It was about 17:00, when I was taking British Culture class.
Those noisy sounds were given from students' mobile phones.
One of my friends, whose phone had also been ringing loudly, told me that a big earthquake happened at Fukushima and we should be ready for protecting ourselves from shaking.
As you know, the shake was not strong here.
but...
I was so surprised that the recent mobile phones have a service of ringing emergency alarm automatically.
Convenience must save our lives. (´∀｀）
Musashino-line was delayed.....
Chuo-line was also delayed.....
To sum up with the loss of time, I will get to Chuo university at the regular hour in spite of taking a 10-minutes-earlier train.
You wonder why the train was delayed.
Astonishingly, an UMBRELLA was caught in the door.
His classes are interesting enough to have been made into a popular television series that was later translated and aired in Japan on NHK from April 4th to June 20th, which was called "ハーバード白熱教室 (Justice with Michael Sandel)".
Additionally, a book by Prof. Sandel tited "これからの「正義」の話をしよう―いまを生き延びるための哲学― (Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?)" has become a best-seller not only in the US but also in Japan.
That popular Harvard University professor Michael Sandel held a discussion on political philosophy and morality at the University of Tokyo on August 26th.
Through his class, as the issue of social inequality, Prof. Sandel posed a question about baseball star Ichiro Suzuki.
He makes about 40 times as much as President Obama in a year, and about 400 times as much as a teacher in Japan. Prof. Sandel asked the audience whether they thought Ichiro's salary was fair, and whether it would be morally correct for the government to tax him and redistribute the money.
Regarding historical mistakes and whether current generations should apologize or pay damages for them, Prof. Sandel directly asked whether the audience thought President Obama should apologize for the atomic bombs dropped on Japan.
The discussion was just heated, especially the latter one.
Now we are facing a serious problem of Senkaku(Diaoyu) Island, and need to think what the claims of both sides are like and how to compromise each other.
But before discussing this problem, we never overlook or ignore the idea of respect others and of having a large number of people feel happy.
Regardless of profit, we ahould put an eye on a moral responsibility.
Well, that's not concrete......(^□^;)
If you're interested in such topic, go to Justice web page, watch the videos, and think by or for yourself, "What is the justice?".
Justice with Michael Sandel→http://www.justiceharvard.org/
I have a runny nose.
I can't do anything about it but blow my nose again and again.
Perhaps this comes from the latest broken weather.
uuuuummmmm......
Sniffle, sniffle.....(;´∩｀)
The main reason why I hate the class is the teacher.
Her name is Yuko Koga, and she makes us call herself Yufo.
Absolutely she is just what she is called in a way; U.F.O. (Unpleasant Female Ogress)
She always criticizes our thought and sneers at our idea.
I've never known her to get through with her class on time.
Her pronunciation is terrible.
And what's worse, she believes herself only, which means she does not respect our individuality.
A really mean fellow!! (｀ε´)
