What　motivate　them？

What is NPO Japan Ethiopia Students Conference (JESC)?

JESC was established with the hope of building the equal relationship between Japan and Ethiopia, not the one-sided relationship with assistance.

In Ethiopia, we exchange and discuss with Ethiopian students, also visit Plantation/Agriculture project Coffee field, elementary school with the support by JICA etc. In Japan, we introduce the actual circumstances of Ethiopia and the results of the project and hold the study session by students. Other than that, we open café for school festival, attend and organize various kinds of events that are relative to Ethiopia and Africa. We also collaborate with embassy to hold a coffee ceremony…and so on.


Let’s feel familiar with Ethiopia! Interview a member of JESC from Ethiopia, Esparow!!

-What is your image of Japan like?

I think Japanese has a nationality of punctuality and diligence.
I can’t believe that their economic standard was same as ours a half century ago.


-What is the dream of yourself and your friends?

I want to be the motive power for the development of our nation. By becoming a lawyer or a businessman, we have a common dream of leading the country and becoming the model of the people. I think we are the hopeful generation.


-Did anything change after knowing JESC?

I was thinking that there was only one way to solve the problems of Ethiopia which was to make an effort inside the country. But JESC made me realize that to build the favorable relationship with other countries is very important to develop our country.
In the world of globalization, it was a great chance to think about the future of Ethiopia.

-Thank you!

What about the future of ours, JESC?


We are pursuing the realization of exchange and discuss in Japan with welcoming Ethiopian students, not only that we Japanese students visit Ethiopia.
By feeling local culture, tradition, and sense of value at the original place, we will get to acquire a bigger point of view and see from both sides of aspects. This will lead to solve the problems of both of the countries.
We will keep challenging many things with students’ natural vigorous curiosity and flexibility in order to develop and prosper both countries. (President of JESC Nobuhiko Kamiya)

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The Japanese Fast Food?!

Now, students are working on
to achieve the connection beyond the border.

Multicultural delivery2
From U.K~Recognition born in daily life~

The Japanese Fast Food?!

The store’s most recommendable dish is Mushi Zushi Set, named “Fufu Mushi” (couple steaming” (1,500yen), with a big Teacup steamed egg pudding and conger eel, which have been loved since the store opened in 1866.

Their Teacup steamed egg pudding is as big as a “donburi” bowl and has an enough volume. There are 9 ingredients in it such as tender Ooyama chicken with boiled fish paste, their original crunchy Fu, etc.

Although I can’t help thinking it’s too enough already, the steamed sushi which comes with the teacup steamed egg pudding also gives super rich taste with the soup of Shiitake and vinegar worked into rice pretty much. Also, on the top of rice, exquisite balance of sweet flavored juicy eel and twist-cut egg, and shrimp paste fry won’t let your chopsticks stop!!

Actually the main store is located in Nagasaki. Nagasaki used to be the only city that had the door to the world back in Edo era which led to be exerted on lots of influence from other foreign cultures．Because of this situation, it was rather easy for them to get rare ingredients such as sugar back then and this is why their original and rich food culture was established.

to achieve the connection beyond the border.

In Japan, there are quite a few student associations which were established on the purpose of the achievement of international exchange and amity. However, practically, the connection between them hardly exists and each of them has been isolated to each other. In 1998, the students who feared of this situation established Student Conference Network. (ＳＣＮ)
At that time, only few members were joining this association, after having pursued the settlement of network for mutual enlightenment, mutual understanding and mutual cooperation, now it has its 11-years history, with being consisted of many associations such as ALSA (The Asian Law Students' Association), Japan-India Student Conference, Japan-Vietnam Student Conference, Japan-China Student Conference, Japan-Korea Student Conference, Japan-Kenya Student Conference, and International Student Association (ISA), Japan Norway Student Forum, and RING.

The role of SCN is, with Network, to support International Exchange Associations which is doing academic activities which take their free position as students. It is significant for exchanging and sharing information effectively to create the connections among all of the International Youth beyond the border, with breaking the conventional isolated situation of each student association.
“Information sharing” is necessary for the improvement of the quality of each association activity. That would bring motivation to their activities by stimulating to each other.
The procedure of the creation of SCN-To break the border and to connect-
That might be a universal challenge which is something to do with international exchange itself.
SCN
The 11st Sunao Tabata: sunao.tabata@gmail.com

From U.K
~Recognition born in daily life~

First of all, although I was supposed to talk about Multicultural delivery I have faced this time, I would like to change the subject to my cultural experience in U.K since I got to have a wonderful experience as a “foreigner” there.
The purpose of visiting U.K was to attend the congress of Trans-cultural nursing society which was held in Bournemouth. Bournemouth is 2h drive from London and has a splendid beach resort. At the congress, I got to interact with many people who engage in trans-cultural nursing from all over the world which gave me the times of fulfillment.
Besides from the congress, I also got a meaningful experience in Bournemouth and London which led me to think about this new thing; the difference of recognition between people from Japan and U.K. Ｗhen I got on a train, it was obvious enough to know that each of 5 people sitting has a different racial background. However, there was no one who thought it was not “natural” or were staring at them. I wondered what would happen if it was in Japan.
Also, the workers at the hotel I was staying at were from Spain, Armenia, and Portugal.
Both in city and suburb, people have chances to interact people from different backgrounds. It doesn’t matter whether they are aware of it or not, it will be into a part of daily life and be recognized as “daily life”.
After I came back to Japan, I felt that Japan is filled with majority- Japanese once again. You might feel uncomfortable about interacting with foreigners if you don’t have that kind of experience. You might not even have an opportunity to meet them unless you go to Okubo which is a town famous for the population of foreigners.
But it is so true that people from other countries are supporting this country’s labor and has become a part of the society. I’m not saying it is bad to be surprised at the difference, I’m saying it is necessary to think about the next step; How to accept those people. In Japan, it is still not common to have interactions with foreigners as a usual thing. Thus, it would be better to start with “recognizing” their existence and try to get a chance to know them for the next step; having the recognition of “symbiosis”..

Tsurutontan interview
This is a fancy Udon (Japanese noodle) restaurant with a long line of people.

What was the reason to become a Food Analyst?
・I always loved to eat and thought it would be great if I can
make it my lifework.

What do you think is the most important thing for your work?
・Since I have to judge professionals’ works by my own eyes
and tongue, I always keep it mind to assimilate any news related to food and to appreciate to them.

What would you like people to know by this Food Analyst
qualification?
・The importance and happiness of food, and also the heart of
the people who engage in food.
While tremendous amount of information is surrounding us, I
want to guide people to the way they can have enjoyable and healthy food life.


Hikari Tasaki
Work: Free lance announcer
Hobby:TO EAT! That’s all!
Dream: To create a new style of food world

Having kept pursuing the happiness of “eating” from the
childhood, she researched about the food in Haikai world at a
university. From 1997, she had a successful step as an
announcer at Kyushu Asahi Broadcasting Corporation. After
resigning KBC in 2006, she studied abroad in China while
searching for delicious local food, worked as a Japanese
Culture instructor at a local university. In 2007, she finally
became a food analyst while as a free launce announcer,
in Tokyo, making strenuous efforts to promote the food
world through mass media.

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NAKANO　BROADWAY

The Community
That Is Friendly to Foreigners As Well”


The Pioneer that Contributes to Multiculturalism in the Field of Medicine

As the number of long-stay foreigners is increasing, the number of foreign women who give birth in Japan is also increasing rapidly. However, it is still challenging for them to give birth and to raise the kids with the existence of the language barrier. We interviewed Ms. Yukari Fujiwara, the pioneer midwife and researcher in nursing care of foreign expectant mothers, who strives to improve the current situation.

The Pioneer that Contributes to Multiculturalism in the Field of Medicine.






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As the number of long-stay foreigners is increasing, the number of foreign women who give birth in Japan is also increasing rapidly. However, it is still challenging for them to give birth and to raise the kids with the existence of the language barrier. We interviewed Ms. Yukari Fujiwara, the pioneer midwife and researcher in nursing care of foreign expectant mothers, who strives to improve the current situation.

Why did you decide to assist foreign women?

As it happened, I worked at a hospital in Shinjuku-ku where many foreigners visit. Back then, people from various nations attended birth. I got the sense that language barrier and differences in culture were both mental and physical burdens to them. That became the trigger that motivated me to accumulate experience and to do research.
The experiences of doing research in cross-cultural nursing and being in the field were really valuable. Since Australia is a country that has many immigrants, there is a basis for people of various nations to live together. Because Japan has a different stand in the way people think about foreigners and the national system is also totally different, we cannot really compare it with Australia. However, I hope that more and more medical personnel will show their concerns as the number of foreigners giving birth in Japan is likely to increase.


To be more concrete, what sort of activities are you engaged in?

We made a multilingual pamphlet for foreign expectant mothers (see note 1) and hand it out. At the same time, we have been working to let them understand the current situation foreign expectant mothers are in and to have them stay in close contact with us.
We received many people’s cooperation during the production of this pamphlet.
In the future, we aim to educate more medical personnel about the current situation of cross-cultural medical care and provide friendly medical care to foreigners.

You can download this multilingual pamphlet from RASC’s website. If you know any foreign expectant mother, let her know about this!http://www.rasc.jp/
The editorial department of Senseup will be reporting Ms. Fujiwara’s activities in multicultural nursing regularly. Don’t miss them!

70,000 children of foreign nationalities currently enroll in Japanese School. Children of foreign nationalities cannot get proper educational guidance. We gathered information about CCS which has 6 learning centers as well as summer school inside Tokyo.

CCS operates with the following principles:

（１） Improving the education environment and achieving self-actualization at a global level for kids with foreign cultural backgrounds

（２）Creating a bright future for Japanese kids who accept kids with foreign cultural backgrounds

（３）Reaching a “multicultural society” where diversity is respected as well as creating a “world of peace” where every one can live safely

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