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AMIY MORI

FilmDirector,Photographer,MediaProducer

 

Amiy Mori is a photographer known for her many portraits of Hollywood stars and world-renown individuals. Her
collaboration with various embassies within Japan, the Tourism Ministry and large corporations has made her a
media producer with a wide following. She has also produced columns and specials in women’s magazines and has
numerous one-woman shows of her work in department stores such as Prime Temps Ginza. Known as an expert in
travel, she also works as an instructor and adviser for high-end restaurant chains, hotels, and Japanese
ryokans. In the aftermath of the 2011 disaster that struck northeastern Japan she was hired as the adviser for
the Spa Resort Hawaiian in Fukushima. She is well known for her appearances on radio. She is one of Japan’s
few multi-faceted artists.

As a movie director she is known for Koikyokusei, released throughout Japan in 2009. For this she was
nominated for the Best New Director Award at the Shanghai International Film Festival. Currently she is
working on several projects within Japan and abroad that she has written and is directing.
In 2010 she
was to begin working with Dentsu on a project for the regional development project surrounding the Tokyo
SkyTree but the disaster that struck in 2011 put this project on hold. She instead began working on airing
movies in the Tohoku region of Japan and traveled throughout cities in the region from Ofunato to Iwaki. She
was highly recognized for her Christmas Illumination Project for the City of Kesennuma.
She is also
known for her regular television appearances in Fukuoka. Starting in 2014, she created a movie for Yamazaki
Bread Company, and in 2016 after the Kumamoto Earthquake she this followed with a movie for the Ministry of
Economy, Trade, and Industry and the Kyushu Tourism Promotion Organization creating a program aimed at foreign
tourists called “A City to Encounter Wine”. Her work can also be seen on NET TV’s “FRESH! TV” and “AMIY’S
SUMMER FESTIVAL 2017”.
In 2017 she established, JapanSearch Inc. a portal site highlighting Japan’s
beauty and refinement and also founded Japan-Search.jp.
In 2018, all international flights on Japan
Airlines began showing her “A City to Encounter Wine”, a series she produced and directed with the Ministry of
Economy, Trade, and Industry.
In 2019, one of the cities she worked with was nominated by the Tourism
Ministry as a successful model for representing regional redevelopment. In 2020 she was asked the Tourism
Ministry to design the logo for Japan for the Japan Sustainable Tourism Standard for Destinations. In June
2020 the selection of her logo was made public.

AMIY MORI Artist page：http://www.amiymori.jp/

 Ex-Vice Minister of the Environment

Ministry of the Environment, Japan

Nippon Steel Corporation Executive Advisor

Tokutaro Nakai

   

After graduating from the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law, he entered the Ministry of Finance (MOF) in
1985. After working at the Budget Bureau, he was temporarily assigned to the Toyama Prefectural Government.
During his assignment in Toyama, he helped to promote studies on Japan Seaology. Returning to MOF in 2002, he
held prominent positions such as Director of Public Relations, Director for Fiscal Investment and Loan
Appropriation, Financial Bureau, and Director for the budget of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and
Fisheries, Budget Bureau. He was transferred to the Ministry of the Environment in July 2011 after the Great
East Japan Earthquake, and held prominent positions such as Director of the Policy Planning Division,
Environmental Policy Bureau, Director of the Policy and Coordination Division, Minister’s Secretariat,
Director of the Personnel Division, Minister’s Secretariat, Director-General of the Waste Management and
Recycling Department, and Director-General for the Environmental Policy Bureau. He was appointed Vice Minister
of the Environment in July, 2020.

Research Institute for Humanity and Nature

Director General

Jyuichi Yamagiwa

 

Juichi Yamagiwa is the former President of Kyoto University and the former president of Science Council of
Japan (both until September 2020). He is a world-renowned researcher and expert in the study of primatology
and human evolution. He was awarded Doctor of Science from Kyoto University in 1987. After holding positions
at the Karisoke Research Center, Japan Monkey Center, and Primate Research Institute Kyoto University, he has
been Professor of Graduate School of Science at Kyoto University since 2002. He was Dean of Graduate School
and Faculty of Science from 2011 to 2013 and has been a member of the Administrative Council of the University
from 2012 to 2013. Dr.Yamagiwa has also served as President of International Primatological Society from 2008
to 2012, and as the Editor in Chief of Primates, a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal of primatology
published by Springer Science+Business Media from 2010 to 2014. He served as the president of the Japan
Association of National Universities (2016-2018), and is the member of Environmental Policy Committee of
Ministry of Environment. Dr. Yamagiwa’s passion for fieldwork research frequently made him travel to Africa,
such as Rwanda, Republic of the Congo, and Gabonese Republic, where he discovered an abundance of new findings
related to gorillas, through his unique viewpoint of evolution.