英会話で使えるトピック集です。

1. Education （教育）

Pros and cons of single sex education Are school uniforms a good or a bad idea? The advantages and disadvantages of using computers in classrooms Moral education at school What are behind discipline and behavior problems in schools? The advantages and disadvantages of the five-day school week system Should English be taught to pre-school children? What would you do if you are a parent of a student who refuses to go to school? What can society do to eliminate bullying at school? Is college education worth spending a lot of tuition?

2. Juveniles （青少年）

Should juveniles who commit serious crimes be tried and punished as adults? What should we do with NEETs? Is the number of juvenile delinquency cases increasing or decreasing? How do comics with lots of violent scenes affect young people? Should personal information of young offenders be carefully controlled? Should condoms be available in high schools? Is the number of juvenile delinquency cases increasing or decreasing?

3. Medicine / Medical treatment / Health（医学・医療・健康）

Euthanasia: should the right to die be granted? Should marijuana be legalized for medicinal purposes? Is animal testing performed in medical labs humane? Is smoking really bad for your health? Is brain death really the death of a human being? Which stage of terminal condition is removal of organs allowed for transplant? Why medical errors or malpractices occur at hospitals? When would you decide to tell your loved one that he/she has incurable cancer?

4. Environment （環境）
Global warming is a figment of our imagination. Do you agree? Is there anything you regularly do to protect the environment? How serious do wastes from nuclear power stations affect the environment? Are green house gases really the culprit of global warming? Genetically modified plants

5. Science and technology（科学・技術）
Should human cloning be allowed? Pros and cons: nuclear power generation Pros and cons: gene manipulation Regenerative medicine How will robots change our society Is space exploration worth spending?

6. Crimes and penalties（犯罪と刑罰）
Should death penalty be repealed? Should families of crime victims be allowed to decide the punishment of those who commit crimes?

7. Mass media and journalism（メディアとジャーナリズム）
Paparazzi livelihood vs. Privacy of celebrities: which is important? Media censorship - a necessary change? Are we unconsciously manipulated or guided by advertisements

8. Laws and regulation（法律・規則）
Pros and cons of the No Child Left Behind act. Should the legal age allowing consumption of alcohol be raised? Should abortion be made legal?

9. Religions（宗教）
God: myth or reality? The Roman Catholic Church policy forbidding the use of contraception should be changed. Religions are useless and evil

10. Reproduction（生殖）
Should abortion be banned? Should surrogate motherhood be banned or regulated by law?

11. Society and social systems（社会と社会制度）
Is co-habitation the replacement for marriage? Should same-sex partners have the same rights as heterosexuals? How to cope with aging society Ideal pension system Problems with dating in cyber space

12. Household, women, families（家庭、女性、家族）
Why does domestic violence occur? What would encourage women to have more children? Change in lifestyle in the past 100 years Why does the birth rate continue to decline? Should Japanese wives be allowed to retain their maiden family name? How can we prevent child abuse?

13. Labor and work（労働）
Is the mandatory retirement system against our constitution? What is work sharing and why it is good? Advantages and Disadvantages of lifetime employment Is the mandatory retirement system against our constitution? working from home or electronic commuting Should Japan accept more immigrants from abroad?

14. Tax and economics （税金と経済）
Should we be allowed to monitor how the tax we paid was used? The inheritance tax should be abolished. Agree or disagree.

15. International relations （国際関係）

Can we abolish nuclear weapons? How to solve the abduction issue between Japan and North Korea? Should food mileage be decreased? What level would be appropriate for food self-sufficiency rate? The Japanese government should stop offering ODA to China How to cope with famine in, for example, Asia and Africa Why is Japan not accepted as a permanent member of the Security Council? Is China a threat to Asian nations?

16. Natural disasters （災害）
What preparations do you have at hand for possible future earthquakes? Which one of the listed natural disasters are you most scared of: typhoons, tornados, earthquakes, floods, mountain fires, tsunamis

17. Politics（政治）
Describe an ideal political leader. Bicameral legislature vs. Unicameral legislature What is bid rigging and why is it wrong?

18. Sports（スポーツ）
Should women be accepted as sumo wrestlers? Match-fixing is not always bad. Do you agree? Boxing should be banned. Do you agree?

19. Arts, literature, history （芸術、文学、歴史）
Who is your most favorite singer? Who do you respect most among the world's politicians in history? Your favorite novel

20. Miscellaneous（その他）
How are humors good to our health and human relations pets - What should we do to take care of abandoned or aged pets? movies - What type of movies do you like? Funny movies vs. Scary movies What is the impact of automation on Japanese culture? Should zoos be abolished because they are against animal rights?