LEARN with Porsche,” which Travel Watch has been accompanying and covering since 2021, was held again this year in late August. LEARN” is a scholarship program that offers a different kind of learning than the current school education, which tends to be restricted by textbooks and timetables. It is operated by the University of Tokyo’s Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology’s “Individualized Optimal Learning Research” Endowed Research Division, and is led by Senior Research Fellow Kenryu Nakamura and others. Porsche Japan, which endorses the “LEARN” initiative, supports “LEARN with Porsche” every year as part of its CSR activities. The summer program, which presents children facing the walls of the future with the attitude and dreams necessary for future learning, will be in its fourth year in 2024. This year’s “LEARN with Porsche” will take place in Amakusa, Kumamoto Prefecture. The two teams were divided into two groups, one going to Kumamoto and the other to Kagoshima, and were separated for the first half of the program. This report is on the first half of the program in which I accompanied the Kumamoto team.
Learning about Goshoura from the innkeeper and young people who are trying to revitalize the island After the physical labor, we went to “Arashiguchi Senior Citizen’s House,” a short walk from the amanatsu fields, to interact with the innkeeper, Kozaburo Tsuruoka, and other elderly people who were “born and raised in Goshoura. The owner of the inn, Kozaburo Tsuruoka, and other elderly people who were born and raised in Goshoura. Mr. Tsuruoka, who is also a member of the Amakusa City Cultural Heritage Protection Council, is an expert on the history of Amakusa and Goshoura. The children, who had gone straight to the sweet summer fields as soon as they arrived by boat a few hours earlier, had no idea what kind of island this was. He told us that the island had long flourished as a fishing town, that anchovy fishing had flourished in the early Showa period, and that on the slopes of the mountain were terraced fields built with stone walls by people in the olden days. Some were surprised to learn that the population was nearly 10,000 in the 1950s, but now stands at about 2,300. After dinner, while we were sharing information about the day’s activities, Mr. Tsuruoka-san came out from the main house next door. He remembered one student’s comment during the day that he would like to see an old document that describes Goshoura, and brought it to us. The staff then told us that we would leave at 6:30 a.m. tomorrow morning for the sweet summer fields again, and we went to bed. The long and productive second day was over.
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