04.Empowering Learning Beyond Boundaries

A journalist once asked me, after having been a professor, doctor, and health bureau chief, and now returning as a university president, whether studying medicine was my original dream. 

03.Identify and Solve Problems

However, my response then was that, although these roles seem entirely different, they share a common core: “to identify meaningful problems and then try to solve them.”

02.Breadth and Depth

As mentioned in the first letter, during my university years, I particularly enjoyed photography and painting—interests often considered part of the arts and humanities.