Tomita was convinced that this support would come if he could persuade some Japanese private companies to combine their expertise. He talked with a number of them and got them on board. Then in 1998, with the cooperation of dozens of large Japanese corporations, he founded the Japan Alliance for Humanitarian Demining Support. His new type of mine detector will be ready for use in the spring of 2001. Searching for mines by jabbing a stick into the ground, proceeding very slowly in an area where a metal detector indicates something suspicious.
Metal detectors pick up the metal of empty bullet shells-one reason why the job takes so long.
Japanese Text Some of the staff of the Japan Team of Young Human Power. The models are of a school building and playground equipment to be built overseas. This was the conviction of Osanai Mieko, a TV and film script writer and representative of the Japan Team of Young Human Power. She and some Japanese students had gone to Cambodia in 1992, to assist in relief work for Cambodian refugees waiting to return home from the Thai border. To promote her vision of more schools for Cambodia, Osanai founded the Japan Team of Young Human Power in 1993.