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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The Global Peace Festival in Japan focuses on promoting “family volunteerism.” Family-based service projects are being carried out every weekend in different parts of Japan. Most of those volunteer projects are conducted by small groups of families on their own initiative. Families gather during the weekend and spend some time together serving the community by, for instance, cleaning up the sides of a river or road. The participants share their activities on a newly created blog. Visit and see photos of their activities at http://blog.goo.ne.jp/gpf-japan (in Japanese).