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Awards Entry

2013 Jci World Congress

Mr Obata ： CHANGE!
JCI JAPAN
Most Outstanding National President

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Entry Information
Award Program:Category:

2013 JCI World Congress
Most Outstanding National President

NOM Information
National Organization:

JCI JAPAN
Kosuke Obata
E-mail: yu-ai2@oregano.ocn.ne.jp;
secjjc@mrh.biglobe.ne.jp

National President:

LOM Information
Local Organization:
President:

JCI Akita
Kagaya Hisato

President Email: info@akitajc.jp

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Basic Information
Duration : January 1 - December 31, 2013
Staff : 27 members
Sponsors : NONE
Budget : NONE
Profit / Loss : NONE
In which UN MDG bestfit (if apply): ?:He works for all of those who live in Japan, which number is 128 million,
Who is benefited ?:and 37,795 members of JCI Japan.
Objective : As the JCI Japan National President, he has acted with THREE goals.
1. To make a chance of becoming a pioneer of a new era for all Japanese.
2. To deepen the connection among Japanese.
3. To contribute to the World Peace to last forever at the same time.
The following five are the goals that must be obtained in order to reach thethree objectives.
1. Make a proposal about what ideal Japan is.
2. Develop local leaders who are able to predict the future.
3. Promote a private diplomacy that aims for the everlasting World Peace.
4. Establish the organization that is able to meet the expectations of thesociety.
5. Reconstruction of Japan from the local level.
Overview : 1. He made a proposal about what ideal Japan is.
A. To obtain this goal, he established five committees
B. He made opportunities for all members and Japanese citizens tobecome more conscious about the following issues.
(1) Constitutional Issues(2) Territorial/Territorial Waters Issues(3) Energy Issues in Japan(4) TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership) Issues(5) Recovery from the damage of the Great East Japan Earthquake(6) Construction of the political choice by the policy standard
C. JCI Japan has deepened its relationship with Diet members andrelevant ministries and agencies, making a political proposal.
D. JCI Japan held Summer Conference 2013 for two days in order to share
its activities with general public and members. Approximately 25,000
people have come, and 9,882 were the members of JCI Japan.
2. He developed local leaders who are able to predict the future.
A. He established nine committees to achieve this goal.
B. He held a forum to promote the recovery of the area and people fromthe damage of the Great East Japan Earthquake, and also held amemorial service for them. 580 non-member participants and 3,580
member participants.
C. JCI Japan held a school 22 times to develop regional producers with a
total of 660 participants.
D. JCI Japan held a school six times for members to develop leaders of
local companies with a total of 180 participants.
E. JCI Japan looked for young people who are doing outstanding works inlocal communities and gave them an award, promoting their action all overJapan and helping them to expand their work. (TOYP of Japan)
F. He held seminars at 54 Blocs of JCI Japan in order to get more people
joining JCI Japan. By September 2013, 1,531 people have joined JCI
Japan.
G. He held meetings at 48 Blocs with LOM Presidents and held a lecture
at 27 of those places.
H. JCI Japan has worked to raise the percentage of people voting in orderto get more citizens’ participation in politics.
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3. He promoted a private diplomacy that aims for the everlasting World
Peace.
A. He established six committees to achieve this goal.
B. He attended all of the JCI meetings in 2013.
January 7?13/JCI January Executive Committee/Board Meeting
May 1-4/JCI Conference of the Americas
May 8-11/JCI Africa and the Middle East Area Conference
May 29- June 1/JCI European Conference
June 13-16/JCI Asia Pacific Area Conference
July 22-23/JCI Midyear Executive Committee Meeting
July 24-27/JCI Global Partnership Summit
November 4-9/JCI World Congress Taipei(scheduled)
C. Officers and appointees sent from JCI Japan to JCI in 2013:
JCI Vice President:Mr. Kazutaka Amaki
JCI Committee Chaiman: Mr. Keita Endo
Special Assistant to the President (for sponsorship):Yuichiro Nakagawa
Special Assistant to the President (for sponsorship):Masahiro Noguchi
Special Assistant to the President (for sponsorship):Hidehiro Kimura
Special Assistant to the President (for sponsorship):Yamato Inoue
D. He encouraged JCI Japan members to actively participate in JCI
meetings.
Asia Pacific Area Conference enrollment: 2,501 members
Global Partnership Summit enrollment: 70 members
4. He established the organization that is able to meet the expectations of
the society.
A. He made three committees to achieve this goal.
B. He presented his plan to the approximately 10,000 participants at the2013 JCI Japan Kyoto Convention in January.
C. He used the following media to promote more about JCI Japan. (1) JCI
Japan’s official website (2) Facebook (3) JCI Japan’s monthly printed
magazine, “We Believe” (4) Press releases (5) Newspapers (6) E-mails (7)Radio (8) Flyers (9) Yokohama Aurora Vision
D. He changed the system of sending information from post office to localorganizations to uploading them on the website of JCI Japan for them todownload. This did not only improve the information communication, butalso lowered the cost of sending information.
5. Recovery of Japan from the local level.
A. He established eight committees to achieve this goal.
B. He supported disaster area from the Great East Japan Earthquake
continuously.
C. JCI Japan held the convention of recovery from the Great East Japan
Earthquake, sending messages for Japan’s recovery in the future.
D. JCI Japan held a school for six times to develop local producers with a
total of 110 participants.
E. JCI Japan awarded outstanding projects by Local Organization
Members at JCI Japan Awards Ceremony. The information of the projects
is put on the website.
F. JCI Japan strengthened an investigation into social stock and thecooperation with the affiliate in the area.
Results : 1. He made a proposal about what ideal Japan is.
A. He established five committees to achieve this goal.
B. He made opportunities for all members and Japanese to learn more
about the following six issues.
(1) Constitutional Issue
JCI Japan has worked under his strong leadership, holding town meetings
at 47 places in Japan with a total of 13,212 participants.
(2) Territorial/Territorial Waters Issue
Under his great leadership, JCI Japan taught members and citizens torecognize themselves that they all have a right to think and speak out as a
citizen of Japan. JCI Japan also held a “Territorial and Territorial Waters
Recognition Program” to young generation, teaching basic knowledge
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about Japanese Territory and Territorial Waters and its importance.
(3)Energy Issues
He worked to establish the policy for the safe and secure energy, and also
to establish energy literacy.
“Japanese Energy Choice Forum” was held at SUMMER COMFERENCE
2013 by him.
He also held a seminar to think about the energy issue for 14 times at
each prefectures.
(4) TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership) Issues
He established national strategy and business strategy from an
economical aspect that can lead the global society.
“Global Economic Strategy Forum” was held at SUMMER CONFERENCE
2013 with an approximate participant of 2,000.
(5) Recovery from the damage of the Great East Japan Earthquake
Based on “Guide for a Recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake,”he supported the people in the devastated area for eight times. He also
held a “Smile Design Project” to get children at the area to join theactivities of Local Organization Members.
(6) Construction of the political choice by the policy standard
To let people know more about the political choice by the policy standard,he opened a website that compares the policies of those who are going to
be a candidate.
2. Develop local leaders who are able to predict the future.
A. He established 9 committees to achieve this goal.
He promoted the recovery of the devastated area and people from thedamage of the Great East Japan Earthquake by hosting the forum, andalso held a memorial service for those who live in the area. There were 580
non-member participants and 3,580 member participants.
C. JCI Japan held a lecture for 22 times to develop regional producers witha total of 660 participants.
D. JCI Japan had an open lecture six times for members to develop
leaders of local companies with a total of 180 participants.
E. JCI Japan searched for young generations who are having remarkable
works in local communities and awarded them, which is to promote theiraction all over Japan and helping them to expand their work. (TOYP of
Japan)
F. He held seminars at 54 Blocs of JCI Japan in order to get more people
joining JCI Japan. By September 2013, 1,531 people have joined JCI
Japan.
G. He held meetings at 48 Blocs with LOM Presidents and held a lecture
at 27 of those places.
H. JCI Japan has worked to raise the percentage of people voting in orderto get more citizens’ participation in politics.
On July 21st, there were open discussion which gives weight to the
manifest of each party at the Upper House election. The voting rate for theUpper House election was 52.61%.
3. Promoted a private diplomacy that aims for the everlasting World
Peace.
A. He participated in the following meetings.
January 7-13, 2013 - JCI JEM/JBM
May 1-4, 2013 - JCI Conference of the Americas
May 8-11, 2013 - JCI Africa and the Middle East Area Conference
May 29-June 1, 2013 - JCI European Conference
June 13-16, 2013 - JCI Asia Pacific Area Conference
July 22-23, 2013 JCI MYE
July 24-27, 2013 JCI Global Partnership Summit
November 4-9, 2013 JCI World Convention(Scheduling)
B. JCI Japan has appointed following board member and the assigned
staffs.
JCI Vice President: Mr. Kazutaka Amaki
JCI Committee Chaiman: Mr. Keita Endo
6 other appointed personnel
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C. He encouraged the members in Japan to participate in meetings, 2501
registered for the convention in Asia Pacific region, and 70 registered for
Global Partnership Summit
D. JCI Japan held a Japan Night in order to have an international andpersonal interaction at the Asia Pacific Area Conference, running 65
booths. There were 280 participants and 150 of them were from overseas.
F. JCI Japan has gathered candidates of the president of National
Organization Member to have a JCI ACADEMY COMMISSION at
Fukuyama, Hiroshima with a participation of 65 delegates from abroad and
99 delegates from Japan. It was a great chance to learn, discern, andexpand the network within and out of country.
G. JCI Japan has promoted the Nothing But Nets campaign, collecting\\\\911,203 at the point of September 9th. The money was used to donate
mosquito nets to prevent malaria.
H. He has attended to the New Year ceremonies at the Inaugural
Conventions held at the following four Asia Pacific National Organizations:
JCI Taiwan, JCI Macao, JCI Hong Kong, and JCI Cambodia. He also
attended the National Conventions held at all of the six nationalorganizations from the Asia Pacific area: JCI Taiwan, JCI Hong Kong, JCI
Mongolia, JCI Cambodia, JCI Macao, and JCI South Korea
I. He has donated 100 thousand US dollars to the JCI and got the honor ofDavid Chua-Unsu Patron.
J. JCI Japan held the “Russia Mission Program” for college students which
has been continuing as a part of private diplomacy, aiming to develop aleaders of the next generation who will contribute to the understanding andpeace between Russia and Japan.
4. He established the organization that is able to meet the expectations of
the society.
A. He made three committees to achieve this goal.
B. He presented his plan to the approximately 10,000 participants at the2013 JCI Japan Kyoto Convention in January.
C. He used the following media to promote more about JCI Japan. (1) JCI
Japan’s official website (2) Facebook (3) JCI Japan’s monthly printed
magazine, “We Believe” (4) Press releases (5) Newspapers (6) E-mails (7)Radio (8) Flyers (9) Yokohama Aurora Vision
D. He changed the system of sending information from post office to localorganizations to uploading them on the website of JCI Japan for them todownload. This did not only improve the information communication, butalso lowered the cost of sending information.
5. Recovery of Japan from the local level.
A. He established eight committees to achieve this goal.
B. He supported disaster area from the Great East Japan Earthquake
continuously, visiting six of the LOM.
C. JCI Japan held the convention of recovery from the Great East Japan
Earthquake, sending messages for Japan’s recovery in the future. He held
a forum at Sendai, Miyagi inviting the Minister of Reconstruction tosuggest the vision of recovering Japan in the future with 3,000 participants.
D. JCI Japan held a school for six times to develop local producers with a
total of 110 participants.
E. JCI Japan awarded outstanding projects by Local Organization
Members at JCI Japan Awards Ceremony. The information of the projects
is put on the website.
F. JCI Japan strengthened an investigation into social stock and thecooperation with the affiliate in the area. Also JCI Japan opened a market
twice to promote the appealing parts of local areas. 400 booths and 25
thousand people, 10 thousand were general public.
Actions Taken : He participated in the following projects.
January:
New Year Convention in Asia regions (Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao)
JCI JAPAN New Year Convention (Kyoto)
JCI JEM/JBM
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Februrary:
Board of Directors meetings (7 locations)
March:
Board of Directors meetings (17 locations)
JCI Japan Great earthquake disaster revival ＆creation forum
April:
Board of Directors meetings (17 locations)May:
JCI Conference of the Americas
JCI Africa and the Middle East Area Conference
Board of Directors meetings (7 locations)
June:
JCI European Conference
JCI Asia Pacific Area Conference
July:
JCI ACADEMYJCI MYEJCI Global Partnership Summit
SUMMER CONFERENCE2013
September:
Russia Mission (the Russia Youth Mission in Russia)
Japanese version of TOYP
October:
JCI JAPAN National Convention
Recommendations : He was able to get results from this year’s three basic rules that he has
set to himself. His project succeeded in making concrete results whichhave contributed in notifying JCI Japan and 698 LOM within the country to
the people and media.
People got closer and recognized the importance of being with and helping
each other as a result of five projects.
Developing local leaders who can predict what is going to happen in the
future and the private diplomacy for the world peace are some of the mostoutstanding progress of this year’s Focus JCI Japan.
He also has succeeded in strongly promoting the recovery of devastatedarea of the Great East Japan Earthquake and empowering Japan from its
local level.
JCI Japan believe that it is very important to put a large effort on theseprojects in the future.
National President Ikawa has interviewed Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo
Abe for JCI Japan’s monthly magazine. He talked on topics that relates to
JCI Japan’s 2013 theme.
・Suggestion of quick revival from the Great East Japan Earthquake
Disaster.
・Suggestion of Constitution draft
・National President Ikawa promised to work on issues in Japan as ayoung generation.
JCI Japan members across the country read his interviews and gained afull understanding of the various activities conducted by JCI Japan.
The interview was focused on relevant information on the campaigns andactivities that JCI Japan conducted.
Another point that must be mentioned is that interviewees were all
professionals with deep knowledge and experience on each topic, and thetechnical views and opinions they provided allowed readers to gain an
excellent understanding of the topics that has been covered.

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Aw ard Category criteria
Administration

Did this National
President achieve Yes. He has worked to achieve 100% of his goals
100% Efficiency? without compromising.
How did this He established following three committees with an
National President independent status to supervise implementation ofeffectively projects by each other.
administer the 1. Financial Examination and Inspection Committeeorganization? which is focused on financial matters.

2. Constitution/Bylaws and Compliance Enforcement
Committee which deals with compliancemanagement.
3. Committee to Support Acquisition of Public
Interest Corporation Status by the Local
Organizations.
With the help of Taiju Research Institute, Inc. (anonprofit policy recommendation organization that is
not affiliated with any political party) he evaluates all
projects that has been carried out by eachcommittees.

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Leadership, Motivation, Inspiration of Members

Please give an He has shown leadership to all of the 685 Local
example of how Presidents in Japan.
this National 【Background】 Many Local Presidents had been
President acted as facing a diverse number of challenges and werea leader. looking for solution.

There were different kinds of challenges such as adecrease of the number of members, time
consuming registration, negative attitudes toward
accepting positions, and feedbacks anddifferentiation from other organizations on theactivities and campaigns of JCI Japan.
【Activities】
・He conducted a questionnaire survey to recognize
the challenges and questions that Local Presidents
face.
・He analyzed the results of the survey and preparedanswers and solutions.
・He held meetings with all of the Local Presidents at
48 locations throughout Japan.
・He gave lectures to encourage the members at 27
locations around Japan.
・In his lectures, he suggested that prefectures
should show appreciation to the partners of JCI
Japan from overseas who offered such a great
support to Japan and JCI Japan following the Great
East Japan Earthquake last year with the help of
JCI Operation Hope.
【Results】・He has improved an awareness among
Local Presidents and helped them to perform theirleadership by actively increasing the members.

Please give an He enhanced the awareness of members as Local
example of how Presidents within Japan and encouraged them tothis National take appropriate action.
President 【Background】 Due to the damage from earthquake
motivated and and tsunami two years ago, there was an issue
inspired members. about finding a place to dispose debris left in theareas that were destroyed.
Japanese government had requested somemunicipalities for their help in accepting the debris.
However, some residents without correct knowledge
opposed to it. Therefore, mayors could not give theirapproval for the acceptance of debris in theirmunicipalities.
【Activities】 Taking quick action, National President
Ikawa did a questionnaire regarding the formulationof policy, to the mayors throughout Japan.
【Results】 Local Presidents who were aware of theseriousness of the issue were then requested tocontact their mayors and ask them to complete thequestionnaire. From 998 municipalities where thequestionnaires were submitted, 590 were completed
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Ministry of the Environment.

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Activities: Impact of Projects

What national 【Background】 JCI Japan did a survey toprojects achieved approximately 3,000 people to evaluate thethe greatest impact awareness of the issues of territorial and territorial
during the National waters.
President's tenure? The survey showed that only 3.2% of respondents

had accurate knowledge of the status of national
borders at the three locations which are in disputed
areas. The survey showed the low level of awarenessamong the Japanese people about the matter.
In the meantime, incidents associated with thedisputed areas occurred in April of 2013, resulting in
the raise of awareness among the public regarding
territorial and territorial water issues.
【Activities】 He has been promoting JCI Japan’s
efforts to raise awareness of territorial andterritorial water issues. In response to taking inpublic opinions, he urgently implemented the programin additional locations (18 locations throughout
Japan, in addition to those already selected).

How was the
National President The people who recognized the territorial problem
involved in the that Japan had some other time opened the meetingorganization's to think about a territorial problem in each area (45projects? areas)

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Attendance at JCI Events

Describe the He has participated in the following LOM projects
National and gave lectures and speeches.
President's His lecture was given at three Local Organization
attendance at meetings, encouraging the members to take action.
national and local As he held the activities and campaigns of JCI
JCI events. Japan, number of members who work as a part of

the JCI Japan have increased.
・He participated in the New Year ceremonies at four
Local Organizations, namely, JCI Yubari, JCI Sendai,
JCI Namie and JCI Akita, where he madeencouraging speeches.
・He attended 10 anniversary ceremonies, whichwere held at JCI Fukuoka, JCI Ofunato, JCI
Shimonoseki, JCI Kesennuma, JCI Nihonmatsu, JCI
Fukaya, JCI Kitakami, JCI Fujieda, JCI Nagano, and
JCI HitachiOta.

Describe the He attended all JCI meetings.
National January 7?13/JCI January Executive
President's Committee/Board Meeting
attendance at May 1-4/JCI Conference of the Americas
international JCI May 8-11/JCI Africa and the Middle East Area
events. Conference

May 29- June 1/JCI European Conference
June 13-16/JCI Asia Pacific Area Conference
July 22-23/JCI Midyear Executive Committee
Meeting
July 24-27/JCI Global Partnership Summit
November 4-9/JCI World Congress
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Participation in JCI

How did the He participated in the following NOM projects.
National President -New Year ceremonies at the Inaugural Conventions
participate in of the following Three Asia Pacific National
national JCI Organizations: JCI Taiwan, JCI Macao, and JCI Hongactivities? Kong.

The Russia Youth Mission.
National Conventions of the following six Asia PacificNational Organizations: JCI Taiwan, JCI Macao, JCI
Cambodia ,JCI South Korea , JCI Mongolia ,and JCI
Hong Kong.

How did the ・He increased the chance for members of JCI
National President Japan to take part in JCI events.
participate in As a result, the number of JCI Japan members
international JCI registered for the JCI Global Partnership Summit
activities? became 164, the largest ever.

・He strongly supported the holding of OMOIYARI
seminars both in Japan and overseas.
The seminar was held 17 times in Japan. Bothconference and JCI Academy was held at theseminar. Altogether over 1,000 people took part.
・He was responsible for having the 26th JCI
Academy for National Presidents and JCI Japanmembers, with the participation of 70 overseas
participants from 70 countries.

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