{"id":34623,"date":"2015-05-12T14:54:39","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T00:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=34623"},"modified":"2023-03-15T13:52:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T23:52:52","slug":"international-okinawan-studies-agreement-signed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/05\/12\/international-okinawan-studies-agreement-signed\/","title":{"rendered":"International Okinawan studies agreement signed"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Youtube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W0WH5L9OjdA\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/span><\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.u-ryukyu.ac.jp\/en\/\">University of the Ryukyus<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meio-u.ac.jp\/about-meio.html\">Meio University<\/a> signed a memorandum of understanding at the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/span> State Capitol on May 12, 2015. This agreement builds on the work the universities have been doing over many decades.<\/p>\n<p>Scholars, students and administrators interested in Okinawa are scattered all over the world and this agreement creates opportunities for engagement in education and research as well as productive exchanges to discuss 21st century issues.<\/p>\n<p>The University of the Ryukyus, Meio University and the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/span> over the years have developed strong ties and have shared interests in Okinawan studies. The three universities propose to assist each other and collaborate to form an international network\u2014the International Consortium for Okinawan Studies\u2014for studying and teaching about Ryukyu and Okinawa.<\/p>\n<p>Present at the signing were state and university officials including <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/span> Governor David Ige, University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/span> President David Lassner, University of the Ryukyus President Hajime Oshiro and Meio University President Katsunori Yamazato.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>, the University of the Ryukyus and Meio University signed a memorandum of understanding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,12],"tags":[134,947,56],"class_list":["post-34623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-news","category-video","tag-international","tag-uh-system","tag-video-2","entry","no-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34623"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174257,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34623\/revisions\/174257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}