September 24, Hotel Emion
Tokyo Bay
We moved to Iwate Numakunai station by chartered bus and headed
to Tokyo by Shinkansen. Arrived in Tokyo, we were having lunch in the
restaurant and headed back to Hotel Emion. That evening around 3pm we were
having our workshop regarding the action plan.
September 25, Hotel Emion
Tokyo Bay
At 8.35am, we moved to the workshop venue and having our
last workshop. After lunch, we straight away moved to Ministry of Foreign
Affairs and be able to met the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and also listened to
his speech. Next, we were moved to the reporting venue for reporting session.
After all the representatives between all the themes presented their reporting
session, we were having our farewell party. For team natural disasters, we
provided 4 performances which are singing, traditional dancing combination from
Thailand, Laos, Myanmar and Cambodia, SoranBushi dance performance and lastly
cheers to the crowd. The SoranBushi dance is also known as fisherman dance and
normally performed in schools or festivals.
September 26, Hotel Emion
Tokyo Bay
We were having our last breakfast and sharp 7am we were
headed to the Narita Airport by chartered bus. We arrived in Malaysia around
5.00pm.
Conclusions
The JENESYS (Japan-East Asia
Network of Exchange for Students and Youths) is a project advanced by the
Japanese government from the standpoint of providing a sound foundation for
strong solidarity within Asia through large-scale youth exchange whereby it aimed
at promoting an mutual understanding and friendly relations. The organization
for this programme is JICE (Japan International Cooperation Center) that
conducting the programme in cooperation with various local governments,
schools, and international exchange organizations in each area. There are
participants all over ASEAN countries such as Indonesia,
Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos
and Myanmar. From this program, participants will learn about strengths, allures
and values of Japan through various activities, such as observing cutting-edge
technologies, visiting historic or scenic sites, observing local industries,
and experiencing traditional cultures and subcultures. In addition, the
participants will intermingle with Japanese citizens in school exchanges and
homestay, creating a chance to develop trust and friendship with each other.
From my point of view for the whole program in japan, I
was very impressed with Japan in a way that it was a country of great
technology for example the public transports such as the bullet train was
the high-speed rail network known as shinkansen are able to running at speeds of up to 320 km/h and
known for punctuality, comfort, safety whereby no fatal accidents in its history
and efficiency. Besides, in term of natural disasters, even though Japan face
so many disaster because Japan lies along the Pacific Ring of Fire where many
of the world’s earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur, they manage to recover
and handling the natural disaster very systematic and very fast. This is
because of an early education and they educate the students as well as
community on how to handle the disaster and steps that can be applied in that
situation. Thus, whenever a disaster occur in that area, the community
themselves know how to handle and together they help each other without
depending solely on the government help because they already know what the next
step that they have to do due to an early exposed before. This is one of the thing
that should be apply to all countries not only to the countries that often experience it but also to all so that if anything
could be happen, they can prepare early and minimize the damage or death. As we all know that they able to receive the information about the
disaster easily and quickly due to the notification of disaster information
through phone and also speaker around the area. This should be apply to all
country so that the information will be widespread and the society can be ready
in order to face the situation.
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| The push-enabled notification of disaster information in Japan |
The main thing that I
learnt in Japan is everyone is very discipline and punctual whenever they are
always anxious not to be late to their appointments and normally they will
arrive 10 or 15 minutes before the scheduled time. Not only that, the people
are very polite and very helpful to help even have a difficulties to
communicate at first but they are very excited to help and explain what we want
to know. Furthermore, I love the service in Japan as we know Asian countries
always have much better hotel service than in the West, but Japan takes it to
another level. This is because the service is very fast and satisfying,
for example I have experienced with the staff in the hotel whereby I have a
problem using the iron which the water is leaking (steam iron), so I called the
service which apparently that time is already 9pm but the staff arrived just
five minutes after I called and she fixed the iron just in a moment and I am
very impressed for their services. Next, I love the cultures in Japan, one of
the culture is bowing which is an important part of the Japanese culture. I
bring that up instead others is because it is one of the many ways that
Japanese people make an effort to show their respect to each other, and this is
a perfect example of showing our respect to others.
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| All participants in Group A together with our foster families |
