Asahi Shimbun Globe Live 2010

I attended Asahi Shimbun Globe Live 2010 in Tokyo today.
My main purpose to attend this event was meeting real Kiyoshi Kurokawa, one of the famous Japanese doctors.

Asahi Shimbun is one of the famous Japanese newspaper. In the paper, there is challenging space Globe.
Globe focuses global issue, break-through, and activities of famous person.

This event was well-made. Main composition is talk live. But in the rest time, we can listen live music. It looked like watching movie.

First discussion was about education. Kiyoshi Kurokawa talked about that. He insisted it is important for the young to go abroad, even if they take a leave of absence from school. He named these activity "the recommendation of taking a leave from school."
It looks like "Gap year"
He thought that making international connection is worth.

Second discussion was about Music & Film-making.
There is common sense of comedy. Asushi Ogata makes comedy film which can get laugh form floor through the world.

Third discussion was about local economy. Steve Yamaguchi talked about it. Steve born in U.S. He studied Japan from his post-graduated. He also worked at one of Japanese companies and married with Japanese. His nationality is Japanese now. He ended building company managed by his father in law in Nigata prefecture. He started his new work, sightseeing.
He tries to make local community develop from center.
He told that local community in Japan have much potential capacity to become good sightseeing spot.

Final discussion was about Business, and Economy.
The world become flat. All events can influence our economy and life. For example, border issue between China and Japan influenced commodity distribution.
There is no language barrier, but only giving a wide berth to the language in our mind.

I could listen live talk from front-runners of Education, Music, Film-making, Business, and Economy. I was inspired so much.
Recently, all newspaper companies are in times of hardships. I think these event is very good idea to make more supporters for newspaper.