【France】Youth Caravan from Hiroshima-G7 Hiroshima Summit Legacy Project-

Hello everybody my name is kendai Maru associate  professor of Japanese studies at University of P   I will be your facilitator today today event is  happening uh following the recent Hiroshima jet   Summit that took place in May of this year  so this is a meeting between Japan’s Youth  

And G7 country so we are now in France at Japan  house at La City University International D and   France is one of the S country so we’re going  to have a dialogue discussion between Japanese   delegate as well as those from France before we  begin now I would like to have introduction from  

Students and I will start with with Japanese  delegate so please start AUM hello my name is   aumi and I’m from do University K Japan today  I’ll talk about envelopment and education thank you hello my name is an I’m a University of   Tokyo I’m talking about peace  today so thank you for having

Me I’m y Nakamoto I’m from KO University Tokyo I  will be talking about the importance of Art and   peace art and culture and peace building Meli good  afternoon everyone I’m angre kamisato from Rico   University and today I will be talk talking about  the food waste issues so thank you for having me

Today hello my name is haros a second  year of high school student at kosa   Global Academy today I will talk about the  human rights thank you for having having me   today thank you so now we are from French  delegates hello everyone my name is guel  

Vu I’m a student at inalco and at ponon suburn  University today I will be talking to you about   Reinventing Peace Museum as environmental  museum for peace thank you for having me hello everyone my name is Nisa hner I’m  a student at the University of Paris City  

And today I’m talking about peace  education especially in Hiroshima schools uh hello a my name is Remy I’m a  French student at parate University and   the French Institute of geop politics and I  will talk about peace war and nuclear threat

Hello my name is gel and I’m in master  of anthropology in O at o a school of   school for advanced studies in Social uh  in social sciences and today I will talk   about um uh education to Nature thank you for your

Presence hello everyone my name is Lucian H smil  and I’m a student in law at the eal superior and   I will talk about uh human rights thank you for  having me so thank you everybody and before going   into the the presentation and discussion so  we have a video message from the governor of

Hiroshima I’m hiaki the governor of Hiroshima  per here on behalf of the Hiroshima Organization   for Global Peace I’d like to say a few words on  the occasion of the youth Caravan from Hiroshima   G7 Hiroshima Summit Legacy project as you know  Hiroshima was the first city in history devasted  

By the atomic bomb it later recovered and achieved  Prosperity through peace this may the G7 Hiroshima   Summit was held leaders from the major Powers  including nuclear armed states were shown in the   world news visiting the Hiroshima Peace Memorial  Park paying respects and offering flowers for the  

Aound victims at the Hiroshima Memorial Casino  tap and writing message of Peace we believe that   this has helped to remind many people around the  world of the importance of nuclear abolition also   apart from the topics of nuclear dis government  and the issue of the Russian invasion of Ukraine  

A broad range of global issues were discussed such  as climate energy health care including infectious   disease counter measures uh digitalization and  AI the G7 leaders called on the International   Community to actively cooperate and contribute  to solving these issues I believe that this  

Summit was very significant in sending out the  message that the G7 countries are committed to   peace and to overcoming the division of the world  for today’s program I’d like all of you to follow   the success of the summit and have everyone  discuss with Japan’s youth how to further  

Increase interest nuclear weapon issue devise a  plan to increase momentum to solve Global issues   our time here today is short but I hope you will  exchange viewpoints with Japanese youth on how to   strive for a better world and connect the results  of today’s meeting to tomorrow’s actions we’ also  

Like to create future policies utilizing opinions  and suggestions from everyone finally Hiroshima   is briming with attractions such as the two  world heritage sites of the atomic bomb Dome   and its kushima sh beautiful nature and gouret  food I sincerely welcome you to come visit here

Shim so it’s great to hear from the  governor and now moving on to the to   the delegation and starting the presentation  and discussion so the first presentator is from Japan so we have from do University environment  thank you let’s start with my self

Introduction environmental CL problems are  the problems we are all working on in NS we   have our goal 13 is to take urgent action to  combat climate change and its impacts for the   year 2030 and Beyond we have to make complete  progress on it so I dor I propose education as  

A way to achieve this goal at the Garden of par  at the seminar course on my University we work   at the Garden and based on Hands-On experiences  we are learning we are learning environmental   sciences and then my supervisor explain the  philosophy of this Garden this is the garden  

Of hope it’s a garden-based learning project  where young people learn about nature through   experience M and not only receiving education  we are also implementing it at our local Child   Care Center we have fun activities on nexts for  children education to preserve the environment and let’s move on to my

Presentation here I like to talk about  education and envelopment and then as the   video shows that there is a goal sorry about  that that I like to commence with a simple yet   profound question how do you define nature  you may answer that nature is not manmade  

Or nature is the things should control you may  say or nature is the beauty thank you for your   attention as you memorate the goal 13 of SGS is  to take urgent actions to combat climate change   and its impact and for this goal we have  a Target that needs us to build knowledge  

And capacity to meet the climate the climate  change the build knowledge yes education so   education is regarded as a important tool to  preserve the involment let’s move on to the   data according to the UNESCO which is located in  near from here and according to unco the 70% of  

Young people cannot explain climate change or  can only explain its blo principles or do not   know anything about it so we understand there  is a lack of quality Environmental Education programs so here is my goal my goal is to  build and enforce a quality Environmental  

Education programs all around the world and  so the what should be the core what should   be the philosophy for my go for my programs I  like to say emotions and exponential learning   it is because that emotions can drive our  behaviors towards sustainability this is  

Backed up by the Japanese Japanese educationist  educa educator sorry about that and emotions   are postered through exponential learning  so what am I actually doing we work at the   Garden of hope that is located in the northern  part of of Kyoto and then 10 to 15 University  

Students work at this garden and then we  grow up vegetables or plants like glaves   and then we also cultivating our understanding to  environmental educations or environmental issues   so with the basis of the Hands-On experiences we  are fostering our attitude or emotions towards the

Sustainability so I like to say we have  been we have been watching a paradigm   shift of environmental occations in the  history we have been packing young minds   with glom description of the Earth but  we are turning to environment education  

Focusing on emotions so we have to  admit that we have a link to Nature   so for the question how do you define  nature I direct to answer nature Is Us so for 2030 and Beyond I like to say let us the BL  years from France and from Japan take steps toward  

Sustainability with the basis on with the focusing  on emotions and exponential learning so let us   start with the the the the walking around your  garden or the picking up sun flowers or watching   a tiny butterflies l so excitement and joy or  wonder can lead to sustainability so I have a few  

Minutes time left so I just talk about the studies  in Environmental Education environment UC studies   there are three steps in environmental ucation  first is about the building emotional basis and   the second is to absorb knowledge and the last  is take actions I like to focus on building  

Emotions for taking actions for absorbing  knowledge that is my goal thank you thank you thank you very much for your for your  fascinating talk so how did you think about your   presentation yeah it was brilliant time like the  I have a one minute left at the last so I gladly  

Gladly talked about the studies of Environmental  Education programs and then yeah I was glad to   talk about here today thank you thank you you  have you can have a seat so now we move to French delegates so from in and P the them is  eological issue and Museum let’s start  

With my self introduction [Music] there  are believed to be fewer than 7,500 snow   leopard in the world and numbers continue  to decline since the early 1980s average   precipitation as declined by approximately  40% in southern Sudan while the sudanes were   coexisting harmoniously a drought triggered  the war in 2003 marking the onset of the  

World first recognized climate conflict due to  greenhous gases ocean water is getting allly hard learning from the P the present not  the past climate change is not just about   raising temperature but a source of conflict  and human suffering threatening Global Peace  

If the consequences of climate change include  Wars the loss of precious species and immense   human suffering why not create a Peace Museum  did dedicating to safeguarding our planet future so let’s start with my presentation so  in the self introduction you saw that I also  

Talk about animals but to be honest with you I my  subject is not Environmental Studies my studies   revolved around Peace Museum and while doing my  research I realized that Peace Museum have all the   same uh mechanism to raise awareness so I thought  why not use the same technique mechanism to raise  

Awareness about global warming I also realized  that the all R revolve around uh the past and   learning from the past to go to to go on on the  future to the Future however these day there are   unprecedented conflict and I also thought that  this conflict were not representated in this

Museum so what I would like to start by asking  you what image do you have of climate change   generally speaking in France we talk a lot  about sea level rise less biodiversity with   uh endangered spaces and white fires but  we never talk about human uh suffering we  

Mostly about talk about how the future is  going to be dark but I think it’s already   happening it’s already dark these wars are  already happening I don’t have a lot of   time today so I’m only going to talk about  uh one uh case study which is the war in

Darur so Dao is a region in Western Sudan  bordering Chad and uh it’s in near the S   region which is the orang part you can see on  the map and the according to United Nations   statistic by 28s the temperature are predicted  to rise to 2.5 uh degrees celsus and it’s the  

Best degrees at worst it’s going to raise to four  degrees and this lack of rainfall has triggered   growth that have subsequent subsequently led  to tension in the region when you don’t have   any rainfall you can’t you don’t have water  and water is a necessity to live but also for  

Farmers to uh grow vegetable to raise cattle and  also about medine to have good hygiene so that’s   why it triggers like tension and that’s  how the the first climate War began in uh 2003 millions of sanes were forced to flee the  violence in darur and 400,000 people were killed  

Uh during this war the region is still very uh  in difficulties because they are still not enough   water I’m also talking about D because this War  uh created tension in the whole country uh this   uh year in April uh even though there wasn’t  any war in the capital uh in the capital uh  

In April a war declared in uh Kum which is the  capital of Sudan and 5 point eight million of   people had to flee their home and 1 million  people uh fought uh Aslam in the neighbor countries obviously uh there’s a lot  is there’s a political context to  

This situation but one of the trigger  was the lack of water so yeah I can’t   go in depth but there is a whole political  concept like context in the situ about the situation uh there is uh also International  tensions in the region with uh the creation  

Of the grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in Ethiopia  Ethiopia sorry and there’s a big growth in the L chat you can just you can just conclude your  presentation so I think like using the   mechanism of uh Peace Museum which is a lot of  emotions could help people to see uh climate  

Change in another way and to change their  state of mind sorry thank you thank you very much just quick word how do you feel now  uh I’m quite disappointed I couldn’t talk   about the last part so I hope like in the  discussion we can talk more of one of my  

Last diversity about uh Peace Museum and  uh talk more in depth about it thank you   so now we moved to a discussion and we had  two delegates so from Japan and from France   so maybe we will start to comment on Japan’s  presentation so if you have a comments if you  

Have a question so please lce your hand and  yes guel so you said uh that a very big point   of your studies and your goal is emotion and  I was wondering since your uh the beginning   of your studies how uh you changed like what  was your state of mind at the beginning and

Now it’s a good question so I am yeah so and  just checking that you asking about some how   the Environmental Education can change the former  emotions to the desired emotions light uh no how   you were at the beginning and now for your  experience you uh I see it so you’re asking  

About my background like yes um I started the  the studying about education the the blood spares   like educational policies over all all around  the education but since I get wants to talk   about and then the the teacher who is focused on  Environmental Education with the focus on emotions  

He changed my mind and then I went to that this  kind of like the way to focus on emotions and   then that is that’s story yeah thank you other  question other comments yeah oh sorry so thank  

You uh so you uh you was talking about emotion and  in France uh it’s really weird because we are the   country of Reason like deart and um do you think  there is enough emotion when we see for example  

Uh some people some ecologist activist which who  threw up some tomato soup on the on the dating   in museum uh maybe uh I think uh we need more uh  reason but no more emotion what do you think about  

That thank you for your question and then yeah I  wanted to talk about that in my presentation but   I’m lying out out of time and then I couldn’t but  there is a research that has St that has been done  

In 2022 in by Japanese literature of environment  education and he revealed that there has a link   between the emotional like sustainable behaviors  and emotions and then that he revealed with the   quality quantitative method like the the seeds  and then he questioned he made questions to the  

Children and so in this sense you can understand  quantitively the change of emotions Andrew so I thank you for your presentation I’m  wondering is there any vegetables or fruits   which are effective to like in terms of  your like environment or like emotional

Education um this is not the vegetable sorry  about that like the the according to the Anna   comto that who is famous for the nature study the  handook of nature studies she l that the bird is   a great material to start with environmental  ucation so birds can the fly and then birds  

Eat the worms so that when we are watching birds  that we can understand what is going know in the environment thank you so it’s very interesting  so animals and I think G you talk about also you   emphasize also the the relationship between the  ecological question and the human human conflicts  

And I’m wondering also if you have a comment  or question on gr so gr’s presentation so yeah   maybe maybe we start with yo um thank you for the  presentation gr um as a student from Hiroshima we  

So familiarized with our piece Memorial Park in  museum and well it is like a center over hard   and center of learning and I wonder well you  were saying that you’re we will talk in detail   later like how you connect the environment is  with that kind of piece uh museums so thank you  

For your question so I come also from normandi in  France which is a famous also because of second   world war and I think that a lot of Peace Museum  are triggering emotions to have a big impact so  

When you go out of the hirosima P Museum you cry  and so that’s how like touching your emotions uh   change people minds and a lot of people are seeing  uh Glo global warming as something very scientific   that it’s not like uh something tangible so  I think think that making using the ter term  

Like Peace Museum and showing for example Wars uh  action and everything that’s happening now in the   world can see that it’s not something something  that’s going to happen happen in the future it’s   happening now and people are dying that what  I wanted to say after okay thank you so if you  

Have another question comments Andrew thank you  for your presentation may I know more details   about the Peace Museum like the purpose or like  is it already exist in France I no no not at all   I just wanted like to launch this conversation  and I thought about it because uh in Paris we  

Have a a city of science which is a science museum  and we had a science Day in France and there was   a a whole exhibition about uh global warming and  there was uh I also put put like an photo in my uh  

Di but it’s something uh University in Serbia did  and you under uh capsule and you watch a videos   and there is an like art form a man is lying it’s  not a real man and it’s a man who is living in  

2030 and you’re watching the videos and he’s  talking like if I could talk to people in 2023   that’s what I would say and it was very like a it  gave me a big impact and I thought like it’s kind  

Of the same emotion that I had in Peace Museum  so that’s why thank you another question another comments youo please um so uh you know you  mentioned about like how we need emotional   perspective on global warming matters and on the  other hand Remy commented on how we need like the  

Fact based discussion about it and and then I  I think right now in Hiroshima we need to focus   more on fact-based or like reasonable conversation  because we have been focusing so much on emotion   on the other hand as you mentioned like global  warming is totally scientific model right now  

And I think it is important to find a balance  between them what do you think is about the best   balance between emotion and reason of course  like everything I think balance is important   but I think like when about climate there’s a lot  of people who don’t believe in climate change and  

That’s why like I think that like talking about  war is not totally about emotions like it’s real   things happening but think seeing images and  seeing like real facts can be can have I think   a more more impact than just saying like in  s there is going to be a raise of 2.5 degrees  

It’s not very something tangible people are yeah  it’s sad but we don’t have like a very I think we   can’t regrasp it but seeing that people are like I  said uh don’t have enough food and everything it’s   more tangible but I think it’s still touching  more emotions and rational kind of but balance  

Is everything I think thank you maybe I may add  something uh so uh as I said in the last part of   my presentation there are three steps the first  is build emotional basis and the second is the  

Absorve knowledge and the last part is take  actions so the as you said so we have to take   balance the the the balance collectory apparently  and then I think like the in this in my context  

We are delived by emotions and then that that our  behaviors can be supported by facts or knowledge I   think that’s the way that we can have a balance  between them thank you everybody for this   discussion and it was very fruitful but I have  to now summarize and all the conversation here and

And the term that I choose is the  balance and especially the balance   between the emotion and knowledge  and thank you very much for everybody and and now we move to the next step so  we will have the next Japanese delegates

So we have from Tokyo from the  University of Tokyo anata the time is peace rebooting memories I was born and raised  in hirosima have you ever been to the Hiroshima   Peace Memorial [Music] Park this was the downtown  the Nakajima District about 4,400 people lived  

Normal everyday lives just like us since I  was a high school student I’ve been working   on reboting memories that is to colorize the  black and white photos of the daily lives before   the atomic bombing using Ai colorization and the  dialogues with the war survivors seeing the color

Photos Kaka are aging year by year and we are  the last generation to hear their testimonies   directly how can we convey the war survivors  uh convey the war survivors messages to the Future please look at this photo which was taken in  1938 in Hiroshima their brothers and Hiroshima  

Industrial promotion Hall which is now called the  atomic bomb D how do you feel and what can you   imagine in 2017 in the summer I met this younger  brother Mr tokuzo hamay he once lived in the   Nakajima District where Hiroshima Peace Memorial  Park is now located and his father run a barber  

Shop here we can see his family in the animation  movie in this corner of the world although he   was evacuated all his family members died by one  atomic bomb without saying goodbye since then he  

Has cherished this album about 250 black and white  photos are in it also he told me that he went to   the theater again and again because he could  meet his family through the movie so I thought  

Of colorizing the photos and giving them in an  album so that he could feel his family closer too this was taken in 19935 in Hiroshima Mr  hamay saw this AI colorized photos and said   wow it’s so beautiful just like yesterday  my family seemed to be alive this was a  

Scene of ohanami party in chuen so the color  of these flowers are pink a I recognize the   leaves green but according to Mr hamay these  are Terry blossoms so I manually adjust the   color based on his color of memory this comes  from rebooting memories I have interviewed more  

Than 30 residents of Z Nakajima district and Haka  visualizing color memory using air colorization   and the dialogue with war survivors can  bring life back to their jaful memories vividly and we can go into our imagination  so that people suddenly lost by a single  

Atomic bomb it will lead to emphasize  with the inhumane of atomic bomb and War so May 19th this year G7 leaders visited  Hiroshima they offered flowers and prayed   for peace however could they imagine the  daily lives of Nakajima District before  

The bombing under the ground of the present  peace park there was a temple and a cafe near here just after two months on July 19th Mr  hamay passed away I strongly believe it is my   mission to convey the war survivors messages  through color of memory with empathy for six  

Years I have advanced my activities like  exhibitions movies smartphone application   color photo book and music and so on today one  of the colorized photos is exhibited over there   so please see it and feel free to talk to me  78 years have passed since the atomic bomb was  

Dropped on Hiroshima the time is limited  when we can communicate with Haka so how   can we the people who haven’t experienced World  War II convey the war survivors messages to the Future it took 70 years for Mr hamay to build  his family grave because he had he had believed  

His family had been alive somewhere in the  peace Park habaka have overcome sorrow and   hatred they hope for a peaceful world  so that people never repeat the same suffering I realize it’s very important  for each one of us to um sorry to listen  

To the war survivors messages voices and  to uh and express the messages in our own way so we may now live in the world before World  War I so we realize nobody can stop the war after   breaking out we must need to imagine War and  Peace as something relevant to our present  

Day life when you visit Hiroshima please walk  through the peace spk Imagining the lives of   nakazima district and please tell someone what  you’ll feel using your five senses in your own   way I believe it is um I believe this will  lead to a nuclear-free world thank you for

Listening thank you very much for your  fascinating talk and espe the very very   very interesting project actually and actually  before before I’m in studying history I used   to study photography and I was particularly  interested in your project but how do you  

Feel about your presentation um Since U Mr  hamay passed away this July um I regretted to   U tell the messages directly to G7 leaders  but this time uh G7 youth leaders uh with   G7 leaders uh G7 leaders I can communicate  today so I’m very happy and I’m very happy  

To tell the our survivors messages directly and  through coloriz photos thank you so much thank you so now we we move to French delegation’s presentation so from University B so  so Nagisa Horner the them is peace education so let’s start with my

Introduction in Japan the Quest for Peace  begins in the classroom parar in Hiroshima   where the past shapes the future in Hiroshima  schools peace education includes understanding   conflict and preventing future violence at the  heart of this education is the atomic bombing on  

Hiroshima on 6th August 1945 to understand  the tragic consequences of the war and the   survivors known as Haka share their experiences  so that we so that the horrors of War are never forgotten the peace education are in place in  memory of the victims and to symbolize their  

Commitment to peace this education extend  throughout Japan inspiring generations to   promote peace and Mutual understanding peace  education in hirosima schools inspires the   fight for a better world especially at a time  when conflicts are still breaking out around  

The world together we can all contribute to  a more peace forward join us in our Quest for Peace so let’s start with my self-presentation I don’t have the power on  point to today but uh I make a a speech for  

For the public 78 years have passed since the  end of the second world war with the loss of   the generation that live through the atomic  bombings of a hirosima and Nagasaki given   Japan’s historical and geopolitical context  marked by this tragedies peace education is  

Of crucial importance in understanding the impact  of conflicts and nuclear weapons on societies and   in promoting the prevention of such events in the  future Japan adopted a Pacific Constitution after   the second world war renouncing renouncing war  as a means of resolving conflicts however the  

Debate surrounding the reinterpretation of  the Constitution and discussion on National   Defense issues have highlighted the complexity  of the security challenges facing the country   Hiroshima Municipal and private schools have  been incorporating peace education arbitrary   by teacher initially since the 1917s then in  the form of a genuine pedagogical model at the  

Initiative of the Hiroshima Municipal Board of  Education since 2013 peace education emerged as   a response to the need to challenge the entire  pror system charactered by strong nationalism   to promote Democratic Values human rights and  peaceful methods of dispute resolution the aim  

Is to help shape future Generations commited  to preventing conflict preserving peace and   promoting global stability during my second year  of my Master’s Degree I was able to observe the   way in which peace education was conducted at  hiroshima’s and Municipal secondary school I  

Don’t say the name because of the of the Privacy  from 9 to 13 March 202 23 so uh this year and to   understand how it was P saved and experienc  both by teachers and 98 perers of first year   classes by means of questionnaires and field  observations this work explored the way in  

Which teaching about the atomic bombing fits  into the educational landscape in particular   the major issues facing the transmission  of memory and pacifist values in Japanese   National Education this analyses highlighted  a fundamental continuity rooted in the memory   of the atomic bombings and F by awareness of  contemporary challenges however complex questions  

Remains as to the scope and depth of the impact  of this education on the younger generations and   on Society for example the continued presence  of US military bases on Japanese territory The   Selective nature of History teaching and  the Persistence of certain Nationalist and  

Militaristic attitudes in National Education  textbook revisions have been singled out for   criticism calling into questions the neutrality  of History teaching teachers heavy workloads and   their difficulty in combining the transmission  of memory with the principle of neutrality in   teaching are also revealing this phenomena are  accompanied by a gradual decline in P’s level of  

Knowledge and awareness of the atomy bombing  of hirosima and for the second world war in general finally the study my study found that  peace education is of crucial importance to   Japanese education but that it faces challenges  related to changing educational priorities and  

Normative pressures given the dynamic evolution of  global context and contemporary Social Challenges   and considering the vital role of Peace education  in building a peaceful and sustainable Society   the aim is to reflect on ways of strengthening  peace education adapting teaching methods and   maintaining a collective awareness of the  importance of Peace for future Generations  

Thank you for your attention thank you thank  you and just quick word how do you feel about   after the presentation uh I it’s very present to  present my subject of study during my two years   of master’s degree and uh the pece education is  very important for me because I can see the the  

Students of Hiroshima um take this uh this type  of education and uh and to see the emotion of   the students who want who want to um want to  to to uh make uh to continue transmission of  

Uh the the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and uh the  teachers especially two teachers uh that uh that   I um I met uh who work hard to to make the peace  education as um as e efficient possible it’s very  

Pleasant to present my observations today thank  you thank you very much and so now we move to the   discussion and the two presentation actually  was on Hiroshima and actually we have among   the delegates actually some people who visited  hirosima from the outside world but also the  

Who live who who grown up actually in hoshima and  I’m wondering so if you have comments or question   maybe on one or on both presentation and yes or  reaction are thank you and this is a comment for  

Andrew and then uh I just say your your activity  is just brilliant and that your presentation is   Will design and one of the greatest presentation  I ever heard and I like to ask that what do you  

Challenge the most what or what do you you  think what is the most important part in your activity so Andrew so thank you for your comment um  my most challenging point is uh uh in my case the inheritance of the the word survivors  messages is of course important but I think  

It is very important to make the world  survivors happy to uh to talk about their experiences and I I’m think it very important to the process  of the piece education for example in my case   I firstly uh I asked the photo owner of the war  survivors and make relationship taking over time  

And I got the photos and I digitalized the photos  for many for many and next I colorize firstly AI   this is 10% of the whole colorization and next  I colorized I research the past documents like   past close and go to the museum and see  the things which uh the world survivors

Are past are used in past and I I  adjust the color based on the things   and finally um I repeated dialogues  with war survivors again and again and I think it is very important to see the color  photo but I think it is important to process the  

Long time for a long time and making relationship  with war survivors and not only the tragedy of War   but also the people’s lives which was suddenly  lost by a single atomic bomb and we we should uh  

Go into our imagination so this is very important  point to my Activity thank you thank you color   evokes the emotion that was discussed actually  in the first session but also it’s a process of   producing the knowledge and relationship as you  mentioned and I think yeah please maybe maybe  

Nagisa and then Remy yes about the survivors um  I uh when I make observations at the Hiroshima   schools I see the the students who one one time  every year uh they heard the testimonies of uh  

Of survivors um and the teacher said that uh  but uh maybe last year or in two three years   they cannot more listen to the testimoni of of  Haka because of their their age uh and um I I  

Think that uh the idea of cor the the photos uh  the colorized photos are very brilliant and uh   it’s necessary to to um to to make transmission  of this photos at Hiroshima students and also um   at the the student the Japanese students because  the coriz photos is more impact make more impact  

Than the the black and white photos and uh I  want to ask you when you had this idea or uh   and in which context and with who you you had this  idea um thank you for your comment and question

Um honestly uh I was I hate the peace education  because when I was a kindergarten student uh   I firstly went to the peace Memorial Museum and  I saw the horrible scene of the atomic bomb and  

War but um when I was a Elementary School student  I got a pamphlet uh it uh it includes the photos   of prear nakazima distri and I saw that uh and  I saw and I saw that there were um daily lives  

Um before the atomic bombing just like us and I  changed my mind so um this is my first point to   change my mind and secondly uh in N uh in 2017  when I was a high school student I came across  

Mr hamay uh when I said my presentation and uh  he had the photos of R lives and he once lived   in the Nakajima District so um and after I met Mr  hamay once week after I met Mr hamay um I learned  

The colorization of AI and and then I found  the photos of Mr hamay and I heard from him   that he went to the theater again then and he  met he could meet his family through the movie  

So uh I color so I decided to colorize the photos  and uh he he’d like to colorize to the photos for   me this is the starting point to rting Memories  thank you very much and comment and question REM

Me uh thank you for your presentation it’s  a comment and a question so for the comment   and it’s make it makes makes an echo with the  previous presentation uh about uh the balance   between uh emotion memory and uh history  uh because uh your work onju is uh very  

Emotional uh history uh work and uh we have the  same problem in France and in Europe with the   Holocaust and uh the like you said uh all the  testimonies were are about to disappear and um   it’s really important for us for the Youth the  European youth uh to continue to uh develop this  

Uh this subject about the Holocaust about this  in Europe in France uh I’ve met a person Jean   Mett and he suffer about uh Nazis or uh and  I think it’s important to balance with the  

Historical work uh and uh in in school we talk  about the uh learning peace at school uh and I   think it’s important my question is to all the  Japanese delegate I don’t know if I can do that  

But uh what do you think about uh the actual uh  reconstru reconstruction rebuilding of Defense in   Japan because I work on it and what do you think  about because you talk about peace Etc and do you   think it’s a peaceful thank you thank you for  your question it’s it’s a big question actually  

So maybe if you one person who would like to  represent Japan’s delegations reaction rather than   response because I think it’s huge question so  response is very difficult uh def defenses defense policies or maybe can I just make short quick  short comment like the we learned the the the  

Two days ago that we have to make the balance  between the ideal and I ideal and the reality   so in ideal Ideal World we have to make the the  country without nuclear weapons or the the kind  

Of defense or and we have to look at the look at  the the real world so that is the the things I’m   I’m thinking about yeah thank you thank you very  much and so I will make a quick summary which may be

So I choose memory and dialogue because I think  so we discuss a lot about memory but parent memory   itself it’s not enough and maybe something add was  maybe the dialogue and well I may say dialogue but  

Also memory and dialogue I think it could be  it fit to the to the to the spirits of this   this this this session so now we move to the  next session and we will have a delegate from Japan so we have from KO University yuo  Nakamoto them is importance of educating  

Art and culture okay now intruction okay uh  through the pandemic of coid we have seen many   concerts cancelled theaters and museums closed  in Japan some people even say arts and cultures   are unnecessary however an art as art can be  a form of communication which overpowers the  

Language it it plays a great role in accepting  diversities and peace building the problem in   Japan and many other countries is that people  perceive art as luxurious and do not make it   part of their daily lives so in today’s speech  I’d like to propose some ideas on why arts  

And cultures are important in peace building  and well I created some organization with my   friends to make the first impression of students  towards Arts to be wonderful by introducing some   tips on how to enjoy arts and I’d love to  hear the ideas from all of you you thank

You today I’d like to talk about the power of arts  and culture and how they can contribute to peace   what do I mean by that for instance how many of  you like Japan even though you’d never visited  

Was it um what created that opinion in you was  it Sushi the animation the fashion all cultural   elements that contribute to how a nation is seen  function at soft power which is one of our focuses   today in the same way when the British prime  minister visited Japan on g7’s occasion and posted  

On social media about his time in Hiroshima making  okonomi Aki it made Japanese citizens feel a sense   of friendship toward the UK this is an example  of public diplomacy or other focus of today out of the three types of power commonly  exercised in global relationships hard power  

Employs force and CERN sharow power makes use  of the shared values of Nations as Government   strategy leaving soft power as the only one  promoting peaceful problem solving and gentle approach through uh though it takes longer  than hard power the values and agreements  

Shared by Soft power will last long people  will be convinced of the results as it is   not something forced by threats also soft  power helps people to understand or respect   different cultures and bodies there’s no doubt  that interance and narrow-mindedness towards  

Other cultures cause many Global problems such as  discrimination and economic gaps soft power power   might help solve these situations as well  here are some examples of soft power being   familiarized with these cultures people start  to Aspire to the lifestyles and values of these

Countries public diplomacy is mainly done between  governments where soft power is done between   civilians for diplomatic negotiations uh to be  successful knowing the partner country citizens   ideas and getting agree getting agreements  from them is crucial because most countries  

Of diplomatic governments uh do not only work out  policies that are followed by their citizens this   way of diplomacy uses charm of their culture  and friendship between the countries to pursue   negotiation instead of threats by military or  economic Powers if we look at this cultural  

Expenditure showing the the budget allotted by  countries to public diplomacy projects we can see   that Japan does not yet seem to fully exercise the  value of investing in cultural activities powers   of arts and cultures are often underestimated  as the effect is not visible in numbers which  

Leads some politicians to hesitate to put money  into cultural problem cultural purposes on the   other hand European countries such as the UK and  France spend a great amount of money on on art and   culture I’d like to know whether this difference  comes from citizens views or government’s position  

So it would be nice if any of you could give me  some ideas on it later in the discussion part   overall Bor in hoshima I have always wanted to  contribute to peace at the same time I learned   a lot about the reality of global politics  soft power and public diplomacy may not be  

Perfect but slowly replacing the for forceful  way of diplomacy with this kind of peaceful   way will surely be a huge step towards peace  because Effectiveness cannot be showing numbers   it is difficult to enforce but if we the Young  Generation know the importance of these Concepts  

We can realize peaceful diplomacy and negotiation  in the future let’s make it happen together thank   you thank you very much for your very interesting  and informed presentation so what do you feel   after your present after this presentation well  this is my first time visiting France and before  

That I had an image of France being like culture  or country with like most of the citiz is very   interested in arts so I was very excited to listen  to all the opinions of you all so thank you very  

Much and please take a seat so now we move to the  next next step so the French uh we have a French U presentation so from par University the them  is peace uh so let’s start with my personal  

Introduction so on October the 7th a new aspect  of the conflict between Israel and Palestine erupt   with the Hamas attack on Israelis this attack was  immediately followed by the ration uh by Israel   dragging the Rion back into war previously  there was the Russia’s invasion of Ukraine  

In 2022 which brought the war to you Europe’s  door step which has disappeared since the 19th   and the balcon war war is everywhere all the time  and each chair of humanitarian catastrophe can I   will say it forced immigration anger the  the health and education system in danger  

Added to this there is another Parra the nuclear  threat uh this nuclear weapon supposed to be a   weapon of deterence continue to onwe on the major  decision of the world with the Young Generation   must fight against this we must take power and  promote a world of peace and mutual AIDS between

Nation okay so as you know a year ago Russia  invaded Ukraine violated the Integrity of   Ukraine sovereignity and territory since the ban  in the 19 world had almost disappeared in Europe   and now it’s at the Gate of Europe a few thousand  kilometer of Paris this Invasion and the outbreak  

Of the Ukraine were a shock to me even through  I had see theaters of War elsewhere this was the   first time I had experienced in Europe I tell  you an anecdote I was a history and geography  

Teacher in the high school and I Asser my student  uh the war was impossible and it’s dangerous for   everyone and the Russia don’t uh no don’t  go to invade Ukraine a few days later the   damage was done and uh when I saw my student  again I was forced to admit my mistake this  

Lit Story shows the unicable the UN raisable  of War moreover I said this war was of the   gates of the Europe and that worries me for the  future in Europe tensions are rising government   are become tense and radicalized the temptation  to close down and corus has become common again  

With all conflicts they keep shape again as in  Serbia and Kosovo for example finally Vladimir   Putin is constantly raising the nuclear threat  in the west and the United State ever interfere   uh if the west in the United State ever interfer  the Russian Internal Affairs several maor outlets  

In France have been referred so called the tar  bomber a bomb that would eradicate Paris if it   launch uh so for the past year I we have been  in fear of this hopeless conflict I don’t want  

This world my generation don’t want this world  we have uh on our continent Europe a union a   fraternity want wanted by a father of All European  nationality for example Rober Schuman and Je for   La France deas for Italy corad at the no for  Germany etc etc and 10 years before the Treaty  

Of run this Nation were at War and thanks to  this father of Europe friendship and European   Brotherhood was born um France have has a role  to play through his history is the country that   won the most battle in the history uh through  his tradition France must defend the ideal of  

Peace the Rivage of world war the too many civil  killed the Canon for sent into battle to gain a   few met on the adversary all this should quiet  us so that it never happens again as the founder  

Of the European Union France and French yth must  be stand bir for peace because for many for many   it’s a model of peace and democracy today I think  that is not fully fing the world France says arms  

To Country at War such as Saudi Arabia France  continue to fight uh in these former colonies   in Africa in order to according to them uh  preserve peace in Africa but we know very   well that economic interests preval and that’s  the large Industry Group uh are not destroying  

Uh are not only destroying the planet but  also left by dis spoing African resources um as you know France is one of the countries  with the nuclear weapons let me noot um so uh we have to realize how serious the  situation is nuclear respon are said to be a  

Deton uh weapon it has not used uh been it has not  been used in 1945 but how long can this deterrent   last billion of people civilian and innocent  will be uh the victim of these atrocities uh   this frantic race to obtain nuclear weapon  must be stop in the tense of geopolitical  

Context this is uh the threat to the war war  bring anger suffering and desper and I would   like to conclud with Japan because I you said  uh Japan has a pacifical constitution with the   article n and I think the role of Japan is very  important in the world with his Constitution to  

Promote peace and not uh war and like how we  say the the political the actual politic thank you thank you very much Remy how was how was  your presentation uh it was lot of pressure  

But very pleasant and uh I wrote too much thank  you thank you both of you and now we move to the   discussion so we have a two presentation on the  international question if I may say although we   have we also you presented actually two  different if not complimentary approach  

To the to this question International question  and which is the the military on the one hand   and also the culture on other hand so I think  we have a question comments and or your your   reaction like from from from your point of  view and if you have any so please raise your

Hands aumu thank you and this is a comment for  Hy and then uh uh I appreciate your presentation   about the geopol with the geopolitical point  of view on the piece and then I I direct to  

Ask about uh how can we move the the building  peace in actual processes how can we move like   policies or how can we change the mind or how can  we make the changes in actual Society I like to  

Ask about that um thank you for your question and  um maybe we already have answer it’s I think for   me uh it’s about uh education a lot of Education  because I was teacher and it was it was important  

For me uh to to transmit to my uh to my student uh  the important of war the atrocities of War and the   uh yeah the education is maybe for me the first  thing uh we have to to to change uh to make more  

Uh more peace people I don’t know how to say but  uh yeah and as uh yuo say cter is cure and softb   is very important and uh it’s maybe the the last  part of my speech with Japan Constitution uh for  

Me it belongs to the soft power of Japan this  Japanese Constitution and Japan has have to uh   promote it that’s it thank you very much any other  question guel maybe and then angre right uh it’s   mostly a comment and perhaps an answer also my  point of view is quite different because I think  

That uh teaching peace is not enough because  peace PE mean also war and I think that war   criminal also need to be judged because we can’t  just talk about peace and not uh a knowledge the   people who suffered and people who are responsible  from this suffering so I think that International  

Court and judging uh war criminal and kind of  putting finger on people um responsibilities   are also important because p p can’t be made uh  before uh acknowledging people suffering and what   people lived that’s all thank you so maybe I take  the answer question and then we’re going to open  

Up this is is my comment and question so through  these sessions uh I think um it is very important   educational space for peace and it is not only in  the classroom but also the space where is open for  

Our societ like uh exhibition Hall um Peace M uh  peace Park and Museum and so on so uh when you uh   you said you are teacher of historic so uh how  how do you think what uh how do you what do you  

Think it is very important for kids to think about  peace as themselves um like I said before um it’s   very important to find the good balance between  memory so what you say the uh the the memory the  

The place of war the museum Etc uh I live in  Lauren uh which uh there was the World War I   with Vera and uh every year all my school go to to  V and uh but before we have to prepare uh people  

Uh because they have to um understand what they  will re see that what they they will see and uh   it’s yes the the balance between uh the history  so this my job and memory the job of the museum  

The place but it’s very important for me to take  people and uh go on place that the world should   be i’ be thank you very much so so I think yeah oh  you EO maybe and then okay um so this is comment  

And kind of a question to hery you mentioned  about article name right it it is and then you   pointed out it it can be a soft power of Japan  on the other hand it is kind of a taboo in Japan  

Because it is such a controversial topic if you  talk about that kind of political topic people   might think you’re too aggressive or something um  but I I didn’t realize that article nine gets such   an attention from abroad until I came here today  uh so what is like the general perspective itive  

Of French people TS article n and I think maybe  maybe maybe you can you can also ask the question   you know that group the question oh this is very  a general question and this is for post of you and  

Those there is too but um what is peace from your  perspective I mean like how do you define the word   peace thank you sir you can you can make a short  answer to the to the big two big question okay so  

For youo um uh in France uh we don’t know about  the article n it’s my personal uh work because   last year I work about uh this article and the  the Pacific movement in Japan and it was very  

Important for me to talk about that because it  was my research and um and uh I it’s my personal   opinion to Japan has to promote the Artic man  and what’s the definition of peace I had good

Question um I don’t know I think to realize that  it’s a good question is already I think that one   part of answer right may we can continue maybe you  you could suggested just one things it’s that if  

It’s it’s e the the comparison between Japan and  France may be interesting for for the question   of the the culture diplomacy or or soft power if  you have any suggestion to youo or reaction maybe  

From from France point of view maybe we have so  about soft Poore in Japan I think about uh oing   games and when uh the Prime Minister like we Mario  outfit and everything um I don’t know how Japanese  

People saw it like in France we thought like  it was quite funny but I think like we could   not see our president do that because it will be  too much like not serious and um yeah I think it’s  

Not uh about s power in a lot of Europe European  country we prefer to see like kind of a strong   figure because if the if there is too much of a  soft nice in Mage it can be seen as weak so what  

What did you thought about this all the pink game  things and everything maybe Lucian also you have   a comment so very short comment please it was um  it was just a question for y y yuk sorry um what  

Do you think about the cultural policies in Japan  because when you during your presentation I was   thinking about the fact that in France there is a  lot of um uh cultural investment uh to create an  

Access for people like in you if you go to the  m l Museum uh if you are under 26 and a member   of the UN um EUR European Union you will not  pay uh so it’s um just a link to to see that  

Cultural policies is very important but uh we your  presentation I was thinking where is the place um   there is a place in Japan to discuss about that  um thank you for both of you uh for comment and  

Question so first answering to guel about that  ab’s Olympic costume well to start off uh for   Japanese youth the distance between the polit  politics and politicians and our daily lives   is quite huge we don’t see the politics connected  to our daily lives we don’t talk about it at all  

So seeing him wearing Mario which is very close  to our daily lives made made us realize oh he’s   the representation of Japan so we saw it quite in  a friendly way but yeah we don’t we don’t require  

The strong figure to the Prime Minister maybe in  general okay uh and then answering to that like   if there is a place in Japan to discuss about the  importance of culture right well in Japan we have   some like fundings like governmental fundings  to protect the traditional Arts like Kabuki  

And no but for the like more commercialized  art form like Theater Arts and movie Japanese   government just leave the like private companies  to do their own things which is not enough like   if they do that they will just do the they will  just make the programs which which is going to  

Make money but that doesn’t necessarily mean they  can be a good quality or that that will be a good   uh art form which can appeal to the International  Community so I think there should be more place to  

Discuss about that in like with the government  thank you very much so I will make very quick summary so I choose transmission so I think the the  the b in the field in the military question   or geopolitical question or cultural question  I think the a stake what is stake at is the  

Transmission and I think I choose this this  for for for for this session so now we will   have a a very short break uh before uh so  move to the next session thank you very Much [Music] So we just had a break and now move  on to the next Japanese delegate please so now let me start my introduction video  from R University an Kam and the them is food problem okay so now let me start about my  introduction video hi everyone do you like  

Eating food for me of course yes eating something  delicious is one of the best part of my life   then what do you think when you purchase food how  many of us have t about food waste issues at that  

Moment did you know that one third of all the food  production goes to waste which is also related to   environmental issues for example wasting food  is equal to wasting energies and water in its   production process moreover the more food goes  to waste the more Greenhouse guses are emitted  

In Japan it hard recorded that it was the hottest  dry in 125 years this year people say one day we   won’t be able to eat sushi due to the fish dying  from rising scene temperatures yeah then what  

Could be done to reduce food waste so now let me  start my presentation next please so have you ever   heard of this Japanese word m over the past few  years this Japanese word has become familiar in  

Some countries so let me explain about the meaning  of this word at first so m is used in our daily   conversations for example if there are some grains  of rice left in a rice bowl people say it’s m and  

The meaning of this Japanese word is quite similar  to the English word waste F but I think what makes   it different is it contains respect and affection  toward natures and objects around us next slide   please so International interest in this Japanese  world was sparked by this woman wangari marai who  

Is well known for getting Nobel Peace Prize in  2004 and it is said that she was deeply impressed   by this Japanese word because this single word  expresses the spr of reduce reuse recycle so  

Today I want you to remember the meaning of this  word in itself so next please by the way as I said   in the introduction video onethird of all the  food production goes to waste then how about  

The current situation in Japan so in 2021 5.23  millions of ton of food went to waste in Japan   which is more than food assistant amount by world  food program and also this amount is as well as  

That old Japanese citizens threw away one bowl of  rice every single day next PR then helmet in the   G seven countries we including the France occupies  10% of whole the amount of food waste in the world  

So let me guess what you’re feeling right now  it must be M next please so as you know the J   Summit was held in Hiroshima Japan this year and  during the summit the Hiroshima action statement   for resilient food Global Food security has been  declared and in the statement uh reducing food  

Laws and ways were described more than three times  and now it is obvious like all the J countries are   united to you know reduce the amount of food waste  but I think it depends on every single one of us  

It whether this situation will be better or not  so next please for me I’ve realized how serious it   is a couple years ago and I’ve tried to you know  reduce the amount of food waste by myself so first  

One is participate in a business contest and I’ve  tried to you know open my new business which is   opening what generic restaurant which provide  food cooked by non-st sizes of fruits or like   vegetables in cheaper prices than normal ones but  this project has ended up in fader because of the  

Lack of money and the motivations of our members  yeah and second one is working for environmental   startup company in Singapore and I’ve tried to  promote composting to the citizen in Singapore   but every time I ask people why don’t you Ser  composting they tell me they don’t have enough  

Time and third one is being a student repor I’ve  wrote and published a couple of articles about the   you know companies or people you know working on  E friendly behaviors but through these experiences   I’ve realized one thing next please which is  we cannot make sustainable societies without  

Sustainable behaviors so next please so lastly  let me share with you a couple of ideas that I   have to change this Society better so first one  is having a mtin spirit in our minds and I think   we have already started this one from today and  second one is doing eco-friendly decision making  

So if we are going to the supermarkets there are  nonstandard size of you know vegetables or fruits   in cheap prices and comparing them with nor more  one which one will you pick up I think the answer  

Is already in your mind so what I want to tell  you today is we all have a right to change the   society better why don’t we make a society full  of M fre and eco-friendly decision making thank

You thank you very much for your very Dynamic  presentation and how do you feel now um I’m glad   to be here today and I’m really relieved  to you know finish my presentation thank   you thank you thank you very much so please  take a seat and we now we move to next French

Delegate so we we have from the them is the future of arts and nature  yeah let’s start with my self introduction most   of the world’s countries have embarked on a  process of industrialization and have thus   developed a market economy these countries today  make economic growth the main objective of their  

Policies as if the natural resources of planet  Earth were in unlimited counties all that results   in a rural Exodus and the massive adoption of Anan  lifestyle disconnected from the living world human   are developing a lack of Sensi established in  Japan sens Moran or Forest kindergartens are  

Alternative education kindergartens established in  Japan in the 2000 Nao is Peres as an educational   resource leading children to establish close  relationship with plants trees and animals   minina Yin are the testimonies of another way  of buing in the world as human beings that  

Can lead this children to take a stand against  the overon contion of Natural Resources in the future from now uh let’s uh begin uh my uh  presentation in our time humanity has to face   ecological crisis such as climate change ecosystem  collapse and Global biodiversity loss with the fix  

Massive Extinction but most countries in the  world are seeking economic grow growth um uh   whatever the social and economical ecological  consequences however there are there are limits   to growth because the Earth is physically a finite  planet and so if we continue the over conception  

Of Natural Resources the human species could  become extinct as the other species uh indeed   human beings are a part of the living world but  we tend to forget it nowadays uh since we have   develop it we have developed the modern Paradigm U  minino Yan this Japanese kindergarten are part of  

Alternatives to the current education system in  Japan they originated from forest kindergartens   born born in Denmark in the 1950s and they then  then they spread to other European countries um   and yeah in Japan marinan have developed in  local organization from the 2000s and uh the  

Forest is considered as an educational resource  in Marino Yan that allows children uh to acquire   ass sociability creativity physical faculties  physical and spiritual health and uh Sensibility uh Marino Yan’s pedagogy is also characterized  by principle of autonomy Freedom democracy and   horizontal relationship between adults and  children Maple kids minino Yan is a first  

Kindergarten in Yokohama where I did my field  work uh which began last year I was and I was   so surprised to uh observe to observe how much  uh this children uh focused their attention on   the smallest living world encounter in the in  the street uh while it was a highly urbanized  

Area and um yeah arrived in this uh small Forest  uh children were immersed in the sensory reach   Universe with the sound of criz kogi or that of  cus semi uh according to the season a crayfish   zaran became a true play Playmate when when  children played in the sand and puddles and  

Some children were Specialists uh in Catching uh  grassers B um and other ons and other ons were   particularly good for climbing trees uh they are  they are used to making dorodango uh health and   balls which remind us of Japanese dishes uh  kibidango uh rice balls um they also gathered  

As many uh flowers of Kimo uh fragrant Olive as  possible so they could enjoy their fra fragrance   uh all the day and our works through the park of  Yokohama could become um tasty since we often are   searching comestible acons sudaji the fruits Kaki  the Japanese hug berries um enoi uh the Chinese  

Bayberries yamamomo or the merries koomi that  we enjoyed uh eating together um it is in this   way that children of Marino Yan develop affective  and attachment relationship with the living world   accumulate a wealth of knowledge about nature  reconnect themselves to Nature as well as their  

Culture and uh become the testimony of another  way of dwelling in the world as a human being   finally Moran constitute the first step toward  uh integrating all forms of life back into our   daily lives and we learning to see ourselves as  an in integral part uh of the living world thank

You thank you very much how did you think about  your presentation um I was very pleased to to   share my my research and I hope that um even if  it’s a small event I I hope that um our speech uh  

Could be have an imp impact on political decisions  thank you thank you and thank you both of you to   the very sharing very interesting uh very concrete  actually project as well and so now we move to the  

Discussion and so okay uh thank you for your  presentation I have a question for Anu uh I   agree with you that we must reduce the waste  in individually but don’t you think that big   Industries uh Agro Agro food industry uh is not  the the primary source of waste of wasting food  

And the this industry has to change yeah I thank  you for your question first and I I also agree   with your idea that you know the big company like  also have you know work on to reduce the amount  

Of the food waste but you know at the same uh  time as I said in the like the presentation   you know they occupies you know more than 50%  of the you know whole amount of food waste but  

I think uh that is something Beyond as I mean  you know we are like you know just one consumer   so being a consumer you know what we what we all  could do from our you know everyday life is you  

Know just you know we have to care about our like  consuming you know habitat or like something like   that so but I also agree with that you know the  companies have to have a you know lot of things  

That I have that they have to work on and I agree  with your opinion at the same time thank you and   maybe make a a boycott boycot yes it’s too much  oh I think boycott is not so common in Japan so  

It might be you know difficult in Japan to do so  thank you so maybe guel so it’s more of an comment   so in France the boycott is something very that  we do very much about oil palm for example it’s  

Very common but I wanted to do more comment about  uh compost so I grew up in the countryside so I’m   very much used of doing composting and everything  but it’s true like I moved out of my parents house  

To do my studies in Paris and I think it’s for  me it’s not much of a lack of time but of lack   of place because compost is it smells it doesn’t  smell good and uh when you have a small apartment  

When you live in this big city you don’t have  any place to do composting so I know that in   some place in Paris apartment there is uh communal  Gardens that a lot of people you can pay to use a  

Garden and it’s pretty good and they have compost  but it’s something you need to pay for so I think   I think that uh friends it’s not much of a lack  of times but more of a lack of place and also I  

Think money sometimes because I know that uh  lately there you can buy kind of a compost   box that you can use in apartment and everything  but it’s pretty expensive and they make you buy   like special capsule to put in your compass and  everything so at the end it become more wasteful  

I think so yeah just a comment than thank you  maybe you have a reaction yes I have a reaction   for you oh I didn’t know that they are sharing you  know Garden near the Paris but in Japan they are  

Also like Gardens on the top of the buildings in  Japan even in the like Central area but they are   they are you know uh just you know growing out  the you know vegetables or fruit so I think it  

Would be the good idea to you know composting by  the companies and they you know could promote them   to the like consumers and I think that could be  the you know big movement from now thank you and

Nisa uh I have a comment for Andrew in France  at the restaurant we have the system of doggy   bag that you can take out the the the the meal  that you you you don’t finish uh I want to ask  

You if in Japan uh at the restaurant uh you have  this idea or it’s or the system is not is not uh   in place so I think in some of the restaurant  in Japan we also have that kind of system right  

Now but I think there are more spaces to  you know to start this movement in Japan soan um so just I have just one question for uh  Andre uh I was thinking about the fact that you  

Don’t mention the um if there is some rules some  law or maybe um action in local city in a local   town in a department or something about the fact  that people can waste a food and if there is um uh  

An action by the by the supermarket maybe because  in France there is a lot of uh now it’s new uh   there is a lot of markets which give um give the  the foods that uh it’s um yes it’s also the the  

Date is finished or may or it will be finished in  like two days or something like that so it is the   there is um a same idea is same idea sorry in  Japan oh sorry could you rephrase your question  

Again sorry I couldn’t hear you well sorry  okay sorry um quickly just um there is in Japan   some rules some law or policies in local Town  department or in Big City to take care about the  

Waste of the food or also about wasting oh okay  okay I got it so I think there are few policies   in specific you know local area in Japan as well  to you know reduce the amount of poy but we won’t  

Be you know punished you know even if you know we  you know make a thousand of fot was or something   like that so I think it’s it will be be you know  more strict in the future in Japan maybe okay so  

Japanese delegate mentioned the key word m and  the French delegate actually concept ofin so I   ask one question to [ __ ] delegate do do you  know about the Morino Yin the concept of Morin   and do you if you have any reaction to that and  yeah maybe ask question so of course so we have  

Like the even in Japan like the one is located  in the northern part of kyota city and I took   a trip visit to that kindergarten and uh the the  what is the what was the most important or almost  

Astonishing to me was autonomy you mention that  light and the actually like the first part of   first meeting of kindergarten fullest kindergarten  that children can decide what where they go to or   what they’re going to do I think that is really  important in every education so in terms of like  

The nature nature education as well they can do  whatever they can whatever they want to do and   then that leads to the high development of their  autonomy and uh the listening skills sometimes or   the other the skills as well I think that is the  one of the important part of kindergarten I guess

Yeah uh when I arrived for the first time in  this model in this Forest Kinder carts um it   was uh uh this point um um uh the fact that uh  children were very um autonom uh independent  

And uh uh for example uh when we before we  go to the park they um they take all their   their things like uh uh their bag their um  their water all the thing uh uh themselves   and the teachers uh didn’t say anything and  so uh I was very surprised about that and uh  

Also um yeah every every morning we we we um  We Gather uh together in the uh children are   just uh two uh from three years old to uh six  years old but um even even they are very young  

Um they can uh do a a debate together to to to  choose uh the the park uh uh where they want   to go um yeah and uh I think that this kind of  education are uh the conditions uh to um to um  

Make relationship with the Living World um and  I think it’s very important uh nowadays because   we are very far from nature and um um I think  this kind of uh of school can um uh resolve um   uh ecological prises yeah thank you very much  and thank yes very quick quick reaction of  

Course this is for Andre The Garden of hope is  doing compost so you should come to the Garden   someday thank you very much for your precious  information and so I would make a very quick summary so the term that I choose is action because  you both of you actually presented a very  

Concrete action and you mentioned also  the some Innovative aspect and also some   limits and problem and some solution we  discuss so so I think this is aemp of   arising from this session thank you very  much and now we going to move to to the  

Uh the final final dialogue session and uh  and we have we will have so delegate from Japan so from Hiroshima Global Academy harun the  them is human rights okay so I’m going to start my speech what are human rights human rights are  rights and freedoms that belong to every person  

In the world regardless of nationality ethnicity  sex language or any other status the word gender   equality and diversity are widely spread nowaday  however human rights issues still exist and remain hidden human rights problems certainly  include prejudice against groups of groups  

Of minorities but your individual human rights  also matter do you love yourself are you being   true to yourself rather than woring about  what what other people think in my school   there are many International students and  they are learning together with Japanese  

Students giving withd them I really think  that we are all different and wonderful what can we do for the protection of  the human rights for every individual today okay to start my speech let me tell  you a story a few years ago I didn’t like  

Myself because I’m shorter than others  because I have a hard time speaking in   front of people because I cannot speak  English well because I’m not perfect at   that time I was almost losing myself  and becoming more and more negative  

Even within the small community of my school I  sometimes feel like I am a minority and still do to get rid of such yourself myself I started  to think about what my identity is and who I am   also I searched to see if there were others  who couldn’t be themselves because of their  

Surroundings and I found that there is ongoing  discrimination against women migrants and LGBT   people in Japan then I started thinking that I  want to save and help those people who cannot   do what they want to do because of their  ing enironment so I’ve done sever project  

With the hope of creating a better world where  everyone can live their own lives for example   I’ve launched a student organization with  students who live in Japan as part of the   org organization activities we held a discussion  session and invited an expert who studies gender  

Equality and inclusion also I studied a new crab  in my junior high school to create a place where   students can discuss topics related to  Human Rights through this project I feel   that knowing more about myself and building my  self-esteem reads to knowing more about others  

And respecting them turn our attention now to  how human rights relate to peace nowadays it is   said that we are on the eve of world war three  war and nuclear weapons raise anxiety and Sten   many ripes in fact total more than 210,000 people  in Hiroshima and Nagasaki died in the five months  

After the atomic bombs were dropped it can be  said that such a war is a serious violation of   human rights in the G7 Hiroshima Summit nuclear  designment and nonproliferation were put at the   top of the agenda at a time when nuclear dment has  become difficult because of North Korea’s deputed  

Missile test and Russia’s nuclear weapons threat  in Ukraine in Ukraine the visit by the readers   of the G7 the hosim PE Memorial Park was the  first step towards sharing people’s desire for peace achieving peace based on nonviolence we  still the protection of Human Rights it can  

Be said that without respect for human right  there can be no true peace so what should we   do to end all kind of human rights violations and  discrimination and to create a peaceful Society   where we can respect each other to conclude first  I strongly believe that we should we should first  

Love ourselves and earn our own self-respect  by Respect by respecting your own human rights   you’ll be able to respect the human rights of  others if you can start to see what you consider   to be a drawback as part of your own personality  you’ll be able to see what you consider to be the  

Other person’s back Point as part of his or her  wonderful personality so back to the first topic   as I’ve come to get to know myself and face myself  I’m less likely to compare myself to others and   feel depressed even now I sometimes feel that  I’m in the minority in the school Community  

However I’m now able to look at such situations  positively and enjoy them thank you for your attention thank you very much for sharing  your thought and it’s absolutely wonderful   to have high school students from Hiroshima in  Paris today so how do you feel about after this  

Presentation I’m I’m very happy that I could  share the importance of like um self R yeah   thank you for this option thank you very much and  now we move to the final presentator so French delegate hi everyone so from Eon normal Superior  Luan a is so the them is human light  

Yes we can start the presentation so what  has become of Human Rights I will present   to you um the evolution of Human Rights  and also the way uh that it is possible   to understand and to um made a critiques  about human rights in our societies to  

Develop a better uh instruments geological  instruments to protect human rights for people and also it is necessary to see that human  rights are not really effective sometimes and uh   it is necessary to to understand how we can ensure  that we take account of the criticism of Human  

Rights and how we can uh of their application  sorry should we reject the University of the   universality of Human Rights this is my topics  today so I don’t have a so you have to listen to  

Me so to talk about human rights it is necessary  to think about the fact that in the beginning it   was some ideas about people gity for instance the  issues of death penalty in our legal system um  

Or even the right to have peace to be free to be  treated um equally essentially it was value were   born in the western world after the second world  after the second world war there is in the Western   World the will that that happened especially the  genocide and the extreme violence will never exist  

Again and we have to create a new global a legal  system to prevent the violence from happening   and for the future for that how we can create a  powerful legal system that embodies those ideas  

And values the answer is not really simple yes it  is also by the law with rules that organize the   society but how we can have an effectiveness of  of um these rules to do that is it is necessary  

To create a distinction between individual whites  um that are present in our society and the rights   that they are um inherent um to every human to  every human and every people in the world this   idea of the University of the universality of  human rights which was promoted in the Preble  

Of the universal Declaration of Human Rights in  um 1948 according to the universal Declaration   of Human Rights we can sermon that rights do not  depend on the country and that they are wearing   a universal project the human rights ARS that  all human being beings have fundamental rights  

It is around this concept that organization are  created like um the Amnesty International for   example that there is also a lot of organization  about that it is also an invitation for every   government to act and to take care or of their  responsibility in their own country but also to  

Understand the human rights it is necessary to  take care about the critics because it’s more   complex than about the idea of um uh the human  the universal idea of we are all equal in the   world for example is necessary to take mind the  criticism of the rules like the feminist critics  

As if the law is made for men and created by  men like like the fact in the beginning there   is no place to take uh to take into account the  violence exper experience by women in the private  

Sphere outside human rights and outside the public  sphere also when there is war poverty misery and   fear and fear sorry it is maybe not possible to  develop the gical instrument that human rights provide finally um there is a lot of way to criti  Human Rights but the most important is not to is  

To not forget the fragility of this rights and  that it um and that what it seem um to be simple   concept like fundamental rights is actually  more complex in conclusion it is a question   of the law provic framework without being blind  to the singularity of space individuals territory  

Politics economy culture in order to think the  to think about the establishment of peace and   to conclude I will just see the French law  professor Mir Delmas Marti who said it is on   the it is on this Con that human rights will be  able to contribute to contribute to the imers of  

A community of values while relativ relativism  is dangerous a blide universalism that claims   to impose itself on people without without  their consent is not desirable either thank you thank you very much and after your  presentations how do you feel uh a little  

Bit but I’m very happy to be here and to um  to share with you my um my view about human   rights and also to present the critics that they  are developed in France about human rights it’s  

A movement um born in um 19070s in the University  of of n also and it is um for me important because   uh sometimes we talking about human rights  like it’s Universal Universal and nor noral   for everyone but also sometimes it is necessary  to take care about the the practice about the  

Territory to um made their really thank you very  much and so now we move to the final dialogue and   discussion so uh if you have question comments on  either presentation maybe we going to start with yo uh so it’s a comment for L it’s sorry I  cannot pronounce correctly maybe Luan thank  

You Luan thank you for your presentation  and during the break time you told me you   a low student I’m also a low student and in that  perspective well uh and there was a conversation   about uh the oh never mind well in Japan we  don’t really write down our rights and even  

Uh in the low and even if we do it seems like  people do not follow those laws like especially   in the field of like working like there’s a  limitation of work time and there’s a decision   uh there’s a limitation of like holidays and  everything but people working in the companies  

Especially like buses in the 50s or 60s they  don’t they seem to ignore those laws or like   rights of the workers and and and I heard in the  EU law there’s a sentence that PE workers in the  

EU are doesn’t have to follow the order to work  in different places or different countries they   don’t have to move they can refuse those offers  is is that true and if so do you think it is   important to actually write down those rights  and why is people in EU can follow them like  

Not like 50s or 60s in ja um so thank you for  your question I think that um it is also um um   a question about the place of the states in this  situation because law are made by the lawmaker  

But also it is um a political ideology and A View  to think because in France for example the labor   code protect all of the all of the worker and uh  we don’t um take account about the consentment  

Of the worker because there is an equality um in  the relation between the the boss and the worker   so um the labor code protect the workers about  um this inequality and also I think that it is  

Necessary to take care about this fact and maybe  Japan um is also a political way to not U develop   more um more rules which can um give uh give the  voice to the worker to uh change her um our um

Working condition but I think that in the you uh  in the Au it will uh it will change also because   about economic political about political economy  or also um with the IDE ideological position now  

Thank so gu yes so I have a comment I think it’s  like both presentation but um I’ve just done an   exchange program in Japan and in July August  there was a a talking about a new law kind of  

About lgbtq plus rights in Japan and I was very  surprised in France we love to debate so when I   heard about it I my first thought was to ask some  Japanese friends their point of view and they told  

Me there is no discrimination in Japan and about  lgbtq plus so I was very surprised so I’ve done   my research and so I thought I read the the law  that they were talking about and it was about um  

Making it illegal to uh do discrimination about  lgbtq plus especially in a workplace and I was   very surprised because in France it’s illegal  to discriminate people because of their gender   and sex so I was very surprised that in Japan  it wasn’t it was still a thing and at the end  

I heard like people weren’t pleased with the LW  because you’re still allow to do it if you have   a reason so I was very surprised to see that a lot  of Japanese people didn’t seem very interested in   this and still thought that there wasn’t any  discrimination in Japan so what do you think  

About it about the discussion about it in Japan  oh in Japan people think that the topic of like   the LGBT is like sensitive so like people don’t  want to talk about it so like we cannot see well  

Sometimes but um there we cannot see the exact  discrimination but um in Japan um um people are   not allowed I mean it is not all to married with  same sex and gender so like comparing with other  

Countries um Japan is like still you know at the  bottom of how can I say you know at the bottom of yeah at the bottom of the stage thank  you thank you okay yo please please add   may add to harun’s comment about Japanese  station I think there is discrimination  

And that is why people are silent about  it it is said like one in four people   are supposed to be lgbtq plus like one of them  but Japanese people do cannot see that because   there’s discrimination so people doesn’t  want to stand up and say hey I’m part of  

It so I think that is the biggest problem of  Japan the the state that people is thinking   there’s no discrimination itself is a result  of discrimination okay thank you if any other question k please um in Japan there is uh  the femin of kosi and uh I I wonder um how  

How do you think about that and because as  a as a French we are very surprised that   people accept to work a lot of of hours and  um uh uh I wonder if um people think about uh   changing this situation or not and uh my  think question is um about demonstration  

Uh for example uh demonstration for  environmental issues is very uh small   in Japan um so uh compared to other country  um but in other hand you have everything in   your culture uh to uh live sustainable in  my mind so yeah uh how do you think about

That um I will a bit to talk about the  demonstration in Japan and Uh I that some of you   know that that flight is for future events that  is the the March for environmental sustainability  

And I joined I participated in that the last year  I remember and then the I worked for like the two   hours or one hour in the city or the K City on the  street and now we were the saying like the the pro  

To Pro protect the nature the protect environment  that’s something like that and uh the what I felt   was the a bit of embarrassing it is because C is  like the the people on the street that shooting   us the with their smartphones and uh I think like  that the people’s attitude towards demonstration  

Is clearly different and that is and for  demonstration in Japan or that in other countries   like Finland I also participated in demonstration  in Finland during my exchange studies so I clearly   Define the difference between the the people  attitude in those countries any comments any question maybe

Luan I have a question about um the uh the  subject of the human rights and I want to   know if uh in Japan or maybe just your um your  way to think uh how do you um do you see the  

Question question of the universalism because in  in France and also in Europe it’s very criticized   because it’s like um a Wern country which uh  wants to impose some um way to uh to see the   to see how just to apply for rights and um my  position is that we can universalize values but  

Not the practice because it depend our of the um  social issues at the moment at the place but we   can be a um we can have the same position in  the in the idea of the gity or maybe the the  

The protection of people and the the rights  to to be to be just in a safety place or somehow anybody want to react react and I I like to say but like that can you   bit like that shorten the your  comment just a bit could you

Please okay so um how would you do you see  the question of the universalism in in the   about the human rights in the world  Japan there is a position in in Japan maybe I see it so you’re talking  about some the Japan composition  

For the univers the universality of  the human light light yeah that is tricky um I think like the this is my the  personal personal position but like I think   like that we have a the politically the  education about the human rights even in  

The primary schools so I think like Japanese  government or Japanese people are doing that   type of education to achieve the universality  of human livs even in even for even by the   educating people from the earlier stage  of their lives I think that’s the way the  

One way of the looking at the universality of  human lights in Japan I think thank you very   much and so I will do make a very quick  summary and it’s very difficult actually so well I’m not very satisfied with the ter that  I choose but efforts because well on the one hand  

Actually there are many questions of about the  diversity of situation and everyday situation   that that we confront and actually human light as  a kind of horizonal expectation and on the other   side on the other hand actually there are the  efforts to to to create ideal universality is kind  

Of Ideal and idea in order in a normative term to  to to to to to to make a better Society better and   I think between two we cannot choose one of one of  two and I think we are still we have a space there  

Are space to to make effort and more efforts and  I think this is going to be the the time of the   last session and so before concluding today’s  event so I’d like to give actually each of the  

Delegates like from Japan and from France a very I  have one question and and you have very short time   to to to to to react to me and the thing that my  question is that what is the most important thing  

That you learned from today’s discussion and  maybe if I may I can maybe start with aumu and   from the Japan delegate and then we move to the  French delicates uh yes the I think like the we   got think the B problems from divers perspectives  so I think like the talking about the problems  

With the people from different perspectives the  different the like places I think that’s the   way that’s most important way to achieve that  sustainability I got the I got this thank you Andrew I think uh it is very important to  educate um beyond the theme of this uh problems  

Like educa uh economy environment  uh war and human rights and so on because because it connects uh  because all the theme connects   and also I think the imagination  for others who are different from us so words of my favorite book is uh when we  don’t have uh when we don’t love ourselves uh  

We cannot when we cannot love ourselves uh  we cannot other uh we cannot love others so to imagine and love others is very important  for realizing a peace forward beyond the theme   thank you very much and yo very quickly so  well from the today’s presentation I think  

We all share like same kind of problem like a  Glo global warming climate change and and like   human rights but we deal with those problems in  a very different way like we don’t boycott while   you do and everything but I think learning how  other countries people deal with those problems  

Might be a hint to us like as well so I think  it is important to keep exchanging ideas not   just like these two countries but like all the  countries thank you so for me the most important   thing that I’ve learned today is balancing  among you know anything is quite important  

For example the in case of me like balance B in  you know among the stakes Stakes holders in terms   of like industry is quite important for me and  also it’s you know in terms of peace or you know  

Education and you know in many you know perspects  you know it’s quite important and that’s all thank you um so today we all shared a lot of things  but like the next we should do the next thing  

We should do is like um tell what we learn today  um to other student in of course France and Japan   and and we should share like we should share  our opinions to other countries too because   they will have like they will have different  perspectives and like I feel that discussing  

From multiple perspect perspectives is very  interesting yeah thank you very much and move   to the French delegate so it’s not something  new that I learned but uh I think that with   all the presentation what I uh can remember  from everything it’s very important to not to  

Not have a uh to not only think about ourself  but to think about other whatever it’s human   or nature and only thinking about our is going to  cause only destruction so yeah let’s let’s think   let’s think about others thank you it’s very  interesting to to hear to hear the different  

Point of views of climate change peace education  or um global warming and um my point of view is to   study different point of views between France and  Japan and also other countries because uh the the   globalization well um because today uh the we have  the globalization ation and uh it’s very important  

To to hear the point of view of others and also  and also talk about uh our our point of view thank you yes thank you uh maybe I’m going to say  something controversial but I think uh with   all this presentation those presentation This  Global problem is capitalism and we have to fight  

Capitalism now we discuss we had three hours of  discussion it was good but now we have to act and   uh maybe it’s very important to act thank you very  much yeah thank you Remy for your courage um I  

Think that uh education Link Link uh every subject  today and uh it is very important to transmit um   transmit values of Peace uh it is very important  to tr to change our relationship with nature uh in  

Order to live more sustainable and uh include uh  diversity of humans um but uh yeah I think it is   not enough um uh to change education and uh I hope  that uh future politicians uh uh will take their   responsibilities about that that um this subject  very very important issues thank you thank you  

Um so um for me for me it was very important to  to um to be here because um it’s uh it’s rare I   think it’s a chance to to have a place or moments  to just take the time to exchange about a lot of  

Out of a lot of ideas and also to listen to other  people that uh that they have um a different point   of view but also it was very um very um it was  um for me like an end parents uh because uh I  

See that we uh we have um the same um the same  way to try to develop tools to fight against some   issues about the global warming but also about the  rights and just to conclude I don’t think that it  

Was controversial because U capitalism um a lot of  researchers shows that uh explain that it’s create   a lot of inequality and also it is necessary  to take account and if there is a controver a  

Controvers sorry um I will try to explain and we  listen to others and we find um an agreement thank   you everyone and thank you to the delegates and  thank you to the audience and thank you also to  

The all the staff member from Hiroshima perfecture  and so it was very amazing uh discussion and I’m   very happy about it and also that uh the hirosa  prefecture make this event happen and I’m deeply   appreciate actually for for this and also so many  discussion topics and so many times so many the  

Was mentioned and I also think that the the the  the the discussion and them is important and   also the method is important and we didn’t mention  that the language is also the one things we unite   together thanks to the the English language but as  we are also the foreign speaker and nonetheless we  

Make an efforts some some some talk about the  comparism and some talk about the the the the   other type of the approach and I think it’s very  important to to gather together and to keep the   dialogue because closing this event is not closing  the discussion is not certainly an ending point  

But it’s l actually the beginning starting point  so I hope that we can we can continue to share   we can continue to to to to to keep a dialogue  and open mind spirits and transmission all the  

Key thems that we we evoke today and so I’m very  very grateful for to to to meet you and to to to   to have discussion today so so I’m I conclude  here and thank you very much for everybody and that

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