<h3>Generation Z values diversity and is highly interested in social issues.</h3>
Japan won a record number of medals at the Winter Olympics. Figure skaters Yuma Kagiyama, Masama Uno, and Kaori Sakamoto, snowboarders Ayumu Hirano and Sena Tomita in the halfpipe, and snowboarder Shin Kabata Murase in the big air. &#8230;&#8230; They are all Generation Z.
Generation Z is the so-called &#8220;digital native&#8221; generation, born between the late 1990s and 2015.
Of course, they must be nervous and feel pressure on the big stage, but watching their performances, they seem to be enjoying themselves and stretching out. They seemed to be enjoying themselves.
 They talk about their mistakes, such as getting injured. I think it&#8217;s great that she can express herself honestly.
Nobuo Komiya, a professor of criminology at Rissho University, said.
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I don&#8217;t think this applies to all of Generation Z,&#8221; he said, before going on.
 &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t apply to all of Generation Z,&#8221; he said before adding, &#8220;but one of the main characteristics of Generation Z is that they value diversity. We were the TV generation, and we had a limited number of channels, but the Internet has an infinite number of channels. With translation software, you can get as much foreign information as you want.
 If you don&#8217;t have a lot of information, your way of thinking will become uniform, thinking that you should do this or that, but if you have access to a lot of information, you can have diversity.
 If you are exposed to a lot of information, you can have a lot of diversity. You don&#8217;t have to be the same as other people, you are your own person, so you are not afraid to show yourself as you are, even if you have been injured or made a mistake.
(Nobuo Komiya, same as below) Because they value diversity, they are also interested in LGBT and SDGs.
 Because they value diversity, they are interested in LGBT and SDGs. That&#8217;s why they are also very interested in environmental issues and have a strong sense of justice.
One example of this is the incident in which a high school student was beaten up by a man who was smoking on the train.
 He is not indifferent to social issues. I teach criminology, and some of my seminar students have chosen LGBT and homelessness as the theme of their thesis.
<figure id="attachment_231188" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 4000px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-231188"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="d94a7c19"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2022/02/aflo_20569247.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-231188" class="wp-caption-text">I teach criminology, and some of my seminar students have written theses on LGBT and homelessness. The current exam tests your memory, like checking the capacity of the hard drive in your head. But nowadays, you can store the information and knowledge you need on an external hard disk outside of yourself,&#8221; said Professor Komiya (Photo: Afro)</figcaption></figure>
<h3> The &#8220;Showa Era Examination System&#8221; That Doesn&#8217;t Fit Generation Z Caused the Incident</h3>
People say they are interested in social issues, but the voter turnout in elections does not seem to be rising. What&#8217;s wrong with this?
 Perhaps they don&#8217;t have much hope in the current election system. Perhaps they feel uncomfortable going to the polling place and writing their name on a piece of paper in the age of the Internet, or perhaps they think that society can be changed without relying on the traditional political system of deciding politicians through elections and then &#8230;&#8230;. I think they may be thinking that society can be changed without relying on the traditional political system of electing politicians and then .
The increase in the number of young people starting their own businesses is one of the reasons for this trend.
They accept diversity, are interested in LGBT, SDGs, and environmental issues, and also live independently. Isn&#8217;t that wonderful, Generation Z!
However, the other day there was an incident in front of the Yayoi campus of the University of Tokyo where students were killed and injured, and there was also an incident of cheating using social networking sites. The perpetrators of these incidents were also Generation Z.
 I believe that the common background of these incidents is the fact that the examination system of the Showa era is not suitable for the Z generation.
 What is tested in today&#8217;s examinations is &#8216;memory. It&#8217;s like checking the capacity of the hard disk in your head.
 However, nowadays, you can store necessary information and knowledge on an external hard disk outside of yourself. Moreover, even if you don&#8217;t store it, you can always use the information in the cloud. So, there is no need to cram information into the &#8220;internal hard drive&#8221; in your head.
 What will be required from now on is the &#8220;search ability&#8221; to obtain information faster and more accurately, the &#8220;editing ability&#8221; to make it into a persuasive argument, and the &#8220;creative ability&#8221; to create value that has not yet been seen. With the current examination system, we cannot measure these potentials.
It used to be that the elite course was to get into a good school, join a good company, or become a bureaucrat, but that is no longer the case. If you want to be a doctor, you can consider a field of medicine that uses technology, such as diagnostic imaging or robotic surgery.
 It&#8217;s only a matter of time before contact lenses equipped with cameras that can communicate wirelessly become widely used for cheating using social networking sites. It is only a matter of time before contact lenses equipped with cameras that can communicate wirelessly become popular, and people will be able to take pictures with their glasses or communicate with microchips implanted in their bodies. It&#8217;s impossible to prevent all of that.
The Tokyo Institute of Technology has developed a system to identify the location of a cell phone that is turned on, but it will be difficult to prevent it completely.
 The Tokyo Institute of Technology has developed a system to identify the location of mobile phones that are turned on, but it will be difficult to prevent this completely. I think it is time to consider a new examination system suitable for the digital age.
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<h3> In an age where people who want to learn can learn when they want to learn, from people who want to learn&#8230;</h3>
What does Mr. Komiya think about the examination system?
 As with examinations, universities will need to change. Because with online classes, you can listen to professors from all over the world using translation software. It may become a retro form of class where everyone gathers at the same place at the same time and sits still for a long time, listening to a one-sided lecture.
 I think it would be better if people who want to learn could learn when they want to learn, and from people who want to learn.
 Then, we can create something like a salon at the university for when we want to meet friends or teachers in person. The university that can develop both the advantages of face-to-face classes and online classes, and successfully differentiate between them, will be the one that wins.
 Nowadays, people with rich personalities, from famous scholars to celebrities, give lectures on YouTube, making it possible to study everything from introductory courses to cutting-edge research in a fun and interesting way.
 In that sense, the attack on the Yayoi campus of the University of Tokyo may have been targeted at the examination system that is biased toward memory and the academic society that departs from it. In the future, I think we will see a shift to an examination system in which answers are given using smartphones and tablets.
<figure id="attachment_231191" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 1236px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-231191"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="493a6843"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2022/02/aflo_166264424.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-231191" class="wp-caption-text">Nowadays, you can listen to lectures by Bill Gates or Steve Jobs via TED or other media from anywhere in the world (Photo: Afro)</figcaption></figure>
Elon Musk, head of Tesla, a company that makes electric cars and storage batteries, and SpaceX, a company involved in space development, has a theory: &#8220;If you don&#8217;t have something you enjoy and are excited about, you won&#8217;t learn anything.
 Brain science says that what you enjoy will stick in your memory, but what you don&#8217;t enjoy will not. All a teacher has to do is teach that learning is fun. Then, they will study on their own.
When Generation Z becomes the center of society, I wonder if the social system we have today will change rapidly. I&#8217;m looking forward to it.
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Nobuo Komiya is a professor of criminology at Rissho University. Doctor of Sociology. He was the first Japanese to graduate from the Graduate School of Criminology, University of Cambridge. Worked in the Information Systems Department of Honda Motor, the United Nations Crime Prevention Training Institute for Asia and the Far East, and the Legal Research Institute of the Ministry of Justice before assuming his current position. He is a Type 2 Information Processing Engineer (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry). He is the inventor of the &#8220;Community Safety Map. He has served as the chairperson of the Research and Study Group on Safe and Secure Community Development of the National Police Agency and the chairperson of the Delinquency Prevention and Harm Prevention Education Committee of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.
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He has appeared on TV programs such as NHK&#8217;s &#8220;Close-Up Today&#8221; and Nippon Television&#8217;s &#8220;Sekaiichi uketai kyoshitsu,&#8221; and has been interviewed by newspapers and given numerous lectures throughout Japan. He has appeared on TV programs such as NHK&#8217;s &#8220;Close-up Gendai&#8221; and Nippon Television&#8217;s &#8220;Sekai ukeitai Kyoshitsu&#8221;, has been interviewed by newspapers, and has given many lectures throughout Japan.
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