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Awards Entry

2014 Asia-pacific Conference
Shigenari Yamamoto, JCI Osaka President
JCI JAPAN

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Entry Information
Award Program:

2014 Asia-Pacific Conference

Category:

NOM Information
National Organization:

JCI JAPAN

Kazuya Suzuki
E-mail: japan@jci.cc

National President:

LOM Information
Local Organization:
President:

JCI Osaka
Norimasa Nakatani

President Email: nori72nori72wanokokoro@gmail.com

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Basic Information
Duration : Jan. 1 〜Dec. 31, 2014
Staff : 42 members
Sponsors : 757 JCI Osaka members
Budget : NONE
Profit / Loss : NONE
In which UN MDG bestfit (if apply): ?:Who is benefited ?: Approx. 2.67 million people living in Osaka
Objective : 1. JCI Osaka members are expected to participate in our program and to
make positive change through improving themselves with each other.
2. We encourage local citizens and companies to enhance theircommunity’s qualifications. We aim to change them into active citizens
through implementing our program together.
3. We aim to develop a network of positive change through sharing ourprogram and activities with them.
Overview : 1.From the beginning of the year, we prepared for a meeting to increase
the number of members. We actually held 16 meetings and pan-industry
social events.
2.We encouraged JCI Osaka members to implement a program andparticipate in it positively. We took the initiative to run more than 100
programs.
3. We conducted PR activities positively to share our movement with local
citizens.
Results : 1. We held 16 meetings and pan-industry social events for 6 months. As aresult, we successfully achieved 255 new members, which is more thanusual.
2. Local President took the initiative to take action. As a result, we could
implement the following programs:
Nurturing children programs (66 times)
Citizens positive change program (13 times)
Achieving world peace program (6 times)
Improving membersqualifications program (15 times)
3.He conducted PR activities positively.
As a result, our activities got media exposure 25 times a year. (277%
increase over the previous year)
Actions Taken : Throughout the year, Local President, Shigenari Yamamoto, participatedin every board of directors meeting of JCI Japan as an observer asfollows:
Jan. 17〜20 JCI Japan New Year’s Convention
Mar. 8〜11 JCI Japan Great earthquake disaster revival & creation forum
Mar. 〜 Blooming Flowers program at the Yodo riverJun. 13〜16 Asia Pacific Conference Koshuu
Jul. 13 JCI Members Convention in Kinki area
Jul.20〜21 JCI Japan Summer Conference

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Oct. 3〜6 JCI Japan National Convention
Oct. 12〜13 Osaka Castle Hustle
Nov. 4〜9 JCI World Conference
Recommendations : ・We successfully achieved 255 new members.
・We achieved the biggest growth and development among local
Chapters in our 63 years’ history.
・We made effective use of newspapers, TV, the internet, twitter, andFacebook. It encouraged the interest of Osaka citizens in local issues andcreated positive change in them.
Approx. 40,000 citizens participated in Osaka Castle Hustle program. This
program successfully changed them into active citizens who havemotivation to lead the community’s future.
1. We successfully achieved new members more than usual. It motivatedexisting members to work harder with the aim of their development.
2. We involved local citizens in our large-scale event. At the same time we
had a sustainable program throughout the year. Through implementing
both programs effectively, we aimed to activate the community andenhance citizens’ qualifications.
3. Local President has been temporarily transferred to JCI Japan, so has astrong relationship with an international program. He was elected as amember of JCI Centenary Program Committee. Because of this, hepositively participated in not only JCI Osaka’s program but also various
programs of JCI Japan and international conferences. He also support
other members who were temporarily transferred from JCI Osaka to JCI
Japan as a coordinator.

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Under the slogan of Circle of Care, he took theinitiative to take action. He encouraged more than
1000 members of JCI Osaka to implement a programand participate in it.
As a result, he could implement the following many
programs:
Nurturing children programs (66 times)
Citizens’ positive change program (13 times)
Achieving world peace program (6 times)
Improving members’ qualifications program (15times)
In addition, he conducted PR activities positively inorder to share our movement with local citizens. As aresult, our movement got media exposure 25 times ayear.
(277% increase over the previous year)
He organized a meeting to increase the number ofmembers and actually held 16 meetings and panindustry social events from the beginning of the year.
As a result, he successfully achieved 255 newmembers, which is more than usual. He created anenvironment in which many new members can take theinitiative to run a program, which helped a network
among young active citizens spread out.
At the same time, through seeing new members’
working hard on a program, existing members were
motivated to improve themselves, too.
As a result, he successfully produced manymembers who can create positive change in others.

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He hosted and cooperated in the large-scale events
rooted in the community:
・550,000 people enjoyed The Yodo river fireworks
・40,000 people participated in Osaka Hustle Castle
and activated the restaurant business in Osaka.
Through these events, local citizens and community
was successfully activated. The visibility of JCI Osaka
was also enhanced.
At the same time, he implemented many programs
throughout the year, such as "Blooming Flowers at
the Yodo river." In this program, local citizens andcompanies changed a run-down riverbank with illegaldumping and farming into a beautiful field of flowers
in each season.
Many people participated in the large-scale events,
which brought economic and propaganda effects tolocal companies and community. It also brought
economic effects to Osaka, and developed people’srich spirit.
Through the continuous programs, he created positivechange in local citizens and companies so that theycan enhance the qualifications of the community.

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He encouraged more than 1,000 members of JCI Osaka
to take leadership and responsibility.
He also recommended members of other local chapters
to participate in his programs. He supervised andparticipated in almost all programs as a leader.
He conducted PR activities positively to share themovement with local citizens. As a result, themovement got media exposure 25 times a year.
(277% increase over the previous year)
Through recruiting members positively, he gathered
more than 1,000 members.
As a result, he could create an environment in which
JCI Osaka members can improve themselves.
In addition, he promoted interaction among local
chapters and provided many opportunities for JCI
Osaka to work as one.
As a result, he created an environment in which
members can participate in not only their own
programs but also ones of other committees’.

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JCI Osaka implemented the following programs in2013:
Nurturing children programs (66 times)
Citizens’ positive change program (13 times)
Achieving world peace program (6 times)
Improving members’ qualifications program (15times)
In addition, we asked lecturers working in various
fields to give lectures to our members at monthlymeetings.
The number of participant menbers totaled 5,303 in
2013, average 52.3%, which helped them a lot makepositive change.
We could see their positive participation in otherprograms:
The number of participants totaled 846, average
84.6%, in Blooming Flowers at the Yodo rive
program.
He positively participated in not only programs of JCIOsaka but also other programs of JCI Japan as anobserver.
At the same time, he proactively supported othermembers who were temporarily transferred from JCI
Osaka to JCI Japan as a coordinator.
As a result,.
29 members were transferred to Osaka block,44 members to Kinki district,and 101 members to JCI Japan
with the aim of developing a network of young
active citizens from Osaka to Japan, and then to theworld.
80 members of JCI Osaka took part in the international
conference held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Our consideration for others (conscience) is spreadingout in the community. Our conscience is given back toourselves by someone else.
As a result, we will be able to support each other inand out of the community with the aim of a bright
future. He put up a slogan of 2013, Circle of Care.
He took the initiative to become the starting point of
the the slogan with the aim of achieving it.
He helped people understand the significance of acting
for others through various programs. As a result,people’s conscience was developed.
Brotherhood of man transcends the sovereignty ofnation.
In order to exemplify this value, he deepened hisrelationship with members from all over the world
though various international exchanges.
He realized that understanding the difference of values
and acting together with the aim of achieving a goal
led to a better world.
Through Peace Conference of Youth (PCY) andKids Challenge (international exchange programfor kids in the world), he had young generations
experience important things above and deepen afriendship with the world.

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All visible and invisible things created by people
represent their mind.
Even if they disappear, what they have done for thepublic stays in the community and in people’s mind asa living proof.
Based on this JCI Value, he became more conscious ofservice to humanity, the public in his private life.
He contributed to his family and company first as
visible public and then to the community as invisible
public, Thus, he developed service to the public inother words, conscience.
He is an executive director of his company.
At his company, they develop and manufacture dentalmetals, ceramics and resins beside refining andprocessing precious metals.
While digitalized technology is innovated in dental
care, he succeeded to medical technology.
He cares about patients, members involved in medicalcare, and local health-care, not his maker’s profits.
Thus, he takes a major role in a dental maker.
When he acts with the aim of public profits, notplivate ones, he receives empathy from not only
company’s members but also market’s players. As aresult of this, he can achieve a beneficial result which
individual can not achieve. In the end, it brings
sustainable development and growth to stakeholders.
Thus, he exemplifies the JCI Value, Service tohumanity is the best work of life.

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