The Sanbaku Seminar and the Owaki Seminar jointly conducted an entrepreneurship training program in Cambodia.

From February 9th (Sun) to 21st (Fri), 2025, eight students from the seminar of Associate Professor Mikata Kohei of Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Faculty of Economics Teikyo University, and Senior Assistant Professor Owaki Junichi of the Department of Department of Economics, visited Phnom Penh and Siem Reap in the Kingdom of Cambodia to participate in an overseas training program aimed at fostering entrepreneurship. In addition to participating in the Kizuna Festival held at the Royal University of Phnom Penh, the students also studied history and culture at Angkor Wat, a world heritage site representing Cambodia. This is the second time that students from our university have participated in the Kizuna Festival.

The Kizuna Festival is co-hosted by the Embassy of Japan in Cambodia, the Cambodia-Japan Cooperation Center (CJCC) at the Royal University of Phnom Penh, and others, and features a line-up of booths selling a variety of Japan-related products, attracting approximately 20,000 visitors every year.
This time, the Mikata and Owaki seminars, with the cooperation of Momoyama Gakuin University and Spice Up Academia Co., Ltd., experienced selling onigiri and crepes at the Kizuna Festival's mock store. The students interviewed Cambodian students at the cafeteria of the Royal University of Phnom Penh and other places to market their food preferences, then discussed and decided on these items among themselves. In producing the items for sale, the students procured ingredients at local supermarkets and conducted tasting sessions inviting Cambodian students to find out what flavors Cambodians would like, through repeated trial and error.
During the sales experience, many Cambodians who are interested in Japan visited the students' sales booth and picked up the rice balls, crepes, and sweet skewers that the students had made. They also took photos together and exchanged photos on social media, creating a heart-to-heart exchange that transcends borders.

The students also donated the profits from their sales experience to the Cambodia Love Center as donations. The Cambodia Love Center is a school that supports Cambodian children who are unable to receive an adequate education due to various circumstances, including economic reasons. During the program, the students visited the center several times and, in addition to donating donations, played soccer, volleyball, and colored pictures with the local children, deepening their connections with them.

This initiative aims to foster entrepreneurship and develop human resources who can be immediately effective in their post-graduation social lives by planning and developing a product from scratch in the overseas field of Cambodia and experiencing sales, based on the knowledge they have acquired in classrooms. Shuya Matsumoto (3rd year, Faculty of Faculty of Economics), a member of the Sankei seminar who participated in this overseas training, commented, "I still can't believe that I was able to successfully plan, develop, and sell a product in Cambodia, my first overseas trip, and that I made friends there. It was difficult, but I learned a lot." Through this initiative, which embodies "Practical learning" and "International perspectives," students can learn and experience intercultural understanding while acquiring logical thinking through practice, and by engaging in heart-to-heart exchanges with people from around the world, our university will continue to strive to develop international people who can be active in the social lives of society after graduation.

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