The Impression of Student Training Program in Los Angeles

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.

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