“Guruguru Japan” is a spin-off blog from the successful UK-JAPAN.net project website (Nov 2006 - Feb 2009). Guruguru Japan aims to uncover the world of Japan from a deeply analytical perspective; the wonderful, the dark, and the damn-right plain stupid.
You will find that much off the early content (uploaded during Feb 09) on Guruguru Japan has been redistributed from UK-JAPAN.net. This blog will always aim to stimulate the imagination, whilst at the same time being resourceful, informative and provocative for all those with an interest in the land of the rising sun.
Guruguru - the state of something moving around or rotating continuously.
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GREEN STAY - Iaunching late 2009
In collaboration with Yutaka Tozawa, Green Stay is the revolutionary next generation of youth and citizen travel accommodation spreading GreenLove. Travel that makes a difference to the developing world. Green Stay's vision is to provide persons across the globe the opportunity to get involved in making the world full of green (eco-friendliness) and love. Our Green Stay motto is 'spread love and stay green'.
Our mission is to revolutionize peoples' travel and lifestyle, and concept of being a global citizen via an online home stay community that provides the next generation of youth and citizen's global accommodation over the next century and beyond. Green Stay aims to help the world to become a more loving, charitable and eco-friendly place to live, and with this mission firmly set in mind, offers its community the ability to travel with free accommodation, donate to charities of their choice, and enjoy a cultural and eco tourist travel experience all at the same time.
"As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own."
Margaret Mead, Anthropologist.
INNOVATORS' STUDIO - In Progress
Innovators’ Studio (Innovators’ Studio) is a Non-Profit Organisation co-founded by Justin Watson and Barry Crisp, with the vision to holistically empower, inspire, change, and develop the youth and their surrounding environment via the mediums of on-the-road workshops (after-school clubs), the Internet (ISS website, inc., film, music, and text), and the Innovators’ Studio (community centre).
Innovators’ Studio will constantly promote equality, eco-friendliness, social awareness, world citizenship, and the concept of becoming a social entrepreneur (people who are passionate about social and environmental change both for commercial and non=profit purposes).
Innovators’ Studio is predominantly for the youth aged 11-18 years old (secondary school and college), but intends to work actively with the wider community, member’s parents, and primary schools.
UK-JAPAN.net - November 2006 - February 2009
A first of its kind bilingual web site, and a source of alternative information. The main aim is to bridge cultural communication between the UK and Japan, and act as a connection site for those wishing to make British and Japanese friends, whilst at the same time gaining knowledge of the British and Japanese people and cultures.
As well as promoting events and exchange board classifications, UK-JAPAN.net web site gives a better understanding of the UK and Japan through features, reviews, photos, forums and our news pages. UK-JAPAN.net promotes unity, spiritual creativity, and the concept of being a world citizen. We always aim to be informative, creative, and provocative.
UK-JAPAN.net was launched in November 2006 and has since become a very popular site for those who are from the UK and Japan, and from those who share an enthusiastic interest in the UK and/or Japan. UK-JAPAN.net hopes to become a gateway to another world for many of our visitors.
