if you get the chance look at nhk in english 0 1 2 3
- its amazing seeing 24 hours a day of content mainly on ordinary people building community things like slow food , ecotourism- japan actually has too few youth and is inviting smart youth exchanges - something it has long done with youth most serious about development challenges -
see eg this nigerian's work on rebuilding health service which would never have happened without studies in japan
OUR FAMILY TREE
five generations of diaspora scots have lived and worked almost everywhere except Scotland (well we use to have a family hamlet to retire to in Isle of Arran)
here's unfinished mission of missionary Norman Macrae 2
my father Norman Macrae 1 my father was a teenager serving in world war 2 in Royal Air Force-stationed in modernday myanmar and bangladesh- he believed wars wasted nations youth and was at his happiest whenever he helped celebrate countries in win-win trades
2020 10th anniversary remembrances of Norman Macrae 1
over last 10 years there have been many ups and downs in sponsoring 10 young journalists to find out the real stories of girl empowerment in bangladesh - whenever we needed real help it was the japanese embassy that supported us most and helped us as early as 2012 to understand the future of bkash now agreed by many as the benchmark digital bank for the billion poorest
japan can have a great 18 months greeting both elders and youth who ost want to sustain the world - eg g20 osaka july 2018 pope visit probably november 2019 - summer olympics 2020 with jack ma 's friends like softbank helping celebrate youth in every way
here's where we got to in sept 2016 at UN (courtesy of bloggers at economistuniversity.com )
can japan please move forward with those it agrees with from this session
f the world of education isnt transformed beyond the over-examined classroom - half of all youth will be
justin van fleet
Commission - most exciting report on education to be issued UN NY 18 Sept
Coursera - Education