『知求会ニュース』第71号へのコラムの掲載

ゼミ生の井手之上健太さんが執筆されたコラムが 『知求会ニュース』第71号をに掲載されました。

また、宇都宮大学HP学長ティータイムにてUIPJの活動が取り上げられました。

Experiences of Radio Appearance and TICAD 7 Youth Summit

B3 Reona FUKUHARA

I am Reona Fukuhara, a member of Fujii’s seminar in 2019. I would like to share my experiences in this summer.

Firstly, on 7th August 2019, the members of Fujii seminar and UIPJ went on Miyaradi which is the local radio in Utsunomiya. Though this was the first time for us to go on a radio, we spend a great time with Ms.Nakagawa who is radio personality.

First of all, professor Fujii introduced his context of research and interests. Some listeners got interest in his topics and questioned to his research topic. (Unfortunately, there was no time to answer the question.) It was great opportunity for us. Then, Tomoki Yokoyama and I reported our experience of Japan Association of Global Governance, the 12th research meeting, held in Kobe University, and introduced UIPJ. Attila Nasir who is a member of UIPJ introduced the details of its activities and advertised some events. UIPJ will have a symposium in the coming November whose theme is genocide. I would like to support them to success it.

I would like to show my appreciation to Ms. Nakagawa. She listened to our story favorably and asked a lot of questions with great interest. It was lack of time that we talk all of our experiences. Thus, we would be pleased if we get opportunity to participate again.

Secondly, on 12th August, I participated in TICAD7 Youth Summit with Ai Haraguchi who is also a member of Fujii’s Seminar. This summit was organized by Japan Youth Platform for Sustainability (JYPS) which organizes advocacy movement and many campaigns to achieve sustainable society. This summit was consisted of two subcommittees and matching session. In this summit, participants can talk face to face with staffs of organizations engaging in an international corporation.

In the midmorning, one subcommittee was held. The title is “The labor problem in terms of the current situation of youth employment”. Two instructors organized this subcommittee. One of them is Mr. Fukunishi who is working at JETRO and the director of Area Studies Center, African Studies Group. The other is Mr. Peter who is ABE initiative student from Nigeria. Firstly, Mr. Fukunishi explained the current labor market situation and problems in Africa. Then, Mr. Peter mentioned about the specific labor problems in terms of youth labor. After these lectures, the participants discussed what would be necessary in order to improve the working environment for African youth. The participant from Ghana suggested that the attitude of foreign company should be changed because they have a bias that African people are not superior. Even if the labor market is expanded, it is few opportunities to get job under the good condition because of their bias. Thus, I thought all of the company has a responsibility to consider about this issue.

Ai Haraguchi took another subcommittee about refugees

In the afternoon, the matching session was held. I talked with many staffs belonging to various organizations. In this session, I could connect with not only the staffs but also students who are interested in topic that I got too. It was a great opportunity to talk and consult about career path each other.

The stuff from ADRA Japan explained about their working

Through interaction with them, I could be aware of youth power. And I hope more and more young people realize their own power !

Picture with participants

The Report of Participation in MOFA Internship Program

B3 Kenta IDENOUE

I am Kenta Idenoue, a member of Fujii’s seminar in 2019. On 9th August 2019, I participated in the one-day internship of specialist personnel of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This is because I am interested in work of the Ministry and hope to engage in multilateral diplomacy in the future. I would like to share my experience of the precious day.

It seems that about one-hundred people participated in the internship. The participants came from all over Japan. In the morning, we participants received explanations about the overview such as structure, concept and employment information of the Ministry. After lunch break, we did the diplomatic simulation. I was looking forward to this session because it was expected to give me a good opportunity to experience diplomacy practically. In this internship, the topic was Japan’s diplomacy of whaling. As Japan just withdrew from the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and started again commercial whaling last month, this topic was so current and suitable for my interest fortunately. Mainly, we discussed two points in a small group, future efforts of Japanese government toward countries concerned and strategic public diplomacy. After group discussion, each group gave a presentation in front of everyone. Our group suggested that Japan should restart commercial whaling under great management system. This strictness can solve the concerns of countries against whaling which full resumption of commercial whaling may exterminate the species of whale. Moreover, in the future, the management system may help other countries do well-managed whaling. It is considered that this contributes to enhance Japan’s presence in diplomacy of whaling. Needless to say, other groups also did sophisticated suggestions. Through this session, I learned a lot and got stimulated.

I spent good time in learning diplomacy with intelligent participants, especially the diplomatic simulation. As I am in charge of the team leader of IHL role play competition scheduled to be held next month, I try to use the experiences in this internship to grow. Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to express my appreciation to organizers of this internship.

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