国際交流センター

3月25日（木）米国空軍士官学校生との交流プログラムに本学留学生が参加

１．日　時　
３月２５日（木）　９：３０～１６：００

２．プログラム内容
９：３０～１２：００　平和ゾーンツアー（資料館、祈念館、爆心地公園、平和公園、浦上天主堂）
１２：００～１３：００　昼食
１３：００～１５：００　士官学校生からのプレゼンテーション（日本・九州の歴史）
　　　　　　　　　　　　ディスカッション（平和、原爆、核兵器、政権交代、普天間基地、北朝鮮問題、日米安保等の外交）

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［参加留学生の感想］
On March 25, 2009, the Nagasaki Foundation for the Promotion of Peace sponsored a forum on cultural exchange with students from Nagasaki University of Foreign Studies and the United States Air Force Academy. The event was held at the Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims.

After a morning tour of the nearby Peace Park grounds and museum in Matsuyama-machi, the Air Force Academy students introduced their school in Japanese. They discussed major milestones in the Academy's history, including its establishment in 1954 and opening to female students in 1976. The students also shared the Academy Mission, Core Values, and Honor Code, as well as its Wing Organization, religious facilities, and study abroad opportunities.

Each student shared an individual reflection on the tour, from being "slightly disturbed" by images and the thought of "boiling concrete," to recalling stories heard from parents and family remembers, to putting the challenges of Academy life in perspective.

Logan Hurym Barlow, a third year Legal Studies major at the Academy, emphasized the importance of the exchange event. "It was Plato who said that in order to make moral decisions, you have to have knowledge," he said.

"Today is just the beginning," said Mutsuko Yoshida, Peace Guide and Chairperson of the Foundation's International Exchange Division. "We have to have a mutual understanding of each other. The more we understand other people, the more we can trust them."

Towards the end of the event, founding member Katsunobu Shiina explained his concerns about and hopes for the future.

"In Nagasaki, fourth and fifth grade students visit the peace museum, and every year survivors talk with elementary school students. But survivors now have an average age of 76, and their numbers are shrinking," he said.

Shiina would like to see the program expand to include more colleges, as well as high schools. "We want to help people consider and think about the idea of peace."

MAYS Dixie

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