Speakers: Professor Kozo Ishizaki, Emeritus Professor, Advisor to the President, Former Vice President of Nagaoka University of Technology (Japan)

On 14th of May 2018, VNU Vietnam Japan University is hosting a special lecture entitled: “The history of industrial development in Japan in the past two centuries - educational and linguistic aspects”, this is the eighth in a series of special lecture held by the University.

Time: 17:00 – 19:00, May 14, 2018.

Venue: Room 415, Vietnam Japan University, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Luu Huu Phuoc Road, My Dinh I, Nam Tu Liem, Hanoi.

Japan is among the countries who attract the most substantial research interests in the world for economic history, with miraculous growth in three stages: The first stage was in the Edo period (1603), the second stage from the Meiji Restoration (1868) and the third stage from after the Second World War (1945) with a focus on developing cutting-edge industries and where Japan emerged as the world's second-largest economic powerhouse. This strong transformation can be attributed to many reasons, especially the way Japan actively studied and applied Western technological advances to industrial development.

In the course of learning, applying and converging modern science and technology to its industrial development, the Japanese government has translated scientific and technical terms from Western languages into Japanese and popularized them through education and training. It is thanks to the translation of these terms and materials that the Japanese have learned and absorbed the advanced scientific and technical knowledge regardless of whether they are proficient in foreign languages or not.

In this special lecture, Prof. Kozō Ishizaki will talk about industrial development in Japan in the last two centuries from educational and linguistic perspectives. In his lecture, Prof. Ishizaki will also spend time to discuss and answer questions from the participants.

The lecture will provide opportunities for VJU students, researchers and interested persons to learn more about Japanese industrial breakthroughs and the contributions of linguistics and education to this cause.

Some information about the speaker

Prof. Kozo Ishizaki is the chairman of the technical dictionary compilation committee of Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan. Prof. Ishizaki has extensive research into the influence of language on education and training in the field of technology from the Meiji period. Prof. Ishizaki is also the author of the Japanese-Vietnamese scientific dictionary, published in Vietnam in 2008. This is the first Japanese-Vietnamese scientific dictionary to be published in both Japan and Vietnam. This dictionary has benefited lots of scientists, PhD. candidates and students of Vietnam and Japan in research and study of science and technology in Japan and Vietnam.