Discussion
There are mainly two separated sessions: morning session and afternoon session.
In the morning, Mr. Yukawa is going to give a lecture about 'Sustainable Development' to you. After the Q&A (Question and Answer) session, you are going to be divided up into seven groups and talk about your impression about his speech and also, things you can learn from it. You will not only be encouraged to come up with positive feedback, but you will also receive negative feedback about his speech, so that we can have a critical analysis. We may ask you to move into a small different rooms because the lecture hall is not in an appropriate size for small discussion. After the group discussion, a representative from each group will summarize and share his/her group discussion with all participants. Then, we move on a lunch break.
In the afternoon, we'd like to give you an opportunity to talk about 'Sustainable Development'. We came up with the following seven topics pertain to this subject:
- Education: Current situation of entrance examination war and the attitude towards academic interests
- Economy: The status quo of this economic downtown and the measures to cope with it
- Environment: The ways to deal with global warming without discouraging economic development
- Technology: Useful technology for human beings such as biotechnology
- Development Assistance: The ways to aid developing countries
- Welfare: Declining birth rate and aging society
- Human Rights: Discrimination against women or disabilities
As well as in the morning, participants are again divided up into seven groups, and each representative will give a small presentation about what kind of answers or ideas came up with. If you have any ideas about a discussion topic, please do not be hesitant to advice us.
Materials for discussion
Don't worry, materials for this discussion, such as newspaper articles will be prepared. Although we have not found any good sources yet, we will update the web page as soon as we get ready for the materials. So please keep checking our website^-^.
If you have any advice or suggestions regarding the materials we are going to use at the discussion day, please feel free to contact us. Your ideas are welcomed!
Lecturer: Mr. Fumiki Yukawa
There are 64 countries where he has visited so far (and surely more in the future)! And, you know what, his goal is to be a 'private diplomat'.
The lecturer of this camp, Mr. Fumiki Yukawa, graduated from Keio University with a bachelor of Development Economics. As shown by the fact that he has served as a leader in the International Development Conference, he demonstrated distinguished leadership skills and engaged in various international exchange activities.
After the graduation of Keio University, he got a job in SONY Corporation. He was stationed in Mexico for 2 years, and also served as a VAIO's marketing leader for Asian Pacific 15 countries. Last year, he left the company and set up a business by establishing his own company named 'Ai', which means love in Japanese.
With his outstanding language ability that enabled him to speak five languages (Japanese, English, Spanish, French and Italian) fluently, he plays an active part in various international stages, let alone Japan. In the future, he plans to go into politics and serve as the Japanese Prime Minister.
Soccer, horseback riding, flower arrangement, tea ceremony, ceramics, writing lyrics and composing music, performance, dancing and writing novels...He is such a versatile man as everybody admits. What circumstances and backgrounds led him to foster the seed of this everlasting curiosity?
In his lecture, based upon his abundant experiences of visiting many countries, he will give an example of 'sustainable development' that he has seen and gone through in his life. Then, Mr. Yukawa will refer to the assertion of Mr. Al Gore whom he himself highly respect. At the end, Mr. Yukawa is clearly bringing out the problems that current society is confronting at this moment.
