Current events semester 2
(2005-6) final exam review.
Essay question:
How can the ‘ring of poverty’ be broken? Aside from your own idea for a
solution, mention efforts by institutions like JICA and the UN in your
answer. This graph from JICA may help.
All texts from the
website will be listening problems. You can burn a CD if you
need one.
Ring of poverty:
words
Starvation
Malnutrition
Poor health
Immune system
Job skills
Unemployment
Unstable income
Yasukuni:
information
1868 Boshin War
1945 Became private religious institution
1978 14 Class A War Criminals added to list
1979 War criminals revealed. Emperor refuses to visit,
Controversy starts.
Revisionist museum (No Nanking massacre)
Visits by three ‘War Hawks’: Nakasone, Tanaka, Koizumi
JICA (Note
changes in JICA text)
Government organization
Mission: To share knowledge (trainees come, volunteers go)
Started: 1974 (Roots from 1954)
Volunteers go for 2 or 3 years
Can apply if over 20, Japanese, technical experience helps
The Millennium
Development Goals
Most central problems of our age
All countries agreed
To be met by 2015
Started with ‘Millennium Declaration’: must think of other countries,
make globalization a positive force.
We must change the way we do things.
Goal 1 Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger.
(Less people who live on less then 1 dollar a
day. Less people starving.)
Goal 2 Achieve universal primary education.
(Elementary school for all children everywhere)
Goal 3 Promote gender equality and empower women.
(More women that go to high school and beyond.)
Goal 4 Reduce child mortality.
(Less children that die before the age of 5.)
Goal 5 Improve maternal health.
(Less pregant mothers that die during birth or
before.)
Goal 6 Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases.
(Stop AIDS and other diseases that spread.)
Goal 7 Ensure environmental sustainability.
(Protect nature, provide safe drinking water,
and improve slums.)
Goal 8 Develop a global partnership for development.
(A fairer world economy.)
