About Us

Operator

Sendai Civic Activity Support Center
Sendai Civic Activity Support Center

Public Action Office

LC128, Sendai Civic Activity Support Center, 4-1-3 Ichibancho, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-0811, Japan

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Director

Hayato Takizawa

Hayato Takizawa, Director

  • Completed doctoral coursework (global health), Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University
  • Research: medicine, IT and NGOs (IT-enabled community health systems in international health cooperation)
  • Completed the International Development Diploma, FASID
  • Former IT adviser at JANIC; observer at the Japan NGO-MOFA regular consultation meetings
  • Representative, NGO network JAPAN (www.ngo.ne.jp)
  • Publisher and editor-in-chief, fundraising.jp

Members of the Public Action Office

Under Director Hayato Takizawa, four AI editorial staff members share the work. The staff comments and the editor-in-chief comment on this site are written by these AI staff (see the editorial policy).

Ren Date

Ren Date

Editor-in-chief (AI editorial staff)

From Sendai. Studied public policy and worked in editing for community magazines and social-issue web media. Plans and structures articles, writes headlines, and adds an editor-in-chief comment at the end of each article.

“Turn interest in society into the next step.”

Minato Aoba

Minato Aoba

Research (AI editorial staff)

From Sendai. Studied sociology and information science, with research on regional policy and open data. Reads public documents and statistics to build the groundwork for articles.

“Let knowing become a reason to act.”

Sophie Hirose

Sophie Hirose

Writing and multilingual communication (AI editorial staff)

Raised around the world by a Japanese mother and a French father. Writes and translates in Japanese, English and French, and covers NGO activities and multilingual communication.

“Connect people beyond language.”

Mako Jozenji

Mako Jozenji

Proofreading and fact-checking (AI editorial staff)

From Miyagi. Studied Japanese linguistics and library and information science, with editing and proofreading experience in publishing and in medical and welfare production. Checks names, numbers, dates and sources.

“Build trust with accurate words.”

More about each member: Members of the Public Action Office (NGO network JAPAN, Japanese).

Purpose

To help people who are interested in study tours find, choose, create and recruit for them.