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Nikkei Youth Network

Building the next 100 yearsthrough “Kizuna”

Construyendo los proximos 100 años de la historia Nikkei mediante Kizuna

Akira Uchimura• Father Japanese Diplomat• Mother: Chilean Landscape

Designer• Born in Costa Rica• Raised in Paraguay, Bolivia,

Ecuador, El Salvador, Japan, Suriname and Chile

• Living in Yokohama (for the moment)

Where do I belong?

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2004

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2007

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2008

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2010June

Where do I belong?

Wherever I feel want to belong

Why Nikkei Youth Network?

• Common connections, vision and values. Nikkei

• Innovation and change come from the youth in any era.

• Out-of-the-box ideas, guts, passion and strong will.

Youth

• A Collective power to match challenges that couldn’t be achieved alone.

Network

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日系 Japan

Descendance

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日係 Japan

Connection, Relationship

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Network

Empowerment of the INDIVIDUAL

600,000

460,000

30,000250,000

20,000

40,000

Nikkei Youth18~40 years old

Nikkei Youth Population　 1.4 million

+α

600,000

460,000

30,000250,000

20,000

40,000

Nikkei Youth18~40 years old

Nikkei Youth Population　 1.4 million

+α if we include them

1 Billion

　　 ConceptNYN Connect

NYN Action

NYN Challeng

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Draft of March 25th 2010

1.4million

100,000

500

A Website for awareness and to connect the Nikkei Youth Community

An actual place to connect and to take action in activities of partnership and cooperation

A challenge fund for young nikkei leaders who want to make a change

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What we did in 2010-11

• NYN Summit 2010• NYN Delegates• Visits to 15 countries• Hana.bi website• IS Volunteers• Panamerican Nikkei Convention

留学生ボランティアプロジェクトhttp://facebook.com/isvolunteersVolunteer

Gakuvo日本財団学生ボランティアセンター+ ＝157 IS Volunteers３ 5 Countries石巻、気仙沼、女川、遠野等Ishinomaki, Kesennuma, Onagawa, Tohno, etc.

Translation, gathering, coordination

FB page NYN website

Google form

Cleaning houses, removing mud, ♥supportSharing the personal experiences in their language

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Focusing on what we can

do best

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NYN 2011

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Featured articles and interviews

Weekly bloggers

Theme: Japan + me = Wow

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+NYNja TV

Volunteers for allOf next year

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ProjectJ Station

An all encompassing facility that can provide various servicesto create a meeting point between the people in Kesennuma and the world