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Date: Sunday, August 3, 2025, 14:15-16:30
Venue: Theme Week Studio, Expo ’70 Osaka, Kansai
As part of the “Peace and Human Rights” theme week of Expo 2010 Osaka-Kansai, a “Business Idea Contest to Solve Refugee Issues” was held. Seven Japanese organizations and companies that passed the preliminary screening gave final presentations on their business ideas for solving issues faced by refugees in Africa and refugee hosting regions.
Cor-an Holdings K.K.: Improving nutrition and creating jobs in refugee host communities through Moringa cultivation
By cultivating Moringa with high nutritional value and flowers for export in the same field, we are able to improve food security and generate income for refugees at the same time. The extraction of Moringa’s highly functional ingredient “moriphenol®” and the use of the residues as food add value, while carbon credits from Moringa plantations create a sustainable refugee assistance model that balances the environment and the economy.
Dots for Inc.: A digital platform for refugees that can be set up anywhere at low cost to reduce the information and opportunity gap.
We provide a “distributed communication infrastructure” that digitizes areas of the digital divide easily and at very low cost, without the need for basic knowledge, and a “digital service platform” that solves various problems in rural Africa through smartphones.
Light Up Africa: Refugee Participation in the Development of Storage Batteries Using Agricultural Residues
Our goal is to create an environment that allows access to electricity throughout Africa, including refugee areas, by creating EDLCs, a family of rechargeable batteries with low environmental impact that anyone can easily produce using plant-based activated carbon and other materials made from agricultural residues that are often generated in rural areas in Africa.
TERRA Corporation: The world’s largest scale of solar sharing that solves social issues.
In Ethiopia, where agricultural instability and food and energy shortages are hampering the self-reliance of refugees and IDPs, the project aims to build a sustainable African model by promoting sustainable renewable energy and agriculture through three-dimensional land use using solar sharing (farm-based solar power generation) and comprehensive rehabilitation of industrial parks and IDP camps. The project aims to build a sustainable African model.
The event also featured a video presentation of a business idea contest held in Uganda for residents of refugee-receiving communities, as well as a talk session on refugee issues and peace by the two moderators, providing an opportunity to learn about the issues facing refugees and refugee-receiving communities in Africa that are not well known in Japan, and to think about and discover ways to solve those issues through the power of business. It was an opportunity to learn about the issues facing refugees and refugee host communities in Africa that are not well known in Japan, and to think about and discover ways to solve these issues through the power of business. The four Japanese companies selected for this competition will work toward the realization of their business ideas through visits to the regions where their projects are located.
We will continue to support private companies that are working to solve sustainable issues for refugees and refugee-receiving regions, which are increasing in number and prolonged in severity around the world.
[Claire] [Claire] Moderator.
Mr. Tomonori Jinnai (Yoshimoto Kogyo Co., Ltd.)
Ms. Kiyoko Takemura
[Claire] Juries!
Mr. Tatsutae Kim President, Welcome Japan General Incorporated Association
Ms. Fumiko Kashiwa, Representative, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Japan
Riki Yamauchi, Director, Novastar Ventures Ltd.
Kumiko Uchida, Deputy Director, Africa Department, Japan International Cooperation Agency
Speakers.
Ms. Mamiko Inabata President, Cor-an holdings, Inc.
Mr. Yuta Kono President, Lim-Kawano & Company K.K.
Masato Takeda Co-founder, KAZI Connect
Ms. Yuka Dusabe, New Business Manager, Dots for Africa Division, Dots for Africa Inc.
Ms. Tomoko Tokushige Marketing & Sales Specialist, FL 360 (PTY) LTD
Ryosuke Nishijima Light Up Africa (Group)
Hiroshi Toko President, TERRA Corporation
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