Kyoto Student Public Relations Department

What is the Kyoto Student Public Relations Department?
What is Kotocare?
Workshop

What is the Kyoto Student Public Relations Department?

As competition between universities is expected to intensify due to the long-term decline in the 18-year-old population, it is necessary to actively communicate the appeal of Kyoto as a “city of universities and students” to junior high and high school students who will become university students in the future.
Therefore, as a new initiative through collaboration, the University Consortium Kyoto and Kyoto City have established the “Kyoto Student Public Relations Department” to disseminate the “real charm of Kyoto” to junior and senior high school students nationwide from the perspective of students who study in Kyoto and experience the “real charm of Kyoto” as they live their student lives.
The Kyoto Student Public Relations Department disseminates the charm of university life in Kyoto planned, interviewed, and written by students on the dedicated website “Kotocare”, SNS, events, etc.

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What is Kotocare?

Media introducing the real lifestyle of university students in Kyoto
“Kotocare” is a website that distributes a variety of content planned, interviewed, and written by the Kyoto Student Public Relations Department, and was opened on October 1, 2015.
＜ＵＲＬ＞https://kotocollege.jp/

Kotocare’s Policies

Based on the idea of the name devised by the Kyoto Student Public Relations Department members at the workshop, the decision was made by the members’ vote.
It is an abbreviation for “College of the Ancient Capital”, and while expressing the uniqueness of Kyoto and the school, we chose the name to be easy for junior high and high school students to remember and be friendly.
The student public relations department member was supervised by a professional designer and also created the following logo:

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The vertical and horizontal lines represent the paths that various students are walking, and by intersecting in various ways, they become a circle = community and are connected.
It also includes an element called “Go Eye of the Board,” in which the streets are perpendicular to the north and south and east to the west, which is also a characteristic of the city of Kyoto.

Check out SNS as well!

The Kyoto Student Public Relations Department also disseminates information on SNS! We provide behind-the-scenes stories, daily activity reports, and the latest information. Please follow the PR staff Karen Koto!

＜Twitter＞ https://twitter.com/gakusei_kyoto
＜Facebook＞ https://www.facebook.com/gakuseikyoto
＜Instagram＞ https://instagram.com/gakusei_kyoto

Workshop

Workshop 1

Outline of the event

“Learning from a Kyoto Shimbun Reporter” ~ Continued: Reporting Is Still Difficult! ～

Continuing from last year, we welcomed Teppei Kishimoto, a reporter active for the Kyoto Shimbun, as our lecturer, who gave a roundtable lecture on interview techniques and ways to summarize information into articles.
Last time, the theme was “The Power to Draw Out Others’ Stories,” featuring practical talks based on many years of reporting experience. This time, we delved deeper into the content and received concrete advice on “how to deliver information with the reader in mind” and “where to focus the extracted information,” referencing actual Kotokare articles.

Date:: May 14, 2026 (Thu) 19:00~ [Ended]
Location:: Campus Plaza Kyoto 6th Floor Multipurpose Space
Who will participate:: Kyoto Student Public Relations Department, University Consortium Kyoto Member School Student
Lecturer:: Teppei Kishimoto
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In 2004, he joined Kyoto Shimbun. He has continued to cover a wide range of fields, including incidents and accidents, judiciary, universities, and city streets, and won the 2020 Newspaper Workers’ Union Journalism Grand Prize.
Currently, as Deputy General Manager of the Ignition Department at Kyoto Shimbun COM, he promotes the creation of new businesses that contribute to solving regional issues. While leveraging the newspaper’s outreach and editorial capabilities, it is also working to form new local communities.
Participating Students:: 15 members (12 club members, 3 secretariat members)

Implementation Report

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What left a particularly strong impression on me in this lecture was the importance of always being mindful of the reader. Even if you extract a lot of information through interviews, rather than turning it into articles as is, I learned that choosing topics based on what resonates with readers and what will be conveyed from the vast amount of information leads to good articles. For us, who deliver information to junior and senior high school students nationwide, this was a realization directly linked to our daily article writing.
This time, it was a valuable opportunity to have professional reporters explain articles I wrote as a subject, which I rarely get and a great learning experience for the participants. Not only members who participated again from last time, but also six members joining for the first time actively asked questions, creating lively exchanges.