Last month the Japan ICU Foundation held a number of outreach events in the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area. They included a JICUF trustees meeting, a special evening reception and dinner for ICU alumni and friends and a series of recruitment activities.
Natsumi Miyauchi is an ICU student spending her junior year abroad at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also one of five students to receive the JICUF’s Study Abroad Scholarship for academic year 2015-16. This is the second year this scholarship has been awarded.
Professor Giorgio Shani, Director of the Rotary Peace Center at ICU, has published a new paperback version of Religion, Identity and Human Security. This work seeks to provide a fresh examination of the relationship between religion, identity and security in a globalizing world, arguing that in order to address human security issues we must seek a reconceptualization of human security along post-secular lines.
ICU alumna Yuko Maeno (June, 2010) stopped by the Japan ICU Foundation to tell us about her exciting transition to graduate school. From September of this year, she will be a new Rotary Peace Fellow at the University of Bradford in the UK. It’s the latest chapter in her fascinating global career!
“In May 2013 I met in Tokyo with Dr Kotani to learn about the counseling and trauma education clinics that he and other ICU psychologists founded soon after the Triple Disasters, and had the privilege of attending a support group at the Sendai clinic. My July 2013 A New Leaf article, “We Will Not Forget You,” described this impactful experience—so impactful that it drew me back to Japan to visit the disaster area again when another opportunity arose.”
Aug. 6, 2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The bomb “Little Boy” was dropped on Hiroshima that tragic day by an American B29 bomber and killed a total of 140,000 people. Three days later, another B29 dropped the bomb “Fat Man” on Nagasaki, killing over 70,000 more people. They were the first nuclear weapons used in war, changing forever the face of human history.
What does it mean to be sustainable? How can we build community between diverse social factions? What is the role of service in achieving sustainability? These were some of the questions posed to the six ICU students who took part in Global Link 2015 this July.
ICU President Dr. Junko Hibiya will visit Los Angeles from Sep. 19th-20th, 2015. Please feel free to join us at these two public events!
Introducing the students that will participate in Global Link 2015!
Forbes has selected ICU as one of Asia’s top-ten liberal arts colleges! Click to read the article.
