Aug. 6, 2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The bomb “Little Boy” was dropped on Hiroshima that tragic day by an American B29 bomber and killed a total of 140,000 people. Three days later, another B29 dropped the bomb “Fat Man” on Nagasaki, killing over 70,000 more people. They were the first nuclear weapons used in war, changing forever the face of human history.
What does it mean to be sustainable? How can we build community between diverse social factions? What is the role of service in achieving sustainability? These were some of the questions posed to the six ICU students who took part in Global Link 2015 this July.
ICU President Dr. Junko Hibiya will visit Los Angeles from Sep. 19th-20th, 2015. Please feel free to join us at these two public events!
Following a recent collaboration between ICU, the JICUF and the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, ICU Professor Katsuhiko Mori and JICUF Vice President Paul Hastings contributed short reflections to an online photo essay produced by the Carnegie Council’s Devin Stewart.
ICU graduate Joshua Nelson (June, ’13) is currently living and attending graduate school in Princeton, New Jersey. We spoke to him recently about his experiences growing up, what first led him to ICU, and his post-graduate life here in the U.S. Joshua (left side) and friends in Princeton. The two people in the middle are also from ICU. JICUF: Hi, Joshua! Thank you for agreeing to be interviewed for “A New Leaf”. Could you start by telling us a bit about your background? Where were you born and raised, for example? Joshua: My father is from California and my mother is from Shikoku. Most people assume I lived in the States for […]
Introducing the students that will participate in Global Link 2015!
JICUF Board Chair Sam Shepherd and I had the pleasure of meeting with Dr. Mei Li during our visit to ICU in early June. Dr. Li is the first Anne E. Ofstedal Fellow, a program created by the United Board in memory of former United Board staff member Anne Ofstedal. Dr. Li, a member of the faculty at Yunnan University’s School of Public Administration, is spending the Spring Term at ICU.
Forbes has selected ICU as one of Asia’s top-ten liberal arts colleges! Click to read the article.
JICUF Senior Research Fellow in Science and Religion Thomas Hastings has co-edited a Japanese anthology of essays on science, religion, and philosophy. The anthology, “Entanglements of Religion and Science” was published by Nanzan University, and emerges out of a grant from the Templeton Foundation.
On June 5-6 the Japan ICU Foundation will be sponsoring a Carnegie Council Global Ethics Conference in the Kiyoshi Togasaki Memorial Dialogue House at ICU. The Global Ethics Conference is part of the Carnegie Council’s Global Ethics Network and will feature keynote addresses from former Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan and Dr. Michael Ignatieff, the Centennial Chair of the Carnegie Council and Professor at Harvard University, amongst others.
