森枝敏朗さん@熊本大学大学院紛争解決平和構築学研究室

【熊本大学交渉紛争解決学のスペシャル講師第5弾森枝敏朗さん Special guest teacher of conflict resolution class vol.5 】

We got a lecture from Mr.Toshiro Morieda at Kumamoto university tonight.He was former manager of health and welfare section of Kumamoto prefecture.
I met him at the meeting of the symposium of the children cafeteria held at Kumamoto Gakuen University last year .
When he was 34 years old, he has worked in Oguni Town as a town and village official of the prefectural government that Hosokawa Kumamoto Prefectural Governor started.
He considered social situation and the characteristics of the area with the Mayer of Oguni.He organized the town planning system in the town.And it seems that experience in Oguni Town could also be utilized in Minamata.
He introduced various episodes with Mr. Teruo Kawamoto was a chairman of Chisso Minamata disease federation.
He was known for a fighting activist, but he was a wonderful man with nice smile and a strong sense of justice.He seems to have said that Minamata disease should be a World Heritage.
Mr. Morieda showed us some charts which he made to grasp the multifaceted, wide and deep meaning of Minamata disease.It was made with politely chosen words and was structurally understandable.
His words “Praying and learning are united” impressed me.

今夜の特別講師は、元熊本県健康福祉部長の森枝敏郎さん。森枝さんとは、昨年熊本学園大学で開催された子ども食堂シンポジウムの実行委員会でご一緒したのが出会い。
34歳の時、細川知事による県庁職員の町村派遣第一号として小国町で働き、宮崎町長と一緒に社会情勢と地域特性を考えた町民プランニングシステムを導入。小国町での町づくりの経験は水俣でも活かされたらしい。

森枝さんは、チッソ水俣病患者連盟委員長の川本輝夫氏との様々なエピソードも話してくれた。闘士として知られる彼だったが、仁義に厚く正義感が強い笑顔のステキな人で、「水俣病を世界遺産に！」と語られていたらしい。森枝さんが水俣病の持つ多面的な広くて深い意味を把握するために作成した図解を見せてくれた。それは、丁寧に選ばれた言葉の集合であり、構造的に理解できるものだった。そして、「祈りと学びは表裏一体」の言葉が印象的だった。