JAC-US Webinar Course 2023-2024
Just one week to go, on November 26 at 12:00pm, the DEI webinar will begin! This hour-long webinar will feature top speakers on diversity, gender, environment, entrepreneurship, and more, and is open to everyone, USG program participants and non-participants alike. And on Saturday, December 9, the Parliamentary Debate Workshop will be held in Tokyo.Improvised English […]
[Webinar Report] 6/25 JAC-US WEBINAR COURSE #5(Final)
The final session in the 2023 JAC-US webinar series on diversity, equity and inclusion took place on June 25 with Ms. Junko Ota, Policy Researcher at the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES). At IGES, Ms. Ota is committed to localizing global issues such as climate change and the SDGs so that communities and individuals […]
[Webinar] 6/25 JAC-US WEBINAR COURSE #5(Final)
The theme of this DEI webinar is "Climate justice and equity”. At this webinar, we will be looking at climate change from the perspective of climate justice and equity with Ms. Junko Ota, a policy researcher at the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), who attends meetings of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to […]
[Webinar Report] 5/28 JAC-US WEBINAR COURSE #4
“Public assistance 1, Mutual support 2, Self-help 7."This is a figure that indicates the ratio of actual evacuation and rescue in the event of a disaster. This time, JAC-US webinar on disaster prevention was given by Mr. Tatsuya Kato of the Kanagawa Prefectural Government's Department of Life Safety and Disaster Prevention and Mr. Seiji Nakagawa […]
[Webinar] 5/28 JAC-US WEBINAR COURSE #4
The theme of next DEI webinar is "Disaster mitigation” Mr. Masaki Ito and Mr. Tatsuya Kato from Kanagawa Prefecture's Department of Life Safety and Disaster Prevention, who have been on the front lines in disaster areas such as the Great East Japan Earthquake, Kumamoto Earthquake, and Atami Landslide Disaster, will be invited to discuss disaster […]
[Webinar Report] DEI Webinar #3
“Revitalize the Japanese economy by rotating foreign workers on a short-term basis.” It is very sad, but the speaker of this DEI webinar, attorney Ms. Masako Suzuki, repeatedly appealed that this is the government's attitude toward foreign nationals coming to Japan. Currently, there are 3 million foreign nationals in Japan. The term "foreign nationals" itself […]
[Webinar] 4/15 JAC-US WEBINAR COURSE #3
（We are sorry for Japanese webpage only.） JAC-USウェビナーシリーズ第三弾は「移民・難民」。講師の鈴木雅子さんに、弁護士として外国人事件、特に移民・難民問題について、取り組むようになった経緯、現在の日本社会が、グローバル化の波のなかで抱えている課題についてお話しいただきます。ウェビナーを通じて、グローバル化していく日本社会で、多様性・公平性・包括性を実現するために、必要なことを、身近な事例から考えていきたいと思います。 講演者：鈴木雅子氏 （弁護士 いずみ橋法律事務所外国人ローヤリングネットワーク共同代表） 司 会：中村多美子（弁護士、JAC-USメンバー） 日時：4月15日（土）午前１０時～午前１１時 ↓お申し込みはこちらのリンクから↓
[Webinar] 3/25 JAC-US WEBINAR COURSE #2
Following last month's webinar on education, we will hold an online webinar on the theme of "Gender" The speakers will be Ms. Yuri Igarashi, representative of NPO RainbowSoup and Rainbow Knots, LLC, and Mr. Kazuyuki Minami, JAC-US core member, and lawyer.In the first half of the webinar, Ms. Igarashi will present the reality of the […]
[Webinar Report] DEI Webinar #2
Ms. Yuri Igarashi and Mr. Kazuyuki Minami had a talk about the current state of society from their perspectives as LGBTQ persons. They state that society is changing, with an increasing number of municipalities in Japan recognizing same-sex partnership systems and also a growing awareness at the individual level. On the other hand, they also […]