Upload: 21 October 2019, Last update: 4 December 2019

Unless people having different positions and backgrounds are put in structure, it is hard to know the cores of problems. Nowadays, more people try to respect and understand each other, this is of course a progress, but as a next step society faces how social structure can be built up to be able to deal with social issues.

Setting up social structure in which diverse people take part in is necessary to make society for everyone lives there.

The labeling of right -wing or left-wing is not to persons, it’s rather the opinions each person has.

Update: 7 October 2019, Last update: 8 October 2019

This is very risky at this moment since the world tends to be influenced by emotions than facts. I think that in the world after the Internet emerged our media literacy hasn’t reached the point that we can move to next phase of democracy. The time hasn’t come yet, but we can have (or at least share) better ways to reflect public opinions in the near future.

Dominant companies avoid taxation while they conduct their business in huge scale. Governments need to change the current situation in which those enterprises can run their business while avoiding taxation.

It would help to make the society better in terms of distributing wealth and decreasing inequality.

Also, the dominance of a few corporations will decrease.

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.