JCIE 3/11 Disaster Relief & Recovery Program

Students from Tokyo University traveled to Rikuzentakata for a 3-day session to help local students with their studies and interact with the kids.
Kodomo no Empowerment has been carrying out this program each year to engage and support kids in this community as they and their families continue to recover from the 3/11 disaster.

[TOKYO]
This morning key NGO leaders met with Diet members--Rep. Keisuke Suzuki, Rep. Masahiko Shibayama, and Rep. Shinichi Isa--for a JCIE roundtable to discuss how Japanese NGOs and the government can work together as strategic partners on development and humanitarian assistance, as well as what they can do to advance US-Japan cooperation.

[EVENT IN NEW YORK]

Salon Bow-Wow: Architects in Post-Disaster Reconstruction
DATE: Friday, May 5
TIME: 6:30pm
PLACE: Japan Society
333 East 47th Street
New York, NY 10017

Momoyo Kaijima and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, co-founders of Atelier Bow-Wow, an architectural firm in Tokyo, will speak at the Japan Society on their work in Tohoku. They are also founding members of ArchiAid, an organization started by Japanese architects to aid in the reconstruction of Tohoku.

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Salon Bow-Wow: Architects in Post-Disaster Reconstruction Momoyo Kaijima and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto , co-founders of Atelier Bow-Wow in Tokyo, a highly-regarded architectural firm, are founding members of ArchiAid , a group of architects who came together to contribute to the recovery of Tohoku. The duo will discuss the role of an architect in post-disaster r...