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2013.1.29 Participating Global Town Hall held by Secretary Clinton
In advance of Hillary Clinton's last day as Secretary of State, a town-hall meeting "Townterview" was held in Washington D.C. and broadcast live to the world on January 29th. Three KIP students, who had visited the U.S. in Spring 2012 with KIP Project, were given an opportunity to ask a question to Madame Secretary via live satellite, with other 7 students chosen to represent Japanese youths.
One student from KIP was able to ask about U.S.-Japan economic relations. Ms. Clinton kindly answered and mentioned the importance of further cooperation between the U.S. and Japan and innovation and creativeness in the future economic areas.
This event was livestreamed on Youtube at http://www.youtube.com/user/statevideo?v=5E_rS38kClg
[Comments of students]
I was very glad to get an opportunity to share our opinions related to Japan-U.S. relation again to people living worldwide. In March 2012, we KIP members visited the United States and shared our thoughts and knowledge about natural disaster with people there. Since that time I was really interested in the history of relationship between the U.S. and Japan.
Unfortunately, I couldn't get a chance to talk to Ms. Clinton, however it was great opportunity that we once had to think about diplomatic matters between Japan and the U. S. in order to prepare for Townterview. I could learn about diplomatic relations between two countries, and furthermore about how much Ms. Clinton contributed to protect human rights. That's why I chose women's right matter as my question.
Also, it would be much better if we could have seen whole Townterview together with other students coming that night. Even though recording was over, I really wanted to stay there to see that TV programme together with them and talk about it.
I have told about this event to some friends and my family, and they were quite surprised to find me on youtube. I hope this also will be a good chance even for them to be interested in thinking about Japan-U.S. relations. I thank the Embassy of the U.S. and Ms. Packard for giving us such great opportunity.(Haruka Kanda The University of Tokyo Graduate School)
I strongly believe I'll never forget that night.
Fortunately, my question was chosen and I had honor to ask Secretary Clinton a question directly. I asked about the future of the US-Japan economic relation as I study economics in university and find that we focus more on Asia rather than the United States. This is an obvious shift in a decade or so. Secretary Clinton replied that the US-Japan relationship was a secure one but we needed to keep working hard to create new jobs and raising our incomes by making use of our common advantage such as high technology.
I totally agree with her. We both long have had a strong influence on the world economy. I believe the US-Japan relation is quite important so we need to make sure if it keeps up with the time.
I hope this experience, which would be once in a life time, will help me think about to find a new way of the US-Japan relationship.(Yuki Kawakami The University of Tokyo)
