東京大学に初めての女性総長が誕生へ

Welcome to Japanese Daily News. I'm Maya. Today is September twenty-ninth. Japan's most famous university has chosen its next leader — and for the first time in its long history, the job goes to a woman. Let's listen.

Now let's break it down, sentence by sentence.

On September twenty-eighth, the University of Tokyo announced it has chosen Yuko Fujigaki as its next president.

It means the president of a university — the top position.

It is the first time a woman takes the post since the university was founded in eighteen seventy-seven.

It means the founding of an institution.

She is sixty-four, and her field studies the relationship between science and society.

It means a specialty — your professional field.

Since twenty twenty-one, as vice president, she has been in charge of student support and admissions.

It means being in charge of something.

Her six-year term starts April first, twenty twenty-seven, as the thirty-second president.

It means a term of office.

At a press conference, she said a university's role is to carry trust in scholarship into the future.

It means a press conference.

In Japan, women leading universities is still rare — that's the current reality.

It means the current situation.

People hope this decision becomes a trigger for women playing bigger roles in society.

It means playing an active, successful role.

Let's listen to the whole story one more time.

Time for a short quiz. Listen and try to answer.

Professor Yuko Fujigaki — the first woman ever chosen.

April first, twenty twenty-seven — and it lasts six years.

The study of how science and society relate to each other.

That's all for today. A hundred and fifty years of history, and a first. See you next time. Bye!