It is about the reality and potential of all that is good and possible from and with Japan to help change the world for better.

It is a big name for a small community. 

It is about both the inbound and outbound, the flow of people and ideas about and related to Japan.

It is about that Third Opening we are all hearing about; not a Meiji Restoration and definitely not a WWII Occupation.

It is about the foreign being local and the local being more global ….& even more local.

 It is about people of all ages from Iwakuni to Idaho and in between that have, want or imagine a stake in or with Japan.

It is about the understated and the nuanced.

It is about hope and many springs to come.