Showa Women's University (Setagaya-ku, Tokyo) Faculty of Global Business Department of Business Design Akiko Imai A third-year student of the seminar created an information site "Palette" that publishes Japanese social issues in English and released it on December 3, 2017.
Ten third-year students of Imai Seminar are working on this information site "Palette" project as an exercise to send to overseas readers in English.The site covers a wide range of topics such as global warming, disparity, women's advancement, food safety, declining birthrate and aging population, and each student becomes an editor to investigate social issues of interest, write manuscripts, and hold editorial meetings. After that, the article will be published.
The project was triggered by the fact that the students who are currently working as editors were keenly aware of their low awareness of social issues in their own country when they studied abroad in Boston, USA in 2016.After returning to Japan, under Professor Akiko Imai, who is familiar with international public relations, she began learning about social issues such as gender disparities in Japan while having the opportunity to interact with working women.Then, as Japan's attention will increase toward the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics to be held in 2020, we devised this information site so that people can get to know Japan more deeply.
The first published article featured three articles: "The Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics talked about by a female spokesperson," "The strange relationship between job hunting and make-up," and "A new way of working created by entrepreneurial moms."In the future, we plan to release four articles every month, such as "Child-rearing of working Japanese women" and "Ratio of Japanese and overseas responses to immigrants".
