Upload: 23 September 2019, Last update: 26 September 2019

I am not actually not sure whether I can say this to most of educational institutions in Japan (and other countries), but I do think that universities (and elementary, junior high, and high schools) in Japan should more invite guest speakers.

Since I do watch a lot of videos of academics on the web and visit open lectures of academics, I found that those opportunities inspire or help to discover new and inspiring perspectives.

Even if we take a series of classes from a professor for 10 or 20 hours, in some cases it cannot beat an experience of listening to just a 2-hour lecture of a guest speaker. Even it can be the life changing event for students. It can trigger the potential of students and motivate them for a long time (or even lifelong).

In addition, those lectures can be posted on the Internet, for example YouTube. It can be beneficial to not merely audiences attending, but also to a society. In some cases, it would play a role of enhancing publicity of institutions.

Universities like Harvard, MIT and others allow people like me to watch higher level of intelligence. That always motivates and gives chances to reach new findings.

The following added on 28 March 2020

Other than top universities, people tend not to meet professors truly inspire. Even in top universities, students, I think, hope to have more opportunities of other interesting professors. Increasing this sort of opportunities motivates students more.

The world is more influenced by emotions than facts.

As Edward Snowden said in an interview of The Guardian posted on YouTube on 13 September 2019 that “… people care much more deeply about feelings, than they do about facts … “[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EezWIxcinnw Accessed 16 September

Upload: 9 September 2019, Last update: 21 September 2019

There are some researches on whether media in countries are trusted by its citizens or not. But even if the public have confidence in media, it doesn’t guarantee that the media are working well.

It depends on a country whether its media is working well or not even if its citizens considers its media (un)trustworthy. If people have high media literacy, their trust would be lower since they demand better working of media.

Upload: 2 September 2019, Last update: 21 September 2019

In March 2019, France 2 broadcasted the program named “Japan, the children kidnapped”[1].

For example, a case which was broadcasted on the program is that “after his divorce, the French justice gave him the right to see his daughter one weekend in two and half of the vacation”[2], but since the mother and the child live in Japan, his right to see the child doesn’t work.

I do not too much step into personal issues, but Japan needs to work on this situation for the children and parents of this case.

[1] Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJVKHztFQUc Accessed 2 September 2019. The French title is “Japon, les enfants kidnappés”

[2] Ibid. 3:29-3:37

Restrictions deprives freedoms, particularly in the field of media, We have been seeing great advancement of technology. The Internet is now dominent in our life. Computer is necessary for work, leisure, and almost all things are connected on the web. Give a glance at media, the Internet is more free than other media and it is the benefit. Regulations of some of the platforms on the Internet is getting stricter as rules are being more established.

However, so as not to be look like the current situation of TV, the Internet should have tolerance and generosity of content. Internet is a place where almost every citizen is able to share together contrary to TV which doesn’t allow so many people to be part of it.