On 14 June 2011, the Hasegawa seminar held a welcome party for H.E. Mr. Isilio Antonio de Fatima Coelho da Silva Ambassador Plenipotentiary and Extraordinary Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste and Mr. Tadeu Marcelino Soares Third Secretary at The South Lounge 26th Floor of The Boissonade Tower Hosei University Ichigaya Campus. (Aimi Ezawa)
On June 15, Mr. Kazushige Taniguchi, the Special Representative of the World Bank in Japan gave a lecture.
At first, he explained that developing countries including India and China are now contributing to more than half of the global economic growth. This is the new international order different from the times which developed countries such as the G7 led the world economy. While the economic development of developing countries is remarkable, it is also true that there are more than 1 billion people who have no access to electricity. In addition, he stated that millions of children die every year before age 5. One of the major causes is diarrhea that results in dehydration. Therefore, safe water is effective to reduce the child mortality. This means water and electricity can help. And he explained even if it seems to be a problem of one sector (health), there are many cases which need policy interventions of other sectors (infrastructure, energy). He told charitable works are noble but they alone are not able to reach the sustainable solution. About Japan, he cautioned that Japanese population would be decreasing to 48 million by the end of the 21st century.
On the economic side, since the collapse of the bubble, there has been a continued increase in the budget while decrease of tax revenues, resulting in the rapid expansion of burden on the future generations. Such a combination would generate a special challenge for the future of Japan. (Mai Kato)
On June 14th, the justice group members made severral presentations on the legitimacy of actions taken by nation states in global politics. They explained the right of self-defense,the relationship between the nation law and the international law. After their presentations, the seminar students were devided into four groups: utilitarian, libertalian, communitarian,and structurist groups. And we discussed the implications of the murdering of Osama Bin Laden. (Eri Iijima)
On the 14th of June 2011, Professor Hasegawa lectured on the international civil servant system, presenting the rights and responsibilities of an international civil servant, and the UN common system. Prof. Hasegawa specifically focused on the responsibilities of the United Nations Secretary-General, which are founded upon the UN Charter as well as each of the former eight UN Secretary-Generals as Chief Administrative Officer. Prof. Hasegawa also touched on internationality, independence, formation, classification, standing, employment methods and administrative duties of an international civil servant. Among them, Prof. Hasegawa expounded on the meaning of Noblemaire Principle and explained the significance of Article100 [Internationality of the Officer] and Article 101 [Responsibility of the Officer]. Moreover, Prof. Hasegawa explained the functional classification of international organization, servants working in the UN system (both professional and general servants), and the working condition of a UN servant – his or her base floor salary, post adjustment, education grant, and so on. The enrollment method of international organization concluded Prof. Hasegawa’s lecture, in which he emphasized the need to understand and increase competency, particularly the importance of communication skills. (Minshik KIM)
On June 7th, human right group’s students made the presentation. The theme was the human right in former Yugoslavia. The first half we looked the history of Yugoslavia, history of ICTY and the result and the problem of ICTY. After that they explained IDP, Nationalism and reform of the judicial system with the cases. Then they picked up Serbian politics for its peace and development. (Nanami Ito)
On June 8, 2011, Mr. Yasuaki Aihara, Deputy Director of Secretariat of the International Peace Cooperation Headquarters, Cabinet Office, delivered a lecture, “UNPKO and Japan’s International Peace Cooperation”.
(Yukihiko Masuda)
On 7 June 2011, Ms. Kanou Akari who works at the United Nations University lectured on “Financing international Organizations”. First, she explained the importance of paying attention to finance and fund of the United Nations. Second, she explained the procedure, the part of committee, the source of revenue of assessed contribution and voluntary contribution on the outline of making up a budget. Third, she explained the cause of financial difficulties of the United Nations, the problem of unpaid money, and the international taxation. Finally, she explained the validity of share rate in regular budget of the United Nations and peace-keeping operations. And she explained suggestion to more fair calculating formula. (Yuna Kitamura)
2011年6月７日に東ティモールで選挙支援のインターンをなされていた土屋喜生先輩をお招きし、1999年以降の東ティモールの歴史について、暴力、権力、構造の点からご説明頂きました。土屋さんは、1999年から2002年までのUNTAETによる暫定統治期について、選挙と暴動、憲法制定、大統領選挙の点に重点をおき説明されました。次に、2006年までのマリ・アルカティリ・フレテリン政権についての評価、2006年の暴動の原因の分析、2007年の選挙結果とそれ以降のグスマオ政権についての変化と評価、最後に今後の展開について、近年の動きを基にご説明されました。土屋先輩による２回にわたる講義を経て、東ティモール研修旅行の勉強を深めていく基礎を築くことが出来ました。また講義終了後、懇親会が行われ、土屋先輩より東ティモールでの生活についてや、当時のゼミの様子などをお聞きし交流を深めました。 (寺内明穂)
Today, the environment group made presentations on environmental justice in nuclear power generation. They explained about the environmental justice, the history of environmental justice in the world and Japan over nuclear power generation, road to non-nuclear power life and environmental injustice of Fukushima nuclear accident. After the presentations, we divided ourselves into two groups and held discussions about “Do you agree with no use of the nuclear power plant? “ （Yuna Kitamura）
On May 31 2011, Mr. Kisho Tsuchiya who graduated from the Hasegawa Seminar lectured on the Timorese identity and the methods of analyzing East-Timor for the member of the study tour on East-Timor 2011. In the first half of his lecture, he introduced the agreement on East-Timor between Portugal and Indonesia in 1999. Next, he indicated how “The Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste” and “Timorese” built this agreement and the history of independence of East-Timor. In the latter half of the lecture, he introduced 6 tools for analyzing Timor-Leste such as Language, Age-groups, Race, Sex, Religion and Key persons. (Shogo Yoshida)
On 31 May 2011, Professor Hasegawa lectured first on the relationship between national and international laws. He explained the precedence given to national laws and the validity accorded to international laws by certain countries. Prof. Hasegawa provided his views on the need for integration, unification and consistency that should prevail in the relationship between national and international laws. Secondly, Prof. Hasegawa lectured on the growth and expansion of the United Nations and provided a detailed explanation about the representation issue for China. Finally, Prof. Hasegawa brought up the subject of“ UN reform”, and talked about the issues involved in the Security Council reform and the proposal made by former Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 2005. (Yukihiko Masuda)
On May 25th, Professor Tomonori Yoshizaki, the National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS), gave a lecture titled “Global Security and Conflict Resolution” for Global Governance Course as a guest speaker.
(Minshink Kim)
Today on 24 May 2011, Prof. Hasegawa lectured on the birth and collapse of the League of Nations. The League of Nations was founded on the basis of the President Wilson’s Fourteen Points, but the United States didn’t join the League of Nations from the first because of United States’ isolations. Moreover, Japan, one of permanent members, withdrew after the Manchurian Incident. From these, the League of Nations lost its raison d’etre and authority and collapsed. Prof. Hasegawa explained the above-mentioned situations with the introduction to the Report of the Commission of Enquiry into the Sino-Japanese. (Shogo Yoshida)
Today, firstly, we had a time to proofread a summary of the peace building group’s presentation for about 15minutes. Then, the development economics group made presentations on the post-conflict economic recovery. They explained the importance of infrastructure and its influence on various sides. Finally, we held discussions about action plans relevant to infrastructure rehabilitation in Afghanistan. Also five students participated in Skype communications with Ms. Erica Frey as part of the English Improvement Program. (Jieun Park)
The second dialogue with an ambassador was held in the Skyhall on May 17, 2011 with H.E.Dr.Philip de Heer Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Japan. President Toshio Masuda of Hosei University welcomed the Dutch Ambassador in his opening statement. Following the introduction by Vice President Fukuda, Ambassador Philip de Heer delivered a speech on China’s emergence as a major power and its implications for Europe and Japan. Professors Hishida, Suzuki, Shimotomai and Mori commented on the Ambassador’s speech and Hosei University students asked questions to the Ambassador. (Kana Hashimoto)
In his second lecture on global governance, Professor Hasegawa explained the significance of several theories on how nation states had pursued their national security and interest in an anarchic international society. Following identification of realism, liberalism, post-communism, constructivism and functionalism, Professor noted the main themes of realism and liberalism in today`s lecture.
(Aimi Ezawa)
On May 17th, Mr. Yozo Yokota came to the lecture of International Organizations Theory as a guest speaker. Under the theme of “International Organizations and International Law”, Mr. Yokota explained with real example that the foundation, purpose, authority and activities of the International Organizations are totally based on the International Law, however, formation of the International Organizations made change of the International Law too. In addition, there is a problem on the relationship between the National Law and the International Law, so Mr. Yokota said that we need think the International Organizations as premises. (Eri Iijima)
On May 11, Professor Hasegawa conducted the first class on global governance. He first explained how the class would be conducted and grades given. He then gave his first lecture on concepts and theories of global governance. He also presented new global issues that required new new approaches and paradigms to understand them and find solutions to the newly emerging global problems. Peaceful use of nuclear energy did not received as much attention in 1996 when the Chernobyl nuclear plant exploded as it is now receiving with the explosion of the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear power plants.
(Akiho Terauchi)
Two advisers of Secretariat of the International Cooperation Headquarters, Cabinet Office, Messrs. Tochibayashi and Yamamoto participated in our seminar today.
The Peace Building group made presentations on the transformation of the concept of security from national to human security. The group explained about the differences in approach of Japan and Canada for example and the reasons “Why does the Japanese government recommend Human Security so highly? “. After the presentations, both Mr. Tochibayashi and Mr. Yamamoto made their comment on the concept.
Finally we divided ourselves into several groups and held discussions about the definition of the human security. (Miyu Kameyama)
On May 10, the lecture of International Organizations Theory has started. First Prof. Hasegawa recommended that we should have own awareness of the issue and make a purpose of this lecture clear. Then he introduced an outline of this lecture.
Today’s main theme was “The origin and evolution and role of international organizations” and Prof. Hasegawa explained the activity of UN with his own experience.Furthermore he proposed that Japanese government should establish a committee organized by international expert of nuclear power. (Mai Nakasendo)