Three LFIT teachers are joining one of the round tables!

2025-10-20 2025-10-20

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At the Tokyo Comic Festival, on Sunday, 2 November 2025, from 10:15 to 11:45 a.m., we will have the pleasure of welcoming three teachers from the Lycée Français International de Tokyo to the round table discussion ‘Historical Comics: Much More than Educational Manga’.

Nicolas Grabner - History & geography Teacher

Olivier Ruaud - Spanish Teacher

Patrick Samnang Mey - English Teacher

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Nicolas Grabner

ニコラ・グラブナー

History and Geography

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Nicolas Grabner is a History and Geography Teacher at the French International School in Tokyo. After completing a master's degree in medieval history at the University of Strasbourg, he turned to teaching. In addition to Japan, he has taught in France and Australia.

Olivier Ruaud

オリビエ・ルオー

Spanish

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Olivier Ruaud holds a PhD in Hispanic and Hispanic-American Studies and is a senior lecturer in Spanish. He currently teaches at the Lycée Français International de Tokyo, Tsuda University, the University of Tokyo and the Institut Français. As specialist in visual culture and humour in Franco's Spain, he devoted his thesis to the cartoonist Forges and the representation of history through graphic comedy. His work focuses more broadly on the links between art, politics and visual memory in contemporary Spain. He is currently conducting research on the Japanese painter Toshima Yasumasa and artistic exchanges between Japan and Spain during the end of the Franco era.

Patrick Samnang Mey

パトリック・サムナン・メイ

English

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A self-taught author and illustrator, he studied American and British literature as well as civilization, while independently training in drawing and painting techniques.

In 2013, he created Captain Cambodia, a political graphic novel blending mythology and the superhero genre to explore the social tensions and power dynamics of contemporary Cambodia. Conceived as a way to bypass censorship, it was published for a time in Khmer in LIFT, the weekly magazine of The Phnom Penh Post, before its distribution ended amid the highly tense and violent aftermath of the disputed 2013 general elections.

He has been teaching at the Lycée Français International de Tokyo since 2014.

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Lycée Français International de Tokyo

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The Lycée Français International de Tokyo is an international school accredited by the French government, located in Takinogawa, Kita Ward, Tokyo. Founded in 1975, it currently has approximately 1,500 students from over 65 different countries. It offers a comprehensive French curriculum, from early childhood to higher education, and also prepares students who wish to obtain the Baccalauréat with an international option (OIB). The campus covers more than 30,000 m² and has comprehensive facilities, such as a gymnasium, a heated outdoor swimming pool and tennis courts. The school emphasises language teaching and enables students to achieve a high level in French, English and Japanese. It also offers more than 30 extracurricular activities and provides an environment conducive to personal development through a variety of experiences in the arts, sports and manual activities.

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