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  • 2024.09.29

    To Our Supporters

    Press Release on “inochi’s Pay It Forward Week Presented by CHUGAI PHARMACEUTICAL”

    We issued a press release on “inochi’s Pay It Forward Week Presented by CHUGAI PHARMACEUTICAL” at 9:00 AM on September 27, 2024, and it has been featured in more than 10 media outlets, including Newsweek Japan and Sanspo.inochi Mirai Project / inochi WAKAZO Project, with the support of a ticket donation for the 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo from Nippon Life Insuranc…

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  • 2024.09.27

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    Students from the 2023 cohort, presented their research at the poster session of the Japanese Society of Sleep Research (JSSR).

    The team reported on their research progress on finding a solution to the 2023 i-GIP theme, Sleep Apnea Syndrome (SAS), at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Sleep Research (JSSR).Their research focused on the relationship between SAS and concentration, particularly its impact on the academic performance of each grade. The team developed and refined their resea…

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  • 2024.04.28

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    An English paper evaluating i-GIP2020 has been published.

    A qualitative evaluation of the impact of the inochi Gakusei Innovators’ Program 2020 (i-GIP 2020) on the participants has been published in the international journal Cureus. The theme of i-GIP 2020 is “Building a society that can live with developmental disorders”. We asked three groups of people (junior and senior high school student participants, universit…

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  • 2024.02.18

    Event Report

    The inochi WAKAZO Forum 2023 was held on December 3rd, 2024 at Nakanoshima Festival Tower West in Osaka.

    The forum was composed of two sessions. In the first session, “i-GIP Contents”, the winning teams from the  four regions (Kansai, Kanto, Hokuriku, and Kyushu) of the inochi Gakusei Innovators’ Program (i-GIP), now in its ninth year, made their final presentations. This year, junior high and high school students worked on solving problems of people who suffer from sleep a…

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    The inochi WAKAZO Forum 2023 was held on December 3rd, 2024 at Nakanoshima Festival Tower West in Osaka.

  • 2023.12.23

    Event Report

    WAKAZO’s LAST WORDS project conducted an event at one of Kyoto’s oldest temple, Syoujyoukenin.

    WAKAZO’s life and death awareness project, LAST WORDS, took part in an event at one of Kyoto’s oldest temples, Syiujyoykenin, LOTUS WEEKEND event from November 3rd (Friday) to November 5th (Sunday).LOTUS WEEKEND is a three-day open event that focuses on the keywords “dialogue,” “experience,” and “observation,” intertwining the perspect…

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    WAKAZO’s LAST WORDS project conducted an event at one of Kyoto’s oldest temple, Syoujyoukenin.

  • 2023.12.23

    Event Report

    WAKAZO’s LAST WORDS project conducted an event at Shibuya QWS.

    LAST WORDS, WAKAZO’s project about the view of life and death, held an event at Shibuya QWS in Shibuya Station on Sunday, October 15. The same event was held twice at the common space in Shibuya QWS.This time, we did an activity called “Life Chart”. In the life chart, participants were asked to look back on their lives and think about what emotions they had at diff…

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    WAKAZO’s LAST WORDS project conducted an event at Shibuya QWS.