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Awards Entry

2014 Asia-pacific Conference
Global Youth Leader Training Program
JCI JAPAN

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Entry Information
Award Program:

2014 Asia-Pacific Conference

Category:

NOM Information
National Organization:

National President:

JCI JAPAN

Kazuya Suzuki
E-mail: japan@jci.cc

LOM Information
Local Organization:
President:

JCI Hirakata
Hiroshi Kakimaru

President Email: miyaijun@yahoo.co.jp

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Basic Information
Duration : June 29, July 27-28, August 25, 2013
Staff : 12 members
Hirakata City Office, Hirakata Foundation for Cuture and International
Sponsors :Exchange
Budget : US$6,500Profit / Loss : None
In which UN MDG bestfit (if apply): ?:Approx. 410,000 citizens and Approx. 4,000 foreigners who living in
Who is benefited ?:Hikakata
Objective : To develop personal skills of the local youths and to train them to be theperson who creates world peace through international exchange. We thinkthe 3 personal skills listed below are necessary:
1. Pride to their nation, community and themselves
2. International point of view and Logical thinking
3. Communication skill to express their opinions and values to others
Overview : We planned and executed our program to achieve its objectives.
We offered the opportunity in which Japanese high school students andForeign exchange students can have discussions and cultural exchange
together.
We regarded 3 personal skills listed below as especialy important:
Skill 1. Identity:
To understand the way of thinking of others and cultural differences. To
reconsider his/her own self and know it deeper
Skill 2. Communication:
To convey his/her own opinions and way of thinkiking to others beyond thedifference of languages, cultures, ages, etc.
Skill 3. Presentation:
To summarize his/her opinions and way of thinking in group and trasmit
them to others in public effectively and persuasively
Therefore, we offered the opportunity in which the participants can learn
those 3 skills by experiencing them systematically on this program. We
offer this program to Japanese students who want to act globaly in thefuture and Foreign exchange students who want to learn Japanese culture
well. Participants can have opportunity to learn Japanese culture together
by the experience of discussion and communication on them. 1.
Participants learn Japanese tradition and culture on the seminar fromexperts on visiting temples and shrine in our community
2. Participants discuss and survey in English about the difficult global
issues; Education and Globalization, Energy policy and Environmental
Problems, Gender equality and Work style.
3. Particiapants make presentation about their conclusions of discussion topublic at City Festival in Hirakata
Results : 1. Participants learned Japanese history and culture through visiting
temples and shrines. Japanease participants could get the pride to
Japanese culture compared to foreign culuture. Foreign participants could
be strongly conscious of his/her own culture compared to Japaneseculture.
2. Participants discussed high-level theme which requires global solution
with both foreign languages and non-verbal communication of gesturesand drawings. Participants trained his/her communication skill,international point of view, and logical thinking in tough environment.
3. Participants got opportunity for cultural exchange with cooperation
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beyond the difference of cultures and languages. Participants discovered
the difficulty and problems to be overcome by him/herself, on the occasionof making something done with variety of people cooperated together.
Participants understood the importance to try to figure out the common
point rather than to make it clear the differences, by the repetition of try
and error.
4. Participants, as a result, could train his/her personal skills throughinternational cultural exchange:
1. Pride to the nation, community, and him/herself,
2. International point of view and Logical thinking,
3. Communication skill to express his/her opinion and value,
and they could experience how to create world peace.
Actions Taken : Dec. 2012: Discussion and Inquiry to find problems and solutions toexecute this program with Organizaitons such as Hirakata City Office,Hirakata Foundation for Cuture and International Exchange, Universities
and High Schools in Hirakata city.
Jan.-Feb. 2013: Discussion in Committee member (Global Youth Leadertraining committee) in JCI Hirakata to plan this program. As the result ofdiscussion and inquiry, the international program of other plans
1. are targeting on rich adults as participants, and the participants join theprogram repeatedly in the same program, sometimes to continue to do thisprogram itself became the purpose of it,
2. are usually only one-day event to have fan to go camp, bowling or otherleisure,
3.are planning no chance to have a time for discussion to solve difficult
theme of global issues,
4. are setting instructor or coordinator from experienced Japanese person(like professor) and they are tend to be the elders (50s or 60s years old)So, we plan this program which 1. is targeting on youth, especially young
students
2. has some good influence to participants in the place we stay itself.
3. consists of the series of several program.
4. has the opportunity to discuss about difficult theme to be solved andmake presentation of the result to public.
5. selects the tutor of the young foreigner who has many experiences ofinternational exchange program and can be friendly to participants ofstudents.
Mar. 2013: Preliminary inspection of each places, applicaiton to get
nominal support.
Apr. 2013: Start to advertise to 9 High school, 6 Universities in Hirakata.
May. 2013: Close of Advertisement, Selection of participants, Notice ofresult.
Jun.-Aug. 2013: Execution of each program, Review
Among the time above, we have discussions and make contacts toHirakata City Ofiice, Hirakata Foundation for Cuture and International
Exchange, Ms. Suzanka (tutor of this program, radio personality of FM
Hirakata), each place of this program many times.
Recommendations : 1.Japanese students have little knowledge about the tradition and cultureof Japan or local community of its own.
2. Foreign students can get aware of its mother country on the contrary to
feel the excellence of Japan and its community. This program starts fromthese 2 isuues.
According to the questions from participants, they change their mind to thelisted below:
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1. Japanese students who are interested in foreign countries has
discovered the importance to know about Japan and its community first,
and how little knowledge about them they have now.
2. Japanese students found the importance to express their opinions andvalues rather than not only to hear those of others. This is indispensable
for Japanese youths to be the person who creates positive change tomake world peace.
3. Foreign exchange students understand their mother country deeper on
the contrary to feel excellence of Japanese tradition and culture.
4. All participants found that English is just a tool for international
exchange, and what is necessary when they face the difficult them to besolve is not language but the intention to continue to discuss to over comeit.
5. JCI member found the importance of executing the program in the local
community we live, even though the most of the case has been held in
new place but your local community.
The result beyond the expectations
1. Japanese students and foreign exchange students starts to makecontacts each other over this program through this program, to join otherevents or program, etc. This is because we promote the exchange bymaking small group of 10 member each.
2. Foreign students couldn\'t apply to join this program than expected. Thisis because the term of this program is just the time of summer vacation
when many of them go back to their country. The term of this program
should be changed to the better.
We expect to continue to set the place in temples and shrines, because
the participants had good impression in those places to feel tradition andculture.

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The objectives of this program is to train youth to be
the person who can create world peace and to develop
their personal skills through international exchange.
We thought the three listed below are important aspersonal skill to be developed to achieve theobjectives.
1. pride for their own nation, community, andthemselves
2. global point of view and logical thinking
3. skill to communicate their opinion and values
With these skill,
1. they can get the cultural background to transmit
their views to others
2. they can challenge a new action and make action
from a objective point of view with no prejudice totheir partner who have different values.
3. they can create positive change and got skills. They
can transmit their opinions and values to others withthe skills they got. They can send message to to theworld and can to contribute to the world peaceWith the training of youth in this community and thedevelopment of their personal skills, we can train them
to be the young active citizens. To train global humanresources leads the construction of the world peace
through global network. It corresponds out action planthat says the objective is to create young activecitizens.
We tried to make the expence lower as possible to
make it easier for young participants to join thisprogram,
1. with the cooperation of temples and shrines neibourhood, we could make it free of the payment to usethem.
2. with the stay in the public camping place, we could
lower the cost to stay one night and foods.
3. with using the place neibour-hood, we could lower
the cost of transportation.
The advance of JCI mission Participants could train
their personal skills necessary for global leader throughdiscussion and cultural exchange. We offer theopportunity for youth to create positive change.
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The advance of JCI vision We could constitute theglobal network of young active citizens byinternational exchange of participants from allcountries over the world

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1. We firstly visited Hirakata city office and Hirakata
Foundation for Culture and International Exchange.
We did hearing survey about the situation of Japanese
students and foreign exchange student to theorganization they belongs.
2. We planed the program with the reference of theresult of hearing survey.
2-A. We offer the opportunity for participant to learn
Japanese culture at temple and shrine for the purposethat they can learn their identity deeply by experience.
We had preliminary meeting with the expert of temple
and shrine for the preparation to make their speech toexplain the roots of culture and history of each instituteand Japan itself.
2-B. We divide all the participants into 3 group of 10
people on the program. We set specific themes foreach group of participants to survey and discuss in thisprogram. The theme was Education and Globalization,
Energy policy and Environmental problem, Genderequality and Work style.
2-C. We offer the chance for participants to findcommon and different point through discussion, andthe chance for them to make presentation to others inpublic place about their experience and opinions.
3. After the program, we ask participants to submitquestion. We also visit High school and University to
do hearing survey.

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Though this program,
1. Participants could gain proud of themselves andcultural background to create new value with people
who have different values together.
2. Participants could make new action with the skill
they trained. They can act from objective point of viewto the partner who has different value and tackle it
together to overcome hardship together.
3. Participants acquired personal skill to create positivechange. They can dispatch their opinion to other with
their new skill they acquired, and contribute to theworld peace.
1. Participants learned Japanese culture with foreign
students in the comparison to those of foreigncountries. They visited temple and shrine and hearlecture by Japanese expert of temple and shrine and thespeech of foreign tutor\'s experience.
2. Participants made discussion about certain highlevel global issues that world haven\'t solve yet byusing foreign language with foreigners who havedifferent cultural background and different language
and value.
3. Participants summarized their opinion andconclusion into short message in each group and they
made presentation at community festival.

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Participants train their personal skill necessary to be
global leader.
Participants find difficulty of inter-culturalcommunication and acquire experience to overcome itthrough discussion and cultural exchange with otherparticipants who has different nationality.
Participants gain leadership, change for action, andbecome global leader with their new skill they acquirein this program.
Participants train their Personal Skill necessary to be
global leader by the experience in this program. They
feel the difficulty of inter-cultural communication at
the time of discussion and shared time at camp, and at
the same time, they got confidence that they cancommunicate with non-verbal communication likegesture or picture, sometimes their passion tocommunicate.
According to question from participants, they foundthey can communicate non-verbal way even if almost
half of group can\\\' speak the same language well.

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We expectthat the participants of this program continue to makepositive action independently after this program,that the participants or the person who they gave
influence become leaders,that they can be outstanding leaders in the field of theircommunity, nation, and international level.
This program continues to produce leaders from thiscommunity by holding it continuously. Outstanding
leader create positive change to others, and themovement started by this program continue to create
positive change.
According to question from participants, some of themhad different image to this program that we cancommunicate in English only to brush up language
skill only. We have to make effort to make the purposeof this program clearer.
There are some opinions to continue this program inlong term from schools and other organizations, tomake the advertisement and the announcement more
efficiently.
We have to verify the achievement of the objectives ofthis program whether the merit given to participant inthis program correspond to their needs. We have tocontinue to follow-up survey the efficiency to theparticipants after this program by inquiry.
We have to make the connection stronger witheducation organization and community administration
by making contacts continuously to brush up thisprogram.

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