영어속독(200단어)--Sparking Diversity of Thought through Our Work<3>

Law Faculty Studies Put to Use in Advertising

My university memories are of having limitless time and watching all my favorite movies. In any case, they were happy days. But I studied quite a lot too.

 

I was in the international politics seminar taught by Professor Kuniko Iguchi, who was later elected to the Diet and became a government minister. In her classes we examined issues like the conditions under which wars begin and why global hegemony shifts from one country to another, and we learned extensively about academic methods and research processes for constructing and verifying our own hypotheses. When I look back now, I sometimes think these methods are similar to those used in advertising and marketing work, where we analyze phenomena in society through our own eyes and discover people's new appetites.

 

Part way through my third year I took a year off (which actually turned into more than 18 months) to study in Israel at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and this decision was also influenced by Professor Iguchi. Of course I could have studied international politics at an American university, but I thought that the Middle East was the place to go if I wanted to know about the situation in the Middle East, and this focus on what is actually happening on the ground is still my style. (215 words)

 

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