The Paper reporter learned from the Law School of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies that on the morning of April 1, the appointment ceremony of Yunshan Scholars of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies was held in the welcome hall of Baiyunshan Campus, and Mr. Kunihiko Yoshida, an internationally renowned scholar and senior professor of Hokkaido University, was hired as a "Yunshan Senior Professor" of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies and joined Guangwai Law School full-time. The appointment ceremony was presided over by Yang Minsheng, Secretary of the Party Committee of the Law School of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies.

Chen Yunliang, Dean of the Law School of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, warmly congratulated Professor Kunihiko Yoshida on his appointment. He pointed out that the discipline of law has shown a strong upward momentum, and its influence and reputation at home and abroad have steadily increased. He said that Professor Kunihiko Yoshida is an internationally renowned scholar, and after his joining, Guangwai Law School will be able to continue to strengthen its international characteristics, accelerate the improvement of its core competitiveness, deepen the reform of the training model for foreign-related outstanding legal talents, and further enhance the world academic influence and academic reputation of Guangwai Law Discipline.

Xiao Rui, deputy director of the university's human resources department and director of the high-level talent office, pointed out that the joining of Professor Kunihiko Yoshida is an important achievement of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies to implement the strategy of strengthening the university with talents. He said that the Ministry of Human Resources will make every effort to ensure talent services, and hopes that Professor Kunihiko Yoshida can actively build a discipline team and set an example in the pursuit of academic excellence, inject strong impetus into the construction of the discipline of Guangzhou Foreign Law, and strive to promote the construction of the discipline to a new level.

Professor Kunihiko Yoshida said that the long historical and cultural tradition and profound teaching and scientific research background of Guangwai are a good platform to display his talents, and he hopes to carry out in-depth teaching and scientific research, international exchanges, and talent training in Guangwai, so as to help the high-quality development of the discipline of law and contribute to the construction of a high-level university.

According to public information, Kunihiko Yoshida, a well-known scholar in the field of Japanese civil law, was selected into the list of "Prominent Scholars of the World" (Prominent Scholars of the World) selected by Seoul National University in South Korea in 2011, a doctor of law from the University of Tokyo, a former professor and doctoral supervisor of the Graduate School of Law of Hokkaido University, and a director of many societies such as the Japan-China Friendship Association and the Japan Society of Private Law.

Kunihiko Yoshida's main research areas are environmental and resource law, international health law, civil law, and new field law.

He has presided over 17 important projects, and published 18 monographs such as "Environmental Crisis, Global Warming, Civil Law Studies, and Topics of Civil Law" (First Residence Nations, Immigration, and Global Warming (Water Damage) and Critical Civil Law Theory (下巻))", published in the Asian Journal of Law and Society (JCI Q1), the Journal of Hokkaido University (Peking University Law Review), and the University of Tokyo sponsored journals (American Law, Law Association Journal, Private Law), Japan's highest-level journal of precedent analysis (Jurist, Precedent Times, Precedent Times), Japan's leading legal research and education journals (Law Times, Law seminar, Law Classroom), first-class civil and commercial law research journals (Civil and Commercial Law Journal, NBL), Journal of the Japanese Society for the Sociology of Law (Sociology of Law), etc Covid-19 Pandemic: Focusing on Asian Responses, 10 (1) Asian J. of L. & Society 57-69 (Feb. 2023)) and 235 papers in Japanese.

According to the Law School of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Kunihiko Yoshida has advanced international vision and strategic thinking, can keenly grasp the national strategic needs and international frontier development trends in this discipline, and is familiar with the development trends of similar disciplines. He has been a Fulbright visiting scholar at Harvard University-Yenching Institute, Stanford University Law School, and Northwestern University Law School to engage in Japan-US comparative law research, and has been deeply involved in the internationalization of Hokkaido University, which has been selected as a super international university by the Japanese government.

The predecessor of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies was Guangzhou University of Foreign Studies (known as "Guangdong University of Foreign Chinese Chinese" from October 1970 to November 1977) established in November 1964 and officially enrolled students in July 1965 (formerly known as "Guangdong University of Foreign Studies") and Guangzhou Institute of Foreign Trade established in December 1980. Guangzhou Institute of Foreign Trade and Guangzhou Institute of Foreign Chinese Language were transferred from the Ministry of Foreign Economic Cooperation and Trade and the State Education Commission to Guangdong Province in September 1994 and January 1995 respectively. In May 1995, the Guangdong Provincial People's Government merged the two universities to form Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. In October 2008, the Guangdong Provincial People's Government transferred the Guangdong Vocational College of Finance and Economics (formerly known as the "Guangdong Finance and Taxation College") established in April 1996 to Guangdong University of Foreign Studies.

According to the website of the Institute of Bacteriological Warfare Crimes of Hunan University of Arts and Sciences, on December 29, 2016, Japanese friends Keiichiro Ichinose, Yoshimura Yoshigo and others came to Changde and visited the Institute of Bacteriological Warfare Crimes of Hunan University of Arts and Sciences. The two sides had in-depth exchanges on the study of Japan's bacteriological warfare crimes of aggression against China and Japan's responsibility for the war.

According to the website of the Taoyuan County Government in Hunan Province in January 2017, Keiichiro Ichise, the Japanese lawyer of the Changde Bacteriological Warfare Litigation Group, and Kunihiko Yoshida, a professor at Hokkaido University, came to the Bacteriological Warfare Disaster Monument in Mamanling Town to conduct research and lay a wreath at the Bacteriological Warfare Disaster Monument. With the exception of lawyer Ichinose, everyone else came here for the first time, and they visited Li Honghua, an 84-year-old family member of the victim in Xingjie Village, Mamanling Township, who recounted the tragic situation of bacteriological warfare in May 1942, when six members of his family died one after another due to germ warfare infection.