[PRI] Information Session for 2022 Fukushima Field Trip (September 13)

ICU's Peace Research Institute (PRI) would like to invite you to join us for the Fukushima Field Trip “Peace and the Future of Nuclear Power: Fukushima Perspectives” during the autumn break (November 25th through 27th).

Background

The PRI has conducted an annual research field trip to bring ICU students into contact with people who can engage them in productive dialogue about peace-and-conflict-related issues. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, field trips were made to distant locations including Okinawa and South Korea. Now that the pandemic is coming under control, the PRI would like to reintroduce the field trip in a limited form, as part of its annual research activities. In 2022, therefore, the PRI would like to conduct a brief field trip using only train and bus travel within Japan. The field trip objectives will primarily focus on the benefits to ICU students, but will also begin building relationships with people and organisations in the Tōhoku region, in order to conduct further research activities in future years.

Objectives

The project will facilitate ICU students interested in Peace Studies and related fields (Politics and International Relations, Environmental Studies, Humanities, Sociology, Media Studies, and others) to visit towns in the Fukushima former nuclear exclusion zone and to meet residents, reconstruction workers, activists, artists, etc. Students will use their firsthand experiences of observations and discussions with Fukushima residents and workers to deepen and reassess their understanding on a range of environmental and political issues including nuclear fission power; the global energy crisis; earthquake and natural disaster responses; Japanese national government policy; agriculture, fisheries, and food safety; and education (Dunning, 2008; Yergin, 2012).

Special page for this field trip

https://real-fukushima.com/fukushima-field-trip-for-icu-students/

Information Session

Information session on the costs and itinerary for this field trip will be held as follows. If you are interested in joining us, we ask that you attend the session. If you are unable to attend it, please contact us at icupri@icu.ac.jp

Date: September 13 (Tuesday)

Time: 13:00~13:45

Meeting format: Online

Venue: Zoom (Zoom information provided after registration below)

If you are interested in joining us, please register using the link below.

https://forms.gle/hk7sU61GU1TANcc5A

Please feel free to contact us at icupri@icu.ac.jp if you have any questions.

We look forward to seeing you there!

2022 Fukushima Field Trip.pdf