2010年7月8日木曜日

要領のよさについて

  今日の授業中アンケートを書いた時今どきの日本の学生のことを思い出した。 3限目の授業はこれについての記事を読んだ。島田先生ていうかたは今の日本人の学生の性格を研究した。かわす私語したり居眠りしたりしている学生たちはおそらく要領のよさの理由ようだ。要領のよさとは出来るだけ気軽にしているということである。難しいことを避けて簡単にやる。授業中先生の話を聞く代わりにケイタイをしたり友達と喋たりした人が多くなってきた。それは内容が分からない原因じゃなくてやる気がない理由ではないでしょう。それに単位取得が簡単なが分かるので頑張らなくて良いと思うでしょう。
  先生たちは熱心に面白い教え方を探して使っても、何も変わらないと思う。先生のせいだけじゃなくて学生のせいである。先生が良い方法を使っても学生の協力をもらえなかったら、意味ないのでしょう。日本人の学生にとって勉強よりサークルとバイトの方が大切なことなようだ。授業を休むことはバイトを休むことをしやすい。それについて要領のよさを発揮するだけじゃなくて日本人の学生にとして勉強についての考え方も影響がある。勉強を簡単にやってやらなくても構いません。日本人の学生にとって勉強はそんなに大切ではないなのでしょう。学校は遊ぶところみたいので卒業してから本当の生活だと考えているようだ。それで授業中真面目になくてもいいだ。私語する人と居眠りしする人をよく見られる。これは私の意見ですが、実はどうなるか分かりませんが。日本人の学生たちに聞いてみたいと思う。

The CLOVE movie's protest

It doesn't matter if they want to protest as long as they are still doing it in the right way and not harming another people. But I don't like the way that they surrounded the movie theatre so much that the people who do want to see the movie could not get in. It seems like they are limiting people's free right of watching, normally they can watch every kind of movie they want to watch if it is not illegal, but in this case the movie itself is legal, the protest just don't want it to be show up. I think it is unfair that the protest who are against this movie try so hard to stop publish this movie. Whether the movie is good or not, the watcher will be the judgement not the protest. And I don't like the way that they appeared at the theatre's owner house and sort of blamed Mr.Kagawa's mother about letting her son show the movie. Actually the number of the people who want to see this movie might be a lot, they probably afraid of the protest might hurt them or some other reasons, so just a few of people came to see it. If the protest want another Japanese people to believe in them and be the same side with them, they should let the them watch this movie and let them decide by their own will more than suppressing them from watching it. After they watch it, they will know what side should they will be with.

Seminar trip

I had a lot of fun in seminar trip more than I thought, because not only learing about dam issue but also learing Japanese history and culture. I really like the samurai house in Hitoyoshi, it is unique and a vivid symbol of Japanese traditonal culture. From listening to the explanation, I felt like I was studying about Japanese history and living style which was reflected by the things that were put in the house. We know that ancient Japanese tried to use the resources they possess so as to make their life more comfortable. We can see it from using black bamboo which is long-lasting and effective for insecticide. I am so impressed about this.
By the way, I was so happy that I could get on the SL Hitoyoshi. While we were sitting on the train, we saw incredibly beautiful scenery. And the train itself have been decorated in classic style astonished me. I really enjoy it. It made 2 hours as a great memorial time for me, because it is my last seminar trip.

2010年6月30日水曜日

Attitude toward animals

Last week, we talked a lot about the differences between killing dolphin and another animal.
Although most of students in seminar class said that it does not matter what kind of animal are they, they are absolutely the same, because they have their own life and soul. If we say they are not different from those reasons. And then why there are still a lot of complaining about whale killing? It probably come to the question that is it because of their cuteness make some differences?
However, I think it might be because of the attitudes toward animal. Cow and chicken have been seen as animal for eating, on the contrary, the dolphins have been viewed as intelligent and showing animal. In my opinion, the way the way they were being killed, the result,which is their death ,is the same. The way cows were being killed may be either the same or even more merciless, but we haven't seen it with our own eyes. Or we know it, but we just ignore because we still want to eat them. In case of cows and pigs, they have been fed to be killed, sold and eaten. Wasn't it sad? It is worse than dolphin case, at least the dolphin can live as long as they wish and if they are not killed, they can stay longer. By the way, the attitude toward animal makes it different. The reason why this case have been the problem is attitude toward dolphins.
Dolphins have been seen as an intelligent and adorable animal. Apart from that, they are widely known as a good show animal. General people never think that their meat can be eaten.
We can see in the seminar class as well that some of Japanese student have ever eaten whale meat while they were in their junior high school. It mean that they didn't despised it at that time. A lot of critic from foreign countries where they are against, it did effected their opinions. Could we imagine if they is none of news about banning whale killing, Japanese will eat and kill them freely or not?
We have also seen that a lot of Japanese protest arised and against the movie, what is the reason behind that? They still want to eat dolphin or they don't want to be look bad in world view?

2010年6月23日水曜日

Last Class and Seminar trip

The more Japanese protest the movie the more I want to watch this movie. This movies' issue does not reflect only whale killing in Japan but also less publish right in Japan. I am just kind of curious that do they have another cases like this case occur in Japan? If they have, how did they deal with those cases?
By the way, I do not know much about Hitoyoshi. I think we might have a lot of things that we can do. Actually I would like to try rafting, but I find it is quite dangerous and it is also expensive. So I decided not to do it. I prefer to check out Hitoyoshi area instead. I am looking forward to seeing alcohol factory.

2010年6月16日水曜日

Dam Issue

We watched news about problems which occured from the dams in Japan, especially Kabegawa dam and the dam in Nagasaki prefecture. Government always use the reasons that building the dam help preventing flood and irrigating. Although it is quite logical and objective reason, it still causes a lot of damages, for example ruining the environment in that area and tidal flow. Is it really helpful?? Anyhow I do not know so much about constructing the dam, so I could not tell that it is good or not. I want to know about another dam's cases in Japan.
I am looking forward to going to Hitoyoshi to see what does it look like.

2010年6月9日水曜日

NEW Topics

A couple weeks ago, we have been talking a lot about Japanese's communication. I would like to talk about Japanese's attitude, because we have Japanese in our class and they will be able to answer our question about their own attitude. I find the Japanese's way of thinking toward working is interesting and I want to know more about it. Before I came to Japan, I have heard that Japanese work so hard and they might be the most hard workers in the world. When I studied Japanese, I learned the word 過労死 which mean death from overwork. I don't know are other country have some kind of this symptom or not,but Thailand does not. If Japan is the only country which have citizens who died because of death from overwork, it should be the thing that we should discuss about. By the way, I also wonder why they have to work so hard? Are they happy while they are doing this? Do they really need to work that hard?