Sarvodaya Japan
Established in November 2009
Dr. A.T. Ariyaratne founded the Sarvodaya Shramadana movement, a rural community development movement in 1958, which gained increasingly great worldwide reputation in the following decades. Since 1976, Dr. Ariyaratne has visited Japan a number of times. Many Japanese have been impressed by his lectures, and some visited Sri Lanka to take part in the Sarvodaya movement and others became supporters of the movement. Young people from Japan and other countries who have visited Sarvodaya communities are engaged in activities applying their experiences in their social contexts.
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of its foundation in 2008, individuals and organizations in Japan that had been associated with Sarvodaya in one way or another gathered in Tokyo, and discussed the establishment of the Sarvodaya Japan, which was realized in 2009.
The purposes of the organization are to support the activities of the Sarvodaya movement in Sri Lanka, to learn from its philosophy and methodology of development and their experiences both successes and failures and apply them as a social development model in our community development and human resource development activities.
We will conduct information dissemination, support activities and interactive activities together with the Sarvodaya movement.
Purposes
To learn lessons from the philosophy of “Awakening of All” advocated by Dr. A. T. Ariyaratne, and from its activities to develop communities, and to promote international cooperation.
Activities
- Deepening international understanding
- Extending economic cooperation to developing regions in the world
- Extending information and non-formal education on international cooperation
- Other activities necessary to achieve the purposes of the organization
Officers
2010 June
Co-Chairpersons
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Ms. Keiko Nakamoto |
Former Assoc. Professor, Towa University |
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Prof. KuniakiYamashita |
Professor, Kyushu University |
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Dr. Masato Homma |
Founder & CEO, Learnology Co.Ltd. |
Advisers
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Prof. Yoshikichi Hirono |
Professor, Emeritus, Seikei University |
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Prof. Akihiro Chiba |
Adviser,International Christian University |
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Prof. Shoji Nakamura |
Fellow, Ryukoku University |
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Mr. Kimihiko Murakami |
President, Japan Asian Association and Asian Friendship Society |
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Mr. Teturo Fukuyama |
Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Former State Secretary for Foreign Affairs DPJ member of the House of Councilors |
Board of Directors
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Ms. Chine Hayashi |
Translator & Interpreter |
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Ms. Keiko Atsumi |
Executive Director, Interaction Council |
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Mr. Kazuo Suzuki |
President, One World One People |
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Prof. Yasuhiro Shigeta |
Prof., Utsunomiya University |
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Rev. Hitoshi Jin |
Executive Director, Zenseikyo Foundation |
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Dr. Masahiko Uemura |
Assoc.Prof., Yokohama City University |
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Mr. Kazuo Okada |
Doctoral Program, University Former Visiting Researcher, Institute of Asian Culture |
Ms.Keiko Nakamoto
Former Assoc.Professor,Towa University
(Co-Chairperson)
Professor Kuniaki Yamashita
Dept. of Multicultural Society
Kyushu University
(Co-Chairperson)
Dr. Masato Homma
Adjunct Professor, Tezukayamagakuin University
(Co-Chairperson)
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