The representative director of RIJAG, Takeo Harada, conducted his first lecture at the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tokyo as an official independent seminar of its student union. The topic was ‘Future Scenario and Leadership ~analysis and innovation of domestic and global conditions’.

The ‘student terakoya (small private school in a temple in the Edo period)’ started in 2005 for the young generations who will bear tomorrow’s ‘Pax Japonica’ to learn information literacy. Since 2007, ‘IISIA Prep-School’ has started and we have grown more than 400 ambitious students from Tokyo, Nagoya, Fukuoka, Russia, and Vietnam.

We work on the seminar at the University of Tokyo as part of social contribution projects, and it is conducted by 50% of the profit from membership fees of Takeo Harada Gemeinschaft in our sisterhood organisation, IISIA.

The first lecture was online, and 10 students participated.

It was impressive to see the students listening attentively to their lecturer (the representative of RIJAG, Takeo Harada), who taught that there are truths unreported by the media and the importance of learning information literacy to reach it based on the lecture theme ‘What is the real issue, now?’.

This seminar plans to open in total of 13 lectures from April to July.

The next seminar will be held on Wednesday, 13th April.