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⚾🏆 Keio University Baseball Club Wins Tokyo Big6!

Congratulations to the Keio University Baseball Club on securing the team’s 41st Tokyo Big6 Baseball League championship title! 🎉

Keio emerged victorious after a fierce faceoff with Waseda University on Saturday, ending a five-season dry run in the tournament.

A victory parade was held the following Monday to celebrate this momentous achievement. Go Keio!

#慶應 #慶應義塾大学 #大学野球

📖✨ Celebrating 300 Years of Gulliver’s Travels

📅 June 1 – July 30 (11:00–18:00)*
📍 Keio Museum Commons, Mita Campus
☑️ Free and open to the public

Starting this week, the Keio Museum Commons (KeMCo) is holding an exhibition showcasing items and illustrations related to Jonathan Swift’s 1726 novel Gulliver’s Travels.

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For three hundred years, Gulliver’s Travels has stirred the hearts of readers around the world. Gulliver is humorous and fiercely cynical. His viewpoint shifts freely; his curiosity drives him to see everything from every angle, to find more than one meaning in whatever he meets. From this curiosity comes a great breadth of imagination and invention — and that is where the essence of Gulliver’s Travels exists.

Gulliver’s fantastical adventures even bring him to Japan, still closed off from the world. KeMCo invites you to explore those adventures, the messages Swift embedded within them, and human society as it was, only just setting out on the road to modernity.

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KeMCo will also be hosting an open lecture and gallery talk during the exhibition period.

More information on the exhibition and related events:
https://kemco.keio.ac.jp/en/all-post/20260601-en/

*Closed Saturdays, Sundays, Public Holidays, June 15 and July 13
Special opening Saturdays｜June 13, July 11

📜 Yonsei President Dong-Sup Yoon Conferred Honorary Doctorate

Yesterday, Professor Dong-Sup Yoon, President of Yonsei University, was conferred an honorary doctoral degree by Keio University at the Mita Public Speaking Hall.

During the conferral ceremony, President Yoon gave a commemorative speech to an audience of Keio faculty, students, as well as a delegation and alumni association members from Yonsei University.

President Yoon has been central to the advancement of medical science in Korea for decades, and as President of Yonsei University, he has strengthened ties with Keio and other leading universities around the world.

🌏 THE Asia Universities Summit 2026 in Hong Kong

600+ leaders of higher education in Asia gathered for this year’s summit, which took place in partnership with The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Keio’s delegation was led by Vice-President Toshiharu Saiki, who was invited to speak at sessions held on the first two days of the summit.

The gathering was an opportunity to share Keio’s many ongoing initiatives and deepen conversation in the broader Asian higher education community.

Read more:
https://www.keio.ac.jp/en/about/global/news/20260513-1/

🏫🌐 KCL and Keio Discuss Geopolitics in London

Earlier this month, King’s College London (KCL) and Keio University held a dialogue on geopolitics at Bush House, King’s College London in the UK.

KCL researchers received a delegation of professors from Keio University, including Professor and Vice-President Motohiro Tsuchiya.

Sessions were insightful, exploring topics such as “Security in Europe and the Indo-Pacific: Towards a Single Theatre?” and “Geoeconomics in the Age of Competition: The End of Economic Liberalism?”

🌌✨ Duality in Space Workshop

A joint workshop on duality in space was held late last month by Keio University and the RAND Corporation at Keio’s Mita Campus.

RAND, which is based in the United States, is a global policy think tank and research institution. This workshop represents the first steps in joint research efforts with Keio following an initial visit by CEO Jason Matheny in 2024.

Over the course of two days, researchers from RAND, Keio University, and the Asia Pacific region engaged in fruitful discussions of scenarios involving duality in space.

The university is currently distributing sustainable nanoblock kits to eligible donors.

With the kit, which contains blocks made from recycled plastic, you can recreate the iconic red-brick library. Built over a century ago with the support of university patrons, the library remains beloved by the Keio community.

Page to learn more (available in Japanese):
https://kikin.keio.ac.jp/future_stories/privilege/

🏫 Happy Keio Foundation Day! 🏫

Today Keio University celebrates the 168th anniversary of its founding. Keio Foundation Day has been a designated university holiday since 1909, just over fifty years after its establishment in 1858, and provides an opportunity to reflect on Keio’s origins and those who pioneered its founding.

#慶應 #慶応義塾大学 #三田キャンパス #開校記念日

“As long as you stay proactive and open to new perspectives, I can guarantee that PEARL offers an inspiring environment where meaningful connections flourish and friendships are built to last a lifetime.”

PEARL (Program in Economics for Alliances, Research, and Leadership) is a four-year BA program that allows students to earn an economics degree entirely in English while living in Japan.

In a recent interview, Ryuta Wijers Hasegawa talks about founding the Keio Oysters, life in the Hiyoshi International Dormitory, his advice to PEARL applicants, and more.

Visit the Keio University website to read the interview in full and hear more first-person perspectives on being part of the PEARL community.
https://www.keio.ac.jp/en/admissions/faculty/web-magazine/Ryuta-Wijers-Hasegawa/

🌎📃 U7+ Presidential Summit Convenes in Paris

The U7+ Presidential Summit, held last week in Paris, has drawn to a close.

Hosted by École Polytechnique, Sciences Po, and Université Paris Cité, 37 university representatives from 14 countries gathered for two days to discuss critical challenges and opportunities within the framework of "Revisiting the Social Role of Universities in a Changing World."

At the Élysée Palace, Keio University President Kohei Itoh, current Chair of the U7+ Alliance, presented Emmanuel Macron, President of France, with the U7+ Communiqué entitled "The Social Role of Universities in a Divided World," which underscores the importance of universities as guardians and pillars of democratic societies.

Read more about the U7+ Alliance of Word Universities and this year’s summit:
https://www.u7alliance.org/news/social-role-universities-divided-world-u7-presidential-summit-convenes-paris