LIGHTHOUSE FOR INNOVATORS & ENTREPRENEURS
ON-GOING PROJECTS There are numerous on-going projects, projects in development, and ideas for projects on the IMPACT platform. Please visit the respective pages on IMPACT projects to learn more about… [Read more >>]
2011年3月11日に起こった東日本大震災。 被災地の「復興」には、産業を通じた地域の復興・再生が不可欠であると考えます。 「復興への志ある被災者とともに、日本全国・世界をつなぎ、新しい産業を創出する」 そんな想いで活動を続けてきました。 そこから、具体的に3つのプロジェクトを開発中です。 気仙沼大島 … [Read more >>]
Relief 2.0 is the practice of running the last mile in the field through independent field units supported by mobile technologies and social networks, connecting resources, stakeholders, needs, organizations, volunteers and survivors… [Read more >>]
About Women Help Women (WHW) Women Help Women is a volunteer association of Korean and Japanese women to support the survivors of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, with a special focus in the sustainable recovery of women,… [Read more >>]
Introducing the Global Shapers Community The World Economic Forum has successfully established a history of engaging young leaders to positively and proactively impact the global agenda. In addition to its existing community… [Read more >>]
Health and Global Policy Institute (HGPI) and IMPACT Foundation Japan, two NGOs both holding Kiyoshi Kurokawa as a chair have cooperated to work for Project HOPE’s “Operation Rising Sun”. Project HOPE, a U.S. -based global… [Read more >>]
A week after Seoul and Okinawa, I flew to Taipei. I was invited to give a plenary lecture at the Society of Internal Medicine in Taiwan. Another invited speaker was Dr. Virginina Hood , the president of the American College of Physicians whom, by the way, I happened to see in San Diego this April. [...]
I have been busy these days, which is nothing new….. And since my blog postings can not catch up with my real time activities, I would like to post here a summary of my recent activities. From Sydney, I moved to Singapore. Here, I visited several public institutions such as Temasek, National Research Foundation, EDB [...]
I think Jiro Asada, a Japanese writer, has quite a lot of fans. I am one of his fans, too, although I have not read all of his works. The 4 series’ novel about China in the end of the Qing Dynasty “The Firmament of the Pleiades (Soukyuu no Subaru, 蒼穹の昴), “Imperial Consort Zhen’ s [...]
Homare Sawa shot a miraculous heel shot goal, with just 4 minutes to play in the extra time, making the score even with the US. Click here for the video. After returning home from Washington DC on Saturday, the 16th, I spend the next day fighting against the jet-lag. On Sunday the 17th, I watched [...]
It is hot summer now. In Iwate or Miyagi where tsunami hit, people must be having hard time because of the heat. Many problems must be solved; such as securing appropriate shelter, maintaining hygiene, or keeping their food safe and edible. It was March when the Tsunami hit, there were even snowfalls then. Time passes [...]
素敵なこと、「開国」への一歩。 @londonshocho33m
これはいいこと。大学が鎖国を止めるわけだ。RT 京大、講義を無料配信へ ネット教育機関に加盟 ：日本経済新聞 http://t.co/181Rsd6Wc4 Our partner @HGPI.org/en/ @ProjectHOPEorg @LillyPad34m
Volunteering at the Proj Hope Centre in South Africa 、、 #CSR http://t.co/2vJbyQeL6O これだ。@seed_contest20m 【シンポジウム開催！】モノやサービスが溢れ返っている今の日本。そんな中「本当に世の中のためになるものって何だろう？」「本当に必要とされているものって何だろう？」と考えた事はありませんか？ http://t.co/LvpcW6FH9g … 今夜の「ＮＨＫ CloseUp現代」を、夜中の0時10分から。@japangapyear50m
レールは造るもの笑@kouenji_shirasu:気になってググると、、日本ギャップイヤー推進機構協会→ http://t.co/8dsvUpM4vL むむ協会作って推進、、、 Why not join this a kind of GRIPS event on BOP. 恒例のGRIPSイヴェントになりつつある、このBOP企画 http://t.co/LvpcW6FH9g。ぜひ参加を。
