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    Karakuwa Sunsets

    There are many reasons why I’ve come to love Karakuwa and why I’ve decided to devote so much of my time here. The food is amazing, the fresh air is addicting, the rich...

  3. ¿Nuevo sistema educativo?

    Desde hace unos días está circulando por el Internet, sobre todo por las redes sociales, un artículo en español en el que se dice lo siguiente sobre un “nuevo sistema educativo” en Japón:...

  4. TIEMPO DE CAMBIOS EN JAPÓN

    Recordáis que el otro día hablábamos aquí sobre el desempleo juvenil en Japón pues hoy he encontrado una noticia relacionada que abre un interesante debate sobre los cambios que se están produciendo en...

  5. Akira Uchimura: Mi introducción

      Mi nombre es Akira Uchimura. Nací el 2 de Septiembre de 1980 en un hospital amarillo en San Jose, Costa Rica. Se supone que iba a nacer en El Salvador pero justo...

  6. Light of Hope – 希望の灯り

    I had the opportunity to visit this special monument located in Rikuzentakata City, in the Otomo district last week. Aside from being set in a very beautiful location, this monument and fire serves...

Hanabi Videos!

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    Hana.bi Interviews | Eiji Han Shimizu

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    / March 20, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Eiji Han Shimizu is the producer of The Happy Movie. He has travelled around the world for 6 years in search of happiness. An emotion that is so normal for us, yet a state that is seemingly difficult to acomplish these days. We met hi for the first time two...

  2. Hana.bi Interviews | Claudia Oshiro

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    / February 8, 2012 / Leave a comment
    En el año 2001 participa en la grabación de "SHIMA UTA", canción de Alfredo Casero que fue hit en Argentina. Gracias a esa oportunidad conoce a Kazufumi Miyazawa (THE BOOM), autor original de la canción, y en el 2003 se instala en Tokyo, Japón.

  3. Hana.bi Interviews | Jay Horinouchi

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    / January 22, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Jay is an artist/designer, and spent most of his life in sunny California before moving to Japan in 2010. The following year he found himself in the middle of the biggest earthquake disaster in Japanese history and started volunteering to aid the tsunami-stricken Tohoku region.

 

What is Hana.bi?

Hanabi is “fireworks” in Japanese. It is a chemical reaction of gunpowder, metals, and fire that illuminates the sky and sparks happiness to people who see it.

This website is a collective explosion of young leaders, activists, artists, entrepreneurs, etc who ignite their surroundings with their HANABI, their ideas that come from a fusion of japanese values and culture, and their own culture which they grew up with. They find new answers to problems, using their various cultural and out-of-the-box lenses.

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