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《　今回のworkshop　》
○workshop参加人数：７６名（うち新人の方：８名）
○【前半】：Is TWW bad?
○【後半】：Will this be the final ‘comfort women’ deal?
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みなさまこんばんは、E’s club幹事のＫです。
９月３日（土）開催の第１３４回workshopの詳細をお送りいたします。

今回もE先生をお迎えしてのworkshopとなります。
E先生には後半のマテリアルをご作成いただきました。
リンク先には動画が２本ありますので、事前に視聴をお願いいたします。(長さは２分４６秒と２９秒です。)
また資料として、写真のjpgファイルを添付しますので、こちらもご確認ください。

前半のマテリアルはＳさんご作成いただきました。
今回は”Is TWW bad?”というタイトルでディスカッションを行います。

[今週のマテリアル]
≪FIRST HALF≫
Is TWW bad?

Do you have a smartphone? I think you probably say yes. Then, have you ever looked into the smartphone while walking? I also think yes.

Texting while walking, called TWW, is now becoming a big social problem all over the world. After Pokemon GO being released in July, many started pointing out dangers of moving with their head down. Two men fell off a cliff in the U.S, and two men accidentally walked into a highway in Spain. All of them were trying to catch a monster on their smartphone.

However, TWW often gives you a great benefit. You are much less likely to get lost even in a new city with Google Maps. You can keep communication with anyone, anytime through LINE.

I would like you to discuss TWW today. How dangerous, beneficial, necessary is it to you? I hope you enjoy the material.

＜Questions＞
1. Have you ever encountered dangers while walking and using your smartphone?

2. Which application helps you most frequently while walking?

3. Should TWW be fined? And how much?

4. Where do you think TWW should be banned?

＜Reference＞
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/04/04/texting-while-walking-bans-are-missing-the-point-about-smartphone-use/
Texting-while-walking bans are missing the point about smartphone use – The Washington Post
By Karen Turner April 4

Walking and using your phone could be bad for your physical safety. It’s a concern that inspired a bill recently introduced by a New Jersey lawmaker that would fine people who walk and use their electronic devices at the same time. It’s one in a slew of similar measures that have been introduced in other states (none have passed at this point) in an attempt to show how distracted walking has become a problem in today’s society.

But what does the data show about how people are actually using their phones in public places?

About 75 percent of Americans who use smartphones report that they are either frequently or occasionally catching up on tasks while on the move. This is according to a Pew Research study that looks specifically at how Americans use their phones in public spaces. The data raises questions about whether using a smartphone in public is frivolous or simply demanded by new standards of constant connectivity in the workplace or social sphere.

“This is the constant tension of the always-on era,” said Aaron Smith, associate director for research at the Pew Research Center. “You are obviously more connected than ever before to other people, to information, to their jobs. But obviously, in many instances that places new challenges and stresses to their lives in ways there weren’t there before, when people could leave their office desktop at the office or left their landline phone at the house when they walked out the door.”

According to the study, the top reasons for using a smartphone in public were practical: to look up directions and coordinate meet-ups. Coming in next were to communicate with acquaintances and catch up on tasks. The data provided no deep-dive information into what kind of errands people were engaged in, but other research from Pew on overall smartphone use suggests that these tasks could include everything from online banking, looking up information about a health condition and work responsibilities.

Smith stressed the difficulty of parsing the difference between work and leisure tasks because of how intermingled they have become in our smartphone use.

“Just as an example, 27 percent of smartphone users are online almost constantly. So this is not the old days when people went online to do discrete tasks and then went about their daily lives,” said Smith. “We have not figured out a good way [to distinguish] partially because people are kind of floating along in a sea of this stuff. Even asking them to parse out which of their phone use is of a personal nature or professional nature or somewhere in between, it’s hard for users to contextualize that.”

Gillian Symon, a professor at Royal Holloway, agrees that work and leisure are becoming ever more fused in our smartphone use and that this is a problem. In a recent piece she wrote for The Conversation, she described research she has conducted for Digital Brain Switch, which analyzes work/life balance through methods like interviews, video diaries and self-reporting.

≪LATTER HALF≫
＜Agenda＞
Will this be the final ‘comfort women’ deal?

＜Reference＞
・Background article and video at the bottom of the page –
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/751353/south-korea-comfort-women-protest-against-japan-deal
South Korea ‘comfort women’ protest against Japan deal

South Korean women forced into wartime sexual slavery and hundreds of supporters held a rally Wednesday against a “humiliating” deal with Japan designed to settle the issue, and vowed to keep fighting for justice.

Japan offered an apology and a one-billion yen ($8.3 million) payment Monday to the 46 surviving South Korean women, under an agreement which both nations described as “final and irreversible.”

The plight of so-called “comfort women” forced into World War II army brothels is a hugely emotional issue that has for decades marred ties with Japan, which ruled the Korean peninsula from 1910 to 1945.

The landmark deal has met with an angry reaction from victims and activists, who took issue with Tokyo’s refusal to accept formal legal responsibility.

Japan said the one-billion-yen payment was aimed at “restoring the women’s dignity” but was not official compensation.

“The fight is still on,” survivor Lee Yong-Soo said at the protest in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul, attended by one other victim and about 250 protesters.

Gatherings have been held weekly there for years, demanding Japan’s formal apology and compensation.

“We will continue to fight to make Japan take formal, legal responsibility and apology so that victims who have already perished will have justice,” 88-year-old Lee added.

The rally was sombre as the lives of nine former sex slaves who died this year were commemorated, but later turned angry with protesters shouting slogans denouncing Japan and its prime minister Shinzo Abe.

Protesters held portraits of the late victims and waved banners condemning the deal, particularly Seoul’s pledge to remove a statue symbolizing the victims which stands in front of the embassy.

Some chanted slogans of “Cancel the humiliating agreement!” and waved banners that read: “Say no to relocation of the statue!”.

South Korea’s government must now win public support for the deal, which has had a mixed reception with the media also taking issue with the terms.

The handful of comfort women who have spoken about the agreement have mostly rejected it, but the views of the others are not known.

However, a recent poll showed 66 percent of South Koreans opposed the relocation of the statue.

Up to 200,000 women in Asia, many of them Koreans, are estimated to have been systematically forced to provide sex to Japanese soldiers during World War II.

Japan has long maintained that the dispute was settled in a 1965 agreement which saw Tokyo establish diplomatic ties and make a payment of $800 million to Korea.

But Seoul has said the treaty did not cover compensation for victims of wartime crimes and did not absolve Tokyo of responsibility.

The compromise agreement also drew a mixed reaction in Japan, with some far-right activists and newspapers criticizing Abe for offering the apology.

There has been an angry reception in Beijing, which wields popular anger over Japan’s wartime atrocities in China – including the use of Chinese “comfort women” – as a tool against its regional rival Tokyo.

Chinese state media slammed the long-awaited mea culpa as insincere and insufficient.

・http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/24/national/politics-diplomacy/abe-cabinet-set-ok-%c2%a51-billion-transfer-south-korea-comfort-women-fund/#.V8FvNGbr2Uk
Abe Cabinet OKs \1 billion transfer to South Korea ‘comfort women’ fund
Kyodo

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Cabinet on Wednesday approved the disbursement of \1 billion ($9.8 million) to a South Korean foundation to help Korean women forced to work in wartime brothels for the Japanese military.

When the transfer of the money to the Reconciliation and Healing Foundation is completed, Japan will have fulfilled all responsibilities pledged in the landmark bilateral deal struck last December over the aging comfort women, paving the way for implementation of support measures for those still living.

Tokyo has made every effort to ensure the funds are not deemed as reparations, in line with its stance that all compensation claims were “settled completely and finally” under an agreement attached to the 1965 treaty that established diplomatic ties between Japan and South Korea.

Still, Japan hopes that by making progress on the “comfort women” issue, it will strengthen its ties with South Korea, as well as its trilateral cooperative ties involving the United States in order to better deal with North Korea’s nuclear threat and China’s rising military assertiveness at sea, Government sources said.

The money will be disbursed from reserve funds of some \350 billion under the fiscal 2016 budget. The Japanese government has apparently decided to disburse the money from reserve funds as the usage of such funds does not need Diet deliberations.

Japan expects that the South Korean foundation will use the money for medical and nursing purposes, while the entity will also mull giving cash to the victims and their families as “healing money.”

Some lawmakers of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party have said the money should not be transferred unless the statue of a girl in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, symbolizing the comfort women, is removed, as demanded by Tokyo.

Under the deal, the Japanese and South Korean governments did not mention removal of the statue as a condition for Tokyo’s contribution, but South Korea said in final negotiations that it “will strive to solve this issue in an appropriate manner.”

While Japan hopes that when the money is disbursed, South Korea will make efforts to remove the statue, prospects remain unclear with public opposition to Japan’s disbursement of the \1 billion still strong in South Korea.

The deal over comfort women was a milestone in Japan-South Korea ties that have often been marred by historical issues. Under the deal, the two countries agreed to resolve the issue “finally and irreversibly.”

Also on Wednesday, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida was scheduled to hold talks with his South Korean counterpart, Yun Byung-se, in Tokyo on the sidelines of a trilateral gathering also involving Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. The meeting is being seen by some as an opportunity for the Japanese and South Korean ministers to affirm the strengthening of ties.

＜Questions＞
This week, the Abe administration OK’d cash transfers to South Korean comfort women victims and families.
1.Do you agree with the transfer of cash to South Korea? Why or why not?

2.Is it fair for Japan to pay money for something that happened so long ago?

3.Many survivors do not support this ‘final’ payment. They insist Japan should take ‘legal responsibility’ for the actions taken by the army during the war. Should Japan have done more to compensate and satisfy the surviving comfort women?

4.Will this really be the final deal?

5.What do you think about the statue commemorating comfort women that sits in front of the Japanese embassy in South Korea? Should it be taken down or left standing? Why?

6.Did Japan get a ‘good deal’? If not, how do you think the deal should have been amended?

7.Do you think the Japanese public are satisfied with this deal?

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