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Awards Entry

2014 Asia-pacific Conference
The Leadership Training'MAKOTO'
JCI JAPAN
Best Local Personal Skill Development Program

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Entry Information
Award Program:Category:

2014 Asia-Pacific Conference
Best Local Personal Skill Development Program

NOM Information
National Organization:

National President:

JCI JAPAN
Kazuya Suzuki
E-mail: japan@jci.cc

LOM Information
Local Organization:
President:

JCI Yokohama
koichi saitoh

President Email: cs@jp21.co.jp

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Basic Information
Duration : November 2012 – December 2013
Staff : １６ Mem
Yokohama City Board of Education
Sponsors : Yokohama Digital Arts College
Yokohama Futaba Junior High Sch
Budget : Twenty six thousand
Profit / Loss : 0
In which UN MDG bestfit (if apply): ?:Parents living in the Yokohama area, which has a population of about 3
Who is benefited ?:million people.
Objective : JCI Yokohama aims to build a compassion-filled society in which all of thepeople in Yokohama are considerate of one another.
The first step is to implement projects for the purpose of "POSITIVECHANGE" in order to build up a generation of parents who have a highmoral sense.
Humans cannot survive alone.
Morality means \"Acts which are necessary for the peaceful functioning ofsociety, and acts which are necessary for us to take as humans\"
We need a code of ethics to point us to the right road in order to realize acompassionate society in which the individual\'s ability is richly
expressed.
One example of morality is the highest virtue in Bushido, which considers
Makoto, or honesty, to be the moral standard for the human heart.
"Having a code of ethics which does not translate into action is no different
from knowing no ethics at all. " This is the meaning of the concept of
chikou-gouitsu "Knowledge and Actions are One", which we have madeour annual theme this year.
The following are our three goals for this training session.
（１）To foster the moral fiber that can truly act in good faith.
（２）To facilitate the change to an altruistic mindset from a self-centered
way of thinking.
（３）To develop the ability to play a leading role in various communities.
Overview : Of course everyone has some moral sense, but it is meaningless without
action. Therefore we have planned a training session to help people
translate their ethics into actions, according to the principle of chikougoitsu, our annual theme.
The generation of parents in Yokohama, including members of JCI, candevelop a deeper sense of ethics through participation in all of the three
training sessions.
Each training program has a different point of view, and they are carriedout in a mutually complimentary way.
Thus it is in the others that each training session finds its completion.
In order to increase the effectiveness of the training program, the firstsession was held in a training room, the second session was held in aschool, and the third session was held in a Buddhist temple.
Each session was 4 to 6 hours long.
The program consists of using our original self-check sheet at the
beginning, instructor lecture, panel discussions and workshops.
The contents of the self-check sheet is focused on common-sense
principles for daily life, such as, Do you say"\'Thank you\' sincerely? ","Do you take time to show real appreciation to friends and loved ones? ","Do you waste food? " and so on.
The topic of the first session was "Learning morals thoroughly" in which
we invited a moral teacher to come in and teach us about what morality is.
At the workshop, we discussed with each other about the meaning of
morality.
The second session\'s theme was "Providing opportunities to translate
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ethics into actions" and we invited guests from the Yokohama City Boardof Education and the Association for Promoting Parental Education, and inorder to translate ethics into actions through thinking about the roles ofparents in the home and teachers in public education, we had a panel
discussion about the treatment of ethical education in public schools, andhow it should be approached in the home.
The topic of the third session was "What is important to me"and, in orderto make good use of the things that we have learned this year in ourhomes and local and wider communities, and further to learn the powerthat dreams can give us, and the importance of following things through tocompletion, and the way that all people are supported by other people, we
invited an astronaut to give a talk.
At the workshop, we learned about how to work with the citizenry as one
body and also about leadership and harmonious cooperation andconsideration for others.
Finally, at the last session we had a reading of an original picture book,intended to instill morals in children.
The reading of picture books has many effects from an educational
perspective, including learning new words, improving the sensibilities,
increasing expressive and creative abilities, and allowing both the reader
and the listener to connect with each other, as has been shown inresearch, and as such the reading of picture books is often practiced realpublic education situations.
The picture book we used this time, which has been published in the past
as a text book, was "Hitofusa no Budou, A Cluster of Grapes" a shortstory which is set in Yokohama, written by Takeo Arishima.
Our members rewrote the book, being careful to remove any bias ofthought and difficult expressions, while preserving the ethical teaching of
the original work.
We were all working with the same short story, but at first there weresome differences of moral opinion among the attendees.
However, as we rewrote and rewrote we exchanged ideas and the plural
moral senses that possessed as a group gave way to a single coherent
moral structure.
This made a big impression on attendees.
To make sure our finished product was the best possible, we sent an
ideological manuscript to the Yokohama City Board of Education, and an
expression manuscript to Mr. Kageki Shimoda (an author who has won
one of the most famous literary prizes in Japan).
The illustration was done by an art student from Yokohama.
Results : ○ The number of JCI Yokohama members who participated in eachsession was as follows.
The first time 100 members
The second time 87 members
The third time 99 members○Through the production of the self-check sheet "MAKOTO Positive
Check" , we led to the improvement of the moral consciousness ofmembers.
○Each time, the results from high ranking members of the " MAKOTO
Positive Check " self-check sheet were presented through a radar chart.
The point of view of each session was different, but at the end the resultsof high ranking members made a relatively large clean circle.
On the other hand there was a tendency for the results of lower ranking
members to make a small circle clean.
From this, we can see that lower ranking members have a tendency
toward deceit and dishonesty, and to be self-righteous and self-serving.
○We asked whether members have knowledge of moral standards or not
before and after the first session.
Before : 57% said they had such knowledge.
After : 73% said that they had gained an understanding of morality.
○We asked the same question before the second session,
70% of members had moral sophistication.
60% of members did not have moral education at home or in thecommunity.
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47% of participants answered that moral education is not taught
sufficiently in public education, and through the program, everyone began
to believe that to teach "greetings" and "good behavior" as moral educationis really important at home and community.
89% of members felt a change in their own sense of morality throughout
the year, and the number of members who practice at home the storytelling also rose, clearly indicating the effectiveness of our project.
○There were also some elementary schools and that actually used theoriginal picture book "Hitofusa no Budou"in their morning warm-up
storytelling time and/or in their moral education.
○ A survey given to the teachers and students who used the bookindicated several"Positive Change"s, as follow.
【Teachers】
・We were able to see in a fresh light what is really important in terms of
guiding children.
・It was an opportunity not only to stir the imaginations of the children
through story-telling, but also for adults to rethink "what we ought to be".
・Scolding is not the beginning and end of guidance - forgiving is also an
important part of shepherding children.
・Teachers saw various opinions from the children, and felt the diversity ofchildren.
・People expressed a desire for continued work like this in the future.
【Students】
・Stealing is bad thing.
・Friends are important, it\'s a good thing when we make up.
・Students also said that they wanted more books to be read to them.
From the above, it was confirmed that our project had a big influence on
moral education, and it has affected a lot of morality of children and theparent generation.
Actions Taken : 【How to make Makoto-no-hito Establishment program planning ofconcept, planning, deliberation】○Nov 2012 Planning of concept,○Feb-12th, 2012 approval of the entire concept by JCI Yokohama board
meeting【First round : Makoto-no-hito Establishment program up to the project
implementation planning, and deliberation】○Nov 2012 Planning of concept,○Feb-12th, 2012 approval of the entire concept by JCI Yokohama board
meeting○After approval, Promotion to JCI Yokohama members○Mar-2nd 2013: first round program○Aim: learn thoroughly the moral sense○Venue: Yasuda Life Radio Nippon Building 3rd Floor Seminar Room○Time : １２：５０～１７：３０○ATTENDANCE: 100MEMBERS (PLAN : 100MEMBERS)○Instructor: Kiyoshi Aoki（Human power training Institute NPO moral
education President）○Technique：Enforcement of "Makoto Positive Check", Lecturer andworkshop【Second round : Makoto-no-hito Establishment program up to the project
implementation planning, and deliberation】○Dec 2012 to Jan 2013 Planning of concept,○Mar-12th, 2012 approval of the entire concept by JCI Yokohama board
meeting○After approval, Promotion to JCI Yokohama members○May-18th 2013: second round program○Aim: Offer of the opportunity to put moral sense into an action○Venue: Yokohama Futaba Junior High School & High School audiovisualroom○Time : 13：00～17：00○ATTENDANCE: 87MEMBERS (PLAN : 100MEMBERS) 、Citizen 18
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peoples (Plan 60 peoples)○Instructor：Yokohama City Board of Education, Morishige Fujiyama(Shichida Child Academy co,. ltd CEO), Hiroshi Omori (General
Foundation Association for the Advancement of Science parent Executive
director)
Technique：Enforcement of “Makoto Positive Check”, Panel discussion，Lecturer and workshop【Third round : Makoto-no-hito Establishment program up to the project
implementation planning, and deliberation】○Mar 2013 to May 2013 Planning of concept,○July 9th, 2013 approval of the entire concept by JCI Yokohama board
meeting○After approval, Promotion to JCI Yokohama members, also visit to local
elementary school and local magazine.
○Sep-14th 2013: Third round program○Aim: What is important to me○Venue: Sojiji temple at Thurumi word, Yokohama, 4 Floor, Large
Auditorium○Time :10:00-16:00○ATTENDANCE: 99MEMBERS (PLAN : 100MEMBERS) ，Citizen 218
peoples (Plan 200 peoples)○Instructor : Naoko Yamazaki (Astronaut ), Hideki Nohara ( MANYABILITIES co ltd ,.CEO) ，Kageki Shimoda (Shimoda Kageki office co,. ltd
CEO)○Technique：Enforcement of "Makoto Positive Check", Lecturer andworkshop, Story-telling picture book【Leads to inspection of Makoto-no-hito Establishment】○Inspection start from Sep 2013 to Nov 2013
○Dec 10th 2013 to adopt the measures of Makoto-no-hito Establishment
at by JCI Yokohama board meeting
Recommendations : 【Achievement】○Through the repeated use of the self-check sheets, each from a different
perspective, we were able to effectively help participants face andunderstand their own sense of morality, and reinforce their sense of theirroles in society as well as their ethics.
○Our original picture book "Hitofusa no budou" received an official letter ofappreciation from the City of Yokohama after having its effects evaluatedby the Board of Education. Also for 345 Yokohama City public elementary
schools (about 180,000 targeted children), the book has been
recommended for use in morning storytelling time, and a copy has beenplaced in Yokohama City hall.
○By listening to many people, it is possible to learn the attitudes andvalues of many, and this can become a way of learning how to live in the
future.
○" Positive change" to verify the role of morality in society, a positive chainof people trying to carry out moral education in families and communities
was born.
【Challenge】
That there are few opportunities during participation in our project to apply
the knowledge gained, and to the action of positive change it has been left
to the individual.
【Improvement Plan】
Because many of our lectures were just participants sitting in seats fromthe beginning to the end, and since the topic of morality tends to be rather
abstract, we should have given people more chances to get up and movearound during our project, and we should also have given more concreteelements and chances for output.

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Award Category criteria
Objectives, Planning, Finance and Execution

What were the 【Objectives】
objectives of this JCI Yokohama, done to allow all people of Yokohama
program? is to have compassion for each other in a society

full of compassion.
The first step is to implement projects for the
purpose of "POSITIVE CHANGE" in order to build
up a generation of parents who have a high moral
sense.
【Vision】
We aimed at becoming the leader who have a highmoral sense., " Makoto no Hito "【What’s"Makoto no Hito. "? 】
Actively pursuing truth in everything, in good faithand self-disciplined as a leader, has a high morality,
even if it is placed in any situation, people who act ingood faith to achieve their goals.
【annual theme "Knowledge and Actions are One"】
There was an annual training theme be a man oftruth and face the high moral sense of self throughtraining yearly, to be a person can really able to act.
【first program : "knowledge"】
To know thoroughly what is moral sense, whynecessary, we have the theme for better
understanding.
【second program : " action" 】
It was the theme that in the home
How does this This project is intended to increase the moral sense
program align to sophistication of the individual, in order to realize a
the JCI Plan of society full of compassion, it is trying to act as a
Action? leader, therefore○JCI creed／and the service to humanity is thebest work of life.
○JCI mission / to provide development
opportunities that empower young people to create
positive change.
In addition, this program is one in accordance withthe action plan of the JCI, to target the many
citizens, including members
Ⅰ．JCI MISSION, VISION, VALUE
Ⅱ．Recruiting new Member
Ⅳ．JCI PROGRAM
Ⅴ．JCI EVENT
Ⅶ. JCI TRAINING
Was the budget an It is spending properly on the basis of the budget,effective guide for without any expenditure of extra-budgetary.
the financial 【Overview of the breakdown of the budget】
management of the （Department of Revenue）
project? Revenue USD26,700（Part of the expenditure）
Site management costs USD5,200
Operating costs USD2,500
Lecturer related expenditures USD13,900
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Expenses for creating materials USD1,900
Hospitality gift bill USD2,800
Consumables cost USD200
Reserve fund USD200
How does this JCI MISSION
project advance the For awareness and provide opportunities for
JCI Mission and development and growth, and to participate in the
Vision? business actively, To make new award for thisprogram、It has continued in honor of members ofmore advanced moral sophistication is attached tothe members.
It becomes human resources in a responsible
Positive change and be to study deeply the morality
through our program for the full year, close to act ingood faith be placed in any situation, to be thefuture of JCI.
JCI VISION
By learning with moral citizens, to practice theworkshop, to build a network of citizens, we can playa leading role.

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Membership Participation

By number, howmany members
were involved inthis program? 16 members
By percentage,
how manymembers of the
Local Organization
were involved inthis program? ５５％
Describe the main 【The entire total conduct】
roles of the Compiling to understand the program as a whole, theparticipating instructions to each person １leader
members in this 【Building a program scheme】
program. １．Planning drafting current situation, research, andresearch ３members
２．Coordination with partner organizations andcompanies ３members【Preparation tool for program promotion】
１．Create your own self-check sheet to consider
the moral １３members
２．Creating a distribution ５members
３．Corresponding to the query ３members【Production of picture book】
１．Executive Producer of the picture book １
member
２．Material selection of picture book ２members
３．Rewrite of the picture book １３members
４．Meeting with public entities ３members
５．Meeting with partner organizations ３members【Roller strategy】
In order to recruit participants, and visited local
elementary schools １３members【Management of training programs】
１．Construction of the venue １３members
２．Audio-visual ２members
３．Management of time schedule ２members
４．Distribution of tool ５members
５．Distribution of the questionnaire, recovery ６
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Skills Developed

What skills were ○We have established the power to see throughdeveloped in this what the right path as a human being.
program? ○We have established a strong force to pushforward with confidence the right way.
○The change in thinking others central idea fromself-centered, and established a power caring otheras human beings.
○Professional attitude to truth, honesty now has tolearn in everything.
○Ability to think of what a shameful act is now
sticks to the body.
○Concept of coexistence assistance was sticks tothe body. .
○And fully aware of its role as a leader can now
take a behavior that can be a model for others.
How were these Is evaluated to enhance the content from theskills developed? Yokohama City Board of Education, original picture
Describe the book " Hitofusa no budou " is, I had you presented amethods and letter of appreciation from the City of Yokohama.
activities used. Also 345 schools Yokohama city public elementary

school (about 18 million people targeted number ofchildren), is located in Yokohama, such as City Hall,
the original picture book " Hitofusa no budou " hasbeen the driving target picture book storytelling in
the morning. .
In addition, there was the elementary school thatyou use as a story telling actually in class morality.
As a result of carried out on children and facultyquestionnaires Storytelling, was reviewing the
response, there was a "POSITIVE CHANGE", suchas the following. .
【Teachers】
・We also were able to reaffirm the important thing interms of guiding the child.
・It was an opportunity that not only stir theimagination of the child story-telling, even adults canre-check the "ideal situation".
・It is not that it "scold" that leads all. The "forgive"that also lead to lead.
・We can see the various opinions from the children, I
felt the diversity of children.
・I want you to continue to work like this in the
future.
【Students】
・Do not steal.
・Friends big deal, I was good to be reconciled.
•・I\'d read the books more. .
From the above, it was confirmed that the exerciseof our influence in the education of fact, it has
affected a lot of morality of children and parent
generation.

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Impact on Participants

What was the 【first round program】
intended impact on In order in society, we continue to live comfortably,
the participants? to have "to understand the other party, and feelingcompassion" and is very important. It was intended
to permit you to study what the moral, to grow into
further such feelings.
【second round program】
And intended to direct the consciousness that this isthat raising children in the community, and aware
again that it is a leader of society, and realize what
you need to do for the community, can be practiced
in everyday life have.
【third round program】
・It was intended that it will change the human toknow themselves, to understand the other party, it
has a heart of compassion, to continue to act onsomething hard.
・It is not able to live alone, who was intended to rerecognize that that has been enacted is the support
Describe the actual As a result of conducted a questionnaire to theimpact on the participants in reviewing the response followed byparticipants. each training, there was a positive change, such as

the following. .
【first round program】
As a result of learned in order in society, we
continue to live comfortably, morality is necessary,
people who act out of that tackle such as greeting
was born.
【second round program】
Results for consciousness that raising children in thecommunity, and aware again that it is a leader ofsociety, was realize what you need to do for thecommunity, without having to rely on the only public
education, future people who work on moral
education, such as a greeting at home was born. .
【third round program】
・As a result of studying the need and importance ofwhat will change in the man who know themselves, tounderstand the other party, it has a heart ofcompassion, to continue to act hard on something,
to understand the power of a dream , may continue
striving earnestly to all matters, people that you
know to be the truth was born.
・People that you know that it is necessary thecooperation of others as well as yourself in order to
get anything done was born.
・Because it was a chance to not only stir theimagination of children the story-telling, even adults
can re-check the "ideal situation", the person
carrying out the story-telling was born.

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Long-term Impact of the Program

What is the ○What we understand as a people, our responsibility
expected long-term as a leader
impact of this ○It will be expectations mission is given by the local
project? community be a reader having both a higher morals.

○It can be freely demonstrated their abilities
obtained are the driving force of the development oflocal communities.
○In communities, where in your home or office, welive to live by wearing it the power to care aboutothers, may contribute to the realization of asociety full of compassion.
What changes We conduct business with an emphasis to learn how
would you make to the moral, and self-disciplined, and of whether into
improve the results action.
of this project? Moral is not only at JCI, also not in a moment.

Future, in order for us to provide leadership with astrong moral fiber more than now, you need to
conduct training similar iteratively on an ongoingbasis, promote the penetration of understanding.
Spirit of morality as represented by "Makoto" is athing that has a universal value.
Must be carried out while changing the method
without having to end up in lectures, training
business, which is widely understood that thisspirituality.

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