A big thank you to Four Fox Sake for their contribution to the KIWL 2019 Bike Ride
four fox saké
In Japanese mythology, Inari Okami is the god of Rice, Saké, Swordsmiths and Foxes.
The fox spirits of Inari were entrusted to guard the Torii gates, only allowing the purest of spirits to pass. Four Fox Saké represents this purity and perfection.
Thank you to Pfizer for their generous contribution for the KIWL 2019 Bike Ride
Our Purpose / Pfizer Corporate Responsibility Program Bridging The Gap To Access
Pfizer's corporate responsibility programs are designed to help strengthen global public-health systems. Our Pfizer CSR report explains how we combine philanthropic methods with novel approaches to facilitate access to medicines for underserved communities around the world.
https://www.pfizer.com/purpose/responsibility
A big thank you to Robert Half for their contribution to the KIWL 2019 Bike Ride
Recruitment specialists and employment services
As a leading recruitment agency in Japan, Robert Half connects highly skilled candidates with employers in temporary and permanent positions, for a variety of fields including accounting, finance, financial services and technology. Whether you're looking for your next career opportunity or looking to hire new talent, Robert Half's recruitment services can help you.
Thanking Boyd & Moore for their contribution to the KIWL 2019 charity bike ride
It’s all about the right people
We empower organizations who share our belief in the key ingredients of success: great people and valuable insights.
It’s true. Organizational success or failure really does come down to people.
But at Boyd & Moore Executive Search we believe this is only half of the truth.
In times where businesses struggle more than ever with technical disruptions, fast changing customer demands and talent shortages it’s not just about “people”.
It’s about the right people.
Those who fit the culture and values of the organization. Those who are engaged in the business through thick or thin. Those who perform at the highest levels. Those who ultimately determine whether an enterprise thrives or whether it simply survives.
But finding and attracting the right talent is hard.
Which is where Boyd & Moore Executive Search comes in!
Through valuable insights, thorough research and thoughtful consulting, we help organizations identify and connect with the people they need, reliably and hassle-free.
KIWL Charity Ride/BBQ
Thank you to Anthony Faulkner for organizing the KIWL Charity Motorcycle Ride/BBQ this weekend in Yamanashi.
They raised well over 100,000 JPY. A special thank you to John Gavin and his team who provided the BBQ venue and organized the BBQ. Also a big thank you to Frank Misura who helped make the day a big success.
Great weekend walk around the Palace
We had a wonderful weekend with the KIWL Palace Walk/Run. Many of our corporate sponsors joined and helped raise over 500,000 JPY for our Digital Citizens training.
Thank you to Japan Travel for your generous Donation
Japan Travel is the leading resource for Japan travel information and the primary destination for visitors planning and traveling to Japan.
A very big thank you to Eire Systems for their support of the KIWL 2019 June Bike Ride
The EIRE Systems Story
The EIRE Systems Story began with a business partnership between two IT consultants, Matthew Connolly and Paul Timmons, who had a few things in common. Both are originally from Dublin, Ireland and they each first came to Japan as graduates to work at major Japanese technology companies; more importantly they also shared a common interest in the rapidly developing information technology sector and a common goal to establish a company of their own to provide better IT Solutions to the increasingly internationalized Japan market.
Matthew and Paul continued to develop their own professional skills and quickly established themselves as leading independent IT Project Management Consultants, mostly for the Financial Services industry. As EIRE Systems has grown, the company has been very successful in winning and consistently delivering on increasingly more complex and high-profile projects, as a result the business has expanded to provide a wider range of IT Support, Project Management, Consulting and Outsourcing Services to Multinational and internationalized corporate clients across various industries and business sectors.
EIRE Systems’ growth has been mostly organic, and since its inception has expanded to 200 professionals across four office locations including Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore and Shanghai, with proven ability to deliver throughout the Asia Pacific region. The common goals that lead to the creation of EIRE Systems remain the same today as we continue to strive to grow our business to better meet our clients’ requirements and to provide ongoing opportunities and career development for our employees.
Thanking Kojima Law Offices for their generous support
With over 35 years of experience, the professionals at Kojima Law Firm are experts in Japanese and international law, they take care of all of the steps involved in the legal process, and their services go above and beyond any other standard Japanese legal help.
To further prove their support of bridging the gap between international and Japanese entities, they have chosen to sponsor the KIWL (Knights In White Lycra), a group of international individuals in Japan who “get fit and give back” to different charity organizations.
In Memory of Sachiko “Jackie” Wall
Sachiko Wall was a loving mother and a devoted friend, who was rich in love and compassion for others. She passed away in March of 2019.
In 1932 Sachiko was born in Kobe, Japan. Her birth mother a Japanese and her father was a British soldier. Due to unknown circumstances Sachiko was put up for adoption. At this time, being orphaned while also being mixed race could have meant a horrible existence for her. It would’ve meant a life of utter pain and hardship.
But then a miracle happened, her birth mother had employed a Japanese couple who couldn’t have children. They took Sachiko in as their own, and then enrolled her in an international school. They accepted her and encouraged her to embrace her own identity.
As you might imagine, life was very difficult for the few mixed-race children in Japan during WWII. She was regularly tormented by the other children. Having toilet water and trash thrown at her. There were times when her parents even had to hide her, and they started to move around a lot. In school, Sachiko made sure to study hard and try to impress the teachers, to make up for being half white. Thanks to her hard work in school Sachiko had become bilingual. Later, she was able to get work helping different organizations, like the government and military. This is where she met an American merchant marine. Soon the two were married, and they went to start a new life in California, but she never forgot where she came from.
Sachiko was fortunate to be adopted, but her story could’ve gone very differently. The reality is that now, there are over 30,000 orphans living in Japan with little to no chance of ever being adopted. While children’s homes do support and take care of them, they are much less likely to gain many of the basic skills that we all take for granted every day. When they turn 18, and need to enter Japanese society, they have key disadvantages that their peers cannot not even imagine.
Sachiko’s family and YouMeWe created this page as a donation fund to honor her spirit. Sachiko’s passing is an immense loss, but her family is ensuring that her loving and generous spirit will live on through a generous donation. With Sachiko’s gift and your donations, we will be providing a chance for Japanese orphans to gain developmental and creative skills that would otherwise be unavailable to them.
To learn more please take a look at the Design Artists Academy (Art summer camp for orphans), supported by YouMeWe.
Link to the donation page:
https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/in-memory-of-sachiko-jackie-wall/
Thanking Allied Pickfords for their contribution to KIWL 2019 Bike Ride
Worldwide Leader
For almost 400 years our name has been synonymous with high quality home moving. From the packhorses of the early seventeenth century, to the most advanced shipping and transportation methods of today, with over 600 locations in more than 40 countries, Allied Pickfords has grown to become one of the largest and most respected providers of moving services, handling over 50,000 domestic and international moves every year.
Thanking Huxley for their generous support
Huxley takes part in a wide range of CSR initiatives and programmes with a vision to transform lives through skills and work. We’re proud of our strong philanthropic history in partnership with our parent company, the SThree Group. This has been developed over the years to strategically align with the Group’s commercial strategy and incorporate our STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) expertise.
The central theme for our global CSR activity is employability and aspiration. Our approach best utilises our core recruitment expertise, skills, and networks to help people from underprivileged backgrounds into work. The SThree Foundation further enriches our goal. Launched in 2016, the SThree Foundation supports bright young people from underprivileged and diverse backgrounds into the STEM industries.
Thanking Specialized Group for their generous support
Specialized Group provides professional recruitment services to bilingual professionals in Japan.
Our work is understanding people. We are extremely passionate about connecting the right person to the right role. Great people make great workplaces.
Thanking Seisho Global for their generous support
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With excellent guard technique, we secure safety for you.
In our special guard services, we guard everything from VIPs to valuables, transport and research.
Our building security services protect everything day and night including office buildings, airports, schools, hotels, factories and warehouses.
Thanking en world Japan for their generous support
The en world story
One thing has remained constant in en world’s journey from recruiting services start-up in 2000 to one of Japan’s leading talent acquisition and management firms today. We have always looked beyond the traditional narrow focus on hiring transactions.
The en world way is to partner long-term with clients and job-seekers to support in the most comprehensive way possible the process of identifying, attracting, retaining, and developing global talent for global organizations in Japan.
Since becoming a group company of en-Japan in 2010, we have been able to innovate at an ever-increasing rate, expanding our range of services and finding new ways to make employment relationships more productive and fulfilling. We believe there is no more important calling, and no better way to drive business success and enhance careers.
Thanking the Carter Group for their generous support
With offices in Tokyo, Osaka, and Singapore hosting a team of more than 60 full time researchers and 100 staff interviewers, CarterJMRN is a full service Japan-based market research agency. Our history began in 1989 with the founding of the Japan Market Resource Network. In that time we have worked with most of the major international brands to have entered and prospered in Japan. As a fully bicultural agency, we are known for the cultural sensitivity and effectiveness of our responses to clients’ challenges, applying intelligent and efficient research design. We enable highly practical, prescriptive and actionable solutions.
We lay the foundation for our clients’ marketing activities in Japan, including market entry, with innovative methods that cover the gamut of immersive, qualitative and quantitative approaches. These include cultural analysis, trend watching, secondary desk research, depth interviews, ethnography, focus groups and all quantitative survey methods. We are your guide to unmasking the needs, desires and opinions of Japanese consumers and helping you to translate those into action.
"My Role on the Planet Earth" by BigRabbit48 in the Philippines lab
Who we are can be a tough puzzle to solve,
Us humans who struggle to survive and evolve,
As the Earth spins around its axis like a globe,
Our true purpose has yet to unfold.
I live every day to create a better place,
Where the laughter of children would never be erased.
Through efforts of mine alone is a drop in a river,
We should cooperate and become so much greater.
I strive to live and live to strive,
Because we should make the most of being alive.
What I can do may still be unclear,
But my true purpose is shouting at my ear.
The Earth is dying but we are lounging about,
Yet we still blame the creator for how life has gone south.
We should stop and not let our actions be thoughts,
Because the world that we live in is the only home we've got.
We should act now and stop being hard headed,
One day, we will regret how the world should have ended.
I have lived my life well since my birth,
Because I have realized my true role on Earth.
Is writing a dying art?; From our Digital Citizen in Philippines writing in NightZooKeeper
Literature writing is an art that is commonly moved aside and rejected for its unpopularity, uniqueness and misunderstood beauty. Literature at first, can be quite simple, write a word, explain, and it can be called a masterpiece, but it is not just a simple flick of the pen. Literature is writing out your feelings, emotions, learnings, opinions, suggestions, and the list goes on and on because the possibilities are endless.
It is a common belief that literature art such as poetry writing, oration and story retelling is an unentertaining hobby, “Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.” Once said by Cassandra Clare. Some choose physically active sports rather than mentally oriented literature or vocally interpreted literature. Sports do improve physical health but it is not all that a human body needs, it needs leisure and rest, a hobby that can exercise its mental capacity and an outlet for emotions kept within.
It has been proved in a survey conducted by filipinoyouth.org that 3 out of 10 students would pick sports over creative writing and 4 out of 10 in adults, dated last 2017 of December with correspondents ages 13 to 23 years old. In lined with the survey this simply proves that we are in need of an outlet like creative writing especially at this century where mental illness is thriving and athleticism is overrated. Developing a healthy population not only physically but also mentally and emotionally is what we need to be the best in the world, the universe rather.
What can we get from practicing such arts? Public speaking can improve an individual’s confidence in verbal arguments and defending the facts they know and opinions they can contribute. Relating it to public speaking, we will be reminded of the humble beginnings of the world’s greatest orator; Demothenes. He was a Greek man who aspired to be a lawyer but with a great obstacle, he stammers when he speaks. Alone, he went out to the sea and open fields to practice speaking without stuttering. With great hard work and perseverance, the Ex-stammered became a good speaker. Not only that, after many years, he became the Greek’s greatest orator. His story will only prove that the practice of oratorical arts can bear fruits of success. Simple works of this practice have made great impacts to the people that read them, take example Margaret Fishback Powers’ poem “Footprints” more commonly known as “Footprints on the Sand” which got the title “The poem that inspired millions” from its religious theme and the warm emotion it lets out. We can also take account our national hero; Dr. Jose Rizal, who freed us from the clutches of the Spaniards using his talent in creative writing to ignite the flame of the Filipinos that were mistreated ad constantly being stripped off of their independence. One of us has the possibility to follow the footsteps of Demothenes, to make another poem that would inspire millions, but how is that possible if the youth of today are using their idle time to engage in technological recreation such as social media, online gaming, and online videos that brainwash the youth with their explicit content. Wattpad, a popular app and website, is a platform on the internet for zealous writers, but if the website is searched on similarweb.com: A site that compared its ranking of popularity to other sites, it can be seen that Wattpad has a low ranking compared to other arts and entertainment websites. It just shows that we are not using the technology we acquired for improving our literary knowledge but for things that are irrelevant to a human’s well-being and development
The rekindling of passion for these dying arts will start at school, we should heighten the implementations and conductions of school programs such as English Language Festivals and other programs that would let the learners improve and practice expressing themselves through creative arts, public speaking, and creative writing. We the millennials should be the catalysts of a world where expression through literature and arts can thrive without the hindrance of recreational activities and technological advancements.
Will you be the savior of these arts or will we be the cause of its termination?
A big thank you to Adept Group
A big thank you to Adept Group helping with the sponsorships the KIWL 2019 -500 km ride in June 2019
Adept Group approaches every executive search with a partnering strategy custom-tailored to fit the exacting needs of both clients and candidates.
We invest significant time in understanding the people we work with and the specific variables unique to each situation. Then we carefully and thoroughly manage the entire search process from start to finish, allowing every hiring manager to feel comfortable and confident in receiving excellent results. Our total commitment to consistency, follow-through, and completion eliminates the time lags and stress that can often be involved in the hiring process.