Newsletter No. 314
Information-Announcement
June 24, 2006

 

Information regarding Japan-Tunisia relations has been forwarded to the Shingetsu Institute from sources in Tunisia.

TUNISIA-JAPAN SYMPOSIUM ON SCIENCE, SOCIETY, AND TECHNOLOGY
Sousse, Tunisia, December 4-6, 2006

Since 1997, Japanese-Tunisian cooperation in science, technology and humanities and social sciences has gone through a new era by starting and intensifying academic meetings. More than thirty joint seminars and symposia have been organized since then, accompanied by various exchanges of visiting researchers in both directions.

The necessity to further promote a sustainable Tunisia-Japan partnership in knowledge and to reinforce cooperation between Tunisian and Japanese researchers in the different fields of science, technology, and the study of humanities and social sciences has become evident and is perceived as an essential enterprise. This should provide researchers from both countries with a setting to share and discuss the outcome of their collaborative work, while also advancing mutual understanding, a precondition for shaping a constructive international environment whereby people from different national and cultural backgrounds interact in the pursuit of shared values of progress.

Accordingly, during May 2000, the First Tunisia-Japan Symposium on Science, Society, and Technology was held in Tunis. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Tunisia), the Ministry of Higher Education (Tunisia), and the Embassy of Tunisia in Japan sponsored the event. Six years have passed since the first symposium was organized. Since then, academic networks and scientific partnership and friendship between Tunisian and Japanese researchers have been constantly emerging.

Having witnessed these positive signs and aware of the importance of further promoting this trend, Tunisian and Japanese researchers decided to capitalize on their constructive and encouraging experiences of cooperation and organize the 7th Tunisia-Japan Symposium on Science, Society, and Technology (TJASSST 2006).

The exceptional point is that this is also the 50th year since Tunisia and Japan opened their diplomatic relationship.

For more information, please visit the website: http://www.ecopark.rnrt.tn/tjassst/

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In addition, there is a related group called the Society of Tunisian Alumni of Japanese Universities (TAJ) that was founded in 2004. This group is currently organizing an event called “Japan Culture Summer Days” that will be held in Tunis from July 12-17. The full program will be uploaded to their webpage soon, but apparently one of the central events will be performances of Noh at the Theater of Arts Ben Abdallah.

For more check their website in a few days: http://www.tajsociety.org/index.html