Day nine..........Education and Waseda university ...........

We started our day as always. Coincidentally, we all had the same breakfast that is bread and toast with coffee. Then we went to Waseda. Today we attended a lecture by professor Masahiko Gemmae. The lecture was based on the topic Japan in Asia and Global food security. It was a nice and interesting lecture. It was very interactive lecture. Alas the lecture was over by 11.30. We then had our lunch at a restaurant named Naan and Curry. At 1pm we took a Waseda university bus to the waseda campus of engineering and science where we had a campus tour and which was about 20minutes far from the main Waseda university. There we were welcomed by two staffs and three students. It was a wide and clean campus. It had tall buildings which consisted of mainoffices,classrooms,laboratories,libraries,cafeteria etc. The science and engineering campus of waseda has the most modest, skilled and technical education and educational facilities. The students accompanied us to each part of the university describing each and every thing that we saw or whatever questions we asked for. they took us to nuclear physics laboratory which had the modest technological apparatus and instruments to carry out nuclear experiments. Then we went to environmental safety laboratory in which the students who perform research oriented experiments. Next we went to chemistry and microbiology laboratories which also had the latest technological apparatus as well instruments to perform the regular as well as research oriented experiments. The students told us that after every experiment they have to write a report on the experiment which they have done on that particular day and they are accessed based on the report they have submitted. We saw the first robot models of the world named WABOT (WAseda roBOT )which were invented in waseda university. 

                                                               WABOT-1

                                                         WABOT-2

It was amazing trip around the campus. The campus had two large libraries which had 
varieties books in english as well as Japanese language. Waseda university is a technologically advanced university with all the new forms and systems used for education.