<!-- 517.html -->  <div id="pagebody_outline">    <div id="left_box">      <div id="title_box">      <div id="titie_box_top"><!-- Image --></div>      <div id="midashi">The Star of International Education, Kazuko Hirota, Ph.D.</div>      <div id="title_box_left"><font color="#FF3366"><strong>sending more than 6500 students <p></p>to the world.!</strong></font></div>      <div id="title_box_right">        <div id="title_box_right_top"><!-- Image --></div>        <div id="title_box_right_text">interviewed by chinese student<br />Miss shouka             </div>        <div id="title_box_right_bottom"><!-- Image --></div>      </div>      <div id="titie_box_bottom"><!-- Image --></div>    </div>  <div id="bold_text">Miss Shouka, Chinese foreign student studying at Keio University got a chance to interview the star of International Education, Kazuko Hirota.Ph.D.</div>      <div id="article">        <div id="article_left">                                  <img src="/english/images/feature/517_feature_06.JPG" width="140" alt="feature_06">                                <div id="article_text"></div>                                  <img src="/english/images/feature/517_feature_08.JPG" width="140" alt="feature_08">                              </div>        <div id="article_right"><font color="#FF3366">Q: You have experienced guiding many students.  What do you think is the best way to decide the order of priority?</font><br /><br />A: I don’t decide the order of priority on things. For me, intuition is really important.<br />When I think about things seriously, the most important thing would naturally come up and I try to act honestly to it. <br />	<br />	<br /><font color="#FF3366">Q: What do you recommend to foreigners in Japan for enjoying their life here?</font><br /><br />A: The important thing is never forget the purpose of coming to Japan.<br />Of course there are both bad things and good things happened.	But the way you accept it would change them to a part of your meaningful experience.<br />We have also been sending many students to abroad, and there　are people who regret for not having gone abroad, but not for having gone.<br />I guess they all had a big dream when arrived Japan, so I would like them to keep it and have a positive life in Japan.<br />Even if you got some problem, it will surely help you as an experience, so accept it and keep challenging anything you want.<br />		<br /><font color="#FF3366">Q: It has been 8 years since I came to Japan.  What do you think is the thing international students should know about when studying Japanese?</font><br /><br />A: Japan has spiritual culture that is “understand each other without expressions”.<br />So we avoid direct expressions and have a lot of ways of expressions to “read between the lines”.  Understanding the culture peculiar to Japan will direct you to the improvement of Japanese language.<br />When I see Tea ceremony and Japanese food, I find many delicate manners and nonverbal ways of expression.  I can say it is also really important to understand about it.<br /> </div>        <div class="both10"></div>        <div></div>      </div>      <div class="both10"></div>                         </div>  <!-- end of left_box -->  </div><!-- end of pagebody_outline -->