Blog #2: Answer to the question in page 107 (Kazu)

This is Kazu.

Some people say they feel overloaded with information these days, considering all the TV news shows, magazines, newspapers, and computer information services. Others say they like having so much informaion to choose from. Do you feel overloaded, or do you like having so much information available?

     I believe it is always not a bad thing to have "too much" of anything in life if you know how to take the advantage of it and use it well. I like having so much information available on the internet because it shortens so much time to get the information online at anytime instead of going to the library while it is open and take so much time searching for the book I wanted. At some point in student life, library is inevitable, but searching online in advance would help you significantly to find a book that has all the informations you are searching for. Moreover, I think having too so much information available would make you better at summarizing. Additionally, we are living in a world in which you cannot avoid from the internet and the information society.

Blog #2: The answer to the question presented in p107 of the textbook (Nagata)

This is Minori Nagata.

1. Some people say they feel overloaded with information these days, considering all the TV news shows, magazines, newspapers, and computer information services. Others say they like having so much informaion to choose from. Do you feel overloaded, or do you like having so much information available?

I don't feel overloaded with any information because I'm always selective in the choise of information.  The modern world has been flooded with information and the form of madia has got so diverse that we're confused with which information is right and most important.
Under such a situation I've got several things to do. I make a point of having the accesses to several kinds of newspaper or the TV programme. Secondly I'm trying to cultivate the insight and the ability to judge whether the information is reallly the fact or not. Third I compare an affair or information with the other one from another point of view for fear of being biased. By doing these things I'm not stressed with the flooded information. Eventually I probably like to have a lot of information.

Blog#1 Pioneering human resources needed to the African market. (Ryuko)

I'd like to introduce the article on 4th Jun The TICAD (Tokyo International Conference on African Development) three-days meetings in Yokohama, which is held every five years, and was started in 1993 at the initiative of Japan as a forum for African leaders to discuss Africa’s economic development and shape of assistance to the continent.

Africa is rich in energy resources and rare metals needed for high-tech products. China has already moved aggressively into African market to expand their business to not only developing the resources but also selling products made in China. As I watched television program last year about a Chinese aggressive young man, who stayed to build up a tower-shaped station for wireless communication network at the inland of Africa, He lived in the wilderness alone and cooked his own meals every day, because there was no accommodation around there.

On the other hand, recent Japanese young man does never stay in such wilderness. The television program reported that most Japanese young people were brought up in an indulged home environment and they did not want to stay in undeveloped countries. If spineless Japanese young people are increasing, it is said to be concerned about the nation's future and the useless to attracting development assistance and private investment by Japanese government proposal.

I think it takes to make young people mentally stronger to live alone in foreign countries. Though they see all the different kinds of trouble that will happens, their experiences would make them to be tough. I think the funds are not only for official development assistance in Africa but also the pioneering human resources needed to the market.