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Our History

NHK Sunday Debate

Representative Togashi appeared on NHK's "Sunday Debate" as a representative of the youth. It was unusual for a student to appear on the show, and the one-hour live broadcast was a first for NHK.

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NHK
Metropolitan Area Special

A special feature on our CEO, Togashi, was broadcast on NHK's Metropolitan Special. His activities connecting Tokyo with the areas affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake, his management of the Children's Conference for Reconstruction, and his youth-led beach clean-up in Shonan were introduced.

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Walking with Yuriage after the earthquake

東日本大震災の被災地、宮城県名取市閖上では震災後、当社CWPJ事業にて仙台・名取チームを発足、閖上復興こども会議を運営し、こども・若者の声をまとめ、コミュニティー形成やこども神輿も行いました。

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Policy proposals to the Japan Innovation Party

When Representative Togashi served as the representative of the Japan Youth Council in the Japan Restoration Party (at the time), he compiled and submitted recommendations on youth policy.

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Red Card Action

In order to raise awareness of the issue of child labor and the need for efforts to resolve the problem, CWPJ, which is run by our company, joined the Red Card Action, in which people express their opposition to child labor by holding up red cards. We also held this action with all the students at Seattle Lutheran High School, where our representative was a student at the time.

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Funding

In an effort to spread fair trade among the younger generation, a crowdfunding campaign was launched to create and sell fair trade shirts featuring messages from children around the world, and the goal was met with over 800,000 yen.

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Lectures at schools around the country

Our representative, Togashi, has been invited to give lectures and entrance ceremony speeches at schools both in Japan and abroad.

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Trash pick-up team

Our management staff started setting up trash picking teams all over Japan when they were in junior high school. At its peak, we had 20 teams across the country and 3 teams overseas.

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Senior Vice-Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology

As a representative of the Child Labor Network, we presented the petition to Yuko Mori, Vice Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and exchanged opinions. (Togashi)

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[Silver Award Winner]
Cepic Hibiya Kadan

A regional revitalization initiative based in Onjuku Town, Isumi County, Chiba Prefecture, won second place at the CePiC Young Challenge Contest held at Hibiya Kadan's headquarters.

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Iwaizumi Town Disaster Relief

Disaster relief personnel were dispatched from Tokyo and Chiba to Iwaizumi Town, Iwate Prefecture, which was hit by heavy rains, and worked there for three days.

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Policy Forum

天明麻衣子さんに司会を務めていただき、自由民主党、公明党、日本維新の会(当時)、維新の党(当時)、民主党(当時)、共産党と若者政策討議会をDiscover21と開催。ボクらのキボウ、政治のリアル出版の大切な会になりました。

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Publication commemorative event

NPO法人ヨコハマ・コミュニティー・デザインラボにて、代表富樫の著書「ボクらのキボウ 政治のリアル」の出版記念イベントが開かれ、多くの報道陣と若者、政治家が集まりました。

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BENESSE

It was featured in the Benesse High School Student 3-Minute News with the headline "What student social entrepreneurs who work on urban development value."

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Shonan Beach FM

Our crowdfunding project to collect messages from children around the world to make fair trade shirts was also featured on Shonan Beach FM.

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In government, universities, and social welfare councils
Discuss CCRC

We gathered together the Watanabe Kenji Study Group from Keio University, the Onjuku Town Hall Planning and Finance Division, the Onjuku Town Hall Health and Welfare Division, the Onjuku Town Social Welfare Council, and people active in the local community to have an in-depth discussion about the CCRC concept.

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越生町で若者と公明党をつなぐ

In Ogose Town, members of the Saitama Prefectural Assembly, Komeito members of the Ogose Town Assembly, and young people gathered to discuss how to create a system that allows young people to participate, given the declining young population.

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Tressa Yokohama

At Toyota's Tressa Yokohama, with the cooperation of Tressa Yokohama's president, Mr. Kurihara, and everyone at Tressa Yokohama, we carried out a project at Cepic to turn a park idea thought up by third-grade elementary school girls into a reality: the Happy Dome. We were also involved in planning and running the entire event, and held a talk event.

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The lights in front of the station.

In front of Onjuku Station, there are so many vacant stores and houses that it is hard to believe that it is in front of a station in a tourist area, and it becomes pitch black at night. Together with the local community, we renovated and opened an empty house that had been left abandoned for over 10 years, and it is now our open office, Good Neighbors, a community cafe.

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World Meet Cafe

With the cooperation of Inter-Pacific High School, we held an international exchange event with junior and senior high school students.

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Yellow Scream
Talk Show

Following the Great East Japan Earthquake, I appeared as a special guest at the after-talk show for Yellow Cry, a play featuring actors and actresses who have been volunteering in the disaster-stricken areas.

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Referendum × Young People

We took on various initiatives together with House of Representatives member Naoto Sakaguchi to get more young people interested in the referendum and to discuss lowering the voting age.

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BS Fuji Prime News

Representative Togashi participated in a two-hour live broadcast on BS Fuji Prime News, fighting alongside current Diet members. He was seen as a leader in conveying the voices of young people to politics.

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NHK
Morning Ichi!

I appeared on NHK's Asaichi twice. The first time was about voting rights at age 18, and the second time was looking back on the election period. During the long live broadcast, I was able to convey the importance of young people's voices together with other young people.

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Niconico Chokaigi

Ahead of the 2016 House of Councillors election, which drew attention due to the right to vote at 18 years old, our representative, Togashi, appeared at Niconico Chokaigi 2016's "Super Talk Stage," a forum to directly connect the voices of young people with the ideas of political parties.

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Sotokoto

Our CEO, Togashi, was featured in the October issue of Sotokoto.

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Yuriage Children's Conference

The Yuriage Reconstruction Children's Conference created giant lanterns to preserve the history of the disaster, and these were also exhibited at Sendai International Airport and Natori Station.

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Komeito Policy Proposals

At the time, Togashi served as the representative of the Japan Youth Council, and as its representative he collected the voices of young people, held repeated discussions with party members, and made policy recommendations to the Komeito Party.

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Charity Concert

To donate funds to the areas affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake, a charity concert was held at Nakano ZERO, mainly by junior and senior high school students, featuring violinist Taro Masuda and others.

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State Minister for Foreign Affairs

As a representative of the Child Labor Network, we exchanged opinions on child labor and submitted a petition to State Minister for Foreign Affairs Yamane. (Togashi)

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Kumamoto Disaster Relief

A team was formed from Tokyo and Chiba in Kumamoto Prefecture, which was hit by a magnitude 7 earthquake, and they provided meals for three weeks.

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Chiba University ESD Research Group

The Chiba University ESD Study Group held a workshop on data utilization using RESAS for principals, teachers, staff, and students from Chiba Prefecture.

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The biggest class in the world

Togashi from the non-profit organization Free the Children Japan appeared as a lecturer at the World's Largest Class and exchanged opinions with members of the Diet about child labor.

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Komeito Party "Komesuke's Room"

Representative Togashi appeared on the Komeito program "Komesuke's Room" along with Youth Bureau Director Higuchi Naoya (House of Representatives member) and Deputy Chair Sasaki Sayaka (House of Councillors member) of the party's Youth Committee (Chairman Ishikawa Hirotaka, House of Councillors member), and evaluated the party's youth policies.

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ハフポスト

It was featured in the Huffington Post under the title "Let's start with something close to home - Current university students talk about how young people should be involved in politics."

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News Op Ed

He appeared on a news op-ed broadcast from Roppongi Hills. Together with House of Representatives member Hiroshi Kawauchi, he discussed young people's political participation in light of the lowering of the voting age to 18.

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アクアシティお台場

An event was held at Aqua City Odaiba to coincide with Pink Shirt Day. Pink Shirt Day is an awareness campaign against bullying, and we participated in the planning and management as executive producers.

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Accepting students from ASEAN

We welcomed students from ASEAN countries on study tours and, together with other youth groups, coordinated activities in Yokohama, from exchanges of ideas to site visits.

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Election Recommendation Cultural Festival

We also exhibited at the Election Recommendation Culture Festival, sponsored by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications and the Association for Promoting Fair Elections.

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Mayor of Matsusaka City, Mitsushige Yamanaka

A public talk event was held with Matsusaka Mayor Mitsushige Yamanaka, sponsored by the Matsusaka City Board of Education, where youth participation was discussed in front of a large audience ranging from educators to students and government officials.

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Joso City Disaster Relief

A total of 50 people were dispatched to Joso City, which was hit by heavy rain disaster, to engage in disaster volunteer activities for one month.

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Harajuku Quest Hall

"Teens Day" was held at Harajuku Quest Hall, with the support of NTT Urban Development, Aoki Design Institute, and Harajuku Quest Hall, and brought together announcer Jun Hori and young people active in various fields.

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Flash mob in Harajuku

At a time when hate speech and discrimination issues were attracting attention, we held a flash mob in Harajuku to create a warm atmosphere by promoting the idea that "friendship has no borders."

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A piece of excitement

I appeared as a guest on the talk show "Fragments of Excitement" hosted by Little Link Japan.

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