4 JournalisKICK OCTOBER 2018 Produced by OCHANOMIZU UNIVERSITY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, GEIC and the 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, , 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. For example, taken at their home or self- take their surroundings into vitality of harvested species and Photo by Nao Nagasawa in New Zealand, the government portrait pictures on SNS. Such consideration. the well-being of the oceans) was “Unaju,” Japanese unagi cuisine cooper ates with fishery coop- behavior could, however, put Created by Natsumi Hamada Becoming involved with proposed by a group of students eratives and monitors their their personal information at A picture with location information many people over the Internet from Ochanomizu University seafood. In a school survey, when shopping. fishing. Such activities enable risk of being leaked online. is a double-edged sword. Users Senior High School. students asked 356 Japanese Many consumers think that most supermarkets in the country Once the images are posted, a dish you cooked or a pet. To must pay attention to the actions By adopting such an activity whether they are aware of they cannot have a great impact to sell sustainable seafood. they can spread across the world prevent such risk, the location they take on the Internet. Use and thinking about sustainable sustainable seafood or not, with or that they have no choice Sustainable seafood will and be saved and misused by information function should be SNS wisely and have a good seafood, changes can be expected 80% answering “No.” This when sustainable seafood is not be promoted in Japan, if such anyone. turned off . SNS life! in consumer attitudes, in turn means that 4 out of 5 people are on sale. But your choice is very movements as those in New Smartphones and tablets Have you ever met a friend contributing to eco-friendly not aware of sustainable seafood. important, as it reflects your Zealand become more popular. have a function of recording you made online in real life? By Azusa Iwata, Emma consumption, which eventually To overcome this challenge, message to society. Consumers Excessive fi shing should thus be the location a photo is taken You may meet someone with together, and talk about Yamamoto, Nanami Ishigure, helps address the problem. students have made leaflets, should thus take sustainability tackled not by a few people, but at. As a result, your address the same interests and deepen common interests. However, the Natsu mi Hamada, Reona Although sustainable seafood promotion videos and a website. into consideration for the future! rather by the whole of society to could be identified from an the friendship through SNS. character, sex, or age of friends Maezawa has been suggested as one of the As a result, awareness of an eel Greater awareness of and preserve Japanese food culture. image, whether it is a photo of You can also go to events on SNS may be fake. There are solutions to this problem, there crisis and sustainable seafood interest in sustainable seafood are many difficulties in putting has increased. Their thinking is leads to the industry being more this method into practice. that if more people know about aware as well. In this way, more By Aki Hoshino, Nao Naga- One of the challenges is how sustainable seafood, more people and more parts of society will sawa, Nodoka Yamauchi, Ruka Gender Issues Jam Up to raise awareness of sustainable will make eco-friendly choices take eco-friendly actions. Yokota Women-only Trains

Groping is a serious social on those cases, it seems the Provided by JR East Codes Help Visitors Ride the Rails issue in Japan. Surprisingly, issue involves only combatting Figure 2: Women-only train many travel books written groping. Can it really be so? Tokyo is well-known for its color stand for the Marunouchi “STATION NAMBERRING” in foreign countries refer to These days, women-only discriminate based on being dense network of subway lines Line, since its paintwork is “chikan” on Japanese trains. trains are often associated with male or female. On the one that are intricately connected. red. Eight (08) is the number East Japan Railway In fact, according to a survey gender issues. Gender is not the hand, women are deprived Today, with the infl ux of foreign designated for . conducted with 232 students of sex-biological characteristics Created by Miyu Hattori of freedom of behavior and Ochanomizu University Senior of female and male, but rather feel that they are confined to visitors to Japan, the train is Also, East Japan Railway Three-letter code becoming more indispensable (JR East) uses a three-letter High School, more than one- refers to social and cultural gender perspective. a women-only train. On the as a means of transportation. To coding system for hub stations third of the students has been definitions of women and men. Firstly, women-only trains other hand, men may have the Line code facilitate navigation for foreign where many lines stop. As seen groped. (Figure 1). To prevent Moreover, it includes the theory force gender identities on unpleasant feeling of being tourists traveling within the in Image 1, Shinjuku Station groping, women-only train cars of “SOGI,” which stands for everyone, even a *cisgender’s treated as possible gropers. Station number capital, railway companies have on the can be have been introduced in Japan. “Sexual Orientation and Gender identity of being a woman. It is the threat of groping The logos provided by JR East and Tokyo Metro Identity” and is deeply related to Secondly, women-only trains introduced a so-called signature described using three different Created by Urara Nagumo More than 80 train routes offer that we should really eliminate. hardly accomplish the primary system. For example, one codes: three letters, a line Image 1: Example of station numbering such carriages. LGBT. These problems must now be form of this system is “station code, and a station number. In Some people think that men Sustainable Development purpose. Such trains tend to be regarded as issues of the entire numbering.” Tokyo Metro, a this case, the three-letter code and TYO for where to go. This should make are prohibited from riding in a Goals (SDGs) were adopted used as a psychological shelter society. rapid transit system in Tokyo, “SJK” stands for Shinjuku . access using women-only train. However, it at the U.N. summit in 2015. for victims of groping. However, uses specifi c colors to represent Station, line code JY for the JR Such signature systems easier, regardless of language is not a problem in the eye of the Gender equality is one of the transgender people, who have * Cisgender: A person whose each line and has created easy- Yamanote Line, represented with numbers, letters and barriers. law. Such a misunderstanding goals. Such an initiative will concerns about their own sex, gender identity matches their to-understand signs with letters by its green color, and station colors are displayed in eye- sometimes causes trouble improve unfair standpoints cannot use the train because they birth sex and a number indicating the number seventeen (17) for catching places. By utilizing between women and men. In regarding women and sexual feel that their gender is being information technology, people By Ayano Oki, Karen Hama- February 2018, women accused minorities. denied or that they are being line and station, respectively. Shinjuku Station. Other hub By Akira Kudo, Ayumi Ogawa, traveling on trains can more moto, Soyoko Yoon, Urara three men who rode in a women- Based on the above, there forced to be a different gender For example, in Image 1 to the stations include AKB for Miyu Hattori, Rin Nakano, Rio easily understand how and Nagumo, Yukari Fuku only train on the Tokyo Metro are three main problems with from their real one. right, the letter M and the red , UEN for Fujinami, Yuki Ogata Chiyoda Line of groping. Based women-only trains from a Thirdly, women-only trains 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. For example, taken at their home or self- take their surroundings into vitality of harvested species and Photo by Nao Nagasawa in New Zealand, the government portrait pictures on SNS. Such consideration. the well-being of the oceans) was “Unaju,” Japanese unagi cuisine cooper ates with fishery coop- behavior could, however, put Created by Natsumi Hamada Becoming involved with proposed by a group of students eratives and monitors their their personal information at A picture with location information many people over the Internet from Ochanomizu University seafood. In a school survey, when shopping. fishing. Such activities enable risk of being leaked online. is a double-edged sword. Users Senior High School. students asked 356 Japanese Many consumers think that most supermarkets in the country Once the images are posted, a dish you cooked or a pet. To must pay attention to the actions By adopting such an activity whether they are aware of they cannot have a great impact to sell sustainable seafood. they can spread across the world prevent such risk, the location they take on the Internet. Use and thinking about sustainable sustainable seafood or not, with or that they have no choice Sustainable seafood will and be saved and misused by information function should be SNS wisely and have a good seafood, changes can be expected 80% answering “No.” This when sustainable seafood is not be promoted in Japan, if such anyone. turned off . SNS life! in consumer attitudes, in turn means that 4 out of 5 people are on sale. But your choice is very movements as those in New Smartphones and tablets Have you ever met a friend contributing to eco-friendly not aware of sustainable seafood. important, as it reflects your Zealand become more popular. have a function of recording you made online in real life? By Azusa Iwata, Emma consumption, which eventually To overcome this challenge, message to society. Consumers Excessive fi shing should thus be the location a photo is taken You may meet someone with together, and talk about Yamamoto, Nanami Ishigure, helps address the problem. students have made leaflets, should thus take sustainability tackled not by a few people, but at. As a result, your address the same interests and deepen common interests. However, the Natsu mi Hamada, Reona Although sustainable seafood promotion videos and a website. into consideration for the future! rather by the whole of society to could be identified from an the friendship through SNS. character, sex, or age of friends Maezawa has been suggested as one of the As a result, awareness of an eel Greater awareness of and preserve Japanese food culture. image, whether it is a photo of You can also go to events on SNS may be fake. There are solutions to this problem, there crisis and sustainable seafood interest in sustainable seafood are many difficulties in putting has increased. Their thinking is leads to the industry being more this method into practice. that if more people know about aware as well. In this way, more By Aki Hoshino, Nao Naga- One of the challenges is how sustainable seafood, more people and more parts of society will sawa, Nodoka Yamauchi, Ruka Gender Issues Jam Up to raise awareness of sustainable will make eco-friendly choices take eco-friendly actions. Yokota Women-only Trains

Groping is a serious social on those cases, it seems the Provided by JR East Codes Help Visitors Ride the Rails issue in Japan. Surprisingly, issue involves only combatting Figure 2: Women-only train many travel books written groping. Can it really be so? Tokyo is well-known for its color stand for the Marunouchi “STATION NAMBERRING” in foreign countries refer to These days, women-only discriminate based on being dense network of subway lines Line, since its paintwork is “chikan” on Japanese trains. trains are often associated with male or female. On the one that are intricately connected. red. Eight (08) is the number Tokyo Metro East Japan Railway In fact, according to a survey gender issues. Gender is not the hand, women are deprived Today, with the infl ux of foreign designated for Shinjuku Station. conducted with 232 students of sex-biological characteristics Created by Miyu Hattori of freedom of behavior and Ochanomizu University Senior of female and male, but rather feel that they are confined to visitors to Japan, the train is Also, East Japan Railway Three-letter code becoming more indispensable (JR East) uses a three-letter High School, more than one- refers to social and cultural gender perspective. a women-only train. On the as a means of transportation. To coding system for hub stations third of the students has been definitions of women and men. Firstly, women-only trains other hand, men may have the Line code facilitate navigation for foreign where many lines stop. As seen groped. (Figure 1). To prevent Moreover, it includes the theory force gender identities on unpleasant feeling of being tourists traveling within the in Image 1, Shinjuku Station groping, women-only train cars of “SOGI,” which stands for everyone, even a *cisgender’s treated as possible gropers. Station number capital, railway companies have on the Yamanote Line can be have been introduced in Japan. “Sexual Orientation and Gender identity of being a woman. It is the threat of groping The logos provided by JR East and Tokyo Metro Identity” and is deeply related to Secondly, women-only trains introduced a so-called signature described using three different Created by Urara Nagumo More than 80 train routes offer that we should really eliminate. hardly accomplish the primary system. For example, one codes: three letters, a line Image 1: Example of station numbering such carriages. LGBT. These problems must now be form of this system is “station code, and a station number. In Some people think that men Sustainable Development purpose. Such trains tend to be regarded as issues of the entire numbering.” Tokyo Metro, a this case, the three-letter code Ueno Station and TYO for where to go. This should make are prohibited from riding in a Goals (SDGs) were adopted used as a psychological shelter society. rapid transit system in Tokyo, “SJK” stands for Shinjuku Tokyo Station. access using rail transport women-only train. However, it at the U.N. summit in 2015. for victims of groping. However, uses specifi c colors to represent Station, line code JY for the JR Such signature systems easier, regardless of language is not a problem in the eye of the Gender equality is one of the transgender people, who have * Cisgender: A person whose each line and has created easy- Yamanote Line, represented with numbers, letters and barriers. law. Such a misunderstanding goals. Such an initiative will concerns about their own sex, gender identity matches their to-understand signs with letters by its green color, and station colors are displayed in eye- sometimes causes trouble improve unfair standpoints cannot use the train because they birth sex and a number indicating the number seventeen (17) for catching places. By utilizing between women and men. In regarding women and sexual feel that their gender is being information technology, people By Ayano Oki, Karen Hama- February 2018, women accused minorities. denied or that they are being line and station, respectively. Shinjuku Station. Other hub By Akira Kudo, Ayumi Ogawa, traveling on trains can more moto, Soyoko Yoon, Urara three men who rode in a women- Based on the above, there forced to be a different gender For example, in Image 1 to the stations include AKB for Miyu Hattori, Rin Nakano, Rio easily understand how and Nagumo, Yukari Fuku only train on the Tokyo Metro are three main problems with from their real one. right, the letter M and the red Akihabara Station, UEN for Fujinami, Yuki Ogata Chiyoda Line of groping. Based women-only trains from a Thirdly, women-only trains 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