Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!2022年12月25日

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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!

🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄 　This comes with our love to you and best wishes for 2023. 　We started this year by a first visit to the Kashima shrine, an ancient shrine. (photo2) 　In March Yuki become Chairman, International Initiatives of Change (IC) Association of Japan. Together with Hironori YANO, my predecessor(right), visited Masahide SHIBUSAWA (center) at a New MRA (Moral Re-Armament) Foundation office. He organized many reconciliation initiatives with Asia. He is 97 and a great- grandson of Viscount Eiichi SHIBUSAWA, the father of modern industrial Japan. (photo3) In September, Yuki helped organize a Tokyo Peace Round Table,” Beyond war to reconciliation”, hosted by Religion for Peace (RfP, or World Conference for Religion and Peace, WCRP). Religious leaders from Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Myanmar, Russia, South Sudan, Syria, Turkey, Ukraine and other countries participated. (photo4) 　The IC Association of Japan organized four zoom meetings on Ukraine and in the Autumn and had a key-note speech by Ambassador Korsunsky from Ukraine in November. (photo5and 6) The Christmas tree was made by Leiko. (photo1) 　We now live in a new house in Mito, two hours north of Tokyo. We owe a lot to Leiko for her care for four grandchildren. Ai works as a nurse. Yuki is retired from politics and devotes his time to I of C and other NGO assistance and writings. Yukihisa and Leiko FUJITA Ai and her 4 children Yukino aged 11, Kohnosuke 9, Yukinosuke 4 and Natsuno