2011年12月4日日曜日

#2-17 Is this really the end? [Dec 4th, 2011]

ESG Review17
December 4th, 2011 10:00-12:00 Ochanomizu New Yorker’s Cafe
Ogawa, Shimada, Iino, Sugahara, Tomozawa, Mizutani and Takase






[Science and technology][Science in Japan] Where rats and robots play
[Climate change] Good news at last?
[Britain][The economy] Autumn leaves falling
[South Asia’s water] Unquenchable Thirst

This week we gather at Ochanomizu for the first time. I chose the place is because it is near from Hongo campus where I went to after the group. 2 new comers joined this week. Mizutani is a colleague of Iino working for an energy industry. He is good at English because he studied for a year in Canada. Takase is a guy who found our group on facebook and approached to join us. He is an enthusiastic person working in IT venture and has bright ideas. Sugahara-san prepared her discussion paper for the first time. She is a professional translator so I asked her to advice us from her professional point of view.

We discussed almost all topics in English for the first time as a trial. Unexpectedly, we could manage our discussions without any troubles or difficulties. We decided to continue this attempt on the next week. Following topics we discussed:


[Science in Japan] 
The Economist says that Japan is a country with one of the most rigit hierarchies in the world. Do you agree with this view?

[Climate change] 
(1) What do you think of this article? Do you think it is trust worthy? (2) If so, how this evidence contributes to the international politics over climate change? Can rich countries justify their regulation towards emerging countries? (3) Also how these evidence influence firm’s behavior?

[The Britain’s economy] 
What are the similarities and differences between situations in Japan and Britain? Japan’s fiscal condition seems worse than Britain. What kind of policy should Japanese government apply?

[South Asia’s water] 
Let’s discuss how to cope with the shortage of water in the world. Is the water terminal survival for us?


After the discussion, we went to eat lunch at Ochanomizu. I frequently came here in my high school days to join a clam school. One of the friends of the clam school is now in America studying in university. She is a hard worker and enthusiastic about her study. Ochanomizu is a place where we got to know how to cultivate ourselves to brighten our life by study.

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