Team Japan Profile

Coordinator: Kikuko Harada

School Location: Rakunan High School - located in the south district of Kyoto, approximately 15 minutes walk from Kyoto JR station.

Participants: 

• Ms. Mai Usui
• Mr. Kenichiro Endo
• Mr. Naoki Okawa
• Ms. Yumiko Kagawa
• Ms. Haruna Tanoue
• Ms. Suzuho Masago

Website: Center for Entrepreneurship Education - CED is host for the Asia Hub in Kyoto.

CED is an independent non-profit organization with a mission to realize vibrant and innovative society through promoting entrepreneurship, especially among youth.

Participant profiles

Ms. Mai Usui - Yr 12: Mai is a vice president of ESS (English Speaking Society) club and a leader of GEC Team Japan. She is a master of calligraphy, has been practicing it since she was in a kindergarten.  She hopes to work at a trading company in the future, so, she mainly takes a role of finance and writes a business plan. GEC is a good chance to practice English and learn about
business.

Mr. Kenichiro Endo - Yr 12: Kenichiro belongs to tennis club. Although this is his first time attempting the GEC and he wants to win the first prize in the world competition. He loves speaking in English and communicating with people from all over the world. His main role in the team is to think of new ideas and write a business plan. In the future he wants to work in order to inspire as many people as possible.

Mr. Naoki Okawa - Yr 11: He likes listening to music and playing the guitar. His favorite music is rock and heavy metal. He joined ESS to become fluent in English and decided to participate in GEC in order to improve his language skill. His main role in the team is to make a presentation movie. In the future, he hopes to work for an IT related company which contributes globally.

Ms. Yumiko Kagawa - Yr 11: Yumiko is a music person. She plays the piano, clarinet and ukulele, and loves Korean Pop music! She takes a role of forming an idea by drawing pictures with Suzuho and Haruna. As she likes to talk with them, she enjoys it very much. One of her objectives in participating in GEC is to make friends, so she hopes she will be able to talk with
many people at Asian Hub site. She plans to study gene in her higher education and become
genetic researcher in her later career.

Ms. Haruna Tanoue - Yr 11: Haruna loves music, especially HipHop and Rock. Her favorite band is Gym Class Heroes. She plays the violin too. She has been involved in Rakunan ESS since mid-2011. She has strong belief that our team will be able to create great idea! Her main role in the team is to decide detail aspects of the idea and make it work as a real products. She hopes to study child allergy and work at an international paediatrics research institutions such as WHO.

Ms. Suzuho Masago - Yr 11: Suzuho loves English! She plans to travel to USA next year, and look forward to it very much. As for GEC, this is her first challenge, but she is excited to meet new people and make friends with them at Asian Hub competition.

Team photo 

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About

Rakunan High School has its root in the private school "Shugei shuchi-in, which was founded in 829 by Kūkai , also known posthumously as Kōbō-Daishi (The Grand Master Who propagated the
Buddhist Teaching "Shingon") and first opened to all regardless of its social rank. Although the school was closed shortly after Kūkai's death, its founder's sprit was handed down over a long history, and the present Rakunan high school was established in 1962 in the ground of Toji. Toji is a temple Kūkai used to commission and has been designated as part of the "Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto" World Heritage Sites. It is situated in the south district of Kyoto, approximately 15 minutes walk from Kyoto JR station.

The Buddhism doctrine has still been much alive in our school, for example, in our school precepts 'Respect yourself', 'Pursue the truth', and 'Dedicate yourself to the society.' Rakunan High School has also received good reputation by its high academic and sports achievement.

Our current students are approximately 1,500 including the students of attached junior high school.  It used to be a boys school and has become coeducational in 2006.

This is our first time to participate in Global Enterprise Challenge and our team is consisted of members of ESS (English Speaking Society) Club.

GEC Background

Center for Entrepreneurship Development (CED) is an independent non-profit organization founded in April 1999. Our mission is to realize vibrant and innovative society through promoting entrepreneurship, especially among youth.

CED has been organizing an national competition and sending Japan representative team to the global competition since 2004.

This year we are very happy to host Asian Hub in Kyoto, and look forward to getting together again!!

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