The accomplishments of Hay Mann Soe, an international student from Myanmar

Faculty of Modern Social Studies Hay Mann Soe, a fourth-year student and international student from Myanmar, has been holding a Japanese course every year since 2022 for Myanmar nationals living in her home country or visiting Japan. The reason for this was my desire to create opportunities for Myanmar people who are unable to come to Japan due to study abroad due to the Corona disaster, or who do not have many opportunities to learn Japanese even if they come to Japan, to come into contact with Japanese.
The first event was held in the spring of 2022 under the title of "Home Exchange Meeting" and was planned remotely. We also asked for the cooperation of 15 students of Otemae University, and 30 people participated, mainly by Hay Mann Soe's Facebook followers. It was operated by a generous system of 2 Myanmar nationals and 1 Otemae University student.
The second time is planned in the fall of 2023 a business Japanese course titled "Japanese for Adults". 300 people, mainly Facebook followers, who expanded further by the first Japanese course, participated. Lecturer was held remotely in three sessions with the cooperation of a fourth-year student at the time.
The third event will be held in June 2024 under the theme of "Conjugation of Japanese Verbs" and will be organized by four people: two Japan senior correspondence education students who Hay Mann Soe has become friends with through his work as a student assistant in the Otemae University correspondence education department, and a Myanmar person who is familiar with Japanese who used to live in Japan. We thought about the curriculum on how to use Japanese verbs, which are difficult for foreigners. 76 people participated in this course. In addition, Myanmar participants from Japan were initially scheduled to pay a tuition fee, but we called for the tuition fee to be donated to the Noto Peninsula Earthquake Disaster Relief Fund, and many students agreed.
In addition, Hay Mann Soe's Japan senior introduced the actual situation and culture of Myanmar at the elementary school under the title of "About World Peace" based on the connection he met with the principal of a public elementary school in Nagoya while traveling in Myanmar. Hay Mann Soe wanted to convey to the children that "peaceful daily life is not taken for granted," but the elementary school students who participated in the program commented that they had come to think more deeply about peace, and that they received a lot of inspiration.
Through these activities, I feel Hay Mann Soe's ability to take action and involve people. All of these events are carried out with the cooperation of various people. Hay Mann Soe, a fourth-year university student, has already been offered a job at a major comprehensive human resources service company in Japan. The goal is to solve Japan's declining birthrate and aging population through business from a global perspective. In the future, he would like to return to his home country of Myanmar and aim to start a business that solves social problems. We look forward to Hay Mann Soe's further success in the future.

(Source: School Public Relations)