(Photos by Mr. Nobuyuki Aoki of the Change-the-World )
Fukuzawa Yukichi (Fukuzawa is the family name) is a leader of the modern Japan, one of the persons I respect very much.
If you search by the key word ‘Fukuzawa Yukichi’, in this web site, you will find several postings on him. I summarized some of them into my book review “Vision of Fukuzawa Yukichi; His Insights Into the Future at Time of Chaos” (in Japanese).
I was invited to a gathering named “leadership” in the “Fukuzawa Bunmei (Civilization) Juku”, a Juku (literally meaning cram/private school) named after Fukuzawa Yukichi, the founder of Keio University. The program was hosted by Professo Jiro Tamura .
About half of the Juku-class were students, the rest were young people with jobs, but what struck me as a pleasant surprise was that about half of them was women.
The video of the session is presented in u-stream.
I discussed with them in schemes of; the ‘3.11’ and subsequent crises of today, how to see Japan’s response and background, and the need of leaders with global vision. Participants discussed in a group at some intervals, and raised me questions.
I always enjoy talking with youths very much.