Fukushima Sunflower Project
Director of Team Fukushima (NPO)
Shinji Handa
Other things he does:
Founder of Saiyo to Kyoiku (Recruitment and Education)
Fukushima tourism ambassador
Psychiatric social worker
Career counselor licensed by Japan Career Development Association
Handa specializes in assisting companies, large and small, with human resource developments. He has also been giving talks all over Japan. His lectures, full of humor and useful tips, are popular among many from students to business owners.
His hobbies include magic and growing bonsai plants. He has performed magic at nursing homes and children's homes many times. Kids like to call him "Onigiri (rice ball) man," as he often wears an onigiri-shaped head on stage.
About the Fukushima Sunflower Project
The Fukushima Sunflower Project was started to connect Fukushima, the city greatly affected by the Great Earthquake on March 11, 2011, and the nuclear plant accidents that followed, and other parts of Japan. In this project, people grow sunflowers and send the seeds to Fukushima. We then plant them and create fields of sunflowers to symbolize the city's rebirth.
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