We recently announced that NHK TV broadcast a special program, “For the reconstruction of my homeland: the hopes of a Haitian foreign student,” about
Gerard Jimmy Paraison, a foreign 1st year Ph.D. student from the Republic of Haiti studying radio communication at our university. This program is now available for viewing on NHK’s website for a limited time, so please check it out if you missed the broadcast on BS1’s “World Wave Tonight.”
The program can be accessed at the following link:
http://www.nhk.or.jp/worldwave/newscafe/index.html
The staff of NHK press bureau’s international division learned of Paraison, who was in Sendai during the Great East Japan Earthquake, when he was invited to a lunch with the President of the Republic of Haiti while they were covering the President’s visit to Japan. They recorded the program on Paraison on December 6th and 7th in Tokyo and Sendai.
The program covers the continued disaster conditions from the earthquake in Haiti, where the domestic infrastructure has hardly recovered, and the difficulties faced in reconstruction, as well as Paraison’s research under Professor Eisuke Kudoh of our Graduate Department of Information and Communication Engineering on networks useful in disaster situations.