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A student from Yamazaki's Faculty of Languages and Cultures won the 3rd "Minna no Taiwan Shugaku Ryoko Navi" Taiwan Educational Trip Planning Grand Prize.

On Sunday, November 30, 2025, the selection results for the 3rd "Everyone's Taiwan School Trip Navigator" Taiwan Educational Travel Planning Awards were announced, and students in Teikyo University's Faculty of Languages and Cultures Department of Foreign Languages Professor Naoya Yamazaki's seminar received the Grand Prize, Excellence Award, and Special Award.

This contest was organized by the NPO Japan-Taiwan Education Support Researchers Network (SNET Taiwan), a platform supporting researchers in learning about Taiwan. Using the "Everyone's Taiwan School Trip Navigator," a learning website for Taiwan educational trips run by SNET Taiwan, participants were asked to design attractive Taiwan education plans, and numerous applications were received from high schools and universities across Japan. Yamazaki's seminar, specializing in regional studies of Chinese-speaking countries, organized four groups of four people to participate in the contest as a project for the second semester of 2025. They designed original educational trip plans on the themes of biodiversity, history seen from ships and ports, efforts to protect the richness of the ocean, and food culture (salt production and soy sauce brewing), and received high praise. The three winning works, the Grand Prize and the Runner-up Prize, will be published on "Everyone's Taiwan School Trip Navigator" at a later date.

award recipient

Grand Prize (1 winner)

• "Taiwan, the treasure island of living things: Ecological exploration tour of the sea, forest, mountains and city"
  Faculty of Languages and Cultures, 4th year: Marina Takubo
  Third-year Faculty of Languages and Cultures: Atsumi Kuwahara, Yuya Takeda, and Ayano Arai

Excellence Award (2)

• "Taiwan Connected by Ships: History and Future Seen from the Port"
  Fourth-year students Faculty of Languages and Cultures: Kaho Shimazaki and Riri Ota
  Third-year Faculty of Languages and Cultures: Koichiro Otani and Asahi Motoi

• "Taiwan Living with the Sea - 4 Nights, 5 Days to Explore Tuna, the Ocean, and the Environment"
  Third-year Faculty of Languages and Cultures: Goto Enan, Nakano Kotone, Furuya Yuzuki, and Katayama Miu

Special award (1 award)

• "Taiwan Studies of Salt and Soy Sauce: Unraveling Culture, Environment, and Lifestyle through Food"
  Fourth-year students Faculty of Languages and Cultures: Hinano Ubukata, Ai Kanamaki, Yumeka Omizo, and Kana Saito

Click here for the selection results
Click here for more information about Taiwan School Trip Guide
For more information about Professor Naoya Yamazaki, click here

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