As a last photo share assignment, I would like to introduce a Japanese company, called Rakuten, Inc. The guy on the picture I posted is Hiroshi Mikitani, the CEO of Rakuten. The reason why I decided to post this picture is that currently, Rakuten attempts to break the barrier between Japanese and foreigner and give more places for foreign workers…[Read more]

Through class discussion last Monday, I thought about the nuclear factory. Same as standing rock and #NoDAPL, there is an environmental issue which local people disagree, which is the nuclear factory in Japan. Japan is the dependent country which cannot get natural resources by ourselves. However, the government and companies try R&D to get…[Read more]

My picture refers the survey about Basic Income, a periodic cash payment unconditionally delivered to all on an individual basis, without means test or work requirement. Last week, we learned about racial capitalism. At the time, Flint said that the rich get richer and the poor stays the same under racial capitalism. I think that it must have…[Read more]

I would like to share a historically huge earthquake in Japan, which is the Great East Japan Earthquake. It has happened in 2011 Spring. This is the picture which shows the nuclear meltdown in Japan because of the earthquake. Right now, there are still many people who still cannot go back to their house in Tohoku region because of meltdown. H…[Read more]

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>I would like to share a reparation issue which calls “Comfort women state issue.”  I posted a picture of the states in San Francisco. This is a social issue between Japan and South Korea. This has happened since World War 2. After World War 2 finished, Japan paid reparation because Japan and Germany lost at the time…[Read more]

I would like to share a segregation story in Japan. I picked the picture which shows that children which have Chinese parents study the Japanese language with the local student in Japan. I think that it is good for school because there is no segregation in school.  However, in my view, there are many segregations to foreign students in school in…[Read more]

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Which races do you guys think people who are in this picture? Actually, they do not look like Asian; however, they are one of the Japanese, sometimes call Ainu people. They are indigenous people in Hokkaido, the Northernmost of Japan’s main islands. The reason why I picked this picture up for Week 2 Photoshare is t…[Read more]