{"id":27386,"date":"2015-05-25T11:54:38","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T02:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/?p=27386"},"modified":"2015-05-28T10:21:51","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T01:21:51","slug":"learning-from-top-athletes-masumi-kuwata-mami-sato-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/news\/27386","title":{"rendered":"Learning from professionals at the frontline of sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27585\" alt=\"s1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2015\/05\/s1.jpg\" width=\"199\" height=\"280\" \/><br \/>\nMakoto Honda<br \/>\n2<sup>nd<\/sup> year student at the School of Political Science and Economics<\/p>\n<p>The School of Sport Sciences has a well-known, twelve year old course about the sports industry. The course is so well received that its contents are published yearly. A distinct feature of the course is its guest speakers from various organizations in the sports industry including Japanese League soccer team managers, a MLB athletes, Paralympians, and announcers. \u00a0Students learn directly from these proven, top-level professionals and participate in lengthy, lively Q&amp;A sessions.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_27583\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-27583 \" alt=\"s2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2015\/05\/s2.jpg\" width=\"263\" height=\"210\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">With baseball player Masumi Kuwata<\/p><\/div>\n<p>An especially memorable experience was meeting former Japanese baseball player Masumi Kuwata. I was deeply moved by his words and a<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">m<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0grateful for the opportunity I had to meet such a professional. \u00a0I was also moved by Paralympian Mami Sato. Seeing her move like a &#8220;normal&#8221; athlete dramatically changed my perception of disabled sports. There were lively discussions regarding topics such as Javier Aguirre Onaindia&#8217;s dismissal as the manager of Japan&#8217;s national soccer team and the 2020 Olympics &amp; Paralympics. Classes resembled a scene from Michael Sandel&#8217;s online &#8220;Justice&#8221; cource.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Students lead the course and often give presentations. Therefore, the greater the students&#8217; enthusiasm for learning, the greater their results. The course introduces students to new worlds using sports as a gateway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Makoto Honda 2nd year student at the School of Political Science and Economics The School of Sport Sciences ha [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":27392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,117],"tags":[168,174],"class_list":["post-27386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-topic","tag-education-en","tag-sports-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27605,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27386\/revisions\/27605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}