Members and Supporters Meeting NPO - Solidarity of International JUDO Education based on the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics to be Kanagawa Prefecture Certified NPO held in Tokyo. Solidarity of Judo Education In these classes I talk about the spirit of the modern Olympics advocated by Baron Coubertin. To get the Members and Supporters message across I have students listen to a reading Meeting th from an old Japanese 6 grade textbook. Baron Coubertin is mentioned in this textbook which was ● Annual Review 2015 compiled by the author Naoya Shiga. In the bid for the ● Closing Ceremony of Coaching Seminar 1964 Tokyo Olympics Kazushige Hirasawa, a foreign affairs critic gave a presentation using this text to November 30th 2015 promote Japan to the delegates from each country. Arcadia Ichigaya, Private school hall “The children of Japan understand the spirit of the Olympics. They are learning about Coubertin’s ideal Opening Speech of reaching peace through sport. Please bring the Vice President Toshiaki Hashimoto Olympics to such a country.” It was a very simple speech but it really hit home with the delegates from each country. I also got hold of the textbook and read it. I was impressed by its content and felt it was very easy to understand even for children and with it had a high-tone of writing. That is the book I am now using with high school students. Hirasawa’s impetus for making such a speech came Thank you very much for attending today’s from the founder of judo Jigoro Kano Sensei. Kano Solidarity of Judo Education NPO Members and Sensei was involved in the 1940 Tokyo Olympics Supporters meeting particularly at this busy time of which were cancelled because of World War II. year with December starting tomorrow. Taking part in the bidding campaign he was returning Despite the fact that we are all gathered here at this home by ship home from Egypt via Canada when he meeting I’m afraid there won’t be much talk of profits passed away. Hirasawa was on the same ship as him as we are a Not for Profit organization. All the more and learned directly from him the importance of the reason for us to impress upon you how well we are Olympics and sports in general. Hirasawa was with connecting with the rest of the world through judo and him when he died. Kano Sensei wanted people from make your attendance here worthwhile. all over the world to come to Japan and learn about Today we will hear from our President Yasuhiro Japan even more so because of the disputes and war Yamashita concerning the annual activities report and which were going on at the time. It is said that he nine of our trainee instructors who will give us their talked about how from the point of view of European report and their thoughts on the training they received. countries and America Japan was known as ‘The Far Please pardon me for the long introduction. I work at East’ however he wanted people to also consider Tokai University and have recently been visiting high Japan as a real player in the world field. With this in schools affiliated with Tokai University educating mind Hirasawa was encouraged through his bidding students about the Olympics. This education project is campaign to educate people around the world about 1 NPO - Solidarity of International JUDO Education the text book and Japanese children. support we have gained the understanding and support I feel that this sentiment was the very same of many more people and have been able to undertake sentiment as that of Solidarity of Judo Education. It is many varied activities. Some of the activities we have exactly the sentiment which we have inherited. The undertaken are not what you would expect from such scale of our activities is small not worth making a a small NPO. The Japanese judo world has rallied all comparison even on a national level. However even its energies into dealing with these activities. Thanks on such a small scale we are able to bring together to the efforts of the many people involved with judo people from countries undergoing disputes and we have been able to move forward tackling these through judo and living together they are able to issues. I would like to thank you all again. connect with each other building for a better future. Muneoka Shouji assumed office as the new I also believe that today the trainee instructors who chairman of the All Japan Judo Federation in August have come to Japan will tell us of the valuable of 2013. Along with him as vice chairman we are now experiences they have had. In order to create a better together reforming the association. By 2014 we were society through judo and with your support I hope to able to re-organize the governance and compliance of continue such activities. We are also planning a social the organization and since April of 2015 we have been event this evening. Time permitting I am looking putting our energies into international exchange. forward to getting to know everybody. Thank you I hope that you will understand when I tell you that, very much. in my position as both the vice-chairman of the judo federation and as the chairman of this NPO, just so Moderator Chairman Yamashita will now that there are no misconceptions about a conflict of present the 2015 Activities report. Over to you interest, I have chosen to offer support from behind Chairman. the scenes in terms of AJJF’s international exchange activities. Hereafter, along with the Judo Federation, The Year in Review judo I believe we can widen the scope further for Chairman Yasuhiro Yamashita contributing internationally and socially precisely because it is the judo world. I’d like to move forward bringing together people from both sides. 2015 Annual Report Allow me to present our activities for 2015. Firstly the recycling of judo-gi and the tatami support project. This project has been undertaken with the cooperation of students from Tokai University. You will find the Good evening ladies and gentlemen and Thank you list of countries where donations are sent to in the for your continued support of the Solidarity of Judo pamphlet in front of you. Education NPO. Our NPO exists thanks to your Some of you may be thinking that the number of contributions and donations with that in mind I am countries where donations are sent to is small. In fact very happy to present this year’s activities. the national judo federation has also begun a support Judo Education Solidarity NPO was set up in April project donating judo-gi and tatami to developing 2004 and this year we reach our 10th anniversary. I am countries. Some countries have switched over deeply moved when I think that, thanks to your bringing our numbers down compared to previous 2 th The Record of 17 Lecture years. We estimate that there will be cases where the as Nanjing and Qingdao as well as Bhutan. It is national judo federation will not be able to meet essential to prepare and train students before they go demand from certain countries for judo-gi and tatami no matter how much judo experience they have. and we will step in. Kenji Mitsumoto has become the central focus of our NPO and is applying himself to cooperate with the All Judo-gi number Japan Judo Federation on preparatory training. Bhutan 50 Cambodia 50 Paraguay 100 Zimbabwe 50 Tatami Honduras 50 Costa Rica 100 Tanzania 157 Cuba 100 Next I’d like to mention our sending abroad of volunteer students. The picture in the slide shows a graduate student we sent to Georgetown University in America in September 2015. This project is also in its th 4 year. In the first year we sent Kosei Inoue sensei to America. What was at the time an amateur judo club The following pictures taken in March 2015 show at the naval officers’ academy has now developed into Tomoo Hamana Sensei’s time in Nanjing and Qingdao a proper judo club with dedicated members. and similarly Mitsumoto Sensei’s time in Nanjing and Not only to America however, we also sent Qingdao. volunteer students to Nanjing and Qingdao in China. Following on from this, our admittance of Looking at the data it may appear that we are less instructors and judo athletes from abroad. In 2015 we active in this area than we were last year. welcomed instructors and judo athletes from Costa Rica, Senegal, China, Myanmar and Ghana. We are planning to accept even more instructors throughout the year. At present instructors from nine different countries come with a plan to spend a month in Japan, today we will hear the results of their stay. Amongst past participants are judoka who became junior team coaches and instructors for what was then The reason for this is also the fact that from last the USSR’s national team. There are also a large year the All Japan Judo Federation began sending number of people carrying out projects around the volunteer students abroad. The students are volunteers world. We hope that the instructors who visited Japan which means basically that they go during spring and this year will return home and play an even more summer vacation however they are were sent to places active role. which already have experience with exchanges such 3 NPO - Solidarity of International JUDO Education The Spirit of Judo Expanding in China At present there are about 500 members, both adults and children registered with the Japan-China Nanjing Judo friendship hall.