By Ken Kurasaki
@@I (third, Faculty of Law) went to Los Angeles for 12 days of training sponsored by Kansai Club this summer. I wore magnificent American clothes and traveled from the airport to Las Vegas for approximately 7 hours by car on the first day. I played the personfs New Yearfs flower arrangement casino. It was a dollar slot machine and I did pretty well. The second day, I went to the Grand Canyon and saw the sunrise and sunset. The weather wasnft exactly great but the scenery that shined in the Grand Canyon was impressive. On the third day, I visited various companies. One of the people I met being the Consulate General, JETRO, House Food Industrial, union bank, MI... I met many people and learned so much within the 12 days. Today, I would like to discuss what I learned in U. S. A. while taking account some the words stated from the people I met. I will generally explain everything since I cannot remember every single detail.
Ito (third from left), Consulate General, Sumiyama (right), Oda (left),
Kansai Club, Kurasaki (second from left), and two trainees in
Consulate General of Japan in Los Angeles on the seventh training
day of training
@@First of all, I would like to
talk about the American
system. I didnft notice at
first but when I got into the
car, I noticed how the signal
would change from red to
green within seconds. I was
surprised at this and when I
asked Mr. Sumiyama, he said
it is a sensor senses which
direction a car approaches
from under a roadh. A signal
changes to green immediately
so that the flow of the car
lets you smoothen it at a
crossing even if the signal of
at hand becomes red. In
other words, there is little
time to wait for a signal idly.
When I heard this, I thought
that it was a splendid
system. I thought that this
system should be introduced
to Japan.
@@The Irvine municipal assembly
was held on the third
day. The state of the assembly
was projected with TV
cables, and a citizen stated, gI
argue how problems are
solved.h The distance of the
mayor is near to a citizen,
and a citizenfs opinion is
reflected. Volunteers are well
included, for example, more
than 30% seem to have a
volunteer at a hospital.
Therefore, volunteers are well
incorporated in an organization.
Everyday life is reflected
and is worthwhile to each
other. In addition, libraries at
American universities are
open 24 hours, as most
people say. Students study as
exams approaches.
@@Next, I went to the Hitachi
Chemical Center and they
discussed about the Nobel
Science Prize. There were
many American winners in
the successive Nobel Prize in
the department of Chemistry.
That may be because gAmericans
never does that a
person does ith. On the contrary,
it often seems to be
that the Japanese does that a
person does it. Will this not
be common to the life not
applying to only Nobel Prize
either? I took stimulation to
challenge more lives.
@@gThicken the life how long I failedh
@@Finally, I would like to
wrap things up with a
certain quote. I gthicken the
life how long I failedh. The
person is afraid of failure,
but it is experience not
failure. A new idea appears
when one fails and things
tend to spread out steadily.
Hence, it is important that
everything is challenged. It is
not a matter of fact if you
can or cannot do it. What
matters the most is if one
actually did it. I hope
everyone takes a challenge
for a possibility.