Graduates

Messages from Graduates

Learning to maintain a balance of confidence and humility

While at this school, there were many opportunities to learn things useful to my current job. One of those was the House (dormitory). Anything and everything in the House is decided after discussions with your Housemates, but everyone has a different opinion, so quite often there were differences of opinions. What I learned from that was the importance of maintaining a balance of confidence and humility. This means that it is all very well to put one's point across confidently, but one must also listen to the opinions of others with humility. I apply this valuable lesson to my work frequently.

“With pride in my country, I want to do an important job that contributes to the world.” I had that desire from my time at the school. I joined the Mitsubishi Corporation because it is a global company and I believed that I could fulfill that desire there. As a sales distribution agent to power plant manufacturers, my current job involves providing an after-sales service to Japanese power companies. Mediating between power companies and manufacturers, I am responsible for all kinds of negotiations and arrangements to ensure that all business runs smoothly.

Takahiro M.

graduate

My most treasured advice from the House Master

There’s someone at Kaiyo Academy I will never forget. It is the House Master who gave me advice about what path to follow after graduation on numerous occasions. During one of our many talks, he would always ask me, “So what do YOU think?” Plotting a logical path may be good for keeping up appearances, but you will not fulfill your true potential that way. You must follow your true path without worrying about what others say. I am sure that these are the kind of things my House Master wanted to tell me. Even though a few years have passed since then, I still treasure his words.

I am now mainly studying Development Economics and Macrofinance at the Department of Economics of Tokyo University. The former is a discipline that examines how to achieve economic growth and educational improvement in developing nations. For the latter, I am studying economic modelling while learning in great depth how that is reflected in Japanese financial policy.

Keita N.

graduate

Goals become clearer when listening to people you can respect

I myself took the decision while at Kaiyo Academy to advance to medical school, but the idea to go overseas came from listening to my House Master’s and Floor Master’s accounts of their own experiences studying and working abroad. I started taking part in discussions conducted in English by the House Master, and my desire to go abroad grew stronger. My goals became a lot clearer when listening to the doctor, Masahiro Kami, share his experiences of the Great East Japan Earthquake and his vision of the ideal doctor.

I am currently hard at study at the Nagoya University School of Medicine. I entered this medical school because it has produced many Nobel Prize winners and also because I would like to go abroad when I become a doctor. Medical science has many things that have to be memorized per subject and concepts that have to be understood, so everyday studies as well as studying for tests are hard. But the more you study, the greater you get to know how closely each subject is interrelated within the broad discipline of medical science, and I am really interested in studying those relationships.

Atsushi Y.

graduate