Message for the 2025 Fall Entrance Ceremony_篮球比分直播

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Message for the 2025 Fall Entrance Ceremony

To all our new students, congratulations on your enrollment at Niigata University. On behalf of Niigata University, I would like to express my heartfelt congratulations to you all.

I believe that all of you have gathered here today with various dreams and hopes for the future. For those of you that have come from overseas, you must be feeling both hopeful and anxious about living in Japan.

As of today, you will have the opportunity to experience many new encounters and learning at Niigata University. A university is a “space of learning” where people from diverse backgrounds gather together. Over 10,000 students are here at Niigata University. Thus, university life is an important time where you will meet diverse people, and where you will inspire each other and grow as individuals through communicating with each other. Not only will you meet people, but you will also experience various events and irreplaceable encounters. Please cherish all of these encounters which will enable you to experience an abundant and productive life at the university.

On the occasion of your enrollment, I would like to share Niigata University’s philosophy with you. Niigata University’s philosophy is “Autonomy and Creativity.” “Autonomy” refers to establishing your own standards and acting on it, and “Creativity” refers to creating something new. This means not imitating others, but instead developing a habit of constantly establishing your own standards by yourself. Education at Niigata University is based on this philosophy. Throughout your student life at our university, I hope that you will be able to take to heart the philosophy of “Autonomy and Creativity” while expanding your scope of learning.

Niigata University’s current mission is becoming “a front-runner of future life innovation.” “Life innovation” is not simply confined to the fields of medical care, health, and welfare. It also refers to the “existence,” “whole life,” “way of living,” “the ideal society,” and “involvement with the environment” for people living in the 21st century, as well as the innovation for creating new value and meaning for the earth and nature which form the foundation of these factors. In other words, the “life innovation” which Niigata University aims to achieve is innovation which brings happiness to humanity. In this way, Niigata University’s aim is to foster research which contributes to the future of human society and to nurture individuals who will actively participate in the future of our society.

The world is full of events which are impossible or difficult to predict. The COVID-19 pandemic had an immense effect on our society. We also face climate change and numerous natural disasters as well as increasingly intensifying, large-scale changes in the world order brought about by various wars and international situations. Furthermore, our society today is filled with a multitude of challenges which need to be overcome such as widening inequality and poverty. These are global issues that require us to find ways to tackle them and to take action. We find ourselves having to live through times which are difficult to predict and full of challenges.

I believe in such times, if there is a path towards paving the future, it will be through “science” and “learning”. Science and learning enable us to predict the future with greater precision and hold the power to make our lives more abundant.

Digital transformation (DX) is accelerating and the technology of generative AI has also been developing rapidly recently. Moreover, globalization is advancing. You will be paving a path towards the future under these circumstances and I hope that you will develop the ability to survive in the future with what you learn at Niigata University. In order to do so, I encourage you to lead a productive university life by holding close to your heart Niigata University’s philosophy of “Autonomy and Creativity,” sharing the university’s mission of becoming “a front-runner of future life innovation,” and having an awareness of yourself and society. Always develop your intellectual curiosity and do not forget the importance of learning as you steadily pursue the dreams you have at the start of university.

Once again, I would like to express my sincerest congratulations to you all. Please accept my heartfelt felicitations. I would like to end my speech by wishing you all a truly rewarding university life.

October 1, 2025
USHIKI Tatsuo, M.D., Ph.D.
President, Niigata University

2025秋季入学典礼致辞

各位新同学，我诚挚地欢迎你们入读新潟大学。我谨代表新潟大学向同学们致以由衷的入学祝贺。

我相信，同学都怀揣着对未来的各种理想和愿望，迎来了入学的这一天。尤其是来自海外的同学，想必对在日本的生活既满怀期待又忐忑不安。

相信同学们未来会在新潟大学中遇到和学到许许多多的新事物。大学这个地方，是各种各样的人聚集到一起的“求知殿堂”。新潟大学里就汇聚了1万多名学生。因此，大学生活就是你们与形形色色的人相遇、相互影响、相互交流并藉此实现成长的宝贵时光。除了与人的相遇外，相信你们还会有与万事万物的相遇、以及无可替代的相遇。请重视各种各样的相遇，度过丰富多彩、硕果累累的大学生活。

值此入学之际，我首先要将新潟大学的理念告诉大家。新潟大学的理念是“自律与创生”。正如其字面意思所言，“自律”就是按照自己制定的规范来采取行动，“创生”就是创造新事物。这也意味着不要效法他人，而是养成“始终自己制定自己的规范的习惯”。新潟大学根据这一理念开展着教育工作。希望同学们一面通过在新潟大学的学生生活完成各种学习，一面感受这种“自律与创生”的理念。

眼下，新潟大学将成为“未来的生活创新领跑者”作为大学使命。这里所说的“生活创新”不仅限于“医疗、健康、福利领域”，而是指旨在创造与生活在21世纪的我们的“生命”、“人生”、“生活方式”、“社会的理想状态”、“与环境的关系”、以及构成这些之根基的“地球”和“自然”相关的新价值和新意义的创新。换言之，新潟大学所追求的“生活创新”就是为人类谋幸福的创新。因此，新潟大学的目标就是开展有助于未来人类社会的研究，培养在未来社会中发挥积极作用的人才。

社会充满了无法预测或难以预料的事情。COVID-19的大流行对我们社会造成了重大影响。气候变化、频频发生的自然灾害、各种各样的冲突和国际形势导致的世界格局剧变也在日益严峻。此外，当代社会还充满了各种各样必须解决的课题，例如，如何致力于差距扩大、贫困等全球性课题也被视为问题，亟待相关行动等。我们必须在这种难以预测而又充满课题的时代中生存下去。

我认为，若有什么力量能在这种情况下开辟未来，那一定是“科学”，是“学问”。科学与学问不仅能提高预测未来的准确性，还能令我们的生活变得丰富多彩。
基于数字技术的变革、即数字化转型（DX）正在加速，生成式AI这种技术也在最近取得了快速发展。同时，全球化进程也在继续。在这种情况下，同学们肩负开辟未来的使命，我希望大家通过在新潟大学的学习，养成在这样一个未来时代生存下去的能力。因此，请同学们牢记新潟大学“自立与创生”的理念，共享新潟大学“成为未来的生活创新领跑者”的使命，在提高自我敏感性和社会敏感性的同时，让学生生活结出丰硕的果实。此外，请在始终保持求知欲的同时，不忘记学习的重要性，朝着入学时怀抱的理想前景迈进。

最后，我再次诚挚地欢迎同学们入读本校。我向你们致以由衷的祝贺。希望同学们的大学生活硕果累累，我的致辞到此结束。

2025年10月1日
新潟大学校长　牛木辰男