I have just finished taking part in the Be Peace Foundation Course which took place from Sep 13 to the 17th in Costa Rica at the Rasur Foundation. The Be Peace Course is a combination of Heart Math principles and NVC (Non Violent Communication)
Check out photos from the event by clicking here. You can see how relaxed and happy everyone looks. It was an amazing course and I hope every child and adult will be able to take this course.
From tomorrow, the 4th Global Alliance Summit for Ministries and Departments of Peace will start. Currently delegations are arriving from all over the world....
On Sept 20, Sun, at 2:00-3:30 pm Costa Rica time, I am speaking about the role of the media in the peace movement. My talk is titled Be The MEDIA.
My talk will be streamed live so please spread the word and watch me online at http://www.gasummit.org. Please send your comments by e-mail, twitter, etc. For anyone living or visiting Japan, I would be so happy to connect with you!
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Saturday, September 19, 2009
Saturday, September 22, 2007
Third Global Summit Celebration Concert
Beautiful music touches everyone's heart and unites us all as one.
The Global Summit for Ministries and Departments of Peace Celebration Concert was such a uniting event, held on The International Day of Peace, Sept 21, in Kazusa Akademia Park Main Hall, in Kisarazu, Chiba, Japan.
The opening act for the evening was a beautiful piano solo by Yukie Ikebe who is one of the founding members of JUMP (Japan United For A Ministry Of Peace). Yukie is very active in her work supporting JUMP in the Kansai area of Japan. Following her performance was the Kanto Hibiki Daiko, a children‘s Japanese drum group based in Kisarazu, Chiba, led by Sadao Itou. Sadao started the group after he saw violent disputes in Universities around Japan and the world during the ‘60s and ‘70s, with the hope that the unifying beat of the taiko drums would help to unite the hearts of all who listen.
Participants from twenty countries took part in the opening ceremony of the Third Global Summit for Ministries of Peace by the Global Alliance with each country’s representative displaying their logo. Dot Maver, executive director of The Peace Alliance as well as the representative of the Global Alliance, gave a profound and inspiring speech.
During the intermission that followed everyone relaxed and got to know each other in the foyer. There were various peace related stalls as well as a photo exhibition put on by Days Japan, the top alternative photo magazine in Japan.
Then the second part of the concert got under way with an amazing performance by Yae, a popular singer here in Japan who happens to live in Kamogawa, the same city where I live. Yae is a farmer, like myself! She has one son and is expecting her next child!
Yae was supported by Aska, a world class violinist, as well as a guitarist and percussionist.
Aska then performed some of her own compositions that were inspired and written as she traveled around the world... Everyone was thrilled by her truly amazing technique! Her heartfelt original songs moved and united every single one of us in the hall... Yae and Aska then performed together again... What a wonderful combination they make! I just wish there were more people in the audience who could who could have enjoyed their music. Check out this excerpt from the concert...
We at JUMP are working together with the other Global Alliance members to create a world where war and violence are the things of the past. I am so happy and honored to be working with people from around the world who have the same committement as me.
I hope you too will join with us to bring about a peaceful world for all!
Yumi
The Global Summit for Ministries and Departments of Peace Celebration Concert was such a uniting event, held on The International Day of Peace, Sept 21, in Kazusa Akademia Park Main Hall, in Kisarazu, Chiba, Japan.
The opening act for the evening was a beautiful piano solo by Yukie Ikebe who is one of the founding members of JUMP (Japan United For A Ministry Of Peace). Yukie is very active in her work supporting JUMP in the Kansai area of Japan. Following her performance was the Kanto Hibiki Daiko, a children‘s Japanese drum group based in Kisarazu, Chiba, led by Sadao Itou. Sadao started the group after he saw violent disputes in Universities around Japan and the world during the ‘60s and ‘70s, with the hope that the unifying beat of the taiko drums would help to unite the hearts of all who listen.
Participants from twenty countries took part in the opening ceremony of the Third Global Summit for Ministries of Peace by the Global Alliance with each country’s representative displaying their logo. Dot Maver, executive director of The Peace Alliance as well as the representative of the Global Alliance, gave a profound and inspiring speech.
During the intermission that followed everyone relaxed and got to know each other in the foyer. There were various peace related stalls as well as a photo exhibition put on by Days Japan, the top alternative photo magazine in Japan.
Then the second part of the concert got under way with an amazing performance by Yae, a popular singer here in Japan who happens to live in Kamogawa, the same city where I live. Yae is a farmer, like myself! She has one son and is expecting her next child!
Yae was supported by Aska, a world class violinist, as well as a guitarist and percussionist.
Aska then performed some of her own compositions that were inspired and written as she traveled around the world... Everyone was thrilled by her truly amazing technique! Her heartfelt original songs moved and united every single one of us in the hall... Yae and Aska then performed together again... What a wonderful combination they make! I just wish there were more people in the audience who could who could have enjoyed their music. Check out this excerpt from the concert...
We at JUMP are working together with the other Global Alliance members to create a world where war and violence are the things of the past. I am so happy and honored to be working with people from around the world who have the same committement as me.
I hope you too will join with us to bring about a peaceful world for all!
Yumi
Friday, April 14, 2006
JUMP Kick Off Concert on April 29
Please spread the good news by putting news of the concert in your blog and homepage.
Your help is appreciated to help make true PEACE a reality.
The Japanese government wants to discard our Peace Constitution, including Article 9, and is preparing many wartime laws which will make our nation a Police State, following in the steps of the USA. If you know of any English or Japanese publications, please submit the concert information below to their event calender.
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JUMP (Japan United for a Ministry of Peace) will have a Kick Off Concert on April 29, 2006 in Tokyo, at Educus Tokyo from 6:30pm to 8:30.
*Map: http://www.zenkyo.biz/map.html
(nearest station: Kojimachi, or Ichigaya JR, across from old Nihon TV bldg.)
Musicians will include The New Frontiers -1 (minus one member), ZAKI, Kazumi, Yukie Ikebe and others. MC: Yumi Kikuchi. Tickets: 2000 yen reserved, 2500 yen at the door.
*reservations can be made through Yumi: yumik@fine.ocn.ne.jp
JUMP is a citizen's volunteer group aiming to establish a Ministry of Peace in Japan. Representatives of JUMP will attend the 2nd People's Initiative for a Department of Peace which is to be held in Victoria, Canada from the 18th to the 22nd of June. This event is fundraiser for the conference to help 3rd world delegates attend as well as to promote JUMP in Japan.
To join JUMP and/or to help spread the word about JUMP, please contact Yumi.
Thursday, April 13, 2006
JUMP KICK OFF CONCERT!
JUMP (Japan United for Ministry of Peace or 平和省プロジェクト in Japanese) will have a "JUMP Kick Off Concert" on April 29, 2006 in Tokyo, at Educus Tokyo (Ichigaya, In front of old Nihon TV office) from 6:30pm.
Musicians will include The New Frontiers -1 (minus one member), ZAKI, Kazumi and others.
MC: Yumi Kikuchi.
Tickets: 2000 yen reserved - 2500 yen at the door.
You can send an e-mail to me to reserve tickets: yumik@fine.ocn.ne.jp
JUMP is a citizen's volunteer group aiming to establish a Ministry of Peace in Japan. Representatives of JUMP will attend the 2nd People's Initiative for a Department of Peace to be held in Victoria, Canada in June (18-22) and this event is fundraiser for the conference to help 3rd world delegates attend the conference.
You can find out more about the 2nd People’s Initiative for a Department of Peace on this page.
Musicians will include The New Frontiers -1 (minus one member), ZAKI, Kazumi and others.
MC: Yumi Kikuchi.
Tickets: 2000 yen reserved - 2500 yen at the door.
You can send an e-mail to me to reserve tickets: yumik@fine.ocn.ne.jp
JUMP is a citizen's volunteer group aiming to establish a Ministry of Peace in Japan. Representatives of JUMP will attend the 2nd People's Initiative for a Department of Peace to be held in Victoria, Canada in June (18-22) and this event is fundraiser for the conference to help 3rd world delegates attend the conference.
You can find out more about the 2nd People’s Initiative for a Department of Peace on this page.
Friday, September 23, 2005
First Meeting for Japan‘s Ministry of Peace
On Monday, Sep 19 2005, we held the first meeting for Japan's Ministry of Peace at Meiji University, Ochanomizu, Tokyo. It was organized mostly by myself. I was not able to publicize the event before I left Japan to attend a related meeting in Washington DC so, I was so surprised to find more than 100 participants from 10 prefectures in Japan attending on the day. People from Okinawa and Nagasaki were among them. They came all the way just for this meeting!
I guess that people wanted to listen to Congresman Dennis Kucinich's speech which was going to be held by international call. Until the day itself I was not sure if it would go well. Thanks to my strong technical supporter Damien Andrews, it went well and we were able to call him from my cell phone and listen to him and ask him questions. He was very supportive and understanding of Japan's Constitution, especially regarding Article 9, which surprised many and made some cry.
After the landslide victory of the LDP, (Liberal Democratic Party, Japan's ruling party) at the last elecction held on Sept. 11, Japan seems to be about to lose Article 9. But I have not given up! We really can not afford to lose this battle against the neo-cons of Japan, who want make Japan an "ordinary nation", by which they mean to make Japan a country that can fight in wars abroad again. We must remain paeceful and I believe there is a way we can contribute the world without using arms or military means.
The agenda of the meeting:
1. Why form The Ministry of Peace now, a report from the US Department of Peace Conference in Washington DC, by Yumi Kikuchi
2. Japan's idea for The Ministry of Peace by Prof. Ryuji Itoh and Mr. Otsuka
3. Dennis Kucinich's introduction video prepared by Mr. Takafumi Tomita
4. Listen and talk to Dennis Kucinich in a telephone-conference, with US Congressman Dennis Kucinich, Yumi Kukuchi and Gen Morita
5. Panel Talk by Prof. Isamu Mamiya (Meiji Univ), Prof. Masaya Kobayashi (Chiba Univ.), moderator: Yumi Kikuchi (Global Peace Campaign)
The date of the next meeting is not set yet but I mean to organize another one by the end of this year and hopefuly to find several prefecture co-ordinators by then. I also started talking to several diet members (members of Congress) to attend the London Summit of the Department of Peace. It will be held from the 18-20 Oct, 2005. If anyone is interested in participating, please contact me by e-mail.
Details can be found at Peace Alliance homepage: www.thepeacealliance.org
I guess that people wanted to listen to Congresman Dennis Kucinich's speech which was going to be held by international call. Until the day itself I was not sure if it would go well. Thanks to my strong technical supporter Damien Andrews, it went well and we were able to call him from my cell phone and listen to him and ask him questions. He was very supportive and understanding of Japan's Constitution, especially regarding Article 9, which surprised many and made some cry.
After the landslide victory of the LDP, (Liberal Democratic Party, Japan's ruling party) at the last elecction held on Sept. 11, Japan seems to be about to lose Article 9. But I have not given up! We really can not afford to lose this battle against the neo-cons of Japan, who want make Japan an "ordinary nation", by which they mean to make Japan a country that can fight in wars abroad again. We must remain paeceful and I believe there is a way we can contribute the world without using arms or military means.
The agenda of the meeting:
1. Why form The Ministry of Peace now, a report from the US Department of Peace Conference in Washington DC, by Yumi Kikuchi
2. Japan's idea for The Ministry of Peace by Prof. Ryuji Itoh and Mr. Otsuka
3. Dennis Kucinich's introduction video prepared by Mr. Takafumi Tomita
4. Listen and talk to Dennis Kucinich in a telephone-conference, with US Congressman Dennis Kucinich, Yumi Kukuchi and Gen Morita
5. Panel Talk by Prof. Isamu Mamiya (Meiji Univ), Prof. Masaya Kobayashi (Chiba Univ.), moderator: Yumi Kikuchi (Global Peace Campaign)
The date of the next meeting is not set yet but I mean to organize another one by the end of this year and hopefuly to find several prefecture co-ordinators by then. I also started talking to several diet members (members of Congress) to attend the London Summit of the Department of Peace. It will be held from the 18-20 Oct, 2005. If anyone is interested in participating, please contact me by e-mail.
Details can be found at Peace Alliance homepage: www.thepeacealliance.org
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