6th Global Leader StudyDate: November 17 (Saturday) |
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1. Environment issuesProfessor Ryo Kimura, Kyoto University Graduate School of EngineeringThink about the road environment of developing countries Civil engineering is an activity of restoring the environment, supporting the ordinary life such as making a road, flood control, greenery. We learn when we have a problem or issue, it is important to have a desire to solve them as well as having mission and technological innovation. (Question→Passion → Mission → Innovation) Observability, simplification of problems, information gathering, exceeding the language barrier, and idea power are important as well.
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②Education, Human rights, Volunteer / ③ Cultural ResearchDr. Masakatsu Fujita Professor emeritus, Kyoto UniversitySignificance of academics in the age of globalization--- Role of humanities Dr. Masakatsu gave lecture on significance of academics in the age of globalization using power point. A: We must stop and think about it. Q: What do you mean by reading classical literature in dialogical approach? A: It is about how we accept and understand the gap between it and our own knowedge, to whom do we throw questions and what the answer will be, read them with imaginary image. Classical writings are written in dialogical approach, you naturally will be dragged into it. Q:What can we do in the field of humanity? A:Debate and dialoge with others and with literature. Read them with questioning them. Q: What is the thoughts of contemporary philosopher? A: There are not many contemporary philosophers discussing on this topic. Manys were objected when MEXT issued immediate notice. Q: What is the interesting part of learning philosophy? A: To convey others ideas. Having discussion with various people.
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④ Law and history researchDr. Shigeru Kodama Mie University, Faculty of Humanities, Law and Economics & Graduate School of Humanities and Social SciencesThink about democracy from issues of reporters killing (Saudi Arabia), destroying public documents (Japan), Twitter(U.S.A.) Lecture was given on following three topics. ① Journalists conduct dangerous interviews and compliance of self-responsibility of Mr. Jyunpei Yasuda who was detained in Syrian and was released and Mr. Khashoggi who was killed in Consulate-General of Saudi Arabia in Turkey. ② Relationship between information disclosure and democracy on topic of making internal document when Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry writes official documents "there is no need to record individual interactions of negotiations with politicians". ③ Relationship between person in authority and media. American newspapers announced editorial comments on press freedom upon incident of President Trump made media which was critical to him leave from the press conference. After introduction of above topics, students exchanged their opinion and made presentations as below.
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⑤ Medical issueDr. Kurumiya Takashi , General manager of emergency medical care department, Mie Kita Iryo Center Inabe General Hospital"Me and Medical Care" Connecting Life -Current Status of Medical Care in the World- In the first half, Dr.Kurumiya shared his experience while his was in Medecins Sans Frontiers, then he facilitated a group work on topic of "Lift" based on a method of Mandal-Art in later half. (First half) There is always a war somewhere in the world, and there are many people who suffer from lack of adequate medical care. The lecturer Dr. Kurumiya who has experience providing medical service in conflict areas, talked about conditions of severe medical services in conflict areas such as Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria. Students listened carefully about his experience of medical operation for those who suffered from injury or illness. (Latter half) With a method called Mandal-Art, students wrote items which are associated with life, put them together in a poster and had presentations. The students had active discussioin and thought about importance of life.
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⑥ Global BusinessMr. Yoshiyasu Mizuno, JICA Expert, Former Tanzanian Ministry of Industry and Trade Policy AdvisorIf you become an African economic adviser? Based on the experience of his work in Africa, he described current situation in Africa and then students thought about supporting Afrian countries. ・African economy scrap & build ・From exporting agricultural products to agricultural products processing industry ・Japanese companies and Japanese in Tanzania ・What would you do if you were an economic adviser? (discussion) ①Shall they apply international standards? Village producer is not capable to manage that.
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