Bookshelf of Takashi Tachibana

Book shelf of Takashi Tachibana
「立花隆の本棚」
by Takashi Tachibana, Waida Junichi

This book is half of photograph, and half of comment for the photo.
Bookshelf reflect the owner's interesting. It means a part of owner's brain realize the bookshelf.
Takashi Tachibana is a one of famous writer for various genre, from science to politics, religion. His bookshelf reflects his wide interesting. In his bookshelf, there are traditional books, scientific textbooks, philosophical books, and so on.

There were some of his books at home. When I was a high school student,  I met his book which mentions about his lecture in Tokyo University. I hated to study at a jam school for passing entrance exams. His book encouraged me to watch wide and deep knowledge of real world.

Today's condition of media in Japan

Today I watched a presentation by Mr. Takashi Uesugi, a free journalist.
The title is "Today's condition of media in Japan".
He pointed out today's problem of media in Japan. He tried to explain the problems of press club in journalism. This system means only reporters from large Japanese media can attend political interviews without free journalists and foreign media. Therefore Japanese politician can control mass-media easily. But this club makes inward and conservative perspective.
He used examples, political issues like Mr. Ichiro Ozawa, to make clear how conservative it is.

Mr. Takashi Uesugi is mentally so tough and challenging. It is because he has an ability to bounce back from adversity, and he is enjoying it.
It is one of reporters' characters to ask challenging questions and to find the real side of the interviewee. This gave a glimpse of his persona.

I partly agreed on what he said. I evaluated his statement to report today's problems clearly.
However, in my impression, his presentation is too emotional and agitating. He just criticized the problems of today's media without mentioning how it should change for the future. Maybe he made it simple to clear out his point, and made it easy for students to understand. In whole, his talking is not constructive.

I heard the same things five years ago. The lecture is presented by Takashi Tachibana, an other famous journalist. The former part of it was same as today's presentation.
Mr. Takashi Tachibana added we should take information not only from Japanese media, but also from the other English media. It means we should grow up our information gathering skill to survive today.

Finally I attach Tachibana's lecture note written by me in the above.