This article was produced as a part of the joint media project between The Non-profit International Press Syndicate Group and Soka Gakkai International in Consultative Status with ECOSOC.
Photo: Mario Marazziti, co-founder of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty in 2002 and Member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies. Credit: Katsuhiro Asagiri | INPS-IDN Multimedia Director.
Pope Francis in a meeting with President Christina Fernandez de Kirchner of Argentina in the Casa Rosada./ By Casa Rosada (Argentina Presidency of the Nation), CC BY-SA 2.0
Opening keynote address by Mario Marazziti “No Justice Without Life”/ filmed by Katsuhiro Asagiri
INPS Japan
This article was produced as a part of the joint media project between The Non-profit International Press Syndicate Group and Soka Gakkai International in Consultative Status with ECOSOC.
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama greet His Excellency Uhuru Kenyatta, President of the Republic of Kenya, in the Blue Room during a U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit dinner at the White House, Aug. 5, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Amanda Lucidon)
Ramesh Jaura, Editor-in-Chief and Director-General of INPS and its flagship agency IDN-InDepthNews, spent five days (24-29 November 2019) to personally reconnect with long-term media partners in Tokyo, the Soka Gakkai International (SGI).
In warm-hearted meetings with Mr. Hirotsugu Terasaki, SGI Director-General, Peace and Global Issues, and Vice President and Chair of the Peace Committee of Soka Gakkai – with whom the first contact was established in 2009 – Ramesh Jaura was accompanied by Katsuhiro Asagiri, INPS Japan President, Multimedia Director of INPS.
We had equally warm-hearted meetings with Mr. Tamotsu Sugiyama, Vice President, Executive Director, International Office of Public Information, Soka Gakkai and his team headed by Ms. Yoshiko Matsumoto.
An additional highlight was Ramesh Jaura’s presentation on ‘The Role of Media in Contemporary Society’ at the Soka Gakkai World Seikyo Center in Tokyo, with about 100 professional journalists and communication experts in attendance, and another on ‘Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change: Turning Ambitious Goals into Action’ at the Soka Gakkai Kanagawa Peace Center in Yokohama to about 100 youth.
Ramesh Jaura wrapped up his weeklong visit by reconnecting with Mr. Keiji Endo, an expert on environmentally sustainable transport initiative known as ‘Green Eco Project’, and INPS Japan board members Mr. Shigekazu Kobayashi, a lawyer, and Mr. Takaaki Ishida, Secretary General of the Ozaki Yukio Memorial Foundation.
Filmed by Katsuhiro Asagiri, Multimedia Director, President of INPS Japan.
Since his visit coincided with the Pope Francis’s visit to Japan and the conference on death penalty, IDN-INPS carried an in-depth report and a viewpoint.
and Defeating Hatred: For a World Without Death Penalty, a viewpoint by Mr. Adama Dieng, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide. [IDN-InDepthNews – in December 2019] FBポスト
President Barack Obama and President Hu Jintao of China watch the United States Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps pass on the South Lawn of the White House, Jan. 19, 2011./ By Pete Souza, Public Domain
Ramesh Jaura, DG & Editor-in-Chief of INPS made a presentation on ‘Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change: Turning Ambitious Goals into Action’ at the Soka Gakkai Kanagawa Peace Center in Yokohama to about 100 youth in late November 2019.
‘The Role of Media in Contemporary Society’ was the theme of the presentation by Ramesh Jaura, Director-General & Editor-in-Chief of INPS at the Soka Gakkai World Seikyo Center in Tokyo on 26 November 2019. Speaking to about 100 professional journalists and communication experts, he underlined in particular what distinguishes INPS – the International Press Syndicate Group – and its flagship IDN-InDepthNews from the other media. For example, INPS-IDN offer information based on facts and depth, providing context. Because informed public opinion is vital for peaceful co-existence in communities, nations and the world at large.
Since his visit coincided with the Pope Francis’s visit to Japan and the conference on death penalty, IDN-INPS carried an in-depth report and a viewpoint.