Our director, Soka Horii, competed in the fourth NEO Awards, hosted by Earth Day Tokyo at Marui Yurakucho, and received the Award of Excellence.
The NEO Awards exist to support young people working in their own ways on environmental and social problems. Horii's proposal used discarded cosmetics to paint akabeko, the traditional Fukushima craft, as a visitor experience that would bring life back to the area.
The prototype — the "ethical akabeko" — will be on show on the ground floor of Marui Yurakucho from September. Do come and see it.
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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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