Report of Regular Meeting May 2007
Hiroshi Nagasawa, Secretary
First, the President Mr. Chino presented to Mr. Honda, Vice-Secretary General of the Tokyo YMCA, a subscription from the Tokyo Club: 300,000 yen to support the Frost Valley summer camp leaders, 100,000 yen to support the Bangladesh YMCA and 50,000 yen to support the other leaders. Mr. Matsumoto, Secretary of the Tokyo YMCA, described their determination as representative of 3 staffs or leaders who will be sent to Frost Valley: "We want to develop a new program for the following 30 years."
[Lecture of Mr. Morio Ikeda]
The guest speaker was Mr. Morio Ikeda, counselor of Shiseido, proxy-chairman of the Education Replay Conference of the Japanese Government. Thouth he graduated from the theology university, he didn't become a clergyman but he is an unique executive who works in a private company. He said: "I considered the first purpose of my life to have a point of tact with the society; the intention of God to be used. Therefore I decided to participate in the society thouth I should become a clergyman originally. Around 2001, I became the responsible person of the management reform of Shieido; I suffered when I didn't know what I should demand as the pillar of the management reform; then I found as its base the warrior spirit of Inazo Nitobe which I admired since I was young. I ground on the management innovation in this idea during 5 years. When I completed to make a plan, I retired. Then the Japanese Government appointed me to proxy-chairman of the Education Replay Conference. I work thinking that there is not a replay of Japan without the replay of the education. I find a terrible sight in the scenes of the public education, specifically, of the compulsory education. We must not put this problem to the school in sole charge; but we must tackle it as the total society. For us and the companies, it is important to find the lack of mind 'public'. We must recall the mind 'public' in the heart of Japanese like Umekichi Ishida. I will challenge to replay the education on the base of this idea."