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DAYS JAPAN 写真展実行委員会

立命館アジア太平洋大学 2 回生

学生代表：鬼塚　亮輔

はじめに

　 世界では、今でもどこかで紛争や飢餓で苦しんでいる人たちがいます。日本にいると、あまり知ることができない“現実”がそこには確実に存在しています。“報道写真”を通じて 世界の現状を促えることのできるきっかけを提供したいと考え今回の写真展を企画しました。

Africa Week, the second installment for the fall semester Multicultural Weeks, has thrown the spotlight on African culture and filled the APU campus with an African atmosphere. Starting on Monday, December 7, 2009, African Week will run until Friday, December 11.

Beijing taking the place of Tokyo as a centre of American Asia Pacific strategy is, in part, mass media sensationalism.

                           Professor YAMAZAKI Ryuichiro

Introduction:

Visiting Professor, APU

Ambassador & Deputy Permanent Representative to United Nations (1999)

Spokesperson of the Foreign Ministry and of Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (2000)

Ambassador to Vietnam (2001)

Ambassador & Chief Negotiator for WTO (02)

Ambassador to Philippines (04-07)

Noam Avram Chomsky was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on December 7, 1928. He received his early education at Oak Lane Country Day School and Central High School, Philadelphia. He continued his education at the University of Pennsylvania where he studied linguistics, mathematics, and philosophy. In 1955, he received his Ph. D. from the University of Pennsylvania, however, most of the research leading to this degree was done at Harvard between 1951 and 1955. Since receiving his Ph. D., Chomsky has taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he now holds the Ferrari P. Ward Chair of Modern Language and Linguistics. Noam was married to Carol Schatz on December 24, 1949 and has two children.

As an exchange student here in APU you are going to meet a lot of different people with different beliefs and experience. One of those beliefs is love. I´m not talking about love itself, no I´m talking about “love” as a concept, the idea what love is and not the actual feeling. APU is one of the world´s most multicultural universities with students from around 90 different countries. There is a big possibility that you are going to meet people that think and do things different from you. Sometimes you can understand why they do the things they do and other times you just don´t get it, but you have to respect it! And the idea of love can differ. In the student handbook 2009 they gave the exchange students in the beginning there is a chapter about: Male and Female Relationships.

DO SY Huy has started a scholarship program called Học bổng Huynh Đệ 25/8” (Sempai-Kohai Scholarship) in AY200 9 back in his country, Vietnam. This scholarship is awarded to the high school students in grade 12. In AY 2008, two students were awarded with this scholarship while in AY 2009, it was dramatically increased to 13. By saving whatever he could from his Honors Scholarship, Do SY Huy is co-funding this annual scholarship. The aim of this scholarship is to encourage high school students to make plans for their future based on two pillars of Ethics and Wisdom so that they will be able to achieve higher goals in their lives.

In APU students can experience different academic and professional environment. As it has a multicultural setting, there are students coming from different cultural backgrounds thus creating the higher possibility of innovative ideas and concepts to come out. APU helps its students by preparing them to standout as dynamic figures in not only the Asia Pacific region but in the whole world. Among many, System Assistant (from here SA) is one of the opportunities that APU provides to the students. So, who are the SAs? Let’s know them.

　先日、本校では “Stand Up Take Action” というイベントが開催された。このイベントは、「ミレニアム・キャンペーン (MC) 」と「グローバルな貧困根絶運動（ GCAP ）」のパートナーシップの下に実施されている。「貧困問題の解消」と「ミレニアム開発目標（世界 189 ヵ国のリーダーたちが「 2015 年までに世界の貧困を半減すること」などを約束した）の達成」のために世界中で同時に行動を起こすことを呼びかけるキャンペーンである。貧困問題解決のために立ち上がった写真を撮影し、その参加人数をカウントした上で、ギネス記録に登録する。ギネスに名を残すことで世界の注目を集め、世界の貧困をなくすという強い声を各国のリーダーへ届けることが目的である。４回目を迎える今年は、ギネス記録を更新し世界中で 1 億 7304 万 5325 人がスタン�...