第１０２回　WORKSHOP報告（４月１１日） / 参加者８６名

第１０２回　WORKSHOP報告（４月１１日） / 参加者８６名

 

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（１：前半マテリアル作成者のIさんからご挨拶です）

 

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（２：この日は８６名の方々が参加されました）

 

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《　今回のworkshop　》

 

○workshop参加人数：８６名（うち新人の方：１１名）

 

○【前半】：”New lives and living by myself”というテーマでディスカッション

 

○【後半】：” Japan government urges singles to speed date “という記事に関するディスカッション

 

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[今週のマテリアル]

＜FIRST HALF＞

Some feel brand new, excited, or have a passion to achieve something they want. Others are worried about.

Many People in Japan have mixed feelings about new life they prepare for in April.

I was also one when I became a new recruit in Nagoya two years ago, leaving my hometown and starting living on my own.

The new fiscal year has just started and we had new employees and students, and we can be one.

Today, I’d like to share our new lives and living by myself, recalling the fresh mind.

 

Q1. Share your new life and living on your own.

1-1.Where, when, and with who?

1-2.Difficulties, troubles you had and how to deal with them.

1-3.What’s in your mind to have a good new life?

1-4.What you have learned.

 

Q2. Some live with their families or friends while others live alone.

2-1.Which life style do you apply to and why do you choose it?

Would you like to change your life style to the other one?

2-2.What are the pros and cons of each, and could you tell us why you think so?

 

Q3. Do you think we should have an experience of living by myself?

If you think so, from when should we have it? Share your opinion based on your experience and Q2-2.

 

Q4. From a parent’s perspective,

4-1.Is your opinion different from Q3?

4-2. Do you have concerns about your children leaving? What are they?

4-3.What would you like your children to learn from living alone?

 

 

＜LATTER HALF＞

http://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2015/03/18/japanese-government-support-baby-making-initiatives/

Japan government urges singles to speed date

Mar 18, 2015

Anthony Colangelo Youth Affairs Reporter

Japanese politicians play matchmaker for their younger, dwindling generation.

 

The Japanese government wants to host local ‘speed-dating’ sessions for singles as part of its national campaign to encourage baby-making and curb a dropping birth rate.

 

The number of babies born in Japan fell to a record low last year, with just over one million newborns compared to 1.269 million deaths.

 

Along with more traditional stimuli like free nursing care, new fertility centres and increased paternity leave allowances, the government has also proposed playing matchmaker.

 

While it won’t be the politicians themselves who run the dating sessions, local governments will be helped and financially incentivised to host the events.

 

The elderly make up 25 per cent of Japan’s population and by 2060 it is expected that 45 per cent of Japanese people will be over 65. There were 4.54 children born per mother in 1947, compared to only 1.43 in 2013.

 

By 2020, Japan hopes that 80 per cent of males will take paternity leave at some time in their careers to help raise their children. The figure for males taking time off for their new children currently sits at a meagre 2 per cent.

 

Online media channel VICE recently travelled to the country to find out why fewer couples are falling pregnant.

 

Services like no-strings-attached ‘cuddle cafes’ are hugely popular in the less romantically committed society, its reporters found.

 

 

Discussion questions:

 

1) What did you think of the article?

Do you think the shrinking population in Japan is a serious issue? What do you think of the Japanese government’s efforts to increase the population?

 

2) What is speed dating and online dating?

What do you think of these dating methods? Have you known anyone who has tried them? What other modern dating methods do you know of? What do you think of blind dates? Have you ever been a matchmaker for anyone?

 

3) What problems are there with falling birth rates?

What are the problems of an aging population? How do you think Japan might be affected by these issues in the future?

 

4) Why aren’t more couples getting together and having children?

Do you think more people will try to have children in the future? Do you feel that it should be the duty of Japanese people to populate the country? Do you have or would you like to have children?

 

5) What makes raising children so expensive?

How important is free or low-cost nursery care? Are there other ways that the government could make raising children more affordable or convenient?

 

6) What do you know about fertility treatment?

 

7) What is paternity leave like in Japan?

How important is it? How long should it be? Would you want paternity leave for yourself or your spouse or partner?

 

8) What’s the best number of children to have? Do you come from a big family? Do you wish you did? How about your parents?

 

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