I am glad to inform you that Ikeda-san and Kishimoto-san have completed their graduate study programs in political science at Hosei University and received masters degrees from Hosei University. Ms Ikeda wrote a thesis on Kibeho humanitarian crisis in Rwanda and Ms Kishimoto, about the management of Nile River water resources. Ms Asami Ikeda is [...]
10 students belonging to the Hasegawa seminar class graduated from Hosei University at the end of March 2010. Farewell parties were held in restaurants in Ginza and I-idabashi on March 24 and 25. One of the students, Yuuka Matsumoto, will go to a graduate school to study environment, while other will start their work with [...]
2010年3月15日、UNMIT(国連東ティモール統合ミッション)にて事務総長副特別代表として活躍しておられた川上隆久氏が、赴任地である東ティモールにて60歳の若さで亡くなられました。
川上氏は、1977年、外務省に入省 [...]
On March 16, Professor Sukehiro Hasegawa met President Jose Ramos-Horta of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste as well as Japanese Ambassador Kitahara. President Ramos-Horta was visiting Japan at the official invitation of the Government of Japan from March 16 to 19, 2010. Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama hosted a dinner for President Ramos-Horta. The President also [...]
At the international symposium on Japan’s international peace cooperation operations held at UN University on March 5, Japanese government officials provided a general overview, legal framework and operational parameters.
During the first session, Mr. Shigeki Takizaki, Director, National Security Policy Division and Director, International Peace Cooperation Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan made a [...]
Mr. Vesselin Popovski, UNU senior academic officer, opened an international sysmposium on Japan`s international peace cooperation activities. He said that the United Nations had been founded to prevent and resolve international conflicts, achieving and maintaining peace between nations. The maintenance of peace and security remained the main purpose of the UN, as weapons become ever [...]
Two of the 4th grade Hasegawa seminar graduates, Norimasa Noguchi and Kisho Tsuchiya have returned to Japan. Noguchi-san had spent 5 months in Rwanda working as an intern in a community based business. Tsuchiya-san had spent 11 months with the UNDP Timor-Leste working in the UNEST (UN Electoral Support Team). They were invited by Professor [...]
◆ルワンダで大学生2人がインターン
日本人の存在感のなさ痛感
部族間の対立から1990年代、内戦と大量虐殺があったアフリカ中部の国ルワンダ。現地で日本人が経営するし尿処理剤の販売会社へ、都内の大学から2人の学生がイン [...]