David Miliband

Foreign Secretary

FCO Logo
« Cool Biz | Main | The Non-Proliferatio... »
Friday 27 June, 2008

Japanese bloggers unite

I met 100 Japanese bloggers tonight at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo to debate how the internet can fuel the drive to meet the challenge of climate change.  The event will be at www.uknow.or.jp .  The predominantly young audience did not give the panel a tough time - you can see the Japanese chief government advisor at www.kiyoshikurokawa.com but did show a zeal and studiousness that was impressive. 
 
I hope they found time to visit the roving highlights of the Turner modern art exhibition three floors up - including Damien Hirst's incredible halved cow.  300 000 visitors in three months are getting a taste of not-so-traditional Britain.

Posted at 17:32 27 June 2008 by David Miliband  |  Comments[5]

  • Share this with:
Comments:

Secretary Miliband, I am working on a college paper on the political thoughts of you and your father and how they are related. Therefore I decided to ask you that question. What relation do you see between yours and your father's political thoughts? In what issue did he influence you the most? In what issue did he least influence you? Would you call yourself Marxist? Thank you for the attention.

Posted by Francisco Venancio on June 28, 2008 at 01:44 AM BST #

I'm a student of The University of Tokyo. Thank you very much for meeting with us. I and my friends, participated in this meeting, are impressed. So, we are determined to take action what we have to do, being make friends with many people, sharing our opinions with international friends, going the actual spot, and so on. Please reply to me if you are not unwilling. Thank you. I’m sorry for my broken English.

Posted by Yusuke Izawa on June 28, 2008 at 05:37 AM BST #

I'm a student of The University of Tokyo. Thank you very much for meeting with us. I and my friends, participated in this meeting, are impressed. So, we are determined to take action what we have to do, being make friends with many people, sharing our opinions with international friends, going the actual spot, and so on. Please reply to me if you are not unwilling. Thank you. I’m sorry for my broken English.

Posted by Yusuke Izawa on June 28, 2008 at 05:38 AM BST #

Hi, it was so glad to see you yesterday in mori art museum. I was one of the audience yesterday and I'm studing politics in Tokyo university. but I'm from S.Korea. Definitely, internet is mutual comunication not one-side. It can even give me chance to talk with you. So it is nice point of internet as what you said. But you know, now in korea People are demonstrating against goverment cuz of the result of FTA between America and Korea. and the first point was internet, they gathered people on the internet, and it's getting bigger and bigger now one million persons. At first it was peaceful demonstration but now it has become violently. even the goverment cannot control this situation. How do you think this situation and internets power?

Posted by won jin jeon on June 28, 2008 at 11:15 AM BST #

Hello, I'm the University of Tokyo. I was very glad to see you in Mori art museum. After the meeting, I decided to study abroad this summer in order to make friends and to share opinions with each other. Now, I'm studying about the foreign policy of the United States toward Palestine. I really want to know what you think about three things below. First of all, under the present circumstances, the Bush Administration are obviously supporting Palestine. What do you think about it? Secondly, after the presidential election of the U.S, how the foreign policy of the U.S toward Palestine do you think will change? Finally, what are you going to do to settle the Palestinian problems? Please reply to me to improve my study!!

Posted by Tsubasa 　Matsumura on July 04, 2008 at 02:34 PM BST #

Post a Comment:
  • HTML Syntax: NOT allowed