Celebrating International Cooperation | Lifestyle | Trends in Japan | Web Japan
The government of Japan has designated October 6 International Cooperation Day, and to celebrate this, an International Cooperation Festival is held every year at the beginning of October.

APCC - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
N early 400 young delegates from 44 countries and territories were invited to Japan for an annual three-week program of international exchange in Fukuoka Prefecture in July 1998. This year's gathering of the Asian-Pacific Children's Convention (APCC) was the tenth annual meeting, and it was devoted to the theme of promoting international unity and protecting the global environment.

Taking Baseball to Africa | Sports | Trends in Japan | Web Japan
Several Japanese pioneers are fostering international exchange with African countries through the medium of baseball.

Afghanistan - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
"Isn't there something we can do?" The International Conference on Reconstruction Assistance to Afghanistan was held in January in Tokyo, and kids all around Japan are wondering what they can do to help out, too.

Summit - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
The leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) nations came to Okinawa for an annual summit meeting July 21-23 to discuss a number of international and economic issues. They also found time to go out of their way to form new bonds of friendship with the people of Okinawa, Japan's southernmost prefecture.

Yuge Akiko | People | Trends in Japan | Web Japan
As director of the United Nations Development Programme's Tokyo Office, Yuge Akiko's job is to build and strengthen partnerships with Japanese government, businesses, academia, and NGOs with the aim of assisting developing countries in their nation-building efforts.

Akashi Yasushi | People | Trends in Japan | Web Japan
"We need to make full use of the great potential of the United Nations." Former UN Under-Secretary-General Akashi Yasushi speaks about the world body's past, present, and future, and Japan's role as a key member of the UN organization.

Learning to Cope with Natural Disasters - Kids in Action - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
This article reports on the Natural Disaster Youth Summit in Kobe, where kids from Japan and other countries discussed how to reduce the impact of natural disasters.

JUNEC - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
The Junior United Nations Eco Workshop (JUNEC) was held in Tokyo from August 18 to 20, 2004, with the aim of developing environmental leaders who can think about environmental issues in their schools and communities. This was the fourth annual conference for JUNEC, which was begun in 2001 under the slogan of "environmental conservation from an early age." This year about 120 middle and high school children participated, mostly from Tokyo and the surrounding area.

Bosnia - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
During the Olympic Winter Games in Nagano in 1998, Sanbonyanagi Elementary School in Nagano supported Bosnia and Herzegovina as part of the "one school, one nation" program, where each local school learned about and supported one country during the games. Now friendship between students in Nagano and Sarajevo has grown strong.

Elephants - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
Japan has received a surprise gift from Thailand: a pair of baby elephants. The elephants were a thank-you gift for a tree-planting project carried out in Thailand by a Japanese volunteer organization.

Ibises - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
When Chinese President Jiang Zemin made a trip to Japan in November 1998--the first Chinese head of state to visit the country--he made a promise to present a pair of ibises to his hosts.

Drawing the Ideal School - Kids in Action - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
How do children in Africa live, and what kind of schools do they wish for? "The Ideal School As Drawn by African and Japanese Children" is an art exhibition that provides rare insight into the thoughts of children from African countries.

Talk in Pictures - Kids in Action - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
A groundbreaking experiment was conducted between Tokyo and Seoul on November 20, designated as Universal Children's Day by the United Nations. In the experiment, kids from Japan and South Korea "talked" to each other using pictographs (pictures used to convey words and ideas).

Kenya - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
On April 2 Yoshitake Sakurada, then parliamentary secretary for foreign affairs, visited the Kakuma Refugee Camp in northwestern Kenya to fulfill then Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori's promise of giving a pencil to every child there. He handed over about 110,000 pencils, notebooks, and other stationeries to children after inspecting a hospital and elementary school in the camp. The following morning, he attended a ceremony presenting an ambulance to the hospital and writing materials to schoolchildren in the refugee camp.

Landmines - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
On February 8 and 9 the children's summit against landmines was held in the small town of Shin-Asahi in Shiga Prefecture, central Japan.

Football - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
Spring and summer vacations are special times for school kids in the cities of Shimizu in Japan and Sungnam in South Korea--and not just because they don't have any school. Those are the times when teams of youngsters from the two cities play football (soccer) against each other to promote friendly ties and to improve the skills of the players.

Pen Pals - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
Over 140 letters have been received from children in the civil-war-devastated country of Bosnia and Herzegovina by sixth graders at Miyagaya Elementary School in Yokohama in response to letters written by Japanese children last year.

Friendship - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
Drawings by 250 Japanese and French schoolchildren living in Tokyo will be built into a monument to be completed in the fall of 1999. The project will promote friendship between Japan and France and is part of festivities celebrating "France Year" in Japan.

Message - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
A glass bottle containing a message from a six-year-old Japanese boy who set it adrift in the Pacific Ocean 10 years ago was picked up by a 36-year-old Malaysian man in April this year.