The “One Village, One Product” Movement, which began in Oita Prefecture around 1980 and spread throughout Japan to promote regional development through the creation of local specialty products, has been supported by JICA in various developing countries. Last December, the project was adopted as a national project. We will find out why the project was…

Connecting Bangladesh, which has excellent IT human resources but is having difficulty finding work, and Japan’s regional cities, which are suffering from a shortage of digital human resources. This new form of international cooperation is attracting attention from local governments and companies nationwide. The catalyst for this new form of international cooperation is JICA’s IT…

Due to the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, research institutions in Ukraine have been severely damaged and many researchers have been forced to suspend their research activities. Under such circumstances, from July to December 2022, Fukushima University’s Research Institute for Environment and Radioactivity accepted young Ukrainian researchers and provided them with training.JICA, in collaboration with…

JICA has many people from various backgrounds who are tackling international issues with clear-cut passion in their respective fields. This issue of “People Tackling International Challenges” focuses on the passion of these people. In this second issue, we introduce Yasue Yoshinari, who is taking on international issues from within Japan as the Director of JICA…

Chocolate for a break from work, or cocoa for a breather. What if the cacao used as a raw material was harvested by children who worked in exchange for the time they were supposed to spend at school? In order to protect children’s educational opportunities, an initiative to eradicate child labor using blockchain technology has…