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U.S. Study tour
DATE: February 11-23, 2018
VENUE: New York, Washington D.C., Texas, Nevada, California
Student Exchange Program:
At Texas A&M University (TAMU), the students had a group discussion by selecting group members and topics for discussion in advance with communication between representative students of both universities.
At University of California, Berkeley (UCB), after the special lecture on Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant accidents, entitled “Current Status and Future Plan for Decommissioning” by Prof. Sugimoto of Tokyo Tech, the students had a group discussion mainly on the issues of the presented lecture.
In both group discussions, the students were rather nervous at first. However at the end of the presentation of the discussed results, they felt completely at home with each other and they successfully created a new human network.
Practical exercise:
At TAMU's disaster response training facility, Disaster City, they underwent a practical exercise to retrieve radioactive materials in a postulated nuclear accident in industrial complexes due to the occurrence of an earthquake. Various abilities are required in the exercises, such as presumption and analysis, as well as report, intercommunication and advice with each other. The experience obtained at the large-scale facility was really a valuable and unforgettable one.
Visits:
At the Embassy of Japan in Washington D.C., the students learnt the difficulties of building and sustaining of Japan-U.S. relations and importance of mutual communications. They also heard the recent U.S. energy situation and its future circumstances. They had a chance to meet with Envoy Aikawa, and heard the importance and difficulty of non-proliferation, he has experience as Ex- Director-General, Disarmament, Non-Proliferation and Science Department in Foreign Policy Bureau. They also received warm words of encouragement from the Envoy.
At the World Bank, which is different from normal banks, with its objectives as “the reduction of poverty in the world and promoting shared prosperity”, the students had a chance to observe its structure and attitude to work globally.
At the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York, the students renewed their feelings of the frightfulness and bloodiness, and they all lost the words.
At the United Nations Headquarters they re-realized its importance and difficulty by actually visiting conference rooms used by related countries, with various goals displayed in the rooms, such as international peace and keeping security, and by understanding its history and roles.
At the National Atomic Testing Museum in the State of Nevada, they learned the large difference on the concept about the atomic bomb between U.S. and Japan, by observing the way of exhibition. Although the standpoint between U.S. and Japan are so different, it provoked them so much.
