nyn summit japan 2011 presentation
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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
e
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