Lawson Inc., a major convenience store chain in Japan, announced the company will donate part of its surplus food to Zenkoku Food Bank Suishin Kyougikai (All Japan Food Bank Promotion Council) starting August 5. Surplus food donation by a large...
Every month in Osaka at the School of Future Value Creation (Phoenix School), a Tabenokoshi NO Game session is organised. This month’s session was particularly popular, with twice the usual number of participants. All have gathered, including me, to...
This year, The Pokemon Company released Pokemon Illustration Lab, a public domain website that offers free downloads of Pokemon-themed illustration materials. These materials are created to enrich the lives of children, cultivating an environment...
Are you from a community where households are strangers to one another? Or perhaps you are in a city where thousands live, but still feel a sense of loneliness? This is a scenario that is present and growing in Fukuoka City. However, Fukuoka Tenjin...
From 2020, elementary schools throughout Japan will begin teaching programming from the fifth grade level. And Scratch is one of the programming languages that is catching some attention. Scratch is a visual-programming language targeted primarily...
For centuries Japan has portrayed itself as a mono-racial nation of people with straight, jet black hair. However, a recent television commercial has sparked discussions not only about how wrong that idea is, but also about how detrimental it is to...
I arrived at an unmanned train station which had absolutely nothing. Well, to be accurate, it did have a brand-new waiting room (with a bench) and a toilet. This was in Rikuzen Takada City in the southeast region of Iwate Prefecture. The area has...
Homes are a starting point in peoples’ lives. So it’s an admirable thing to create a business model that solves both issues of supporting single mothers and vacant houses. There are over 1.2 million single mothers and fathers in Japan. That...