Masayoshi Ogino presented Mr Mitsuru Murase (the Consul and Counsellor, Consular Office of Japan, Christchurch) with “Creating New Synergies: Approaches of Tertiary Japanese Programmes in New Zealand”. A review of the book by Dr Michiko Kaneyasu (University of Colorado Boulder) has also been published in the journal, Japanese Language and Literature (April, 2017).