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 that they are getting better, and the Oyster business in Ishinomaki will revive!

We will meet in Sendai Station at 10am sharp to go all together to by bus to their Bay.

To go to this event: PRESS JOIN ON OUR FACEBOOK EVENT HERE

Although it’s a one day event, you can stay for one more night in the Bay for free! and depart the next day to tour around beautiful Sendai as well. If you would like to stay one more day, please state so in the comments below.

PERFORMANCES FOR THE FISHERMEN! WANTED!

We will have a sound system there, and this is a fun party, and we think it would be interesting if we prepare individual or group performances for the fishermen. Please prepare something to entertiain the fishermen’s families.

FEES:

The party is free but you need to take care of your own travel expenses to the place (about 10,000 yen by Shinkansen from Tokyo to Sendai Station)
And if you would like to support the fishermen, please buy a Fukkiurahama T-shirt when we get there.
We have a space for up to 30people so if you are able to go, press the JOIN button as soon as possible before it gets full! 
Please be sure that you can go in order to prevent SUDDEN CANCELLATIONS.

To go to this event: PRESS JOIN ON OUR FACEBOOK EVENT HERE

Dear International Students,

We have a new mission to go to Ishinomaki 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 29

• What you will do: Cleaning houses and prefabricated homes, removing dirt, helping out in local events, etc.
• Wht’s different from other missions? 
• You need to pay a 1000yen registration fee
• You need to turn in a 400 word mission report once you come back. 

Orientation time:

Batch29: April 20th – 11am to April 23rd
(volunteers who don’t make it by 11am will not be able to go)

You cannot choose which destination you will go to. It will be assigned by Gakuvo and local volunteer centers according to the local needs. 

■Volunteer Schedule Sample

■ Applicability

You must meet the conditions below to be part of this project

• Be physically and mentally healthy to do hard physical work
• Be ate least 20 years old
• Be able to think on the affected people’s viewpoint and act accordingly
• Have a strong consciousness of being a disaster relief volunteer
• Be able to obey the rules of the lodging and the mission
• Be able to bring all the things written below
• Be able to withstand NOT showering for a day or two needed
• Be able to come to the Nippon Foundation Bldg. at 11am on the departure date

■ Things to Bring

・Sleeping bag

・Food for 3 days
(example: instant noodles, snacks, instant curry, coffee cans, etc.)

We recommend the following things to bring as food

Yamazaki Bread Company is donating for mornings and evenings.

1. Cup noodles x 5

2. Calorie Mate x 4

3. Chocolate bar x 4

4. Energy Drink x 4 cans

5. Salty snacks (your body will be needing salt) Ex. Umeboshi

6. Instant coffee and sugar sticks

※There is hot water, but it takes time to boil

※There is tap water but no bottled beverages.

・Sleeping bag

・1 roll of toilet paper（for the toilet and also for runny nose）

・Masks (preferably the three-dimensional type)

・Long waterproof boots (Gakuvo will not lend you boots anymore so be sure to bring them!) 

・Rubber and cotton gloves

・Waist porch

・Plastic raincoat

・Working clothes (ex: windbreaker)

・Long sleeve shirts (to prevent scratches, sunburns, bacteria)

・Lantern

・Goggles or sunglasses （if possible）

・Hat or bandana

・Copy of your insurance (hokensho)

・Your Gaikokujin Toroku Card

・Clothing for 3 days (it is cold so try to bring many shirts and underwear.

・Hokkairo (hot bags sold in convenience stores)

・basic medicine kit (cough drops, medicine for your stomach, aspirin, etc.)

・1400yen volunteer insurance fee

・1000yen for application costs (new)

・Helmets will be provided

■ Advice from a volunteer:

1. If you take photographs, do not do it as you would normally do, making the peace sign, or smiling too much. This is a disaster area and not a tourist place. Also, your main work is to help clean up the place, so only take photos on break times and not during work.

2. Try to exercise on these few days before going, it is hard work and you could have muscle pains if your body is not used to it. A support belt for your waist is very helpful and could impede you from straining your back.

3. These are all advices for things that you can take, but the most important preparation that you can have is a mental and emotional one. Seeing all the disaster will make you feel impotent at the mass destruction that has happened, but remember that you are part of a big movement of people who will keep on restoring Japan. I am still hurt and moved by all that I saw on the week that I was in Ishinomaki and sometimes have nightmares about it, but it was an experience that made me think more about life and humanity, nature and science, life and death. I hope that you as volunteers support the people of the Tohoku region and at the same time learn from what you see and think deeply about it.

■ How to Apply:

• 【Click HERE】to fill out the form

◆Reports of previous IS Volunteer missions!

• Jay Horinouchi: Road Project: Mission #4 (May 3rd-7th)
• Lydia Humenycky: Rolling up Sleeves, the Japanese way (May3rd-7th)
• David Labi Anchor by Anchor (May3rd-7th)
• Christian Zevallos Voluntarios que levantan escombros y el animo (May3rd-7th)
• Nicolas Ballesteros SER en la zona devastada por el tsunami en Japon (May3rd-7th)
• Mark Flanigan It’s the end of the world as we know it…and I feel fine? (May3rd-7th)
• Mark Flanigan Mark’s Volunteer Report on AERA English (May 3rd – 7th)
• Raul Paucar A Peruvian and his expericence in Ishinomaki (July 8th – July 11th)

Follow the newest information on the IS Volunteer fanpage!
http://facebook.com/isvolunteers

CONTACT

Gakuvo (Japanese)

TEL：03-6206-1529（火～土 10:00-18：00）

gakuvo.info【a】gmail.com

Nikkei Youth Network Contact (English)

NYN staff is out of the country so please contact us by email and we will respond ASAP.

info【a】nikkeiyouth.com

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 Hanabi?

Hanabi is “fireworks” in Japanese. It is a chemical reaction of gunpowder, metals, and fire that illuminates the sky and sparks happiness to people who see it. On this website, we call the people, projects and ideas hanabi.

This is a collective explosion of young leaders, activists, artists, atheltes, and entrepreneurs, that have strong bonds with Japan and who ignite their surroundings with their HANABI, their ideas that come from a fusion of japanese values and culture, and their own culture which they grew up with. They find new answers to problems, using their various cultural and out-of-the-box lenses.

It is also a platform to co-support the most interesting ideas to become impacting projects.

Please visit our new project’s website and facebook fanpage!

Hana.bi | Japan + You

http://hana.bi

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 9^th – 12^th (Ishinomaki, Tohno or Kesennuma)
• Batch 27: March 15^th – 19^th (Ishinomaki, Tohno or Kesennuma)

Orientation time:

Batch26: March 9th – 11am
Batch27: March 15th – 11am
(volunteers who don’t make it by 11am will not be able to go)

Although we cannot guarantee that you can go to the location that you want, choose where you would like to go on the registration form.

■Volunteer Schedule Sample

■ Applicability

You must meet the conditions below to be part of this project

• Be physically and mentally healthy to do hard physical work
• Be ate least 20 years old
• Be able to think on the affected people’s viewpoint and act accordingly
• Have a strong consciousness of being a disaster relief volunteer
• Be able to obey the rules of the lodging and the mission
• Be able to bring all the things written below
• Be able to withstand NOT showering for a day or two needed
• Be able to come to the Nippon Foundation Bldg. at 11am on the departure date

■ Things to Bring

・Sleeping bag

・Food for 3 days
(example: instant noodles, snacks, instant curry, coffee cans, etc.)

We recommend the following things to bring as food

Yamazaki Bread Company is donating for mornings and evenings.

1. Cup noodles x 5

2. Calorie Mate x 4

3. Chocolate bar x 4

4. Energy Drink x 4 cans

5. Salty snacks (your body will be needing salt) Ex. Umeboshi

6. Instant coffee and sugar sticks

※There is hot water, but it takes time to boil

※There is tap water but no bottled beverages.

・Sleeping bag

・1 roll of toilet paper（for the toilet and also for runny nose）

・Masks (preferably the three-dimensional type)

・Long waterproof boots

・Rubber and cotton gloves

・Waist porch

・Plastic raincoat

・Working clothes (ex: windbreaker)

・Long sleeve shirts (to prevent scratches, sunburns, bacteria)

・Lantern

・Goggles or sunglasses （if possible）

・Hat or bandana

・Copy of your insurance (hokensho)

・Your Gaikokujin Toroku Card

・Clothing for 3 days (it is cold so try to bring many shirts and underwear.

・Hokkairo (hot bags sold in convenience stores)

・basic medicine kit (cough drops, medicine for your stomach, aspirin, etc.)

・1400yen volunteer insurance fee

・Helmets will be provided

■ Advice from a volunteer:

1. If you take photographs, do not do it as you would normally do, making the peace sign, or smiling too much. This is a disaster area and not a tourist place. Also, your main work is to help clean up the place, so only take photos on break times and not during work.

2. Try to exercise on these few days before going, it is hard work and you could have muscle pains if your body is not used to it. A support belt for your waist is very helpful and could impede you from straining your back.

3. These are all advices for things that you can take, but the most important preparation that you can have is a mental and emotional one. Seeing all the disaster will make you feel impotent at the mass destruction that has happened, but remember that you are part of a big movement of people who will keep on restoring Japan. I am still hurt and moved by all that I saw on the week that I was in Ishinomaki and sometimes have nightmares about it, but it was an experience that made me think more about life and humanity, nature and science, life and death. I hope that you as volunteers support the people of the Tohoku region and at the same time learn from what you see and think deeply about it.

■ How to Apply:

• 【Click HERE】to fill out the form

◆Reports of previous IS Volunteer missions!

• Jay Horinouchi: Road Project: Mission #4 (May 3rd-7th)
• Lydia Humenycky: Rolling up Sleeves, the Japanese way (May3rd-7th)
• David Labi Anchor by Anchor (May3rd-7th)
• Christian Zevallos Voluntarios que levantan escombros y el animo (May3rd-7th)
• Nicolas Ballesteros SER en la zona devastada por el tsunami en Japon (May3rd-7th)
• Mark Flanigan It’s the end of the world as we know it…and I feel fine? (May3rd-7th)
• Mark Flanigan Mark’s Volunteer Report on AERA English (May 3rd – 7th)
• Raul Paucar A Peruvian and his expericence in Ishinomaki (July 8th – July 11th)

Follow the newest information on the IS Volunteer fanpage!
http://facebook.com/isvolunteers

CONTACT

Gakuvo (Japanese)

TEL：03-6206-1529（火～土 10:00-18：00）

gakuvo.info【a】gmail.com

Nikkei Youth Network Contact (English)

TEL:03-6427-6988 (10:00~18:00)

info【a】nikkeiyouth.com

 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 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 24 & 25

• What you will do: Cleaning houses, removing dirt, helping out in local events, etc.
• Batch 24: February 10^th – 14^th  (Ishinomaki or Tohno)
• Batch 25: February 24^th – 28^rd (Kesennuma or Tohno)

Orientation time:

Batch24: Feb. 10th – 11am
Batch25 Feb. 24th – 11am
(volunteers who don’t make it by 11am will not be able to go)

Although we cannot guarantee that you can go to the location that you want, choose where you would like to go on the registration form.

■Volunteer Schedule Sample

■ Applicability

You must meet the conditions below to be part of this project

• Be physically and mentally healthy to do hard physical work
• Be ate least 20 years old
• Be able to think on the affected people’s viewpoint and act accordingly
• Have a strong consciousness of being a disaster relief volunteer
• Be able to obey the rules of the lodging and the mission
• Be able to bring all the things written below
• Be able to withstand NOT showering for a day or two needed
• Be able to come to the Nippon Foundation Bldg. at 11am on the departure date

■ Things to Bring

・Sleeping bag

・Food for 3 days
(example: instant noodles, snacks, instant curry, coffee cans, etc.)

We recommend the following things to bring as food

Yamazaki Bread Company is donating for mornings and evenings.

1. Cup noodles x 5

2. Calorie Mate x 4

3. Chocolate bar x 4

4. Energy Drink x 4 cans

5. Salty snacks (your body will be needing salt) Ex. Umeboshi

6. Instant coffee and sugar sticks

※There is hot water, but it takes time to boil

※There is tap water but no bottled beverages.

・Sleeping bag

・1 roll of toilet paper（for the toilet and also for runny nose）

・Masks (preferably the three-dimensional type)

・Long waterproof boots

・Rubber and cotton gloves

・Waist porch

・Plastic raincoat

・Working clothes (ex: windbreaker)

・Long sleeve shirts (to prevent scratches, sunburns, bacteria)

・Lantern

・Goggles or sunglasses （if possible）

・Hat or bandana

・Copy of your insurance (hokensho)

・Your Gaikokujin Toroku Card

・Clothing for 3 days (it is cold so try to bring many shirts and underwear.

・Hokkairo (hot bags sold in convenience stores)

・basic medicine kit (cough drops, medicine for your stomach, aspirin, etc.)

・1400yen volunteer insurance fee

・Helmets will be provided

■ Advice from a volunteer:

1. If you take photographs, do not do it as you would normally do, making the peace sign, or smiling too much. This is a disaster area and not a tourist place. Also, your main work is to help clean up the place, so only take photos on break times and not during work.

2. Try to exercise on these few days before going, it is hard work and you could have muscle pains if your body is not used to it. A support belt for your waist is very helpful and could impede you from straining your back.

3. These are all advices for things that you can take, but the most important preparation that you can have is a mental and emotional one. Seeing all the disaster will make you feel impotent at the mass destruction that has happened, but remember that you are part of a big movement of people who will keep on restoring Japan. I am still hurt and moved by all that I saw on the week that I was in Ishinomaki and sometimes have nightmares about it, but it was an experience that made me think more about life and humanity, nature and science, life and death. I hope that you as volunteers support the people of the Tohoku region and at the same time learn from what you see and think deeply about it.

■ How to Apply:

• 【Click HERE】to fill out the form

◆Reports of  previous IS Volunteer missions!

• Jay Horinouchi: Road Project: Mission #4 (May 3rd-7th)
• Lydia Humenycky: Rolling up Sleeves, the Japanese way (May3rd-7th)
• David Labi Anchor by Anchor (May3rd-7th)
• Christian Zevallos Voluntarios que levantan escombros y el animo (May3rd-7th)
• Nicolas Ballesteros SER en la zona devastada por el tsunami en Japon (May3rd-7th)
• Mark Flanigan It’s the end of the world as we know it…and I feel fine? (May3rd-7th)
• Mark Flanigan Mark’s Volunteer Report on AERA English (May 3rd – 7th)
• Raul Paucar A Peruvian and his expericence in Ishinomaki (July 8th – July 11th)

Follow the newest information on the IS Volunteer fanpage!
http://facebook.com/isvolunteers

CONTACT

Gakuvo (Japanese)

TEL：03-6206-1529（火～土 10:00-18：00）

gakuvo.info【a】gmail.com

Nikkei Youth Network Contact (English)

TEL:03-6427-6988 (10:00~18:00)

info【a】nikkeiyouth.com

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 22(thur) to 26(mon)

Orientation time: December 22, 11am (volunteers who don’t make it by 11am will not be able to go)

Destinations: Ishinomaki or Kesennuma
Although we cannot guarantee that you can go to the location that you want, choose where you would like to go on the registration form.

■Volunteer Schedule

■ Applicability

You must meet the conditions below to be part of this project

• Be phisically and mentally healthy to do hard phisical work

• Be ate leat 20 years old

• Be able to think on the affected people’s viewpoint and act accordingly

• Have a strong consciousness of being a disaster relief volunteer

• Be able to obey the rules of the lodging and the mission

• Be able to bring all the things written below

• Be able to withstand NOT showering for a day or two needed

• Be able to come to the Nippon Foundation Bldg at 11am in the departure date

■ Things to Bring

・Sleeping bag

・Food for 3 days
(example: instant noodles, snacks, instant curry, coffee cans, etc.)

We recommend the following things to bring as food

Yamazaki Bread Company is donating for mornings and evenings.

1. Cup noodles x 5

2. Calorie Mate x 4

3. Chocolate bar x 4

4. Energy Drink x 4 cans

5. Salty snacks (your body will be needing salt) Ex. Umeboshi

6. Instant coffee and sugar sticks

※There is hot water, but it takes time to boil

※There is tap water but no bottled beverages.

・Sleeping bag

・1 roll of toilet paper（for the toilet and also for runny nose）

・Masks (preferably the three-dimensional type)

・Long waterproof boots

・Rubber and cotton gloves

・Waist porch

・Plastic raincoat

・Working clothes (ex: windbreaker)

・Long sleeve shirts (to prevent scratches, sunburns, bacteria)

・Lantern

・Goggles or sunglasses （if possible）

・Hat or bandana

・Copy of your insurance (hokensho)

・Your Gaikokujin Toroku Card

・Clothing for 3 days (it is cold so try to bring many shirts and underwear.

・Hokkairo (hot bags sold in convenience stores)

・basic medicine kit (cough drops, medicine for your stomach, aspirin, etc.)

・1400yen volunteer insurance fee

・Helmets will be provided

■ Advice from a volunteer:

1. If you take photographs, do not do it as you would normally do, making the peace sign, or smiling too much. This is a disaster area and not a tourist place. Also, your main work is to help clean up the place, so only take photos on break times and not during work.

2. Try to exercise on these few days before going, it is hard work and you could have muscle pains if your body is not used to it. A support belt for your waist is very helpful and could impede you from straining your back.

3. These are all advices for things that you can take, but the most important preparation that you can have is a mental and emotional one. Seeing all the disaster will make you feel impotent at the mass destruction that has happened, but remember that you are part of a big movement of people who will keep on restoring Japan. I am still hurt and moved by all that I saw on the week that I was in Ishinomaki and sometimes have nightmares about it, but it was an experience that made me think more about life and humanity, nature and science, life and death. I hope that you as volunteers support the people of the Tohoku region and at the same time learn from what you see and think deeply about it.

■ How to Apply:

• 【Click here】to fill out the form

◆Reports of  previous IS Volunteer missions!

• Jay Horinouchi: Road Project: Mission #4 (May 3rd-7th)
• Lydia Humenycky: Rolling up Sleeves, the Japanese way (May3rd-7th)
• David Labi Anchor by Anchor (May3rd-7th)
• Christian Zevallos Voluntarios que levantan escombros y el animo (May3rd-7th)
• Nicolas Ballesteros SER en la zona devastada por el tsunami en Japon (May3rd-7th)
• Mark Flanigan It’s the end of the world as we know it…and I feel fine? (May3rd-7th)
• Mark Flanigan Mark’s Volunteer Report on AERA English (May 3rd – 7th)
• Raul Paucar A Peruvian and his expericence in Ishinomaki (July 8th – July 11th)

Follow the newest information on the IS Volunteer fanpage!
http://facebook.com/isvolunteers

CONTACT

Gakuvo (Japanese)

TEL：03-6206-1529（火～土 10:00-18：00）

gakuvo.info【a】gmail.com

Nikkei Youth Network Contact (English)

TEL:03-6427-6988 (10:00~18:00)

info【a】nikkeiyouth.com

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。

左がCOPANIこ会議にて、右は東京に戻った後の懇親会にて。

講義の中のスライド。「日系」から「日係」へ、血筋の関係だけでなく本当に
日本との繋がりの強い方々のことも加えなければならない。

そして、このラテンアメリカ市場論の講師でもある所康弘先生とも知りあうことが出来ました。メキシコ国立自治大学で客員研究員という経験も積まれ、『チャベス革命入門』など非常に興味深い本を出版されているラテンな心を持つ先生だと感じました。所先生は生徒に本当の、生身のラテンアメリカを見せたい気持ちが強い。彼自身が見てきた、感じてきたことを生徒たちにぶつけている気がした。そんな先生の授業で今後の日本の国際化のキーを握る日系人、日系社会、日係人について話せ事、私達の夢を共有できたことをありがたく思っています。Muchisimas Gracias.

今後の日本の経済を担う、いや、リードするであろう学生たちに、羽ばたく前にお話できたのがとても嬉しいです。

今後の日本の本当の意味での国際化には【日係】がキーワードとなります。

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. Presenting our plans for 2012: The Hana.bi Project

Hana.bi will be the main project of NYN from next year, where we will create a virtual space for Nikkei voices around the world, video interview, and featured articles to share and communicate multicultural solutions to world problems.

In short: Japan+Me = Wow ideas

3. Jay Horinouchi, a student volunteer leader in Tohoku, presenting the volunteer activities, and the new J Project which will be launched next year to transform the “Support to Tohoku” into “Business and livelihood development to Tohoku”.

and also an extra activity

Jay coordinated a hand-on workshop to make a Tairyobata (大漁旗）which is literally a good luck charm flag which are made for the fishermen to have a good catch. These flags have become symbolic to the fishermen in Tohoku portraying their strength to defy odds and work together to reconstruct their communities. That is why we chose to make a flag together to give as a present to the fihermen’s families who are providing their house for the volunteers when they go to Kesennuma.

Thank you, arigato, and gambattso!

We would really like to thank all the attendees who came to the Summit or attended online through our Ustream channel. It was very motivational for us too to have seen many of the volunteers who we met in Ishinomaki and Kesennuma, to be present as well, and to have taken the Tairyobata the next few days to the Kesennuma.

more pictures on our facebook photo gallery!(click here)

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 activities, CLICK HERE

On every mission that he went, he felt more strongly that this is was a long fight for Tohoku and that he had the need to keep on helping out.

After a few months, now he has become a coordinator for GAKUVO, coordinating teams of 20 or more Japanese and international volunteers in Kesennuma.

As an artist, he is in search of ways on how to support his now friends and family in Kesennuma, through art as well. That is why we have invited him as one of the speakers of the next NYN Summit Japan 2011 at the ends of this month, to tell us about his experience, search for more international volunteers, and to have a workshop related to the disaster relief projects.

We met today, so I could finally receive a painting that I bought in one of his exhibitions. This is a painting he made with red paint that he found in Iwate, and painted “rubble” or somebody’s treasure on it. I normally don’t buy art, but this time, I could not resist, this painting, along with all the other ones that he exhibited, has a strong message. For me, this symbolizes the pain that the people living in Northeast Japan are experiencing, and also the battle that they have to endure to once again, make this whole area lively and safe.

Thank you Jay, and see you on the next trip to Kesennuma. We have put this painting in the entrance of our office so everyone gets reminded that this disaster is not over until all are back living happily as they were before 3.11

Dear NYN Friends

It is the time of the year when we gather together in person to share our visions and synergize our ideas to make this global network become what we want it to be.

A year and four months have passed since Nikkei Youth Network was founded, and during that time Japan has been hit with 3 disasters: Earthquake, Tsunami and Radiation. This experience has made us think more deeply in what this world needs and what can we do as a global community of people with strong bonds with Japan.

Today we have a better vision on what we want to achieve, but the HOW to achieve it, will become an open discussion on this coming NYN Summit 2011 in Tokyo.

I would like to invite you to be part of our transformation and part of a new project that we will be presenting you on this occasion. We need your help, your ideas to make this work.

See you at the NYN Summit 2011 and in the Halloweenyn Party afterwards!

Akira Uchimura

NYN Director

NYN Summit Japan 2011

Date: October29th (Saturday)

Time: NYN Summit: 11am – 5pm

11:00 – 12:30 |  NYN Presentations

12:30 – 01:30 | Lunch

01:30 – 03:00 | NYN Workshop

03:00 – 03:30 | Workshop presentations

03:30 – 05:00 | IS Volunteer Project report & workshop

Fee: 3000 yen (includes: lunch, beverages and free entrance to the Halloweenyn party below)

Place: Shibuya AP, Tokyu Plaza 8th Floor | GoogleMap

How to attend: Register HERE

Sexy Halloweenyn Party

We are organizing a Halloweenyn party in collaboration with Parties4Peace and club eleven’s halloween party so you can enjoy this halloween event reconnect with friends you met in the last NYN Summit, NYN Parties, or in the volunteer missions to Tohoku.

If you attended the NYN Summit Japan 2011, and have a costume on. You will get in for free and will have a free drink as well.

Date: October29th (Saturday)

Time: NYN Summit: 9pm – 5am

Fee: Free for NYN Summit Attendees, (you must wear a custome)

Sexy Costume Contest: Awarding the sexiest customes!

Place: club eleven | Roppongi | GoogleMap

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