My Graduation Ceremony

Whatever I write today will not be enough to convey my real emotions. I apologize in advance anyone who I forget to mention.

Mentoring Japanese High Schoolers

Whenever I visit high schools in Japan, Japanese kids don’t stop to impress me. Their quality is just too high considering their age. My experiences with them always contribute to my vision of the kind of education I want Somali kids to have and the way I want them to learn.

A Day at the Industrial Innovation City of Japan-Kitakyushu

 

If you really want to see how a country can start from NOTHING and go on to become a leader in a certain industry - in this case, the steel industry, please pay a visit to Japan, esp. Kitakyushu city, a city that hosts Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation Yawata Works. Japan was 100 years behind the European countries in industrialization, but within 15 years, the country was on bar with the West. What makes this success an astonishing feat is that Japan didn't have the resources required to feed the steel industry. For Japan, the know-how, not natural resources, was/is a secret to compete.

What You Need to Know to Buy a Car from Japan: Information for African Consumers

Because of the current economic situation in Africa, majority of African consumers prefer to buy used cars; and if it is from Japan, they don’t take more time to check its quality because they associate Japan with quality. But Africa is price sensitive. VERY SENSITIVE. You can ask Chinese companies.

But there is no direct connection between African consumers and Japanese car dealers; rather there are country representatives that connect them (and maybe increase the prices). The reason is that African consumers don’t know where and who to contact: the know-how is missing here. Therefore, this piece will help African consumers with that information; hence, save money for them. We’ll use Somalia as an example to explain the supply chain process in lay terms.

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Fukuzawa Yukichi: The Great Japanese Intellectual

We're attending a 5-days workshop co-organized by National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for JICA long-term and JDS participants. The aim is to give the participants an opportunity to deeply understand the Japanese development experience, and then to draw lessons and insights that will help them in the development of their respective countries. In my case, the possibility of contributing to the development of Somalia by understanding the experience of how Japan has developed.

May the Peace Circle in Nagasaki Grow And Spread to the World

This post is part of series posts related to my experiences as an ABE Initiative Scholar in Japan. If you want to read related posts, please CLICK HERE.

Nagasaki Peace Tour

I think I don't need to talk about WWII, especially the story of the nuclear bomb in 1945 because it is a tragedy that is also written and included in our curriculum. Japan is the first and only country to have experienced nuclear bomb attacks, and Hiroshima (the 1st target) and Nagasaki (the 2nd target) are the victims of the attack.

My Experience in Japan As An ABE Initiative Scholar

This post is part of series posts related to my experiences as an ABE Initiative Scholar in Japan. If you want to read related posts, please CLICK HERE.

I share here my first teaching assistant (TA) work in Japan.

First Two Weeks in Japan: ABE Initiative Orientation

I arrived in Japan on August 26, 2016, as a participant of the African Business Education Initiative for Youth (ABE Initiative). ABE Initiative offers opportunities for young and eligible African men and women to study at Master's courses in Japanese universities as international students and to experience internships at Japanese enterprises in order to develop effective skills and knowledge in various fields for contributing the development of industries in Africa. At the 5th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD V), it is recognized that there is a need for human resource development in both private and public sectors of Africa in order to cultivate a strong human network between Japan and Africa.