May 25: "Let's live in an attractive
community"
by Mie |
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We have the fifth open-lecture of Beppu college
today. The lecturer is Ms. Izumi Kuwano,
a challenging managing director of Tamanoyu hotel in Yufuin. She lectures in the subject of
"Let's live in an attractive community"
today. We attended the lecture togetjer with
students of the department of commercial
science . Mr. Yokoyame, the dean, introduced
her.
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"Today, I will give lecture titled
not as 'Look for an attractive community',
but as 'Convert our community appealing'",
she started. "When you graduate the
school, you will be in comittment with society
much or less. Please commit yourself actively
to your community." Ms. kuwano is a
mother of a six year-old boy as well. She
is working hard to materialize a community
friendly to kids. Yufuin, a small spa resort
community with the population of 12,000,
boasts of its enormouse number of tourists
more than 3.8 million annually.
"When looking back the history
of our
Yufuin", she continues, "our
town
was about to go under the water of
a dam
in 1950's. In 1960's a base of the
Self-Defence
Forces was invited to boost up the
economy
of this small village in Yufu valley.
In
late 1960s, a young mayor in his thirties
was elected and launched a plan to
utilize
the grand nature and hot spring resource
of the village. This is the base of
our present
Yufuin." |
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"We have been learning how to
make-out
the basic concept of our community
development",
she goes on, "we visited some
villages
in europe, like a small village of
Baden
bailer near Baden-baden in Germany
in which
the residents themselves design the
township.
Other communities surrounded with abundance
of nature and rich-hearted people in
rural
England, Toscana region in Italy, and
country
sides in France have taught us much
about
how to create our original village.
I hope
you young students will see much more
to
create your own basis in your school
days." |
 
She presented a video film of Yufuin in the
latter half of the lecture. "We have
many kind of wonderful people and events
in Yufuin. We always intend to make visitors
welcome with beautiful nature of four seasons,
tasty agricultural products, warm-hearted
people who run small craftshops or private
museums. Long-run events such as Yufuin Music
Festival, Movie Festival, Beef eating and
shouting contest are becoming much popular
supported not only by the local residents
but also by outside people as well."
Thank you Ms. Kuwano for your impressive
lecture today. |
