Today’s lecture flow

▼ Professor Sugita – Group Dialogue for Dialogue with Leaders
Students shared their impressions and questions about last year’s “Dialogue with Leaders Record” and clarified what they wanted to ask during the dialogue.

▼ Professor Endo and Professor Tamura – Dialogue with Leaders

Professor Endo has served as an outside director for organizations such as NTT and Hankyu Hanshin Holdings in addition to her university research.
Besides discussing her expertise in energy policy and economic security, she shared her valuable personal experiences, including overcoming childhood illness, becoming the first female reporter at the Diamond Weekly, and rising to become the first female deputy editor. Her journey in carving her own path surely left a lasting impression on the students and served as a role model for female leaders in Japan.
Questions from students flowed continuously, and 90 minutes passed in the blink of an eye.

Learning of the students – Extracts from the reflection sheets submitted after the lectures

●  Fourth-year student in the Department of Law, Faculty of Law

Listening to Professor Endo, who has worn many hats in her career, inspired me. I am considering gaining work experience after graduation and pursuing further studies when I find a topic I’m passionate about.I realized that it’s essential to explore my interests and pave my own path while gaining experienceI realized that it’s essential to explore my interests and pave my own path while gaining experience.Professor Endo’s willingness to endure challenges resonated with me, and I want to move forward with determination.It’s possible to view a career change as a reset, and that skills you’ve acquired may seem wasted.I realized that diverse life experiences can connect and benefit us in the future, just as Steve Jobs’ calligraphy, which he learned as a college dropout, influenced the beautiful design of the iPhone.

●Third-year student in the Department of Law, Faculty of Law

What remained with me most from the lecture was how students should approach security issues and environmental problems. Security in Japan primarily involves ideological discussions, so students need to remain calm and realistic, actively gather global information, and form their opinions comprehensivelyAdditionally, the idea of not just understanding but also having solutions that lead to actionable steps resonated with me. This approach is valuable when dealing with complex and contentious issues, helping me create a roadmap for my learning journey.

As for the attitude toward environmental issues, the idea of how to improve the environment while maintaining industrial competitiveness was helpful, and it was very interesting for me to hear that the SDGs, which I had recognized as a seemingly equal social issue, would be advantageous to the EU in terms of technological sophistication in renewable energy.

I’m currently involved in establishing and running a volunteer organization.Through activities such as cleaning the local community and engaging in reforestation efforts, the goal is to inspire a change in global awareness starting from the local community.However, this activity is not an adaptation of what Professor Endo mentioned, but rather a reduction approach.While feeling the limitations of our activities, the resolution of the next stage was shallow, and the direction of our efforts seemed to be lost.While feeling the limitations of our activities, the resolution of the next stage was shallow, and the direction of our efforts seemed to be lost.

●  Third-year student in the Department of Law, Faculty of Law

I was most impressed by what she said about her desire to be in a state of knowing, which she considers to be the desire for knowledge.I also feel that no matter how much a person is praised as a saint, it is only the result of following one’s own desires that are seen as such by others.The act of exerting oneself for the sake of others is only an expression of the desire to exert oneself for the sake of others.In other words, I believe that understanding where one’s own true desire lies is what is needed to maximize one’s own motivation in the most efficient way.In other words, I believe that understanding where one’s own true desire lies is what is needed to maximize one’s own motivation in the most efficient way.In other words, I believe that understanding where one’s own true desire lies is what is needed to maximize one’s own motivation in the most efficient way.

In particular, her knowledge of the energy field is overwhelming, and I am glad to have learn about whether Japan will knowing the risks of nuclear power for the sake of industry, which will be a major point of contention in the future.Similar issues are arising in the field of space law, which I have recently been interested in. Nuclear-powered rockets, which have been avoided since the crash of the Cosmos 954 in the late 1970s, are now being reconsidered as a technology for advancing into deep space, where sunlight cannot reach, and for delivering people to Mars.Already at the beginning of this year, NASA announced that it would begin development of a nuclear-powered rocket.The space-related legislation, which failed to make the Soviet Union pay compensation for the above-mentioned incident and has made no clear progress since then, could serve as a reference for the direction that Japan’s energy industry should take while keeping an eye on trends and how it should respond to this new trend.

 ●Third-year student in the Department of literature

What I felt throughout Endo-san’s lecture was the importance of having more information.I was very impressed by her assertion that it is necessary to have a broad understanding of what the world is like in various ways, such as by reading books, listening to other people’s stories, and actually observing actual work sites, and to use this information to interact and work with others on an equal footing as a person and as a member of society, regardless of gender or age.I am not good at gathering information or keeping track of the world in any way, so I felt that I needed to take the time and make the effort to increase my own stock of information.

I was also impressed by the fact that when I asked her about how she became aware of her WILL (aspiration), she said that she is not a person who can have such a big will or ambition.In the “Dialogue with Leaders” and the talk session with graduates of the Bunmei Juku, all the participants said that they had been doing their best to do what they had to do in front of them, rather than having big ambitions.I was reminded that even if you have a concrete idea of what you want to do in the future, it is difficult to go straight ahead in that direction, and it is important to put all your energy into what you are passionate about at the moment.