#1 Where does this ends? (March 26th, 2011)

第一回の勉強会は３人が集まって渋谷ルノワールにて開催した。

最初なので短いレビューだが、ゆくゆくは内容の詰まったものにしていきたい。

奇しくも今号のカバータイトルは "Where does this end?"
長く続く集まりにしたいものだ。

The Economist Study Group

#1 Where does this ends? (March 26th, 2011 Full edition)

April 3, 2011 (SUN) 15:00~17:00

at SHIBUYA RENOIR

ONO, YAMAGATA, OGAWA

Articles we discussed

[Leaders] Another year of living dangerously

[Briefing] When the steam clears

[United States] On a losing streak

[Asia] Come back in ten years

[Business] Peculiar people

[Finance and Economics] Fat-tail attraction

　　　The style of this discussion group is (1) Pick up 2 articles each others (2) Share the articles early of the week (3) In the end of this week, have a meeting in a café, share opinions and discuss. This time, only one of us prepared his resume but we conclude everyone should prepare it next time.

　　　The main topic of this week’s discussion is the disastrous earthquake and nuclear power plant of Japan. This topic is the most important and focusing topic for the people all over the world and we as Japanese should tackle and engage to solve the problems. This was the first time for us to do the discussion like this but not confused as I imagined because the members get used to this kind of academic topics. We talked and discussed as we wanted, but next time I want to do the discussion more systematically or formally to make it more effective.

　　　There are several Renoir café in Shibuya. At first I went to a café in front of Tokyu Hands but two others was in a café in Sakuragaoka so I have to go back to the station for 10 min. Renoir is comfortable space for chatting with friends but it is smoking available so for groups of non-smoker such as ours it is not so good place to discuss in.