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第１０８回　ｼﾞｬｰﾅﾘｽﾄの西谷文和さんをお迎えしてのWORKSHOP（７月１８日） / 参加者６７名

 

今回は専門家の生の声を聞いてディスカッションを行うという初めての試みでした。

 

スピーカーには、イラク、シリアなど、戦争の最前線での取材も経験豊富で、

テレビ朝日「報道ステーション」や朝日放送「ムーブ! 」などの番組にも出演されておられるフリージャーナリストの西谷文和さんをお迎えしました。

 

西谷さんは多くの講演会や府立高校の授業で、ご自身が取材された映像を使用されながら、戦争の悲惨さを伝えておられます。

 

流れとしてはまず西谷さんに日本語で講演をしていただき、その内容に基づいた英語ディスカッションを行うという形式をとりました。

 

全体で２部構成となっており、テーマは

一部　「戦争報道とメディアリタラシー」　と

二部　「報道の自由と自己責任論」　です。

 

workshop後、多くの参加者の方から「素晴らしかった」との感想や

「実際に内戦の地に行かれたことのある方の話は、やはり重みがある」などの感想をいただきました。

 

西谷さん。お忙しい中お越しいただきありがとうございました。

 

（１：イスラエルとアラブの関係を映像を使ってわかりやすく説明してくださいました）

 

（２：６７名の方々が参加されました）

 

（３：ディスカッション中です）

 

（４：参加者も積極的に質問をされていました）

 

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《　今回のworkshop　》

 

○workshop参加人数：６７名（うち新人の方：６名）

 

○講演一部　「戦争報道とメディアリタラシー」　その後英語でのディスカッション

 

○講演二部　「報道の自由と自己責任論」　その後英語でのディスカッション

 

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＜英語サークル　E’s club　第１０８回workshopのご案内＞

 

こんにちは、E’s club幹事のKです。

７月１８日（土）開催の第１０８回workshopの詳細をお送りいたします。

 

西谷文和さん　プロフィール（Wikipediaより）

 

立命館大学理工学部中退。大阪市立大学経済学部卒業。吹田市役所勤務を経て、

現在フリージャーナリストでイラクの子どもを救う会代表。

2006年度「平和協同ジャーナリスト大賞」を受賞。

テレビ朝日「報道ステーション」や朝日放送「ムーブ! 」、毎日放送ラジオ「RadioNews たね蒔きジャーナル」、TBSテレビ「イブニングニュース」などで戦争の悲惨さを伝えている。

 

主な著書

 

DVD「シリア内戦～イスラム国の正体を暴く」

DVD「イラク 戦場からの告発」、

DVD「ジャーハダ・イラク民衆の闘い」

西谷文和の「戦争あかん」シリーズ /せせらぎ出版

1『報道されなかったイラク戦争』2007

2『戦場からの告発──アメリカがイラクにこだわる5つの理由』2008

3『オバマの戦争 アフガン最前線から平和の仮面を剥ぐ』2010

『戦火の子どもたちに学んだこと アフガン、イラクから福島までの取材ノート』かもがわ出版 13歳からのあなたへ 2012

「後藤さんを救えなかったか？――政府は何をし、何をしなかったか」第三書館

 

＜当日のスケジュールと講演内容＞

 

13:00～13:20　会場準備(20分)

 

13:20～13:40　受付(20分)

 

13:40～13:50　冒頭説明(10分)

 

13:50～14:30　講演一部　「戦争報道とメディアリタラシー」(40分)

 

14:30～15:00　一部に関してのディスカッション(30分)

 

15:00～15:15　休憩(15分)

 

15:15～15:45　講演二部　「報道の自由と自己責任論」(30分)

 

15:45～16:15　二部に関してのディスカッション(30分)

 

16:15～16:40　西谷さんへの質問、メンバーとの公開対話、クロージング(25分)

 

16:40～17:00　片付け(20分)

 

[Questions]

 

＜戦争報道とメディアリタラシー＞

 

1) What did you think about Mr. Nishitani’s presentation? Please share your opinion with the members in your group.

 

2) What are the credible information sources for you when you think about social issues? And why?

 

3) What should we do to be media-literate?

 

＜報道の自由と自己責任論＞

 

1) What did you think about Mr. Nishitani’s presentation? Please share your opinion with the members in your group.

 

2) What do you think about Kenji Goto and Haruna Yukawa’s Kidnapping case by ISIS? Do you think the Japanese government could have done more to save them?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-31075769

 

3) What did you think about the government’s decision to make the journalist surrender his passport because he tried to go to Syria?

http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/politics/AJ201502080020

 

[Articles]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-31075769

Japan outraged at IS ‘beheading’ of hostage Kenji Goto

1 February 2015

From the section Middle East

 

Japan has reacted with anger and defiance to a video appearing to show the beheading of Japanese hostage Kenji Goto by an Islamic State militant.

 

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Japan “would not give in to terrorism” and that he would expand his support to countries fighting IS.

 

IS has cited Japanese aid as a reason for the hostage taking.

 

The video comes less than a week after the apparent beheading of another Japanese man, Haruna Yukawa.

 

Mr Goto, 47, a respected journalist known for his work covering the suffering of civilians in war zones, went to Syria in October, reportedly to try to secure Mr Yukawa’s release.

 

The video, which has all the hallmarks of previous IS propaganda videos, has not been authenticated, but Japanese officials believe it is genuine.

 

In the video, Mr Goto is seen kneeling in an orange jumpsuit.

 

A militant speaking with an English accent who is believed to have appeared in previous videos and is known as “Jihadi John”, addresses Mr Abe, accusing him of a “reckless decision to take part in an unwinnable war”.

 

Mr Abe called the killing a “heinous act”, adding that Japan would work with the international community to bring those responsible for Mr Goto’s apparent murder to justice.

 

There has been strong condemnation from the US and other allies in the fight against IS.

 

Mr Goto’s mother Junko Ishido said she was speechless at his death, saying he had gone to Syria out of “kindness and courage”.

 

“I was hoping Kenji would come back alive,” his brother Junichi told Japanese broadcaster NHK TV.

 

World leaders react

 

US President Barack Obama said “the United States condemns the heinous murder of Japanese citizen and journalist Kenji Goto by the terrorist group ISIL (IS). Through his reporting, Mr Goto courageously sought to convey the plight of the Syrian people to the outside world”.

 

British Prime Minister David Cameron said “I utterly condemn what appears to be the despicable and appalling murder of Kenji Goto. It is a further reminder that ISIL is the embodiment of evil, with no regard for human life”.

 

French President Francois Hollande said he “resolutely condemned the brutal murder of Japanese citizen Kenji Goto by Daesh (IS). France stands in solidarity with Japan in this new ordeal”.

 

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbot said “if true, this will be a terrible shock for the people of Japan, an unspeakable horror for the family and this just demonstrates how important it is that all countries do what they reasonably can to disrupt and degrade this death cult which has ushered in a new dark age over parts of the Middle East”.

 

Japanese officials had been working with Jordan to secure the release of Mr Goto and a Jordanian pilot, Lt Moaz al-Kasasbeh, who was shot down over Syria in December.

 

However, earlier on Saturday they said negotiations had become deadlocked.

 

An IS video released on Tuesday had said Mr Goto had “only 24 hours left to live” and Lt Kasasbeh “even less”.

 

They later gave a deadline of sunset on Thursday for a deal by which Mr Goto would be freed in return for Jordan releasing captured Iraqi militant Sajida al-Rishawi.

 

But the deal may have been complicated by Jordan’s demand that Lt Kasasbeh also be released.

 

An adviser to the Japanese PM, Tomohiko Taniguchi, said his country had never made direct contact with IS throughout the negotiations.

 

The militants had initially demanded a $200m (￡130m) ransom for the two Japanese hostages, the same as Mr Abe pledged in in non-military aid for countries fighting Islamic State.

 

The latest video gave no mention of Lt Kasasbeh’s fate: his family said they were praying he was safe and urged the Jordanian government to do more to secure his release.

 

Yassin Rawashda, an uncle of the pilot, said: “We want the government to tell us the truth.”

 

The Jordanian government strongly condemned the killing, said it was working to establish if the pilot was still alive and repeated that it was prepared to exchange Sajida al-Rishawi for him.

 

The BBC’s Kevin Connolly in Amman says the danger for Jordan is that Islamic State may see Lt Kasasbeh as a hostage of particularly high value because of his role in the air campaign and may demand a very high political price for his freedom – if they can prove that he is still alive.

 

 

http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/politics/AJ201502080020

Foreign Ministry confiscates passport of photographer planning to go to Syria

February 08, 2015

THE ASAHI SHIMBUN

 

In the wake of the grisly killing of two Japanese hostages by the Islamic State in Syria, the Foreign Ministry announced on Feb. 7 that it had seized the passport of a freelance photographer who planned to travel there later this month.

 

In explaining why Yuichi Sugimoto’s passport was confiscated, a Foreign Ministry official said, “The man explained his plans to travel to Syria via neighboring nations. Along with the National Police Agency, we strongly tried to dissuade him from going, but we were unable to change his mind.”

 

This is the first time the Foreign Ministry has issued an order to surrender a passport on the grounds the measure was needed to protect the passport holder’s life.

 

Article 19 of the passport law states that the foreign minister can order a passport holder to surrender his or her passport “in cases where there is a need to cancel a trip abroad in order to protect the life, body and assets of the passport holder.”

 

Sugimoto, 58, of Niigata city, said he had planned to enter Syria on Feb. 27 to cover refugee camps, among other places.

 

Sugimoto said Foreign Ministry officials explained to him that the reasons for ordering the surrender of his passport were his plan to enter Syria and because the militant group Islamic State had declared its intention to harm other Japanese following the slayings of freelance journalist Kenji Goto and company operator Haruna Yukawa.

 

On Feb. 7, a Foreign Ministry official visited Sugimoto’s home and directly took possession of his passport.

 

In response to questioning by The Asahi Shimbun on Feb. 7, Sugimoto admitted that he had surrendered his passport.

 

“Tonight, an official with the Foreign Ministry’s Passport Division came and took my passport,” Sugimoto said. “What happens to my freedom to travel and freedom of the press (protected by the Constitution)?”

 

Article 22 of the Constitution says, “Freedom of all persons to move to a foreign country … shall be inviolate.”

 

In explaining why he planned to go to Syria, Sugimoto said, “Refraining from covering the region would be equivalent to bowing to the terrorists.”

 

He said he had no intention of going to areas still under the control of the Islamic State. Among the locations Sugimoto had planned to visit were Kobani, which had recently been taken back from the Islamic State by Kurdish fighters, the Free Syrian Army and refugee camps in Turkey.

 

He added that he would not have done anything reckless because he could not pass on what he learned if he did not return to Japan alive.

 

Criticizing the taking of his passport as an infringement of his constitutional rights, Sugimoto said, “We will not be able to understand the feelings of people living in that region unless we go there ourselves. We are all members of spaceship Earth. We should not remain ignorant.”

 

Experts were divided on the Foreign Ministry’s order.

 

Freelance journalist Jumpei Yasuda, 40, said, “This is a major problem because it means the government can unilaterally decide where reporting can and cannot be conducted.”

 

He added that nothing good would come out of having the government restrict locations where the media can report from.

 

Photographer Shin Yahiro, 35, who has covered the Middle East, said, “I feel a restricting of reporting activities because the standards for confiscating passports in terms of the objective and destination for travel are vague.”

 

However, Isao Itabashi, an anti-terrorism expert at the Council for Public Policy, said, “If Japanese go to Syria now, there is the strong possibility they will be captured by the Islamic State. While there is freedom of travel, the situation could unfold where many people will have to become involved because the circumstances go well beyond the responsibility of a single individual. Taking back a passport is an unavoidable measure for protecting Japanese nationals.”

 

(Haruka Ono contributed to this article.)

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