2017.01.13
Kayo Jonai, a fourth-year student at the Faculty of Policy Management, has received the Award for Excellence in the "NRI Student Essay Contest 2016."
The NRI Student Essay Contest is an essay contest sponsored by the Nomura Research Institute that has been held since 2006.
This 11th contest was held under the theme "A New Challenge to Change the World," and she was awarded the Award for Excellence from a total of 3,103 entries by university students, international students, and high school students.
Comments from Kayo Jonai
I was very surprised to hear that I had won the Award for Excellence. This is the second time I have won an award, following the Grand Prize I received the year before last, and I am especially delighted.
In this essay, in response to the theme "A New Challenge to Change the World," I envisioned a dream of Japan leading the world as a developed country in welfare policy, as the aging population is a common social issue worldwide. Based on trends in other countries and the actual situation of disaster volunteers in Japan, I proposed a social service volunteer system. This system would introduce a point-based system using the My Number system, the latest social infrastructure, to realize a new form of welfare.
Since I have been involved in volunteering for a long time, I enjoyed writing this essay. At the award ceremony and presentation, I was happy that I could share my thoughts on volunteering and that the feasibility of my proposal was recognized.