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| ESUJ Debate
Competition for Adults, June , 2006 |
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The ESUJ Debate Competition for Adults took place on Saturday, June 10
at the Internatuinal
House in Roppongi. The rich variety of 13 teams of contestants included former university
debaters, colleagues participating for the first time, high school teachers, and
veterans. This was
the largest number of teams ever. Following the lively exchange of serious and humorous
argu-
ments of the preliminary debates, four teams advanced to the final rounds. The motion for
the
Semi-final was: This House would welcome more foreign workers. The motion for the Final
debate
was: This House opposes the 2016 Tokyo Olympics. The Opposition stressed the importance of
the
Olympics as a "Festival of Peace" while the Proposition side pressed the issue
of financing the
event and danger of terrorism and at the end of the debate, the Audience Judges gave 44 of
79
votes cast to the Freshers team of Mihoko Saito and Keiko Tsuji, who were decalred the
winners. |
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