mimamo Holds First Offline Dialogue Event on Amami Oshima
An organization built around online dialogue found its local partner and its mentors in the same room, testing whether the connection gap it describes can be closed when the island side is someone else's to run.
Reporting from 1 source: ASCII.jp.
General Incorporated Association mimamo held a dialogue event, "Loosen Your Body, Loosen Your Heart Too," on June 14, 2026, at Amami City Kaneku Junior High School on Amami Oshima, co-hosted with General Incorporated Association me. Ten children from fourth grade through first year of high school took part, moving through recreation, philosophical dialogue, a job-guessing quiz, and one-on-one online talks with mentors nationwide.
The event ran 10:00 to 16:00 and cost participants nothing. AMAMI.GYM.ART.CLUB handled gymnastics performance and instruction, and Digital Base MINE lent equipment. mimamo normally operates online and describes its aim as delivering encounters with trustworthy adults regardless of a child's circumstances; its co-host me, established in June 2023, runs "me cafe," an activity connecting children and adults on the island. The two organizations prepared the day over roughly half a year. Morning recreation included rock-paper-scissors, tag, and Daruma-san ga Koronda with variations meant to make the children think.
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