{"id":7257,"date":"2011-10-05T09:08:47","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T14:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=7257"},"modified":"2011-10-05T09:08:47","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T14:08:47","slug":"building-a-connection-between-waco-and-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2011\/10\/building-a-connection-between-waco-and-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Building a connection between Waco and Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"japan-greengold-oct11\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/japan-greengold-oct11.jpg\" alt=\"Green and gold textile print\" width=\"225\" height=\"311\" \/>Baylor students can take as many as nine classes in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/japanese\/\" target=\"_blank\">Japanese<\/a>, from Introductory Japanese to Japanese Civilization. The university does not yet offer a major in Japanese, but you wouldn&#8217;t know it for all the honors Baylor students are earning in the subject.<\/p>\n<p>A year and a half ago, it was Houston native Rachel McCutchen <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/2010\/04\/senior-claims-second-at-state-japanese-speech-contest\/\" target=\"_blank\">winning the Dallas Regional Japanese Language Speech Contest<\/a> and placing second at the state level. In January, McCutchen and another student, China Spring&#8217;s Katherine Farley, were <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/2011\/01\/how-do-you-say-sic-em-in-japanese\/\" target=\"_blank\">the first Baylor students inducted into the Japanese Honor Society College Chapter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This summer, Connecticut native Andrew Leistensnider, a junior University Scholar with emphasis in economics, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/pr\/news.php?action=story&amp;story=92944\" target=\"_blank\">attended the selective Japan-America Student Conference<\/a> (JASC) across the Pacific and was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/pr\/news.php?action=story&amp;story=101266\" target=\"_blank\">elected to the JASC&#8217;s executive committee<\/a>. Since the 1930s, the JASC has brought together delegations of American and Japanese students in order to develop relations between the U.S. and Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Leistensnider is one of eight Americans who will partner with eight students from Japan to plan next year&#8217;s conference. &#8220;As an executive committee, we build our program from scratch and make it unique and give it a theme,&#8221; he says. &#8220;Then we invite the delegates to come into the space that we built and give them a place to take their leadership and use the opportunities we give them to become leaders and make it (the conference) their own.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Next year&#8217;s conference will visit four sites in the U.S.; two of those, Dallas and Madison, Wisc., have already been selected. Baylor Japanese Professor Yuko Prefume noted that Dallas&#8217; proximity to Baylor could allow the delegates to visit Baylor on a day trip &#8212; &#8220;a great opportunity to introduce how great Baylor is to both American and Japanese students,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Andrew!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baylor students can take as many as nine classes in Japanese, from Introductory Japanese to Japanese Civilization. The university does not yet offer a major in Japanese, but you wouldn&#8217;t know it for all the honors Baylor students are earning in the subject. 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