TUFS Students Join Workshop on 'Thinking towards the Tama of Tomorrow'

May 26, 2017

On Sunday 21 ^st May 2017, Sekiya Subaru (School of Language and Culture Studies English language 4 ^th year student) and Hachiya Mikino (School of Language and Culture Studies Portuguese language 3 ^rd year student) represented TUFS in a 'Workshop on Thinking Towards the Tama of Tomorrow' (Sponsored by Tokyo City), which took place at TUFS.

This workshop was a group session of 35 people actively working in areas such as the encouragement of regional development, welfare, women, and childrearing in the Tama area on the topic of "the picture of Tama we should aim for as we look towards 2020- what is needed for the sustainable development of Tama".

The workshop was attended by Koike Yuriko, Governor of Tokyo, who participated as an observer and exchanged opinions around the group. In addition, aside from the inspection an informal talk took place with Kayoko Hayashi, Executive Director / Vice President and Chika Takeda, Vice President.

Comments from the student participants

Sekiya Subaru (School of Language and Culture Studies English language 4 ^th year student)

I work at Fuchu City Civic Activity Centre, but I felt that people's sense of values in Fuchu City was shared across the whole Tama region. I thought about how we need to keep thinking about what steps we should take from here. There were a lot of opinions related to networks between universities, so I hope that I can be involved in that area. I hope that TUFS can open in more areas and that we can form three-way or even wider networks between universities.

Hachiya Mikino (School of Language and Culture Studies Portuguese language 3 ^rd year student)

This was the first time I had participated in a regional, specifically a Tama regional activity such as this, and I very much enjoyed it. After, talking to various different people, I was able to see this area, where various people work various jobs and live various lives, in a new light. I didn't realise that thinking about what we should do in order to live in our own way and make the most of the branding of Tama could be so enjoyable.