of Buddhism in social work" initiated by Professor Nguyen Hoi Loan of Hanoi National University. The project was supported by the World Buddhist Sangha and agreed by Mr. Hasegawa Masatoshi - President of Shukutoku University and lasted for 3 years.