Yesterday, on March 11th, we have soft-launched a platform called Samuraidea. Starting this project on this date was really important for us because it is exactly two years since the great earthquake and tsunami of Japan, and it is our approach on how to find collaborative solutions to small and huge problems around the world. Since the great disaster, we’ve been thinking of a way on how people around the ...

I am here writing to you today from the navel o South America. A country called Paraguay, in one of the oldest japanese emigration colonies called La Colmena. I am here because of two reasons: 1. I have become a father again with a new baby boy called Ryugi Andres Uchimura, who was born on the day that I arrived to Paraguay, where my nikkei paraguayan wife is from. 2.

Dear IS Volunteers! we are very happy and eager to tell you that, the fishermen of Fukkiurahama in Ishinomaki have invited us to a Kaki (Oyster) Party planned for us on June 2nd!!! They want to express their gratitude for your help in the first steps of reconstructing their Bay and want to keep their promise of making us eat all the oyster that we can, celebrating the fact ...

  Dear friends, We are happy to announce to you a new project that we’ve been planning for quite some time. Its’s called Hana.bi |Japan + YOU Hana.bi is a web space where people from around the world share, collaborate, and innovate projects that impact the world. Follow there young visionaries in their life challenges, and even become part of the team in this croudsourced idea and project creation. What is ...

Dear International Students, We have new mission (Batch 26 and 27) dates for March to go to Ishinomaki and Kesennuma and Tohno. Please read the text below carefully before applying. Project by: Gakuvo part of the ROAD Project of the Nippon Foundation International Student support: Nikkei Youth Network Mission 26 & 27 What you will do: Cleaning houses and prefabricated homes, removing dirt, helping out in local events, etc. Batch 26: March 9th ...

 Dear International Students, We have new mission (Batch 24 and 25) dates for February to go to Ishinomaki and Kesennuma and Tohno. Please read the text below carefully before applying. Project by: Gakuvo part of the ROAD Project of the Nippon Foundation International Student support: Nikkei Youth Network ear NYN Friends, We are announcing the final volunteer mission of this year. (We will have many more next year). The Tohoku area is getting really cold and windy so ...

  Dear NYN Friends, We are announcing the final volunteer mission of this year. (We will have many more next year). The Tohoku area is getting really cold and windy so please be well prepared for these cold weather situations if you decide to go. Project by: Gakuvo part of the ROAD Project of the Nippon Foundation International Student support: Nikkei Youth Network Mission 22 Date: December ...

明治大学商学部グローバルビジネスコース、ラテンアメリカ地域市場論で「ラテンアメリカと日本、日係人と今後の可能性」をテーマに講義を行いました。 ８月にパンアメリカン日系会議（Convencion Panamericana Nikkei)の参加にあたって、明治大学の中林先生と通して６名の学生と知り合いました。メキシコ、カンクンで行われたこのCOPANIという会議ではNYNの目的やアイディアに賛同していただき彼らのお陰で、今回は明治大学で講義をすることになりました。

  On October 29th, we had our second NYN Summit Japan, an event that was started to make a space in the world to present and explore new ideas of young, multicultural and innovative people who have a strong connection to Japan or Japanese culture. This year, we focused on 3 things 1. Give our annual report on the activities and achievements of NYN during 2010-11 2.

  Today we met with Jay Horinouchi, a Nikkei artist from Los Angeles who came to Japan to inspire himself more in Japan for his art, but encountered the 3.11 earthquake like all of us here in Tokyo. Since then, he started going frequently as a Disaster Relief Volunteer to different parts of Northeastern Japan with the GAKUVO project which we are supporting. For more info on volunteer ...