Culture-Oriented Activities
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Group Name |
Achievements / Description of Activities |
1 | Culture Leadership |
Our activities center around making Zahyoh and circle orientation. |
2 | Male Chorus |
Primarily we work on concerts that are held twice a year, in the summer and winter. |
3 | Symphony Orchestra |
We work on practicing
for concerts that are held regularly twice a year and performances at
special events such as entrance ceremony and graduation ceremony. |
4 | ESS |
The English Speaking
Society (ESS) engages in 5 activities and has won various types of
competitions. |
5 | Shogi |
We are always trying to improve each others' play in order to make it to the national tournament. |
6 | Photo |
We take photos almost every day. We hold exhibitions 3 times a year. |
7 | Mixed Chorus |
Osaka University’s official mixed chorus group. We sing the student song at the entrance ceremony and hold yearly concerts. |
8 | Freund Chor |
Using various instruments and music of various genres and countries, we are a music group with its own unique style. |
9 | Light Music (Rock / Swing) |
6th, Yamano Big Band
Jazz Competition; Stellarjam nominee (top 6), Stellarjam |
10 | Guitar |
We perform periodic concerts and joint concerts with other universities every year. |
11 | Astronomy |
We hold stargazing parties, build planetariums, and sell astrophotographs. |
12 | Rakugo |
We work on practicing for performances at vaudeville theaters that are held regularly. We also practice Japanese musical instruments such as shamisen, drum, and flute. We also write "letters for yose (Japanese theater)". |
13 | AIESEC |
We provide support for Japanese students doing internships abroad as well as international students in internships in Japan. |
14 | Ancient Art |
We produce magazines and go on tours mainly at shrines, ruins, and old castles in Kansai. |
15 | Amateur Radio |
In Amateur Radio you
can, through your broadcasts, make contact with people throughout Japan
and throughout the world. It's that kind of activity/club. |
16 | Magic |
We are a magic group and enjoy doing everything from "table magic" to "stage magic". |
17 | Law |
We visit courts of law, the public prosecutor's office and hold training and study camps for individuals wishing to have a legal career. |
18 | Railroad |
We have yearly exhibits at both university festivals, publish a bulletin once a year, have training camps 3 times a year, and participate in the Kansai Student Railroad Association exchanges. |
19 | Mandolin |
We aim to create high quality music in our mandolin orchestra. |
20 | Calligraphy |
We enjoy calligraphy for
exhibitions and school festivals. |
21 | Contract Bridge |
We enjoy the most famous card game in the world. Osaka University is a school known for producing a representative every year. |
22 | Japanese Tea Ceremony |
Under the guidance of our teacher, we take lessons in Japanese tea ceremony and tea ceremony parties. |
23 | Folk Song |
We are the biggest light
music circle at Osaka University. |
24 | Pottery |
Our main activity is making pottery. We sell things that we made at university festivals. |
25 | Biological Society (old / new) |
On our holidays we go to all over -- to the mountains, rivers, and sea to view all sorts of interesting life forms. |
26 | Noh |
We practice and present
chanting of the Noh text, the dance, and musical instruments. We make
presentations at a chartered Noh theater in two times a year. |
27 | Puppeteer "Sesekurase" |
In Osaka and Hyogo, we do presentations at kindergartens, elementary schools and other places. |
28 | Social Dance |
We've produced All Japan and Kansai champs! |
29 | Wind Orchestra |
We participate in
periodic concerts, summer concert at national public universities in
the Hanshin area. |
30 | Art |
You can draw pictures for our 4 exhibitions when the time is good for you. We also hold training camps. |
31 | Go |
We took the 5th place in spring and 2nd place in the fall in the Kansai
League. Mori advanced through the Kansai qualifier of the Women's Student Honinbo Tournament. |
32 | Movie |
Our activities include
making and appreciating movies. We won the grand prize in the
Handai Movie Festival and the Kansai Movie Festival. |
33 | Archeology |
We go 1~2 times a month to visit archeological sites and museums in the Kansai area. |
34 | Philosophy of Civil Rights |
We hold an exhibition
indoors during the Icho and Machikane festivals on educational problems. We also volunteer at the Kansai Foreign Students Music Festival. |
35 | Bible Club |
We have fun together discussing and learning about the ways of thinking found in the Bible. |
36 | Legal Consultation |
We give legal advice to
citizen in various places and participate in the Niijima Jo Discussions. |
37 | Volunteer Circle Frontier |
We support individuals with special needs. |
38 | SF |
In addition to appreciating SF, we are an unstructured easy-going group that plays a lot of board games. |
39 | Mystery |
We have a regular book club meeting every Saturday. We invite authors to give us a lecture and we also produce the bulletin "Trap." |
40 | Theater |
Founded as a group 40 years ago, we are the oldest troupe that continues to perform. |
41 | Computer |
We hold technical classes and at the Icho and Machikane festivals, we make computer-generated programs. |
42 | Manga |
We work on the publication of our club magazine, mainly devoted to our original manga creations. |
43 | Animation |
We participate in
outside events, anime appreciation, and events at university festivals. |
44 | Board Game |
We play board games while researching various strategies. |
45 | Ginsho |
We perform concerts
using traditional Japanese instruments, primarily koto
and shakuhachi. |
46 | International Law |
Mainly, in mock trials
twice a year, we work on our public speaking skills and understanding
of international law. |
47 | Post News Service |
We report on happenings at Osaka University and other universities in the Kansai in our newspaper five times a year. |
48 | [Electronic] Tool Box |
We participate in exhibitions in the Icho and Machikane festivals as well as in events outside of Osaka University. |
49 |
Quiz Society "OUQS" |
We practice a lot of quizzes where pushing the answer button first wins, hoping to achieve a good record in the yearly competition in March. |
50 | Troupe "Chauka Chawan" |
We have performances
five times a year. |
51 | Naniwa Culture |
We study the food culture and tourist attractions of Osaka. At the university festivals, we demonstrate our achievements and make "tako-yaki." |
52 | Piano |
We don't just perform concerts at our university festivals, but also perform regularly once or twice a year outside the university. |
53 | RPG |
We all engage in a tabletop role-playing games. Great fun! |
54 | Troupe "Mufukan" |
We present performances 5 times a year both on and off campus. |
55 | Literature |
We engage in creating
written material, and criticizing it. |
56 | A
capella Inspiritual Voices |
We had 2 bands enter the Japan Acappella Movement |
57 | Karuta |
The team won the B and C rank tournaments in the 2015 National Student Karuta Tournament. The team also won the team competition in the national tournament, with many individual accolades. |
58 | Modern Theater |
We have performance
several times a year both on and off campus. We particularly encourage individual expressive activities. |
59 |
Public Policy |
We hold workshops, participate in essay contests, and provide Toyonaka City with advice on policies. |
60 | Festival Dancers, Madani |
For the second year in a row, we won the Japan Right
in the Middle Festival, we won the "All-Japan Campus Battle" |
61 | Environmental GECS |
We participated in ecocon 2019 and the 2019 National Environmental Student Convention |
62 | Spanish Dance Al
Compás |
We perform in Tokyo, Tateyama, the Icho, Summer, and Machikane festivals, as well as other events. |
63 | Summer Festival Committee |
We're in charge of the Summer Festival on the Minoh Campus. |
64 | West
African Drum and Dance -- Talibe |
We have a lot of fun practicing with African drums and dances. |
65 | Osaka
University Choir -- Tempest |
We have concerts with other choirs, enter competitions, and hold a yearly concert. |
66 | Movie making team -- OUT+V | We're engaged in planning and production of movies to be broadcast on O+PUS multipurpose video monitors |
67 | International issue study group | We hold monthly study sessions, study tours, and lectures by various VIPs. |
68 | Electone circle HANON |
We have ensemble and solo performances at 2 of the university festivals every year. |
69 | Belly dance circle Halaawaat |
We perform both indoors and outdoors at the 3 college festivals each year, as well as other off-campus events. |
70 | LEGO | We hold workshops for children and put our works on display at university festivals. |
71 | Robohan | We participated in the NHK Student Robot Contest for the sixth consecutive year |
71 | Osaka University Competitive Programming Circle "RAINBOU" | We participated in programming contests as a group and received awards at multiple competitions both in Japan and overseas. |