The organization is made up of people with dementia who engage in activities on their own initiative, aiming to realize a society where people can live with hope and dignity even after they develop dementia.

Mother who dealt with a truant daughter and the daughter herself. They leverage their experience to consult with parents and children struggling with truancy.

The team developed Blainjenne Makeup, a technique that enables people to apply makeup independently regardless of visual impairment. They provide lessons on the technique to people with visual impairments to increase their confidence and happiness.

He has shared the reality of the atomic bombing with visitors from Japan and abroad in front of the Atomic Bomb Dome for 17 years while spreading seeds of peace.

The facility works to increase people's awareness of stuttering by organizing social gatherings and lectures where children who stutter and their families can share their thoughts and wishes and creating leaflets in line with the development of children.

The NPO supports people with cancer, providing all people affected by cancer with a place to lean on mentally and to feel free to seeking advice from.

Ms. Ichikawa serves as a life companion for people who have became stateless for many different reasons by continuing support activities to help stateless people live in Japan, such as assistance in the procedures for obtaining a family register.

Continues to provide high school students from economically disadvantaged families with academic support through activities such as free computer programming classes and career education programs.

Supports research into diseases and the development of therapeutic drugs for his daughter who has Rett syndrome, an intractable disease, to connect patients with each other.

Taught painting at Obihiro Juvenile Training School for over 30 years, communicating the importance of carrying through with things and not giving up.

Operating facilities for over 40 years as a pioneer in after-school care for children with autism and intellectual disabilities

The operation of free commuter bus services to the center of Tokyo for six months to free local commuters from the fear of infection during the COVID-19 pandemic

Commitment to spreading and developing the activities of community nurses, who promote good health in local communities

Approx. 30 years of activities for helping people with prosthetic limbs to learn the joy of running

Twenty years of newspaper publication from an involved-party perspective that directly involves children struggling with school refusal

Providing more than 100,000 servings of ramen at disaster areas across Japan and assisting persons with disabilities in finding employment

Giving Gifts of Young Plants for 55 Years, Wishing for the Growth of Children and a Hometown Full of Flowers and Greenery

Protecting the Lives of Retired Racehorses and Supporting the Second Career of Medical Treatment and Education

Contributing to employment support for people with disabilities through a baseball repair and recycle initiative

A group of painters that goes anywhere, at home and abroad, to volunteer for people in need of painting

Providing wigs at no cost to children who have lost their hair due to illness

Supporting self-reliance and the employment of truant students and socially withdrawn adolescents

Helping people who require social assistance to secure housing to live independently and become part of a community for 19 years

30 years of making original cloth toys for challenged children

Extensive collection of donations to make the children's dream come true, culminating in the gift of giraffes to a zoo

Developing character input support and voice production programs for disabled persons and patients of an intractable disease causing voice loss and offering them for free

Over 50 years of preparing Braille transcriptions for students of schools for the visually impaired

Continued volunteer activities and care for the bereaved by an encoffiner in areas affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake

Keeping children safe on their way to school through half a century of crossing-guard service

Overcoming cancer and inspiring other cancer patients and their families for 10 years with his own rakugo traditional Japanese comic storytelling

Creating and delivering paper patterns for towel headwear for people concerned about hair loss due to cancer treatment

Has provided "taxi drive field trips" for children from facilities for the disabled for 30 years

Has supported students' motivation to learn by donating to a middle-school night course for 50 years

On their own initiative, high-school students attending the same middle school pick up waste inside the train they ride home from school

Has worked for 27 years as the disc jockey of a popular program broadcast inside prisons, making more than 300 broadcasts in total

Through his own efforts, established a mobile petting zoo by accepting animals turned in to a koban police station

For 26 years, has built by hand bicycles suited to the individual needs of people with disabilities

Has continued donating eyeglasses to elderly people in the community for more than 45 years, through three generations of parents and children

Amid much concern today about the difficulties of raising children, the Nagais have raised 60 foster children

After the tragedy of losing her oldest son, provides support for survivors of victims of crime who are undergoing similar ordeals

After learning that Brazilian children needed a school in Japan in the course of delivering boxed lunches to some of these children, reopened a Brazilian school that had closed due to lack of funding

For 35 years has continued sending handwritten postcards with words of encouragement to elderly people who live alone

Travelled across Japan to record the recollections of 1,003 victims of the nuclear blasts at Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Have opened their home to people with disabilities and spent time with them there on an ongoing basis for 38 years

Designs and builds aids for people with disabilities, on an individual basis, that take into account the degree of their disability

Opened a school for children of local mothers and fathers who are U.S. military stationed in Okinawa

Marking 25 years of recording newspapers and new books onto audiotape for distribution to people with visual impairments

Uses sensors on electric water pots to protect elderly people living alone in the community