{"id":20083,"date":"2011-06-20T17:21:45","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T21:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=20083"},"modified":"2011-06-20T17:24:22","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T21:24:22","slug":"wit-life-172-global-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/20\/wit-life-172-global-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"WIT Life #172: Global Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><span style=\"color: #4574a3;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/category\/wit-life\/\">WITLife<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/em><em><strong> is a periodic series written<\/strong><\/em><em><strong> by professional Writer\/Interpreter\/Translator <\/strong><\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stacysmith.webs.com\/\"><strong><span style=\"color: #4574a3;\">Stacy Smith<\/span><\/strong><\/a> <\/em><em><strong>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pref.kumamoto.jp\/english\/list.html\"><span style=\"color: #4574a3;\">Kumamo<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/em><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pref.kumamoto.jp\/english\/list.html\"><span style=\"color: #4574a3;\">to-ken<\/span><\/a> CIR, 2000-03). She starts<\/strong><\/em><em><strong> her day by watching Fujisankei\u2019s newscast in Japanese, and here she shar<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>es s<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>ome of the interesting tidbits and trends together with her own observations.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/deimos3.apple.com\/indigo\/\/1a\/e3\/bd\/21\/1ae3bd216ccf1c847f4c8f60a2df5f8760ee912fda6c20ecdfa726de466c962b-2577370021.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"225\" \/><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Last week New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/15\/opinion\/15friedman.html?_r=1&amp;nl=todaysheadlines&amp;emc=tha212\">profiled<\/a> the Harvard University political philosopher Michael J. Sandel.\u00a0\u00a0This professor&#8217;s\u00a0classes were picked up by PBS and made into a television program that has attracted worldwide attention.\u00a0 Last year, Japan\u2019s NHK TV broadcast a translated version of the series, which sparked a philosophy craze in Japan and prompted the University of Tokyo to create a course based on Sandel\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>As Friedman details, the PBS series is now available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justiceharvard.org\">http:\/\/www.justiceharvard.org<\/a>, and here you can find a thought-provoking\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iKtPI8IMuOM&amp;feature=player_embedded\">discussion of\u00a0the ethical and global implications of the 2011 Japanese earthquake and nuclear disaster<\/a> among students in Tokyo, Shanghai, and at Harvard.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is interesting to see Japanese students voicing their opinions in a proactive way, and I am curious to see what kind of feedback the university course has received since being introduced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WITLife is a periodic series written by professional Writer\/Interpreter\/Translator Stacy Smith (Kumamoto-ken CIR, 2000-03). She starts her day by watching Fujisankei\u2019s newscast in Japanese, and here she shares some of the interesting tidbits and trends together with her own observations. Last week New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman profiled the Harvard University political philosopher Michael [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,378,18,36,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic","category-earthquake-tsunami","category-translatinginterpreting","category-wit-life","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-5dV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20083"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20097,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20083\/revisions\/20097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}