The Fountain

The performers and the visitors surrounding them Hiroko Fujimori (The Fountain staff) The course commemorating the tenth anniversary of Oita Fragrance Museum was held on Nov. 25 at Oita Fragrance Museum. It was opened as a multicultural museum which acknowledges wide needs from tourism to utilization of fragrance's research. The course has two parts of a lecture and a concert. The first lecture was by Kiyoshi Toko who is a professor in Kyusyu graduate school majoring in system information science. In the lecture, Toko mainly explained about the sense of taste and smell which can be said the sensitivity of human being. He said that we could not know them if we analyzed the chemical substances especially smell because there wasn't basic smell. Furthermore, the nose has far many receptors of glomerulus than tongue according to him. He said, “The world of smell is severe which needs enormous sensitiveness.” The second part was concert whose theme was ‘Coacting o...

by Makiko Akita Japan Business Case Challenge (JBCC) 2017 was held in APU from Nov. 6 to Dec. 3, and eleven teams participated in it from various universities. JBCC is a Case Competition carried out by foreign business schools as part of education for Japanese undergraduate students.  In Case Competition, participants suggest and present solutions to the management issues by using sponsor's case study, and superiority and inferiority of the quality is decided. The first day, participants checked in AP house2 and joined orientation, workshop, and dinner party. The second day, after opening ceremony was held, they received the case and started to make presentations. The third day, qualification was carried out and finalists were decided. The final day, three finalist teams presented over two hours. The examination results were "Peace Okamura" from Aoyama Gakuin University, Keio Gijuku University and so on took third place, "RASTY" from Ritsumeikan Universit...