Taisho University Educational Corporation
Regarding the election of the Chairman and Vice Chairman of Taisho University Educational Corporation
～Masahiro Kashiwagi will be appointed as Chairman, Hideki Hoshino will be appointed as Vice Chairman～
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At Taisho University Educational Corporation, the term of office of Chairman Nobutake Okamoto will expire on Friday, March 29, 2024, and at the board of directors meeting held on Saturday, March 30, 2024, Masahiro Kashiwagi (formerly: We would like to inform you that Hideki Hoshino (former Managing Director) has been appointed as the Chairman and Hideki Hoshino (formerly Managing Director) as the Vice Chairman.
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Name: Masahiro Kashiwagi
Position: Chairman
Appointment date: March 30, 2024
Term: Until June 2025 regular council meeting
≪Biography≫
Born on August 23, 1951. After graduating from the Department of History, Faculty of Letters, Taisho University in March 1974, he joined the university’s secretariat. After serving as Director of Educational Affairs, Director of Business Promotion, and Secretary General, he was appointed as Managing Director in March 2015, which he currently holds. Since his tenure as executive director, he has promoted the university’s regional collaboration activities and led the establishment of the Regional Planning Research Institute. Currently, he serves as a consultant at our research institute. Outside the university, from April 2015 to March 2018, he served as an expert member of the “Subcommittee on Regional Revitalization (Regional Co-Creation) Issues” of the Higher Education Reform Committee of the Japan Federation of Private Universities.
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Name: Hideki Hoshino
Position: Vice Chairman
Appointment date: March 30, 2024
Term: Until June 2025 regular council meeting
≪Biography≫
Born December 1, 1943. Ph.D. (Literature) (Taisho University). After graduating from the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Letters, Taisho University, completed the master’s program at the Graduate School of Letters, Taisho University. In 1973, he withdrew from the doctoral program after completing the credits. From 1979, he became a full-time lecturer at Taisho University’s Faculty of Letters, then an assistant professor (1985), and then a professor in 1997. President from 2003 to 2007. He was appointed as Executive Director from 2012 to 2015, and from 2015 to 2016, and from 2021 to the present. Professor emeritus at our university.
Outside the university, he served as president of the Japanese Society for Religious Studies and director of the International Institute of Religious Studies, a public interest incorporated foundation. In 2019, received the Order of the Sacred Treasure.
The new position of “Vice President” is being established in response to the current difficult situation surrounding universities, as well as in response to the revised Private School Law that will come into effect in April 2025, and in anticipation of the university’s 100th anniversary in 2026. The purpose of this position is to assist the chairman in ensuring the smooth implementation of commemorative projects and the 4th mid-term plan.
At the Board of Directors meeting held on March 30th, Hideki Hoshino (former Executive Director), who has many years of experience in university management and a wide range of knowledge, was elected as Vice President.
◆Taisho University
Taisho University is a university run by the four founding sects of the Tendai sect, the Shingon sect Toyozan sect, the Shingon sect Chizan sect, the Jodo sect, and the Ji sect. Underpinning this spirit of collaboration is the founding philosophy of “practicing wisdom and compassion,” which the university advocated at the time of its founding in 1926. Based on the school’s founding philosophy, we are developing our educational and research activities with an educational vision of “becoming four people” that is rooted in the Buddhist spirit of compassion, self-lighting, the middle path, and coexistence. In addition, our university’s “Regional Strategic Human Resource Development Project to Envision the Future of Regions in a New Era” was selected as part of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s “Human Resource Development Project to Support a Knowledge-Intensive Society” in 2020.
Official website: https://www.tais.ac.jp/
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