Our director, Soka Horii, competed in the national round of the 70th High School Students' Speech Contest for International Understanding and Cooperation, hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the United Nations Association of Japan, and received the NHK President's Award.
The national round, held at the Elizabeth Rose Conference Hall of United Nations University, brought together the representatives of every prefecture.
In its 70th year, the contest drew 301 entries nationwide, and the speakers argued their themes out of their own experience.
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A student organization working on civic education and teenage participation in public life, driven by the gap in who gets opportunities. Our mission: every teenager should get to meet the person they have not yet become. Around forty high school and university students from Tokyo and the three neighbouring prefectures run it. Our programs include the Mock Ward Mayoral Election — held in the ward office and the assembly chamber, taking participants from drafting policy through candidacy to the count — and Osouji-tai, which builds a sense of ownership over shared space through cleaning. More than 1,000 people have now learned how democracy feels from the inside.
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