Kirk here with a little report about something happening at my workplace, Kumamoto Gakuen university. It’s about a program for students from the U.S. and India who are interested in studying manga at Coamix, a Japanese manga and anime production company with an office in Kumamoto. Here’s a ChatGPT translation from the report:
— start translation — The agreement includes provisions for executives from Coamix to give lectures at the university and for students to provide Japanese language support to people who come to Japan from countries like the United States and India to train at Coamix’s second headquarters in Kumamoto, aiming to become manga artists. — end translation —
This was reported in a faculty meeting I attended but this news report answers a question I had in the meeting: who would provide the Japanese-language support? It seems, according to the report, that students, not faculty, will be doing that work. Gakuendai has a program to prepare students to become Japanese language teachers so I assume that those students will be the ones to provide the assistance.
About Coamix (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coamix
Coamix English-language website: https://www.coamix.co.jp/en
News article / video: https://newsdig.tbs.co.jp/articles/rkk/1231026?display=1&mwplay=1
