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Tadashi Shiozawa leads OPIE Choki 1994
Chubu Reflections
Over the last 50 year of partnership, so many people have come and gone between our institutions and the stories and memories are as vibrant and dynamic as the individuals who have participated. 

Chubu-OHIO Reflections

Reflections and Memories

In 2023, Chubu University and ĢƵ University are celebrating 50 years of collaboration and friendship. Students, faculty and staff have had opportunities to visit each other’s campuses and interact with individuals from both institutions.

To capture the flavor and importance of these intercultural experiences, we invited our community to share reflection essays through the lens of these dynamic engagements. 


Read Essays and check out personal photos from individuals who have engaged with Chubu over the years!

  • Ana Luttrell, Reflections

    I can’t count the number of times I recount my time at Chubu University, and how it shaped me and my life. I recount all of these memories fondly, and to encourage people I meet who have children or relatives who are considering studying abroad as reasons that they should. 

  • Kathleen Harrington, Reflections

    I first visited Japan in April of 1994 right before I became the Associate Director of Special Projects at OPIE.

  • Josh Falls, Reflections

    The Merriam-Webster dictionary lists one of the definitions of passion as “an intense, driving, or overmastering feeling or conviction.” Passions are what guide us through life and influence the decisions we make.

  • Kyra Jeffers, Reflections

    So many of my most valuable memories from studying at ĢƵ University are related to the friends I made through the Chubu-ĢƵ program.

  • Sasiliya Monthienvichienchai, Reflections

    One fine day, on Chubu University campus, a group of American students (and one Thai student) were just fooling around; doing an American line dancing to kill time before our next class. Who would have known that that act would have a lasting impact on a Japanese student there.

  • Nicholas Helentjaris, Reflections

    From the time that I traveled to Awaji Shima through a sister city exchange program in high school, I fell in love with Japan - the beauty of the country and the warmth of the Japanese people left a deep impression that I would carry into college and beyond.

  • Taylor Heddleson, Reflections

    I studied abroad at Chubu University for just a few months in 2019, luckily right before the Coronavirus pandemic hit, but my time there is something I still frequently think back on.

  • Duane Nellis, Reflections

    We celebrate this year an amazing and productive 50-year Anniversary relationship with our special partner, Chubu University. This relationship has been one of the more productive international partnerships in our university’s history.

  • David Onley, Reflections

    Since I was the visiting professor 40 years ago I must admit the my memory (I am now 89 years old) of that time is poor but in searching through documents to help I found this small banner which I have pictured here.

  • Diane Cahill, Reflections

    I started working with Chubu through the visiting professor program. Part of my role at the Center for International Studies was to support the incoming professor from Chubu.

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