Japan

Activities

General Meeting
Tokyo, Japan, 2 June 2007

Report on recent actions, and assertion that 100% smoke free environments are the only answer.

Contact: Masairo Kawamura, shoyosida@yahoo.co.jp
Web site: http://www.geocities.jp/secondhandsmokeproblem/index2.html

Design Festa 2007
Tokyo, Japan, 26-27 May 2007

Design Festa is a freestyle International Art Event open to all artists, both professional and non-professional from all over the world to exhibit their creative talent. Design Festa is the biggest art event in Asia, with approximately 51,000 visitors and 6,000 exhibitors. At this Design Festa, Bantus Capoeira Japan will be promoting capoeira as a healthy addition to the modern Japanese lifestyle. With a strict NO-SMOKING message, and a healthy fun attitude, Bantus Capoeira Japan is the only capoeira group in Japan with such an anti-smoking stance. We will be promoting World No Tobacco Day to thousands of Japanese and international visitors at this art festival.

Contact: Marcello Pietrantonio, bantusjapao@hotmail.com
Web site: http://www.designfesta.com/

Prevention of passive smoking and the example
Osaka, Japan, 31 May 2007

Symposium for a Smoke-Free Environment Campaign For Kids in Japan

Contact: Nogami Hisoshi, muen@silver.ocn.ne.jp
Web site: http://muen2.cool.ne.jp/kinenday07.pdf

Exhibition of posters of no smoking.
Yokohama, Japan, 28 May - 1 June 2007

Smoking is harmful to health. We will be displaying posters which show the harmful effects of tobacco to raise awareness about this fact.

Contact: Masahiro Satomi, M.D., ma00-satomi@city.yokohama.jp
Web site: http://www.city.yokohama.jp/me/midori/