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Issue no. 3 | 2022

Collaborative Online International Learning and
Interaction Sessions by JKM Joint-project Team

& the Japan Studies Program, DEAS

By Dr. Kaori Kimura and Dr. Rohayati Paidi
The 3rd Case-based Learning Workshop, aiming to
develop business communication competency and
enhance intercultural understanding, was coordinated by
Dr. Kaori Kimura from the Department of East Asian Studies
on 20 August 2022. The workshop’s participants were
diverse, ranging from students and fresh graduates from
Reitaku University and Kanda University of International
Studies (Japanese universities), Hanbat National University
(Korean university) and Universiti Malaya.

Additionally, students of A to Z Language Centre in
Malaysia, and international university students from China,
Korea and Vietnam currently studying in Japan
participated as well. The ice-breaking session were Workshop on Nomi-nication
followed by a discussion of communication conflict in the Reitaku University as the facilitator and acquired the
workplace. The topic of the 3rd workshop was Japanese material for the case-based learning with the provided
drinking custom called Nomi-nication. funds.

This event commemorated the 40th Anniversary of the The JKM (Japan-Korea-Malaysia) Joint-project Team and
Look East Policy, and the cordial bilateral relations the Japan Studies Program at the Department of East Asian
between Malaysia and Japan. Thanks to the Japanese Studies are planning another case-based learning
Chamber of Trade & Industry, Malaysia (JACTIM)‘s workshop and interaction session, and real participants
support, they welcomed Professor Dr. Kim Hyogyung from reunion in Japan soon.

The recent visit by Prof Ralf Vollmann, Austrian scholar on Austrian scholar Prof
Hakka studies to Universiti Malaya sparks a potential
collaboration on research in Sinology and minority Ralf Vollman’s visit to
languages. Invited by the Malaysian Chinese Research the faculty
Centre (MCRC), Vollmann’s talk “Hakka in Europe,” argued
that the dialects, or rather, ‘minority languages,’ (a term he By Dr Florence Kuek Chee Wee
prefers), are still relevant in today’s translocation and
identity discourse.

He proposed supportive language policies in line with the
high mobility rate of ethnic sub-groups moving across the
continents. He pointed out the associations formed by the
Hakka language users in Europe and the production of the
Hakka dictionary. Vollmann brought attention to the
endorsement of the use of Hakka in schools and public
domains in Taiwan and Surinam.

Moderated by Dr Lee Kean Yew, this seminar on 19 August
2022 was the first physical event organised by the MCRC
after the pandemic. Vollmann also visited the Chinese
Studies Department, the Hong Lou Meng Research Centre
and the Humanistic Buddhist Research Centre at the
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences during his brief but
meaningful visit.
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