Promoting Japan's traditional technology, industry, agriculture, and crafts to the world! Yaeko Mouri, 89 years old this year, will start a YouTube channel Neo-Paradise Japan" will start in September 2024.

The Neo-Paradise Japan Production Committee will launch "Neo-Paradise Japan," a YouTube channel by Yaeko Mohri, 89 years old this year and a resident of Shimonoseki City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, to promote Japanese traditional crafts, industry, agriculture, and art to the world in September 2024.

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The impetus was "Foreign executives love Japanese culture!

The impetus for the creation of the "Neo Paradise Japan" YouTube channel was a comment from Yaeko Mouri, who has been working for foreign companies since she was in her 20s and has worked as a secretary for foreign CEOs for many years.

She said, "Even technology that is too familiar to Japanese people to notice is looked at with envy by people overseas, especially those in the executive class. I want people in Japan, as well as the general public overseas, to know more about the beauty of Japanese culture and its technological prowess.

This comment by Mr. Mouri, who has worked for many years as an executive assistant and secretary to the president of a foreign-affiliated company, triggered the formation of an executive committee for the creation of a YouTube channel with the help of a group of multi-talented volunteers including video production professionals, graphic design professionals, a former university professor of home economics, and a former part-time lecturer at an art university. The committee was formed to create a YouTube channel.

Keeping the technology alive for the next 90 years

According to Mr. Mouri, there are many Japanese technologies that have disappeared over the past 90 years.

The technology of the Battleship Yamato has been lost, and it is said that it is difficult to reproduce it.

Today, Japan's traditional crafts, industry, agriculture, and arts and crafts are in danger of being pushed aside by overseas products that can be made with low wages due to economic globalization, and the lack of young people to take over traditional crafts due to the declining birthrate and aging population.

In particular, traditional Japanese crafts will be lost one after another, especially in the rural areas.

In order to pass on the light of this traditional technology to the future, we will upload videos to tell the world about the greatness of Japanese crafts, foods, industrial products, and arts (Gagaku, festivals, etc.).

We hope that Japanese people will be able to reaffirm and gain confidence in Japan's technological prowess.

This is the wish of our members.

We are currently looking for companies to be interviewed through crowdfunding!

We are currently recruiting companies to be interviewed through crowdfunding in order to raise funds for travel expenses.

Outline of Crowdfunding

Title: Creating a YouTube channel to share Japan's traditional crafts, industry, agriculture, and art with the world.

　　　　　 We want to create a YouTube channel to share Japan's traditional crafts, industry, agriculture, and skills with the world.

Period: Until August 31

Target Amount: 1,000,000 yen (all of the funds will be used to cover transportation expenses for interviews)

URL : https://camp-fire.jp/projects/view/767232?utm_campaign=cp_po_share_c_msg_mypage_projects_show

If you support us with one of the return options on the crowdfunding site, "Making a video of the interview", we will produce a video to be uploaded to our channel (secondary use on the company website, etc.). (Secondary use on company websites is also possible.)

Generally, a business trip to produce a video requires 200,000-300,000 yen in production costs plus transportation costs.

Of course, when we upload the video to our channel, we will include the company description in English in the summary section, as well as the URL of the company website of the company we are interviewing.

Since the videos will be published on YouTube in a form that can be translated into English, we expect to attract a large number of foreign viewers.

Some of the members of the channel production committee are Japanese who have lived in Canada for over 25 years, so we will provide an attractive description from a foreigner's point of view.

With the growing demand for inbound tourism, we believe that being featured on the said channel will have a great publicity effect.

To see what kind of video will be completed, please refer to the video of Shodoshima Yamaroku Soy Sauce, which has already been recorded and will be released in September, and the video of Tamariki Seika, a candy shop in Koedo Kawagoe.

Generally speaking, the products are expensive! I think the video will make you think, "This is cheap! I believe that the videos are made to make people think, "This is inexpensive!

In this respect, our channel's unique strength is that we have a copywriter on our production committee, so we are able to create appealing videos that lead to sales.

All the money raised through this crowdfunding campaign will be used to cover the cost of transportation for future interviews.

We hope you will take this opportunity to support our crowdfunding campaign.

https://camp-fire.jp/projects/view/767232?utm_campaign=cp_po_share_c_msg_mypage_projects_show