We participated in the 2025 Nakano Diversity Festival.
The Nakano Diversity Festival took place on Sunday, 30th November at Meiji University’s Nakano Campus. Our Friday volunteers attended.
This event aims to foster a community where all residents of Nakano—those who live, work, or study there—are accepted for their sexual diversity, age and generational diversity, presence or absence of various disabilities, and diversity of national or regional origins. It seeks to build connections and mutual support among diverse residents, creating a town where everyone can live vibrantly and authentically.
The Friday Volunteers set up activity introductions, boccia, ethnic costume experiences, and a corner where visitors could converse in Easy Japanese with foreign members. Volunteers also joined us online from Indonesia.
Feedback included comments such as: ‘I was delighted to speak Japanese with such wonderful people today,’ and ‘Today brought unexpected encounters.’
For the boccia experience, we prepared equipment called ‘Ramp’ to enable participation by those with physical disabilities. Volunteer members remarked that the ‘Ramp’, which they were seeing for the first time, surprisingly required some skill to use effectively.
