{"id":7305,"date":"2020-08-06T14:06:10","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T05:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peacepieceproject.com\/english\/?p=7305"},"modified":"2020-08-06T14:06:10","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T05:06:10","slug":"mr-masanori-kanda-a-japanese-management-consultant-and-writer-gave-us-a-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacepieceproject.com\/english\/7305\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Masanori Kanda, a Japanese management consultant and writer, gave us a message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Masanori Kanda, a Japanese management consultant and writer,<br \/>\ngave us a message of support for the Children&#8217;s World Peace Summit.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"\ufa19\u7530\u660c\u5178\u3055\u307e\u304b\u3089\u306e\u5fdc\u63f4\u30e1\u30c3\u30bb\u30fc\u30b8\u3010\u5b50\u3069\u3082\u4e16\u754c\u5e73\u548c\u30b5\u30df\u30c3\u30c8\u3011\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JqdgKtQVmz8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>+++++++++++++++++<\/p>\n<p>Thinking about peace is very difficult.<br \/>\nThis &#8220;Children&#8217;s World Peace Summit&#8221; reminded me that again.<\/p>\n<p>Although it is called the &#8220;Children&#8221; Peace Summit,<br \/>\nit was I who is an &#8220;adult&#8221; who began to think deeply about peace.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing the children seriously talking about peace and announcing it made me question myself.<\/p>\n<p>Am I thinking about peace as much as my children and living each day?<\/p>\n<p>I would like to thank everyone at the Peace Piece Project<br \/>\nfor giving such an invaluable opportunity to adults.<\/p>\n<p>I am Masanori Kanda<br \/>\nand I am a consultant for creative problem solving.<\/p>\n<p>When I thought about peace this time,<br \/>\nI wondered how to express peace, and I found a sentence.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a great sentence, so I&#8217;ll share it with you.<\/p>\n<p>That is the sentence written<br \/>\nin the lecture record &#8220;Building a Bridge&#8221; by Empress Michiko.<br \/>\nShe mention peace.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;From the time they are born,<br \/>\npeople must build bridges one after another to all around them,<br \/>\ndeepening their links with other people and things,<br \/>\nthus creating their own world to live in.<br \/>\nIf such bridges are not built,<br \/>\nor even after building if the bridge fails to fulfil its function,<br \/>\nor if the will to build bridges is lost,<br \/>\npeople become helplessly isolated and lose their peace.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>\u2015\u2015If the will to build bridges is lost,<br \/>\npeople become helplessly isolated and lose their peace.<\/p>\n<p>This sentence made me very impressed.<\/p>\n<p>Am I having the will to bridge?<br \/>\nAnd to the children, do I have the will to bridge?<\/p>\n<p>Nowadays, there are many difficult problems in the world.<br \/>\nEvery day, adults are likely to be crushed by the difficult problem.<\/p>\n<p>But at that time, are the adults,<br \/>\nand am I, willing to bridge?<\/p>\n<p>As long as it has this &#8220;will&#8221;, we are not isolated.<br \/>\nPeace will not be lost.<\/p>\n<p>By the Children&#8217;s World Peace Summit this time,<br \/>\nI was able to once again inspire my will to bridge to children again.<\/p>\n<p>I sincerely hope that many adults will have the opportunity<br \/>\nto create a great future with children.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to the Peace Piece Project, on the first holding this summit!<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s do our best together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr. Masanori Kanda, a Japanese management consultant and writer, gave us a message of support for the Children [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacepieceproject.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacepieceproject.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacepieceproject.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacepieceproject.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacepieceproject.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peacepieceproject.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7307,"href":"https:\/\/peacepieceproject.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7305\/revisions\/7307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacepieceproject.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacepieceproject.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacepieceproject.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacepieceproject.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}