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4 JournalisKICK OCTOBER 2018 Produced by OCHANOMIZU UNIVERSITY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, GEIC and the Japan News LOCAL Sasukenable: The Spirit of Fukushima JournalisKICK Seven years have passed PROFESSIONAL EDITION, OCTOBER 2018 since the March 2011 earth quake and tsunami struck Fukushima Prefecture. Yet, reconstruction is still ongoing. Being Ethical Consumer Makes for Kinder World Students of Ochanomizu University Senior High School thical consumption, To spread the idea of ethical visited the prefecture to gather choosing products that are consumption, members of the information about the current E environmentally friendly school festival committee of condition of reconstruction or made by justly rewarded Ochanomizu University Senior from people engaged in such workers, is one of the ways to High School incorporated activities. protect the environment and help this mindset into running the All of the people were people suffering from low wages school festival. They asked working on such activities as and poor working conditions. that all groups participating shelter management, handling Today, there are numerous in the school festival ensure of nuclear accidents, restoration Photo by Yuki Fukui environmental issues, such as that the activities took ethical of agriculture, and so on. Those Damage from the 2011 quake global warming and the labor consumption into consideration. involved with reconstruction Photo by Yuki Fukui conditions of low-wage earners, Moreover, to show customers at told students what they feel is A game called “Sasukenable” to have, and still has, their own such as cotton farmers. Cotton the festival the concrete contents important and must be passed on lifestyle even after the disaster. requires numerous pesticides to of the ethical consumption each to future generations. best to make shelters a place of Ochanomizu University It is necessary for people to keep grow without becoming damaged group did, logos were displayed Amano Hiroyuki, the for communication and self Senior High School were divided this in mind when engaged in by harmful insects. Yet these at the venue. Photo by Yuzuki Kondo manager of the largest shelter government associations.” into groups and participated in reconstruction activities. Always pesticides reportedly cause the One of the activities was Ochako’s tea in Fukushima Prefecture, The operating staff of the the game along each theme. remember, victims are not deaths of about 20,000 farmers selling original tea bags, called called “Fukushima Palette,” shelter came up with a simulation By going through “Sasuke “miserable people.” a year. One way to help address “Ochako’s tea,” at a school tea company, and “the Ochas,” using these ethical ingredients, emphasized, “It is significant game called “Sasukenable” nable,” students learned that this problem is to buy T-shirts festival in 2017. A special a cooking club authorized by we can prevent cows from being to supply daily necessities based on lessons learned at the people who lived in disaster that have been made under proper package of tea bags was made Ochanomizu University. This milked under harsh conditions. By Kasumi Shioda, Kotoko to people rapidly. However, shelter. It is a game that helps areas are generally referred to work conditions. This is an through collaboration between tea is not an ordinary tea; it is All of these are examples of Yabe, Misuzu Akashi, Miu Kawada, the most important thing is to people think about how to deal as “Victims”; however, they are example of ethical consumption. Shimodozono, a long-established an organic tea that was grown ethical consumption, which can Yuki Fukui support their minds. We did our with possible situations. Students “Humans.” Each person used without using chemicals. As a help address problems the world result, 900 sets of Ochako’s tea is facing now. You may think that were sold and the proceeds were changing the world is difficult. donated to the “Manaberukikin” But there are many ways of doing Message from Himeyuri to Future Generations system, which supports teen- so, and even high school students agers living in disaster areas. can get involved. If you are not photographs through which through this school trip. We Another activity was selling one already, why not consider the students could understand must not forget the tragedies gelato in collaboration with becoming an ethical consumer? wartime in Okinawa. of war even when living in a Ricca, a gelato company in Later, the students visited modern society. Nagano. This company uses fresh a natural cave called Itokazu fruit produced in Nagano and By Ayaka Matsuo, Kanon Abuchiragama. This cave is Created by Kousuke Fuzisawa, Ayaka Matsuo, Shizuka Kasai, Sae Tatsuno milk made with animal welfare Yoshimoto, Sae Tatsuno, Yuzuki By Kumika Endo, Moena Kondo, Yuki Momose located in the south of the main Dan zuka, Sawako Shinogi, Ethical category mark taken into consideration. By island of Okinawa. During Shono Sakai, Yuika Yasui the Battle of Okinawa, it was used as a shelter trench. As the NOTICE TO READERS battlefield went south, this so JournalisKICK called gama served as a military Published by a group of 39 This newspaper was (SGH) by MEXT. The mission learned in the previous year. and mindset regarding trips hospital. When the students students of Ochanomizu University created by third-year students of SGH is to cultivate human We set projects based on to Okinawa and Fukushima Senior High School, a public high Photo by Sawako Shinogi entered, it was too dark to see school in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo, in in Ochanomizu University resources who can succeed individual interests, gather Prefecture for field work on cooperation with the not-for-profit The Tower of Himeyuri anything without a flashlight. Global Education Information Center Senior High School’s Kiku in a globalized world. As an information ourselves, and page 4. The articles cover Himeyuri schoolgirls ran about (GEIC) and The Japan News. class. The “Ochakou” school SGH, our school holds “Global decide on an approach. In various themes, from hot Publisher: Ochanomizu University chanomizu University memorial service monument and to help with the treatment of Senior High School is in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo. Geography” as well as “Tankyu third year, we compile the topics, such as SNS and gender Senior High School the Tower of Himeyuri, where injured soldiers and discarding Project Supervisor: Mayumi Abe As many cultured people lived I” and “Tankyu II” classes. individual Tankyu I activities issues, to school activities. participated in peace Himeyuri students had been dead bodies or excrement. After Project Coordinator: Junji Sakurai here in the modern era, it was In first year, we study and create an English-language We hope this newspaper helps O (GEIC) learning about Okinawa as part laid to rest. The students were the war, the evacuees and the Editor: Chieno Kurokawa named “Bunkyo,” or “city of global issues, such as environ- newspaper in Tankyu II. contribute to the creation of a of a school trip to the island in shocked by the sad situation soldiers spared by the offensive Assistant Editor: Asa Tomita literature.” Also, as there are mental problems, energy, and This newspaper reports better society. Contributing Editors: Kagari April 2018. whereby girls around the same of the U.S. army went to the Tsuchiya, Yumiko Mori (J-Proze) many schools here, we can world situations in Global on an activity at our school First, the students went to age who had many hopes and gama. Staff Writers: Chieno Kurokawa, certainly say it was named for Geography. In second year, we festival in 2017 on page 1; Himeyuri Peace Memorial dreams were forced to escape, The students realized the Asa Tomita, Kaori Uwaso, Nagisa being a “center for academics.” take Tankyu I and learn how SGH activities on page 2; By Asa Tomita, Chieno Kuro Komura kawa, Kaori Uwaso, Nagisa Museum and Okinawa Peace leaving their classmates behind. tragedy of the war and the Contact: 2-1-1 Otsuka, Bunkyo-ku, Our school was designated to set, solve and communicate problems of modern society Tokyo, Japan 112-8610 Komura Memorial Museum. At the The Okinawa Peace Memo importance of peace by seeing URL: http://www.fz.ocha.ac.jp/fk/ as a Super Global High school projects, based on knowledge on page 3; and our experience Himeyuri site, they visited a rial Museum had models and the scars of war in Okinawa 2 JournalisKICK OCTOBER 2018 OCTOBER 2018 JournalisKICK 3 SGH ACTIVITIES SOCIETY Protecting Japanese Food Culture: Eel Be Aware of Unseen Risks in Era of SNS! s a result of excessive witter, Instagram, more risks than one can imagine ﬁ shing, eel catches have Facebook—people meeting people from SNS in A been decreasing every T around the world use real life. Someone on the other year. Owing to this, the traditional various social networking side of the screen cannot always Japanese food culture “Doyo-no services that make it possible to be trustworthy. Ushinohi,” commonly known as interact with a large number of There are even more issues a day to eat eel in Japan, is facing other users. These services are with SNS: obsessive use of a crisis of survival. convenient, but at the same time such services can cause people The responsibility of excess Created by Shiori Akira there are some risks in being to lose track of their true self. fishing lies not only with Original logo mark online. Let’s try to understand While SNS platforms can people who fish, but also with them so that we can use SNS be interesting, users must be consumers. Therefore sustainable Also, government cooperation safely. careful not to lose sight of who seafood (caught or farmed in is needed to make sustainable Some people post images they are and should always ways that consider the long-term seafood popular.

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