【 List of media appearances】 【U.S.-Japan Creative Artists Fellowship Program】   https://www.jusfc.gov/news/meet-our-grantees-nichibei-creative-artists-team-benjamin-volta-with-cho-kuwakado-and-the-chara-rimpa-project/?fbclid=IwAR0f7AT68GmzbXGJzEGnMLMvBeBMx7nt5UvbVtby5t7O7RPluJthuN76wEA   https://www.oita-press.co.jp/1010000000/2020/02/12/JD0058955185?fbclid=I...Read More

  【Saiki, Oita JAPAN】 About the Project All children have beautiful names. This Chara-Rimpa project highlights the beauty of each child’s name to compose flag art. Three hundred students from Saiki Elementary School < http://syou.oita-ed.jp/saiki/saiki/> drew-designed their names on a special mission card. We then transferred each design onto a triangular flag. At the op...Read More

  【WORLD】 Everyone has some special memories of childhood. Listen to the stories here, and please tell us your story. ※Speaking in JAPANESE KONISHIKI / Former SUMO wrestler, Musician http://konishiki.net What was your childhood like? When I was a child, I was living in a place called NANAKULI in Oahu, Hawaii. The place was so beautiful with mountains and blue ocean. I had ...Read More

  【Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam】   Our next mural project “Beautiful Name” will be carried out at an orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam from March 7 to 9, 2018. All children have beautiful names. This Chara-Rimpa project will highlight the beauty of each child’s name to compose a mural artwork! The children will draw-design their names and paint them on the w...Read More

  【JAPAN】 PKMF (Pacific Kids Mural Foundation) supported to make a mural at an office inside the Tsukiji Market in Tokyo. Katsuyoshi Shioda, owner of a vegetable intermediate wholesaler wanted to renovate his office and make it bright and colorful.He simply wanted the children to have fun while making a mural and be more interested in traditional Japanese vegetables.   ...Read More

  【JAPAN】 PKMF (Pacific Kids Mural Foundation) supported the design of Stump Geoglyphs Art project. This Art project was recently held at KANKYO-AN in Sanjyo Nigata, Japan, to celebrate the opening of a biomass power plant (SPARX Green Energy & Technology Co.,Ltd.) in Sanjyo-city. The children who participated in this project used biomass wood chip to make their own characters w...Read More

  【NEWS】 We are excited to announce the launching of our new Pacific Kids Mural Foundation website. In November 2013 we started the Chara-Rimpa Art Project. In 2016 the Pacific Kids Mural Foundation (PKMF) was established as a non-profit organization based in California and Japan. PKMF supports the work of the Chara-Rimpa Project creating murals and collaborating with kids around th...Read More

  【JAPAN】 Ms. Saiko Hamano, the teacher of the Tsukumi Kashinomi Boys & Girls Choir, arranged and choreographed a traditional Jyoyara fishing song for the students of Yahata Elementary School. On this day, the Kashinomi Choir and students of Yahata Elementary School held a workshop to practice the new arrangement of the "Rainbow Jyoyara Fishing Song". The traditional Jyoyara ...Read More

“Hi, my name is Andrew McCollum. I’m one of the co-founder of the facebook.com and I’m a technology investor.”   “Could you tell us some of the fun moments when you were making Facebook?” There were lots and lots of fun moments, because it was a group of friends and we’re working the project together. We’re all really excited about it, just having good time, w...Read More

  【WORLD】 IN-PROGRESS PROJECT Our friend Kuromatsu in Rikuzentakata lost 70,000 of his pine tree friends. We are collecting 70, 000 pine tree drawings for Our Friend Kuromatsu! No sound SEE more about Our Friend KuromatsuRead More