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2024.02.18
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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2023.12.23
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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2023.12.23
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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2023.12.22
The members of WAKAZO spoke at “Asia Week 2023: International Exchange Festa to Connect with Asia at Ritsumeikan”.
WAKAZO’s Ryoma Iizuka and Miki Kawamura spoke at the Expo symposium of the “Asia Week 2023 Ritsumeikan Connecting with Asia International Exchange Festa” held on October 23, 2023 at Ritsumeikan University Osaka Ibaraki Campus. In the panel discussion, they discussed how young people can create a spark of life towards the Expo by taking the LAST WORDS as a sta…
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2023.10.31
LAST WORDS, the life and death project of WAKAZO, exhibited at QWS CROSSTAGE.
A project WAKAZO has been working on exhibited a booth in QWS CROSSTAGE which was held on October 6th and 7th in one of the most popular commercial facilities in Shibuya, Tokyo. The project is called “LAST WORDS” and it focuses on life and death.In an event space in the 7th floor of Shibuya Scramble Square, a booth from WAKAZO was arranged with a big tree next to it. The exhib…
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2023.10.31
WAKAZO held an event on life and death in Shibuya QWS
On September 10, 2023, we held an event on “Views on Life and Death” at QWS in Shibuya, Tokyo, under the theme of “Designing Future Society for Our Lives ” for the Kansai-Osaka Expo to be held in 2025.In this event, after discussing views on life and death, participants were asked to think about the last words, in other words LASTWORDS, they would like …