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[January
2, 200X News}
We just have passed the last day of 2008. It is never possible for us to say A HAPPY NEW YEAR to anybody at this point in time. But, the good news is that the Qijyn group in Shanghai, China has finally agreed to work with us in the coming years so those of us who live in Easta Asia will do our share of the global responsibility to keep this planet a clean and safe place for us to live in.
In terms of the strategic layout, it is as if we are re-living the era of the Great Tang and the insular Japan of the era of Prince Shotoku. But remain assured. We will make it work out to the satisfaction, if not the adomiration, of the rest of the world so East Asia will work with the rest of the global community of nations.
Yutaka Okamoto
Director
OKAMOTO INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Tokyo, Japan
[December
26, 2008 News}
The end of the year is just around the corner, and I find myself still under pressure resulting from my family's movement from Koganei City to Hachioji City. It all started in the second week of November, but the real end is not yet in sight because of the unexpected things like the disposal of the left-over things and the arrangement for it that followed the moving.
In any case, here is the year-end Progress Report from PARAP Group.
We will know if we can go over the hump and make it happen in China during the coming week or so. If it really goes, it will be an occasion for us like the X'mas and the New Year coming together just in one day! An exciting beginning of a new year which will mark the start of our East Asia project for this decade.
May we wish all of you a very happy new year.
Yutaka Okamoto
Tokyo, Japan
[ccember 19, 2008 News]
[ccember 8, 2008 News]
Dear friends, associates and colleagues,
I have been away from work much of the time during the last few months due to a set of complex problems surrounding my NGO working environment in Japan.
However, a break-through arrived during November, and I am back on the track full time at@a long last. As you can see by the changes I have already made in OIARI's HP main page, we are finally getting closer to moving toward a productive launch of the PARAP project.
We will soon make more short announcements toward the end of the year and early next year, but, given the condition of the world economy and the abrupt sift in the political climate across the world, we expect to see a lot of actions, both positive and negative, during 2009.
In any event I just wanted to get the message out that I am still alive and kicking.
In case of communication other than e-mail, please use the following slow mail address and new phone number from now on.
Yutaka Okamoto, Director, OIARI
Persimmon Hills #107
Takakuracho 52-18
Hachioji City
Tokyo, Japan
Tel: 0426-31-3047
[August
20, 2008 News]
The Toyako G-8 Summit conference failed to produce a global target of CO2 emission cutdown mainly due to the following two factors:
(1) It's industry's dependency on oil is drugging America's legs, and
(2) the BRICs' insistence on their rights to follow an industrialization an modernization path similar to those of the developed Western nations.
Japan, as a result, is proposing to increase its effort of transferring its advanced technology of energy use efficiency in the traditional industrial sectors to the BRIC nations.
However, from our independent viewpoint in East Asia, we must also make a special effort in preventing the rural communities of the interior regions left out of their rapid recent process of industrialization so that they do not have to develop and depend upon the fossil energy sources such as oil and coal for their own industrialization and modernization.
In response to this all important need, we at OKAMOTO INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS RESEARCH INSTITUTE have worked with the Friends of the Earth (FoE) Japan to help a typical rural community in the Russian Far East, namely Lrasny Yar village in the Maritime Province, to implement a test project to rural community development entirely based upon the concept of replacing the existing dirty diesel power plant by a new system built upon the clean air, water and solar energies. Just view the following introductory pages titled "Here is our master plan 2008-09" at the PARAP site below.
http://www.parap.org/
Mr. Noguchi of FoE Japan left for the Russian Far East last Friday and is now in Krasny Yar discussing the options and making preparations for our joint field study and conference in the first week of October this fall. Once launched, it will become a landmark development model for all rural communities of the world.
[January
2, 200X News}
We just have passed the last day of 2008. It is never possible for us to say A HAPPY NEW YEAR to anybody at this point in time. But, the good news is that the Qijyn group in Shanghai, China has finally agreed to work with us in the coming years so those of us who live in Easta Asia will do our share of the global responsibility to keep this planet a clean and safe place for us to live in.
In terms of the strategic layout, it is as if we are re-living the era of the Great Tang and the insular Japan of the era of Prince Shotoku. But remain assured. We will make it work out to the satisfaction, if not the adomiration, of the rest of the world so East Asia will work with the rest of the global community of nations.
Yutaka Okamoto
Director
OKAMOTO INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Tokyo, Japan
[December
26, 2008 News}
The end of the year is just around the corner, and I find myself still under pressure resulting from my family's movement from Koganei City to Hachioji City. It all started in the second week of November, but the real end is not yet in sight because of the unexpected things like the disposal of the left-over things and the arrangement for it that followed the moving.
In any case, here is the year-end Progress Report from PARAP Group.
We will know if we can go over the hump and make it happen in China during the coming week or so. If it really goes, it will be an occasion for us like the X'mas and the New Year coming together just in one day! An exciting beginning of a new year which will mark the start of our East Asia project for this decade.
May we wish all of you a very happy new year.
Yutaka Okamoto
Tokyo, Japan
[ccember 19, 2008 News]A
Progress Report from PARAP Group
While the new micro business for Krasny Yar village in the Russian Far East is conceived to be a river fishery and fish processing, mainly smoking, designed to market the products domestically and by exporting them to Japan, it turns out to be mainly the so-called Shanghai crabs in the case of Anhui Provice of China, a fresh water crab abundant in and around the mouth of the Yang Tsu river.
Dr. Ichimura, the director of Tokyo Life Science Laboratory (TLSL), has decided to take a positive part in our PARAP project in East Asia as shown in his latest message "Dream land of our Patented BIO-IT".
http://www.sbpark.com/ichimura/indexe.html
He spent almost all his life in this field of scientific as well as emperical research, as a researcher for a large fishery company, and later as an independent scientist and the head of TLSL. His quest has often reminded me of Italy's Galileo who insisted upon the fact that the earth moves around the sun against the widely accepted Roman Catholic world view.
But, the most important recent event is that his scientific theory has been patented in Japan at long last! I for one has known it works for dacades.
While the new micro business for Krasny Yar village in the Russian Far East is conceived to be a river fishery and fish processing, mainly smoking, designed to market the products domestically and by exporting them to Japan, it turns out to be mainly the so-called Shanghai crabs in the case of Anhui Provice of China, a fresh water crab abundant in and around the mouth of the Yang Tsu river.
Dr. Ichimura, the director of Tokyo Life Science Laboratory (TLSL), has decided to take a positive part in our PARAP project in East Asia as shown in his latest message "Dream land of our Patented BIO-IT".
http://www.sbpark.com/ichimura/indexe.html
He spent almost all his life in this field of scientific as well as emperical research, as a researcher for a large fishery company, and later as an independent scientist and the head of TLSL. His quest has often reminded me of Italy's Galileo who insisted upon the fact that the earth moves around the sun against the widely accepted Roman Catholic world view.
But, the most important recent event is that his scientific theory has been patented in Japan at long last! I for one has known it works for dacades.
[ccember 8, 2008 News] Dear friends, associates and colleagues,
I have been away from work much of the time during the last few months due to a set of complex problems surrounding my NGO working environment in Japan.
However, a break-through arrived during November, and I am back on the track full time at@a long last. As you can see by the changes I have already made in OIARI's HP main page, we are finally getting closer to moving toward a productive launch of the PARAP project.
We will soon make more short announcements toward the end of the year and early next year, but, given the condition of the world economy and the abrupt sift in the political climate across the world, we expect to see a lot of actions, both positive and negative, during 2009.
In any event I just wanted to get the message out that I am still alive and kicking.
In case of communication other than e-mail, please use the following slow mail address and new phone number from now on.
Yutaka Okamoto, Director, OIARI
Persimmon Hills #107
Takakuracho 52-18
Hachioji City
Tokyo, Japan
Tel: 0426-31-3047
[August
20, 2008 News] The Toyako G-8 Summit conference failed to produce a global target of CO2 emission cutdown mainly due to the following two factors:
(1) It's industry's dependency on oil is drugging America's legs, and
(2) the BRICs' insistence on their rights to follow an industrialization an modernization path similar to those of the developed Western nations.
Japan, as a result, is proposing to increase its effort of transferring its advanced technology of energy use efficiency in the traditional industrial sectors to the BRIC nations.
However, from our independent viewpoint in East Asia, we must also make a special effort in preventing the rural communities of the interior regions left out of their rapid recent process of industrialization so that they do not have to develop and depend upon the fossil energy sources such as oil and coal for their own industrialization and modernization.
In response to this all important need, we at OKAMOTO INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS RESEARCH INSTITUTE have worked with the Friends of the Earth (FoE) Japan to help a typical rural community in the Russian Far East, namely Lrasny Yar village in the Maritime Province, to implement a test project to rural community development entirely based upon the concept of replacing the existing dirty diesel power plant by a new system built upon the clean air, water and solar energies. Just view the following introductory pages titled "Here is our master plan 2008-09" at the PARAP site below.
http://www.parap.org/
Mr. Noguchi of FoE Japan left for the Russian Far East last Friday and is now in Krasny Yar discussing the options and making preparations for our joint field study and conference in the first week of October this fall. Once launched, it will become a landmark development model for all rural communities of the world.
[April
17, 2008 News]A rural small community of Klasny Yar on the southern bank of River Bikin which pours into Ussuri River in the Maritime Province, and then into the Great Amur, is getting ready to take on an ambitious project of implementing an environment friendly micro business development, which is destined to replace the existing inefficient diesel generators run by expensive fossil fuel incapable of providing a 24-hour a day service. We at VFJ and PARAP are ready to assist the village in all phases of the project.
http://www.parap.org/
This project is to be backed by an array of IT and other high technologies and supported by a most advanced system of hybrid power generation including water, solar and wind powers. The system as a whole will guarantee a broadband access to the Internet and permit a reliable mobile phone access to and from all parts of the world. To support the initial trial micro business of processing fish taken in the river and wild berries in the field, the system will also provide a water purification system which will turn the river water into tasty and pure drinking-quality water. This project is indeed a brand new rural community development model aimed at eliminating the existing fossil fuel power infrastructure , or in other cases, enabling new development in the remote rural regions of the world such as those of China and India without adding to air pollution and earth warming.
What will naturally follow all this is the real possibility for the consumers in Japan and other countries can then access the PAARAP web site to view, download and upload video clips, directly or via Youtube, talk to the people in the village, fishermen on the river and berry pickers in the field asking questions getting instant answers. Of course the villagers can also view the life styles of urban centers in other countries to find out how their smoked fish and IQF wild berries are prepared and eaten - in short a novel 21st century cultural exchange with the assurance of safe food supply between the primary producers and the end users. Eventually, ecotours can also take place where they all meet together.
Starting with this phase-one project, we will help Klasny Yar village add new micro businesses based on added clean energy infrastructure with the eventual aim at eliminating the old diesel generators. In the process, the village plans on paying off the direct cost of this energy shift out of the proceeds from the new local businesses of the people developed by the people and for the people Each annual developmental process shall be recorded as video documentary to be made available on the Internet for the rest of the world to see what can be done about the threat of earth warming.
[November
16, 2007 News]Since the last message was written, , more than a month has passed and we have finally moved into a position to announce the opening of the final test site of the PARAP project as shown below.
http://www.myoutlooktoday.com/index.php
This site, as you can see, is at present build on a borrowed test site with a long URL, particularly the Japanese version, but, if the final test produces satisfactory results, we will quickly move it to our own domain using http://www.parap.org.
We will then plan on starting with a series of community-to-community exchange programs amongst the participating countries of the extended East Asia and the U.S. , inviting all other interested citizens of the world to participate in cultural exchange and mutual support and assistance projects of their own making.
Therefore, do access the above PARAP site and check things out.
PATAP Secretariat
.
[October
1, 2007
News]]@
Dear friends and associates,
Here we are!! We are finally ready to show you what we meant in our message of September 3 by this Beta #2 test PARAP site.
http://www.parap.org/index-eg.htm
Please enjoy the functions of the PARAP Site. This site will for the first time make it possible for most people to come to grips with what are actually happening in various parts of the world where remoteness and lack of communication keep the on-going dire facts of life away from the rest of us.
This site, when combined with that of Sophia Engineering, a truly innovative alternate energy specialist and designer/builder of the innovative North 9 wind turbine generators, will mark the beginning of a new era for the world's rural regions.
Instead of continuing to depend on fossil energy, which, in addition to its own problems, adds up to the negative investment burden of building the power distribution system built on copper line transmission, this environment-friendly system will become a natural fit for most of the remote communities of the world.
[September
3, 2007
News]]@Dear friends and associates,
First, accept my sincere apology for keeping such a long silence since I wrote the last message on June 17.
There have been a lot of options we had to explore and, in the process, we have made a number of comparative evaluations among them.
We are an NGO without abundant funding to begin with, and as such have encountered a considerable difficulty in negotiating a contract with commercial firms to build the PARAP site with a reasonable cost-v.s.-performance outlook.
This process took too much time, and I finally decided to build the test PARAP site by myself with the voluntary cooperation of the people of the Michael Broadcasting LLC of Tokyo, Japan.
As a result, we are now more than half way building the test PARAP site. Please access and view the site below:
http://www.activeboard.com/forum.spark?forumID=114514&sparkKey=f7722439228ba97c9618397556eac258b0
The merit of this test site will be its ability to benefit from a Canadian forum service and the Youtube video image transfer function. This site will be combined with the main page being developed by the Michael Broadcast people, which will also be bilingual and interconnected with the PARAP site above. We plan on using this test model during the rest of this year streamlining it and taking out bugs before building the real model with the capacity it will need.
Please do give us opinions and ideas you have as to how we can possibly improve the functional aspects as well as the contents of the video clips to be contributed by the NGOs operating in various remote regions of the world.
[June 17, 2007 News]]@Since
we began building the framework of the PARAP project in April, we have
encountered, due to its ground-breaking innovative characteristics, a
number of unforeseen problems as well as unexpected new possibilities
during May, and now we have past the middle of June.
The basic idea of opening a novel portal site on the Internet has not at all been altered, where all international NGOs operating in various parts of the world can upload their up-to-date video clips and messages reporting on their field activities while all PC and mobile phone owners of the world can access this site with no cross-carrier connectivity problems for mutual cultural exchange and private support. But, we are now considering the feasibility of making the system multilingual using Japanese, English, Russian and Chinese.
The main reason why we decided to use all four languages from the beginning is the increase of interest expressed by the NGO field staff in different parts of the world in finding small-scale wind power generation system for use in rural communities because of the likelihood of delay, or lack, in building fossil fuel-based power infrastructure due to its obviously adverse environmental impact.
We will launch our new PARAP project soon including as a result the service of identifying alternative energy generation systems suitable for use in remote rural communities.
The basic idea of opening a novel portal site on the Internet has not at all been altered, where all international NGOs operating in various parts of the world can upload their up-to-date video clips and messages reporting on their field activities while all PC and mobile phone owners of the world can access this site with no cross-carrier connectivity problems for mutual cultural exchange and private support. But, we are now considering the feasibility of making the system multilingual using Japanese, English, Russian and Chinese.
The main reason why we decided to use all four languages from the beginning is the increase of interest expressed by the NGO field staff in different parts of the world in finding small-scale wind power generation system for use in rural communities because of the likelihood of delay, or lack, in building fossil fuel-based power infrastructure due to its obviously adverse environmental impact.
We will launch our new PARAP project soon including as a result the service of identifying alternative energy generation systems suitable for use in remote rural communities.
[April 30, 2007 News]The month of April has certainly been a strange season in Japan, as it has been so in many areas of the world. It is becoming all the more necessary for all of us to stay in almost real-time contact and exchange information if we are going to take the actions needed to
cope with the rapid pace of changing climate conditions, such as the Bering Sea coast Eskimos losing their homes due to melting permafrost, the South Pacific island nations losing ground to the advancing shorelines, and the avalanche caused by the melting Himalayan glaciers. We can no longer depend on the conventional means of media communications.
Okamoto International Affairs Research Institute has decided to launch an epic project of bringing a solution to this problem in consultation with a group of supporters in Japan.
This project is named "PARAP," and aims at building a site which will eventually become accessible by all types of hand-held terminals, including of course the mobile phones, around the world. Anyone can upload his or her video clips and voice/text messages. First, we will begin with the Japanese and English versions, but between the first and the second year, we will attempt to provide the Russian, Chinese and Korean versions as well so that the entire East Asia, the English-speaking countries and much of the EU countries are covered.
The fundamental objective of the PARAP project is to provide the major internationally operating NGOs an easy access to announce the "new and often unexpected problems of today" and the "new assistance need which arose as a result" by uploading video clips and messages at the PARAP portal site so that all PC and mobile terminal users of the world can access the information, exchange views, and if willing, make personal donations by digitally committing small amounts as their personal expression of brotherhood and compassion. This site will in turn make it sure that such donations will remain fully accountable by working out an arrangement with the NGO field representatives so the donors will hear from the beneficiaries by return video message telling then what their donations did to help solve the problems.
[March 15, 2007 News]We have spent the first half of March, experiencing some strange weather conditions, the cherry trees in blossom one week and forst on the ground in the next! But, despite the cracy weather, we have made a good stride since last month in building the PARAP's alpha model site, which now contains the sample video clips from the Russian Far East, India, Afghanistan, and Africa, all provided by major international NGOs who have expressed their interest in working with our PARAP project.
http://www.parap.org/index-eg.htm
During April, we plan on launching the beta model portal site for your review, at which many more NGOs are expected to join forces by providing sample video clips showing their activities elsewhere in the world. At that time, we will also present an explicit road map which will show how we are going to move on making PARAP one of the most unique IT instrument bringing the young peoples of the world together, those who live in the most developed countries with their counterparts in the remote, underdeveloped regions of the world.
[February 22, 2007, News]We have only one week left before March. Our project now called Pan-Asia Regional Assistance Program (PARAP) is well underway preparing for launch in the spring. You can access the URL below to have a visual glimpse of it. It is about the Amur tiger and the Udehe native culture both of which face the ultimate fate of extinction if we don't work together to save them.
http://www.michaelbroadcast.net/parap/index.html
As said in the last message, this site will be officially launched during March, 2007. both in Japanese and English, and become accessible not only by all PCs but also by 3G mobile phons and comparable terminals. One can upload, download live images with messages.
What you will see at this site will be the live news of how the children and young adults around the world are spending their days and weeks coping with local problems such as wars and poverty. Anyone who happens to access these video clips and want to help can remit whatever donation to the specified well-known NGOs for what the donor wants them to do in the field.
In today's ever globalizing world economy, the national governments are lagging behind the time, unable to resolve inter-ethnic and -cultural differences. But, we as individuals can certainly move ahead and get things done by ourselves in the ubiquitous Internet world. Let us get things done showing how the life of the new century ought to be to our national governments.
‚h am leaving for North America tomorrow and will be back home on March 1st. There will be more test video clips to add to the site above .
[
January 26, 2007, News] During December 2006, we introduced the two web discussion sites on the so-called "History Issues." In addition to this, we are now in the process of developing a new web portal site tentatively called PAP for public and multilingual video-clip listing and information exchange for the benefit of bona fide international NGOs engaged in providing assistance and support services to the needy youth and children around the world. The field offices of these NGOs working with us can upload the vivid video clips introducing the young people in need and describing exactly what their needs are.
This portal site will be publicly accessible by most types of PCs and mobile phones (3-G) around the world by the use of a universal video file conversion engine, and the viewers can ask questions, if needed, and digitally make contributions of whatever goods and services needed in whatever amounts affordable. The NGO field offices will confirm the receipt and send back a video clip showing how the money was applied and what result was achieved so that the donors will have the digital report of how the money was used for what result.
You can see the alpha test site below. When the beta test site will have been built, it will be fully bilingual, and the select country sites will have some real video clips sent in from the field for your viewing. For now, it shows the part I of my series called "The Lifelong Voyage of My Heart."
http://www.michaelbroadcast.net/pap/
In addition, this portal site will be connected by a click to an independent Internet Broadcasting site which can be used at an affordable cost for all NGOs to host introductory speeches and presentations on their goals and programs. For a preliminary review, access the site below, which broadcast the part II of my series called "The Lifelong Voyage of My Heart." Regrettably, it is in Japanese, but once the service will be in place, it will be fully multilingual, starting with English and Japanese in the initial phase.
http://www.michaelbroadcast.net/syakaichannel.htm
These sample sites are still in a crude and preliminary stage, but the beta sites will be vastly different.
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