ESG Prospectus

Season 4 will be launch from the next week

The Economist Study Group (ESG) is a group for young people who want to lead and make a positive impact on their field of the society. Our group is in progress, launched in April 2011 in Tokyo just after the devastating earthquake and tsunami hit the northeastern Japan.Our group aims to share insightful thoughts and ideas by discussing global issues based on articles of The Economist. The Economist is a international newspaper edited in the offices in the City of London, England. Its primary focus is world news, politics and business. Also it runs regular sections on science and technology as well as books and the arts. By discussing various topics in a group, we confront different values and beliefs of others, and find what ours are. This is hard to get opportunity for us who live in this front-running country.

We gather at a café on every Sunday morning. Detailed information is below:

Date & time: Every Sunday 10:00-12:00

Place: a Café in Kanda and others

People: mostly born in 80’s working in both public and private sectors. 
4-8 people coming to join as usual

Language: English

Style: Free talk / discussion / debate

Schedule: (1) Join (2) Read (3) Prepare (4) Discuss

(1)  Join

You can JOIN our discussion by checking a mark on a spreadsheet which members share on Google Docs. We can share date, time, place and members who can join in the spreadsheet.

(2) Read

You should READ all articles picked up by members who can join the discussion. You also pick up one article from a current newspaper.

(3) Prepare

Before discussion, you have to PREPAR your discussion paper on the article you picked up. It may consist of summary, discussion topics and a reason of choosing the article. Preparing A4 paper is enough for the discussion.

(4) Discuss

Based on your discussion paper, we DISCUSS each topic we pick up for the time. You can choose the style of the discussion from free talk / debate / presentation and so on.