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7. Interview with LecturerHiromasa Oyadomari, senior teacher at Tokyo Metropolitan Chihaya High School? On the Front Lines of IP Education ?ENISHI: I am most pleased to have the opportunity to interview you today. First, would you introduceyour school and yourself?Oyadomari: Tokyo Metropolitan Chihaya High School opened in 2002.The first principal was Yoshitaka Sato, a former Sony executive. I first encounteredhim while I was attending a course at the Rikkyo UniversityGraduate School of Social Design Studies as an official at the predecessorof the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology(MEXT). Mr. Sato had been selected to become the principal of a newcommercial high school to be established by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government(TMG), and he talked about his ideas for the project. I was intriguedby his ideas and offered to him a number of suggestions on newteaching methods and ideas based on my experience at MEXT. I becamekeen on the project of establishing new high schools, and I took an examfor TMG-controlled school teachers upon completing the graduate school Mr. Hiromasa Oyadomaricourse. I passed the exam, resigned from my national government post,and became a teacher at Tokyo Metropolitan Shiba Commercial High School, the first school I was assignedto. I taught there for four years, according to requirements for new teachers, before being transferred to thisschool.ENISHI: Will you outline the founding objectives of your school?Oyadomari: Chihaya High School was promoted and founded by TMG. The core idea behind the foundingwas to launch a Business Communication Department, a completely new concept for high school educationin Japan. The principal believed that it was essential to offer students the opportunity to have aunique experience that was available only at his school, in addition to special curricula including IP and Englishsubjects; and to create an environment that would encourage them to learn and find out about thingsfor themselves.ENISHI: New students coming from junior high schools must be daunted by being exposed to somethingso unfamiliar to them, at least initially. But your teachers lead the way in developing effective programs.Oyadomari: This year, as a first-year homeroom teacher, I have already organized a number of visits fornewly enrolled students to different companies, including JAL. The aim is to arouse their interest and curiositythrough experience.ENISHI: You're putting an emphasis on real-world experience, not only classroom learning.IP Friends Connections August 2018 No.19ENISHI37