What's New at Kyoto NHK ESS?

Dear our ESS members!
Youji Imai

Here are the advanced informations on Practice of March 11th.

As they said, last year was very remarkable to Japan because of ex-President Mr.Obama’s visit to Hiroshima and Prime Minister Abe’s visit to Pearl Harbor. It goes without saying that Pearl Harbor was the symbol of the Pacific War’s start, Hiroshima was it’s end. In other word, the Pacific War was started by Japan’s surprise attack then it was finished with Japan’s Unconditional Surrender.
Last year was the year of the end of the big historical span named “ After World War Ⅱ“.
Shouldn’t we recognize correctly fruits and losses brought by perfect defeat in the Pacific War?
Why don’t we confirm what we lost and gained as Japanese with the World War Ⅱ　？

The practice on March 11th will be a sort of group study.

We will make 5 or 6 groups, a reporter will be appointed in the beginning.
The reporter shall ask questions and summarize his members answers.
Lists of questions are to provided in advance.
After restudy and discussion on the list, each reporter announces it’s
summary to other groups.

Even though there must be hard and delicate titles and questions, don’t be hesitant nor passive in discussions, I hope.
An important hint is , without doubt, the Japan Constitution is one of main issues.
Thank you.

Dear ESS members,

It's been for a while since I last participated in the weekly activities of the Kyoto NHK ESS Club...I am worried that most of you have already forgotten my face. Could you forgive me for my recent lazy attitude?

Today, I am texting to you as the Practicing planner on March 18th.
Because I am heading to Washington, D.C. in a couple of days and return to Kyoto just a few days before the Practice day, please let me give you a brief announcement now even though it seems too early.

Date: 18th March
Genre: creative thinking and presentation
Title: Intercultural Events Planner
Description:
1. Make groups as usual
2. Imagine you are working at a university as a planner of intercultural events for local students and international students. Your task is making unique opportunities for students to find friendship beyond nationalities and various cultural backgrounds. (Ex. Monday's lunch break chat event, special hiking event on Sunday) You have about 20 minutes to plan an event and make a poster.
3. Show the poster to your group members and make a short presentation about the event. Then, select the best plan in your group.
4. Share

Furthermore, I'd love to talk about what I will have learned and experienced in the United States.
Thank you very much as always and I am looking forward to seeing you.

Minamo Akiyama

(Btw, my 20th birthday is 9th March. It means finally I will join the ESS club activity as an adult!! The first day I joined you was just a week before my 17th birthday…How fast three years has gone!!!!)

Hello everyone in Kyoto ESS!
Title: What is your opinion

In this practice we should make 5 or 6 groups.
Then I'm going to provide 3 questions.
Each member can choose one of these questions that you prefer.
And describe your idea regarding the question that you select.
We will have 20 minutes to prepare your answer.
After 20 minutes each member tells the answer to the others in each
group.
It should be desirable that your answer is over 100 words.
If we have enough time finally, please decide a presenter that you
recognize the best and the presenter would show the idea as a group
representative.

Question 1
Space exploration is much too expensive and the money should be spent on
more important things.
What is your opinion?

Question 2
The internet has transformed the way of our communication style and
information is shared and consumed, but it has also created problems
that did not exist before.

What are the most serious problems associated with the internet and
I'd like to announce the next practice on 25th March.

what solutions can you suggest?

Question 3
The free movement of goods across national borders has long been
controversial issues.
Some people argued that it is necessary for economic growth, while
others claim that it damages local industries.

Consider both views and give your opinion.

That's all, thanks

T. Sakai

Hello, Kyoto ESS members !

It's still chilly in the morning and at night, but we certainly feel spring just around the corner, right?

Tamaki Murase is announcing the practice on April 1st at Hitomachi.

As you know, April 1st is the day you can lie openly as “April Fool”, so I'd like to take this opportunity for us to tell lies as much as we want ! and train ourselves to distinguish truths from untruths.

(I know Mr. Kurusu presented a lair game the other day. Sorry for the duplication of the subject.)

Genre: game

Description:

➀　
Think of both true stories and fake stories.
Fake stories have to sound like true ones, and vice versa.
Prepare at least 3 of them in 20 minutes.

②
Make a couple.

③
Tell one of your stories to the challenger who judges whether it is true or not.

④
If the challenger could tell it correctly, you would lose.

⑤
Swich the role.

⑥
Make another couple to continue the game.

The person who could deceive the most people will be the winner, to whom the title “Great Liar”
will be given ‼

Since the word “post truth” is becoming to widely spread recently, we way come across the sceans where we have to stop and think what the truth is. Could this game contribute to our preparation for the untruthful society coming up ???

Let's enjoy !!!

Tamaki Murase