During GPF-Japan 2008 five organizations were chosen among many Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and Non-Profit Organizations (NPOs) working towards world peace and were awarded and given grants. NPO 2050, one of the five organizations awarded, sent an acknowledgment and a report about its current project.
NPO 2050 is a Non-Profit Organization that aims to raise awareness of people to think what the world would be like by the year 2050.
Mie, Japan - On May 17 approximately 180 people gathered to clean Ishigaki Ike Park in Mie, Japan. It had been raining for two days until the early morning of May 17. Fortunately the sun came out from 8am and it became a hot day by the time the event began.
Global Peace Festival in Mie’s project, Service for Peace @ Ishigaki Ike Park, held a cleaning event with Universal Peace Federation, United Filipinos for Peace and Advancement (UFPA), and Suzuka Kameyama Catholic Church Community. The nations represented were Japanese, Philippines, which were the two majorities and Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Republic of Moldova.
Japan - On May 6, 2009 a group of volunteers went for their usual routine in search for plastic bottle caps in the town. The volunteers asked shops and collected bottle caps from rubbish bins beside vending machines in front of the shops. Knowing the volunteers come around, people who do not know where to take the bottle caps bring them to the volunteers.
The volunteer group, Fukuoka wo genki ni suru kai, began collecting bottle caps since the bottle cap recycling campaign during Global Peace Festival Japan 2008. Global Peace Festival Japan 2008 encouraged participants to bring plastic bottle caps to the venue and collected over 1,100,000 bottle caps last November.
Tokyo Japan - Global Peace Festival’s theme song, “Where It Begins,” has been sung in English in the Philippines and USA, and in Swahili in Kenya. Now a Japanese version, entitled “Kokokara Hajimaru” (Where It Begins), is also available. Watch the live performance at the Global Peace Tour on March 1, 2009, below:
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Tokyo, Japan - The main program took place on March 1 at the Saitama Super Arena, where 20,000 gathered to celebrate the vision of one family under God. Rev. Walter Fauntroy who served for 20 years as a member of the US Congress, inspired the audience when he spoke of the convergence of the vision of US civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., with that of Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon. He added that a new generation was arising 40 years after the assassination of Dr. King in 1968, and he referred to this as a “Joshua generation” that overcomes the challenges they face and moves humanity into a new promised land.
Tokyo, Japan - Fifty thousand people crammed into Tokyo’s Ajinomoto Stadium for the latest in a series of spectacular successes for the Global Peace Festival. One of the largest interfaith gatherings ever held in Japan highlighted months of community service and outreach aimed at encouraging Japan, already a strong player in aid and environmental issues, to become a global force for peace.
On a cool afternoon that threatened rain, an excited crowd was kept happy by a wide variety of entertainers, including several Japanese TV personalities, Mongolian singing sensation Nominjin, who had performed at the Global Peace Festival in Ulaanbaatar in September, and the Kawagoe Fuji Children’s Drum Groups.
During GPF-Japan 2008 five organizations were chosen among many Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and Non-Profit Organizations (NPOs) working towards world peace and were awarded and given grants. NPO 2050, one of the five organizations awarded, sent an acknowledgment and a report about its current project.
Mie, Japan - On May 17 approximately 180 people gathered to clean Ishigaki Ike Park in Mie, Japan. It had been raining for two days until the early morning of May 17. Fortunately the sun came out from 8am and it became a hot day by the time the event began.
Japan - On May 6, 2009 a group of volunteers went for their usual routine in search for plastic bottle caps in the town. The volunteers asked shops and collected bottle caps from rubbish bins beside vending machines in front of the shops. Knowing the volunteers come around, people who do not know where to take the bottle caps bring them to the volunteers.
Tokyo, Japan - The main program took place on March 1 at the Saitama Super Arena, where 20,000 gathered to celebrate the vision of one family under God. Rev. Walter Fauntroy who served for 20 years as a member of the US Congress, inspired the audience when he spoke of the convergence of the vision of US civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., with that of Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon. He added that a new generation was arising 40 years after the assassination of Dr. King in 1968, and he referred to this as a “Joshua generation” that overcomes the challenges they face and moves humanity into a new promised land.
Tokyo, Japan - Fifty thousand people crammed into Tokyo’s Ajinomoto Stadium for the latest in a series of spectacular successes for the Global Peace Festival. One of the largest interfaith gatherings ever held in Japan highlighted months of community service and outreach aimed at encouraging Japan, already a strong player in aid and environmental issues, to become a global force for peace. 
