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CORRECTED: Plane with evacuees arrives in Tokyo

Naoyuki Kawahara (L), representative of the NPO Rocinantes, arrives at Tokyo's Haneda airport on April 29, 2023, along with 47 other Japanese evacuees and their families from conflict-riven Sudan after a chartered plane transported them from Djibouti.

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CORRECTED: Plane with evacuees arrives in Tokyo

Naoyuki Kawahara (C), representative of the NPO Rocinantes, arrives at Tokyo's Haneda airport on April 29, 2023, along with 47 other Japanese evacuees and their families from conflict-riven Sudan after a chartered plane transported them from Djibouti.

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CORRECTED: Plane with evacuees arrives in Tokyo

Naoyuki Kawahara (L), representative of the NPO Rocinantes, arrives at Tokyo's Haneda airport on April 29, 2023, along with 47 other Japanese evacuees and their families from conflict-riven Sudan after a chartered plane transported them from Djibouti.

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Japanese NPO in Turkey

A Japanese nurse (2nd from L) comforts a pregnant woman in Osmaniye, southern Turkey, on Feb. 22, 2023. Members of Tokyo-based nonprofit organization TMAT are in quake-hit Turkey to provide medical support and join rescue operations.

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Japanese NPO in Turkey

Japanese doctor Toshihiko Toma (C) treats a patient in Osmaniye, southern Turkey, on Feb. 22, 2023. Members of Tokyo-based nonprofit organization TMAT are in quake-hit Turkey to provide medical support and join rescue operations.

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NPO provides grief-healing support to kids across Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Masahiro Nishida (back L), director of Sendai-based nonprofit organization Children's Grief Support Station, plays with a group of children in a meeting room at a hotel in Tokyo in September 2014. The organization, specializing in taking care of the psychological wellbeing of children who have lost family members, has expanded its services beyond areas hit by the 2011 earthquake to 14 major cities across Japan.

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NPO to build traditional underwear factory in Thailand

KOCHI, Japan - Hidehiro Tamaki, head of a nonprofit organization, holds a "fundoshi" traditional undergarment for men in Kochi, western Japan, on Dec. 25, 2014. The organization plans to build a fundoshi production factory in Thailand to provide local impoverished children with an opportunity to receive vocational training and is currently collecting donations through crowdfunding on the Internet.

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Ex-inmate sets up NPO to help other convicts

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Igarashi (C), a former inmate who launched the nonprofit organization "Mother House" to assist convicts and those released from prisons, shares a light hearted moment with priest Hideo Kato (L) and friar Hernandez, both of whom he was greatly influenced by, at a church in Tokyo. Igarashi set up the NPO in 2012 after he was released from a prison in late 2011 after a total of some 20 years of detention. (Photo by Toshihiro Ariyoshi)

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Foster home children write Xmas, New Year cards for inmates

TOKYO, Japan - Christmas and New Year cards for inmates sent to "Mother House," a nonprofit organization to support convicts and those released from prisons, from children at a foster home in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, in northeastern Japan, is shown at the NPO in Tokyo in 2014. (Photo by Toshihiro Ariyoshi)

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Japan NPO member for Palestine children speaks in Jerusalem

JERUSALEM, Jerusalem - Masayuki Teshima, a member of a Japanese nonprofit organization supporting Palestinian children, speaks at an office in East Jerusalem in October 2014.

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Japanese NPO member works in typhoon-hit Philippine town

DULAG, Philippines - Yoshiyuki Shiomi of the International Children's Action Network, a Nagoya-based authorized nonprofit organization, explains the operation to build and rebuild elementary school buildings in Dulag near Tacloban City, the Philippines, on Oct. 22, 2014. The area was hit hard by last year's Typhoon Haiyan.

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Japan, S. Korea lawmakers, intellectuals discuss in Seoul

SEOUL, Japan - Japanese and South Korean lawmakers and intellectuals gather for the second Japan-Korea Future Dialogue forum in Seoul on July 18, 2014. The forum was organized by The Genron NPO of Japan and South Korean think tank, the East Asia Institute, to discuss ways to improve bilateral relations.

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Japanese NPO explains poll findings on Tokyo-Seoul ties

SEOUL, South Korea - Yasushi Kudo (R), head of Japan's Genron NPO, explains the findings of its joint opinion poll with South Korea's East Asia Institute on the two countries' relationship in Seoul on July 10, 2014.

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Japan, S. Korea groups meet press on joint poll

SEOUL, South Korea - Members of the Genron NPO, a nonprofit think tank in Japan, and East Asia Institute in South Korea hold a press conference in Seoul, South Korea, on July 10, 2014, about findings by their joint opinion poll on the relationship between the two countries.

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NPO head talks about Iranian movie festival

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Shizuko Tsuya, head of the nonprofit organization MOCT, announces the staging of a film festival introducing Iranian movies on June 10, 2014, in Hiroshima City. The event will run from Aug. 2-8 in the western Japanese city.

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Chinese official speaks at symposium in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Zhao Qizheng (2nd from L), a former minister of China's State Council Information Office, speaks at a symposium in Tokyo on March 29, 2014. The event was organized by Japanese nonprofit think tank Genron NPO.

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NPO in Osaka organizes egg drop contest

KOBE, Japan - A high school student is about to drop a raw egg covered by a protector created by his three-member team during the Kansai western Japan regional competition of the Egg Drop Koshien on Nov. 3, 2013 on the Ritsumeikan University campus in Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture.

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NPO in Osaka organizes egg drop contest

KOBE, Japan - High school students create a device to protect a raw egg from a 10-meter fall during the Kansai western Japan regional competition of the Egg Drop Koshien on Nov. 3, 2013 on the Ritsumeikan University campus in Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture.

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NPO member creates cookbook with refugees' recipes

TOKYO, Japan - Shiho Tanaka, a Japan Association for Refugees member, has produced a home cooking book listing 45 recipes contributed by refugees from 15 countries and regions in Asia, the Middle East and Africa, hoping to raise awareness of their lives. Photo taken at the office of the nonprofit organization supporting refugees in Japan on Feb. 28, 2013 in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward.

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U.S., Japanese NGOs meet over tsunami debris in N. America

PORTLAND, United States - Hiroshi Kaneko (C) and Azusa Kojima (R) of the Japan Environmental Action Network scout for trash on a beach and discuss the problem of marine debris with Dave Pittenger (2nd from R) of the U.S.-based NPO Ocean Conservancy and Cannon Beach City Manager Rich Mays (2nd from L) on Aug. 4, 2012, in Cannon Beach, Oregon. The beach visit kicked off a three-day meeting between the Japanese and U.S. NGOs about debris from the March 2011 tsunami in Japan that is headed for North America.

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Japan NPO plants seeds in Ethiopia

TOKYO, Japan - Children plant seedlings at an elementary school in Lalibela, Ethiopia. The Futaro Fund for Forests, a Japanese nonprofit organization, engages in tree-planting and water projects in Ethiopia to combat desertification.

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Japan NPO plants seeds in Ethiopia

TOKYO, Japan - Kaori Niitsuma (C) checks the growth of a tree in Lalibela, Ethiopia. She is the founder of the Futaro Fund for Forests, a Japanese nonprofit organization that engages in tree-planting and water projects in Ethiopia to combat desertification.

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Hibakusha, ex-Hiroshima mayor awarded by NPO

LOS ANGELES, United States - Former Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba (R) and Shigeko Sasamori (L), a victim of the 1945 Hiroshima atomic bombing, pose for photos in Santa Barbara, California on Oct. 9, 2011, after receiving the Peace Leadership award and the World Citizenship award, respectively, from the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, a California-based nonprofit group, for their efforts to abolish nuclear weapons.

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NPO donates money to UNICEF by collecting metal from dentures

SAITAMA, Japan - A denture collection box set up by the Saitama-based Japan Denture Recycling Association in the city of Ageo, Saitama Prefecture. The association recycles precious metals collected from unneeded dentures and donates the profits to the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) and municipal governments.

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NPO to recommend Japanese restaurants overseas

TOKYO, Japan - A Japanese nonprofit organization announced Jan. 29 a plan to issue recommendation marks (in photo) to qualified Japanese restaurants overseas to help promote the international spread of Japanese cuisine.

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Eating utensils donated to Niigata quake victims

NIIGATA, Japan - Students of the Kashiwazaki Comprehensive High School in Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture use their school gymnasium to sort out eating utensils donated by people around Japan to victims of the July 16 earthquake in Niigata. The donation campaign was launched by a Kobe-based non-profit organization after the city was destroyed by the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake. Isao Arai, head of the NPO Himawari-no-Yume Kikaku (Project Sunflower Dream), says the utensils would be distributed to the quake victims from mid-August after they move into temporary housing being built by the government. Phone number for inquiries on the donation campaign: 078-787-7387.

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Scholars, writers set up NPO over constitutional revision

TOKYO, Japan - ''Zenya (Eve),'' a nonprofit organization set up by scholars and writers to counter growing moves toward revising the Constitution and the Fundamental Law of Education, holds its first meeting in Tokyo on July 3.

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(1)NPO to turn Kochi island into natural museum

KOCHI, Japan - Photo shows Kashiwajima Island located off the Pacific coast of Kochi Prefecture in southern Shikoku. A citizen's group said on Aug. 22 it has applied with the local government to establish a nonprofit organization (NPO) to turn the entire island into a natural museum.

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NPO to recommend Japanese restaurants overseas

TOKYO, Japan - A Japanese nonprofit organization announced Jan. 29 a plan to issue recommendation marks (in photo) to qualified Japanese restaurants overseas to help promote the international spread of Japanese cuisine. (Kyodo)

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Man rides test flight of late brother's helicopter for NPO

Akira Shirayama stands by a helicopter, dubbed a "miracle pine tree" after the tree that survived the devastating 2011 tsunami, in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on June 3, 2015, following a ceremonial test flight on which he rode. His brother, Hiroshi, acquired a helicopter pilot license and set up an NPO with his friends for charitable activities following the disaster but killed himself at age 50 in the fall of 2014. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nearly 60% of South Koreans see Japan as military threat

Yasushi Kudo, head of Japanese civic group Genron NPO, announces the outcome of a survey on May 29, 2015, in Tokyo. It showed nearly 60 percent of polled South Koreans said they see Japan as a military threat, up from 46.3 percent a year earlier, as Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe aims to make changes to the country's postwar security policy. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Assisting people released from jail to fit into the society

Photo taken April 16, 2015 shows Hidemori Gen (R), head of a non-profit organization to support those trying to fit into the society, preparing for the opening of a Japanese-style "izakaya" pub in Tokyo with a man who has been released from jail. The NPO is called Nippon Kakekomidera. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Single father launches NPO to support motherless families

Tsutomu Kimoto, a former rental service company president who founded a non-profit organization supporting motherless families, speaks in Kyoto on Dec. 19, 2014. He himself lost his wife about 6 years ago and went through hard times raising his three sons. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan, China, S. Korea musicians pose after joint N.Y. performance

Mayumi Miyata (L) from Japan with the "sho" mouth organ, Jin Hi Kim from South Korea, player of the zither-like "komungo" instrument, and Wu Man from China with the "pipa" lute pose after their joint concert in New York on Feb. 7, 2015. The concert was organized by "Music from Japan," a nonprofit organization introducing Japanese music in the U.S., as part of the NPO's 40th anniversary of activities to help improve Japan's strained relations with the two Asian neighbors. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan, China. S. Korea musicians jointly perform at N.Y. concert

Japanese, Chinese and South Korean musicians perform their respective traditional instruments at a joint concert in New York on Feb. 7, 2015. The concert was organized by "Music from Japan," a nonprofit organization introducing Japanese music in the U.S., as part of the NPO's 40th anniversary of activities to help improve Japan's strained relations with the two Asian neighbors. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Advocacy center for child abuse victims

Fujiko Yamada, head of NPO Child Maltreatment Prevention Network, explains about a facility for abused children that opened in Isehara, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Feb. 7, 2015. It will eliminate repeated interviews of children, as investigators can watch a monitor while a victim is interviewed by an expert at the center. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Music NPO leader speaks about concerts in U.S.

Naoyuki Miura, head of the "Music from Japan" nonprofit organization, speaks about the NPO's concerts in the United States in an interview in New York on Feb. 4, 2015. The organization, which has introduced Japanese music in the U.S., held a concert in New York on Feb. 7 and will do so in Washington on Feb. 10 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of its activities. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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NPO promotes Japanese restaurant business in Yangon

Participants in a symposium hosted by the nonprofit Organization to Promote Japanese Restaurants Abroad try out various types of sushi in Yangon, Myanmar, on Feb. 5, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan NPO screens films for children in developing countries

Tatsuki Kimbara holds a photograph of a film screening held in Cambodia by the Tokyo-based nonprofit organization World Theater Project in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, on May 27, 2017. Kimbara opened a branch of the organization in Kanazawa on the Sea of Japan coast. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese NPO to step up disaster awareness campaign in N.Y.

Hirokazu Nagata, head of Plus Arts, a Kobe-based nonprofit organization, gives a lecture in New York on Feb. 23, 2017, on creative designs used in disaster preparation. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Overemphasis on economic growth lead to Minamata, Fukushima: NPO forum

Experts talk about the issue of Minamata disease on May 3, 2016, in Tokyo at a forum to mark the 60th anniversary of the official recognition of the mercury-poisoning disease. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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NPO brings Israeli, Palestinian students together in Japan

Photo taken March 3, 2016 shows Mari Murahashi, who has spent the last nine years bringing Israeli and Palestinian students together for an exchange program in Japan as an executive board member of Peace Field Japan. The Tokyo-based nonprofit organization was granted the Japan Foundation's Prize for Global Citizenship for fiscal 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese think tank members hold press conference in Beijing

Members of Japanese nonprofit think tank Genron NPO hold a press conference in Beijing on Oct. 22, 2015, releasing the results of its latest opinion poll conducted among Japanese and Chinese citizens jointly with the Chinese International Publishing Group. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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NPO chief explains results of NE Asian security survey

Genron NPO leader Yasushi Kudo explains in Tokyo on Oct. 20, 2015, about the results of a survey on the security situation in Northeast Asia. The survey, conducted jointly with think tanks in the United States, China and South Korea, found that 60 percent of Americans oppose U.S. involvement in the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea in the event of a military conflict between Japan and China. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan NPO aids cotton sales from ex-Cambodian minefield

Female customers pick up stoles made from organic cotton grown in a minefield-turned cotton field in Cambodia at a booth of Nature Saves Cambodia-Japan, a Tokyo-based nonprofit organization, in June 2015 in Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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FEATURE: NPO seeking phase-out of nuclear power marks 40 years

Photo taken Sept. 10, 2015, shows the Tokyo office of the Citizens' Nuclear Information Center. The nonprofit organization working to phase out nuclear power generation recently marked the 40th anniversary of its establishment. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Chekhov play performed by Japanese NPO in Vladivostok

Members of "Sosaku Tenkaratto" (Creation 10 Carats), a nonprofit organization in Hamada, Shimane Prefecture, western Japan, perform a play written by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov at the Pushkin Theater in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East on Sept. 20, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese NPO performs Chekhov play in Vladivostok

Members of "Sosaku Tenkaratto" (Creation 10 Carats), a nonprofit organization in Hamada, Shimane Prefecture, western Japan, performs a play written by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov at the Pushkin Theater in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East on Sept. 20, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Event held to promote "udon" noodle dish revived from ancient era

Panelists attend a meeting on the origin of "udon" noodles hosted by a nonprofit organization in Nara, western Japan, on Sept. 19, 2015. The NPO, the Society of Research on Food and Culture of Nara, is promoting a noodle dish said to have been served to Emperor Ichijo during his visit to Kasuga Shrine in Nara in 989 in the Heian period (794-1192). (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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FEATURE: NPO launches digital archives on Fukushima nuclear disaster

Photo taken July 24, 2015, shows Yukiko Miki, head of the Access-Info Clearinghouse Japan, working at its office in Tokyo. The nonprofit organization, which has worked to enhance information disclosure to secure people's right to know, has launched a digital archive of public documents on the 2011 nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo