On September 17 at JCK Youth Forum, Professors Jieun Park of UNA-ROK and Sukehiro Hasegawa of UNA-Japan and Ms. Li Xueyao of UNA-China listened to JCK students make presentations of their discussions on lessons learned from history, climate change and humanitarian assistance. (Hiroto Kiyozumi)
Hirotaka Koike suggested a shift from economic growth based on GDP to sustainable development. To finance this shift, he proposed a tax on environmental degradation to ensure an equitable burden sharing. |
Rise Katsuda suggested that the Japanese Government should sincerely and voluntarily clarify its past war atrocities so that history issues would not trigger further disputes in the future. |
Masakazu Nagamine presented specific solutions to eliminate obstacles preventing cooperation among East Asian countries. The solutions include cooperation between private sector and government of China, Japan, and Korean. |
Sachiyo Takazawa and her partner discussed the stance of the Republic of Korea in the MUN as the delegates to improve the UN humanitarian assistance system. |
Hiroto Kiyozumi made a speech to encourage delegates to embrace the moment with their fellows and extend their friendship to their neighbors, quoting his friendship with Korean leader DongHyeon Kim. |
During symposium group presentation session, Kana Horibe points out the gap of political knowledge and low motivation to learn history among people as critical problem over different historical narratives. |
On the symposium session, Akihide Toda presented fundamental causes of historical problems in Northeast Asia and emphasized roles of public and education for tackling those issues. |
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