www.samuraidea.com

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. We are in the making of a new NYN Project called Samuraidea. Hence, have closed our Tokyo office and moving to Viña del Mar, Chile to be closer to starting Samuraidea projects in the Americas.

I am writing this post to tell you specially about point 2.

Since we started NYN in June of 2010 ,our main goal is to unite and create an international community of nikkei (click here to read on what we think is nikkei) to make projects that impact the world, so that we can create new solutions to the world’s small and big problems with a multicultural/multifaceted nikkei point of view.

Our fist phase was to start to find and connect these innovative, fun, creative, action-oriented, passionate and trustworthy nikkei people from around the world to NYN as the conductors of our common goals. As with any great endeavor, it is more important to have the right people on the ship before knowing where you are going to go.

Our second phase, which we have decided to start this month, is to build a platform where we can truly put our joint strengths (wisdom, money, connections, skills, etc.) into action. In other words, we are creating a crowdfunding/cloudsourcing platform called Samuraidea where we can make nikkei projects into reality.

Designed by our great NYN designer, Jay Horinouchi

Samuraidea.com

Through our platform, you will be able to be either a project leader or a supporter

Time has come where we cannot just celebrate our identity as Nikkei, but to put our insight, views, ideas, values and skills into practice to better our world. With all these new tools and the bigger acceptance of our identity, it is the perfect chance for us to use our collective power to do things that we wanted to do but couldn’t do alone.

On the same time that we started Nikkei Youth Network in 2010, I also became a father for the first time, and interestingly now that we finally start the second phase of NYN today, my second son has been born on the same day I arrived to the airport in Asuncion, Paraguay.

NYN is a both professional and personal life goal for me. Having a second son is even a bigger responsibility as a father, but this new Samuraidea project will require as much responsibility and effort as well. Having my life goals clear, I am ready to start this new journey with all of you and am very eager to show you the Samuraidea platform, but you will have to wait until October when we present it to you.

In the meantime, we are looking for volunteer translators (english, spanish, japanese, portuguese), programmers, bloggers, and project searchers, so if you would like to be part of this new endeavor, please leave a comment below.

Kongotomo yoroshiku!

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

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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)