March 26: 2017 Kansai Consular Corps Youth Symposium

8 SIS high school students participated in the second Kansai Consular Corps Youth Symposium. The theme of the event was "Kigen yoo hataraku" or "Working happily" and the venue was Osaka prefectural assembly room.

Schools taking part presented in English on Kansai businesses and employment. Feedback was given by participating country consuls and followed up with further discussion. SIS students presented their findings on problems relating to foreign resident employment. Many schools presented on their SGH research topics, but SIS's was based on a new group research project.

SIS participation

谷歩乃樺さん、和田茉奈実さん、菅千都さん、別府  舞さん、藤戸美妃さん、野津拓真君、山崎菜奈子さん、足立晴香さん

Participating schools:

Osaka prefectural: Sumiyoshi HS, Shijonawate HS, Mikunigaoka HS, Kitano HS
Kobe Municipal Fukiai HS
Senri International HS of Kwansei Gakuin
Doshisha Business School

Kansai Consular Corps countries
Netherlands, USA, Panama, Indonesia, Thailand, India, Russia, Nepal, Tanzania, Canada, Denmark, Slovakia, Ethiopia, Switzerland.

Presentation abstract:

Anyone has the right to comfortably work in Japan. This applies not only to Japanese workers but also to foreign workers. The number of foreign workers have increased recently, and they have become an indispensable figure in the Japanese society. However, many of these workers are currently working in a severe environment. Can we abandon this reality when foreign workers are the key to maintaining Japan's sustainability, especially since the amount of workload in Japan is decreasing due to Japan becoming an aging society with declining birth rate? No. We believe that we should face this problem and endeavor to solving it because we are moving further towards globalization.

Focusing on the local community is one way to resolve this issue, and this would connect to making Japan an adequate place to live, also developing as a leader to other nations.