Special seminar ”Thinking about the future of Japanese rice & paddy field

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Learning about ”shojin ”from Mr.Daisuke Nomura

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Learning about ” culinary” from CIA

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About the book of ‘Soul of Japanese cuisine’

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One year anniversary of Japanese cuisine which added to UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List

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17th Annual International Conference & Festival Worlds of Flavor,April 22-24,2015

Theme will be “ASIA AND THE THEATER OF WORLD MENUS” Flavor Discovery, Culture, Innovation, and Style.

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Ms. Nami Takenaka, a leading expert in self-support for the challenged (people with disabilities), Mr. Toshiya Kakiuchi and Mr. Takao Tamino who runs a business to promote wheelchair accessible universal design visited our office.

In far left, Ms. Nami Takenaka (Nami-nei), a  leading  expert  in  self-support activities, representative of Prop Station, a non-profit  social welfare organization and in far right, Hiroo Chikaraishi, our foundation representative.

Toshiya Kakiuchi, Representative Director and President of Mirairo K.K., promoting wheelchair  accessible  universal  design in front right and, Mr. Takao Tamino, executive VP in front left.

Mirairo K.K. is a company that offers lectures and trainings  on  knowledge  and service hospitalities toward elderly and disabled people,  and  develops wheelchair  accessible  maps   featuring information   necessary   for physically challenged people.

Our foundation will work on promoting the hospitality culture to the challenged in cooperation with these people.

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Ever since founded in April 2011, we have been working on Tohoku support activity “Soul of Tohoku – Let us Protect Tohoku  Cuisine”  as  our  key immediate  project.

Soul  of  Tohoku,  in  large,  comprise  of  three projects.   First  is  “Proposing  food processing/manufacturing  sites project” directed to food processing/manufacturing sites in the  coastal area that had the biggest disaster damage, second is “Chefs &  mountain, land and ocean  production  areas  tie-in  project”  to  visit  Tohoku’s quality-focused producers and manufacturers,  and  the  third  is  “Team Omusubi Project” which  offers cooking  classes  at  temporary  housing facilities.

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Young people who bear the future offers activities to rediscover Japan’s nationwide traditional cultures at the exciting future factory “Ataraxia Lab”.

The exciting future factory “Ataraxia  Lab”  is  a  lab  of  over  10 college and high school students residing in Tokyo.  They are  developing  a software compiling a database of local crafts,  products  and  masterpieces researched from their unique perspectives.  This lab will be  introduced  in our website shortly.

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With Ms. Cathy Jollene of CIA in America, Mr. Tokuoka Kunio of Kitcho in Kyoto, Mr. Masayasu Yonemura of Restaurant Yonemura

Team of Japan will participate in WOF in November 2013  following  the  2010 participation in  CIA  (Culinary  Institute  of  America)  WOF  (“Worlds  of Flavor”) in Napa, California USA. With Ms. Cathy Jollene visiting  Japan  for  meeting  attendance. From left, Cathy, Mr. Yonemura,  Mr.  Tokuoka  and  Representative  Director, Chikaraishi.

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