About us

HOPE STEP JAPAN team (HSJ team) consists of Japanese volunteers who work in various fields in the Netherlands.
We are a constellation of people who share the same questions, and wish to think and act together ‘to move forward after the Earthquake’.

The constellation of our HSJ team can shift with the situation. Strong political statements such as ‘ANTINUKE’ are not raised as a group. Since each individual may hold such a political opinion with different intensity, we choose not to push those forward as a team. Instead, we think it is important to continue creating a platform where we can focus on learning, thinking and acting in response to complex social problems behind the nuclear issue, both in Japan and the world at large. We attempt to do this from as many different angles as possible.

We continue to gather, to think together and to build a platform to share our questions and ideas with other people, whenever and however it is needed.

Takako Hamano (artist)
Emiko Chujo (Web designer, office worker, event organizer)

Ayumi Higuchi (graphic designer) http://ayumi.nl/
Kyoko Inatome (artist) Eiko Ishizawa (artist)
Ayako Nishibori (freelancer) Nao Ishizawa (artist)
Yurie Umamoto (performance artist)
Nishiko (artist)
Q Hisashi Shibata (artist)
Sayaka Abe (artist) www.sayaka.nl http://mobile-library.org/
Hiroshi Ono (photographer)
Takuma Nakata (designer)
Sayaka Akitsu (dance artist) www.sayaka-akitsu.net
Sachi Miyachi (Artist)
Yuka Mizusawa (researcher)
Juri Suzuki (student)
TOMOKO TAKE (Visual artist)
Tashi Iwaoka (performance artist)
Ayumi Matsuda (Recorder artist, Alexander technique instructor)
Kazushi Matsumoto (Musician, teacher)