On Tuesday in Roppongi, Tokyo, Glocom (Global Communication Center, International Univ. of Japan) held a workshop focusing on how we can take advantage of Twitter for improving our politics.

Invited panelists are:

• Fumi Yamazaki(@Fumi), freelance researcher and former project manager for Joi Lab, Digital Garage.


• Daisuke Tsuda(@tsuda), freelance IT journalist and recently reporting on Twitter about undergoing developments about an event when attending it, and Japanese twitterers call that behavior “Tsuda-ru” (an Internet slang) after his name.    Now it is a boom among people who use Twitter and frequently attend social events around the corners in Tokyo.


• Gaku Hashimoto[J](@ga9_h), known as one of two diet members who have their own Twitter accounts and often post Twitter messages about their perspectives and undergoing developments in the parliament house.   A son of former Japanese prime minister Ryutaro Hashimoto[J](deceased).

Mr. Tsuda’s presentation was being reported by an audience on Twitter, in other words, was “Tsuda-rareru” (the passive voice of “Ts