#008 The 48th All Hokkaido Open Discussion Contest

Hi,

On Sunday, I took part in the discussion contest. Actually, I am a member of the ESS, which stands for English Speaking Society. Of course, we have to speak English during the discussion, so we had discussed the difficult topic for about 5 hours. By the way, the topic is Labor Problem in Japan. It is a very difficult topic, isn’t it? In my table, we discussed "Suicide caused by loss of job", which was the topic of my resume. In short, I was charged of an opinion maker in my discussion. But, actually there was one problem. The problem is “lack of evidence”. Of course, an opinion maker have to bring all data and information which is related to the topic. For example, opinion makers have to show detail numbers and definition of words. So, opinion makers have to work very hard even before the contest is held. In addition, some of the members in my table are Hokkaido University students. Of course, they are good at logical thinking and English speaking. So, they asked me many barbed questions, and sometimes found conflicting definitions and evidences. Anyway, I enjoyed discussing! I want to participate in the contest again.

That’s all for today.

Thank you very much.

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