Peace awareness for the younger generation (initiatives through collaborative projects with YMBL)

Since fiscal 2022, International Affairs Bureau has concluded a citizen collaboration agreement with the Yokohama Institute of Media Business (YMBL) (*) to promote international peace awareness among younger generations. (*) Consortium consisting of Kanagawa Shimbun, TV Kanagawa, and tvk Communications
On this page, we will introduce the details of our efforts so far. (Past initiatives will be updated from time to time.)

Under the theme of "What we can do now for world peace," we invited guests from organizations that contribute to international peace and held a total of six workshops on various themes.
Junior high school students in Yokohama City talked about their thoughts on peace, connected, learned from each other, and transmitted to the world through the media and the web that each of us could do for peace thought by the participants.

Theme: Let's create a foundation for understanding peace
Contents: A workshop using a well-being card by instructor Junji Watanabe. A lecture was given by Takao Toda on the ideal future.

Theme: Let's learn about events around the world and broaden our horizons
Contents: Lecture by Takao Toda. What is "Peace"? What is "Happiness"? What is the relationship between "peace" and "happiness"? We gave each opinion and discussed it.

Theme: Let's touch things in real life and capture things in our own business①
Contents: We talked with two international students from Uzbekistan, Vietnam, as foreigners living in Yokohama, about how to perceive peace.

Theme: Let's touch things in real life and capture things in our own business②
Contents: We interacted online with local junior high school students who were experienced in Great East Japan Earthquake and started their activities, and thought about the possibility that peace would be threatened at any time.

Theme: Let's actually act and gain new awareness
Contents: Under Yukari Ishino, in a workshop using theatrical techniques, I thought from the perspective of people who were in war and other positions, and learned understanding of others and communication skills.

Theme: Let's think about what we can do now.
Contents: Each of them announced what we can do now for world peace, based on what we have learned so far and their own experiences.