Messages of Support

Kenichiro MOGI (ART-AID Committee Supervisor)

Kenichiro MOGI, senior researcher at Sony Computer Science Laboratory Graduated from Tokyo University Engineering Department and Law School as well as graduate school of Physics and has a doctor’s degree in Engineering. He specializes in neuroscience and cognitive science. He has done research at RIKEN Advanced Science Institute and Cambridge University and is currently a faculty member at Keio University and Waseda University. He is also an author of many books related to his field.

Koji Nakata (Kashima Antlers)

1979年7月9日生まれ、滋賀県大津市出身。J1鹿島アントラーズに所属するサッカー元日本代表。ミッドフィールド(ボランチ)からディフェンス(センターバック、左サイドバック)まで、幅広いポジションをこなす。優れた状況判断能力、足元の技術、そして正確なロングフィードが持ち味。帝京高校では3年生の時にキャプテンとして出場した全国高校サッカー選手権(1997年)で準優勝。1998年に鹿島アントラーズに入団後、1999年にワールドユースで準優勝を果たすと、以後は所属チームでも不動のボランチとして定着。数多くのタイトル獲得に貢献した。2000年シドニー五輪、2002年ワールドカップも経験。2005年1月にフランスのオリンピック・マルセイユ、2006年2月にスイスのFCバーゼルに移籍。2008年より古巣鹿島アントラーズと再契約を結んだ。
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Lou Oshiba

Lou Ohshiba(TV personality)

Born in 1954 in Shinjuku, Tokyo
Became popular for his own coinage of mixture of English and Japanese language in his own original style.
A blog which he started in 2006 gained popular support among the young generations. He became active in environmental initiatives in which he started to use his own chopsticks, cleaning the Jukai (Sea of Trees) area at the foot of Mt. Fuji and collecting garbage from communities after singing MOTTAINAI on a NHK music program in 2007.
His hobbies include collecting loaches and killifish, and also tea ceremony in which he holds the title of Enshu school associate master. He is appointed as a guest professor at Yamano College of Aesthetics from July 2010.