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About Us

(Name of our group) “Real Interaction with Neighbors around the Globe”- RING

( Group members ) About 30 people
( Pres. in Kyoto ) Tomoya SUGIYAMA - senior, Ritumeikan University
( Pres. in Tokyo ) Yoshitaka OKATANI - senior, Waseda University
( Adviser ) Kiiti Fujiwara - professor, Tokyo University
( Our base ) Tokyo / Kyoto

( Mail address ) ring_information@yahoo.co.jp

Background of the establishment

On the 1st January and the 15th August of 2002, TV programs called “Kimi to Kataritai (I want to talk with you)” and “Kimi to Kataru Sensou (I talk about war with you)” were broadcasted by NHK. Linking Cairo, New York and Tokyo by satellite system, young people from these three countries exchanged their views about the world after the 9.11. After those TV programs, the participants felt it was necessary to have further dialog among them and decided to found World Students Conference as a place for realizing continuous dialog among the people all over the world. After the 2nd Stage of World Students Conference, the inspired participants and staff members of that conference newly started their project, thereby creating RING-Real Interaction with Neighbors around the Globe on the May of2003.

Purpose of RING activities

We invite young people from all over the world (mainly from such areas of conflict, confusion and poverty), and host the forum for face-to-face dialogue to exchange views on global issues freely and voluntary. Through the dialog, participants of the dialog and we will rediscover that each of us have varieties of cultural, ethnical, religious and social background. Based on the premise of this recognition of global diversity, we try to construct a new vision for the future world of co-existence.

Past Records

( November 2002 ) Holding of World Students Conference 1st Stage in Kyoto

( March 2003 ) Holding of World Students Conference 2nd Stage in Tokyo

( May 2003 ) Foundation of“Real Interaction with Neighbors around the Globe (RING)”

( August 2003 ) Holding of World Students Conference 3rd Stage in Shimane

( November 2003 ) Holding of “RING2003” in Tokyo

( May 2004 ) Holding of World Students Conference 4th Stage in Kyoto

( November 2005 ) Holding of “RING2005” in Tokyo