영어속독--Magazines Have Potential to Create Communities Leading to New Business

I decided that my future lay in the media when I was still a kid. My father was originally an eager newspaper journalist, but later he was transferred to the non-newspaper division and I saw him going to work at a leisurely hour in the morning and coming home by taxi at night after he'd been out drinking. So I thought working in the media was an easy job where you didn't have to ride on crowded commuter trains [laughs]. Regardless of my motivation, Dad was delighted when I chose to study journalism, and it was my last chance to do something nice for him.

 

Once I entered the Department of Journalism I found it offered a broad selection of courses covering the entire media field, and we were free to study according to our own inclinations and ideas. Since most of the teachers had front-line experience, we could really live and breathe journalism in our classes. In such an environment students couldn't remain detached from society, and we were all ambitious to achieve something. This atmosphere was the very essence of the Department of Journalism.

 

Belatedly I got into reading, and in those days nonfiction works by writers like Katsuichi Honda sparked an adolescent sense of justice in me. Driven by a desire to find myself and become something, I gathered some friends for a one-off venture and we wrote our own script and staged a play at the auditorium of Building No. 1. (250 words)

 

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