平和の紙芝居を世界に拡げるプロジェクトを開始：大阪・関西万博期間中に道頓堀にて184日連続で披露

【冒頭文】

大阪市内で地域新聞を発行運営してるローカル通信社(本社：大阪市　代表：吉村大作)は、吉村大作（44）が大阪・関西万博の期間中、広島の被爆体験の紙芝居を広島以外の地で世界の人々に読み伝えるという、前例のないプロジェクトを開始することを発表します。世界各国から訪れる観光客に向け、被爆体験が描かれた紙芝居「ケイちゃんの消えない雲」を、2025年4月13日から10月13日までの184日間、道頓堀で吉村自身が毎日披露します。不得意ながらも英語で平和のメッセージを世界に発信する挑戦的な取り組みは、これまでにない斬新な発想の平和活動として注目を集めています。

【リリース概要】

●大阪道頓堀で駄菓子を配りながら被爆体験の紙芝居を英語で披露
浪速の社会奉仕家の名前は、吉村大作です。現在、大阪市内で地域新聞の編集長をしています。幼いころから母に言われたことは「あなたは人の役に立てる子や」。その言葉が胸に刻まれ、社会奉仕を実行してきました（詳細後述）。吉村は小学生の時に「はだしのゲン」を読み、核兵器は決して許されないと今も強い想いを持っています。吉村は2023年、大阪人であるものの、同年の広島G7サミットを機に、関西在住の全核兵器保有国の国籍者を広島に連れていき（北朝鮮は脱北者同行）、小倉桂子さんという被爆者の講演を受け、ウクライナ避難民のイラストで被爆体験の紙芝居「ケイちゃんの消えない雲」を制作。今回は、吉村の地元大阪で万博が開催され、世界中から人が集まります。ウクライナを巡り第3次世界大戦が危惧される中、万博を核兵器廃絶を訴える機会と捉え、大阪の訪日客に紙芝居を披露（道頓堀屋台村「祭」前※駄菓子無料配布）し、核兵器廃絶の紙芝居を母国に持ち帰ってもらうnnb（=No Nuclear Bomb）_projectを実施します。吉村が不得意な英語で、初挑戦の紙芝居披露を万博期間全184日連続で行います。

●訪日客に紙芝居を母国語にしてもらい、世界で核兵器廃絶を
訪日客に紙芝居を披露する目的は、紙芝居を彼らの母国語にして自国で広めてもらうことです。平和は全人類のテーマです。184日連続の紙芝居披露は話題となり、多くの訪日客が訪れます。国ごとに様々な反応が予想され、核兵器廃絶を考える機会が世界に広がるチャンスです。1970年万博では原爆関連の展示もあり、今回も広島県が原爆ブースを出展します。戦後80年、伝承方法は確実に変遷期を迎えました。SNSをフル活用して、広島長崎以外の地で世界に周知するのも当取組みの挑戦的な特徴です。数字目標は、紙芝居を世界7大陸（南極除く）に拡大、インスタグラムフォロワー2万人（日本外務省インスタグラムのフォロワー数が1.4万人。核廃絶のSNSとしては、2017年にノーベル賞を受賞したICANのフォロワー数1.7万人を超える数字です。）の達成。被爆体験の伝承を次の時代へと進めます。披露会場は徐々に拡大し、万博公式会場や大阪城音楽堂（3千人）での披露を目指します。

●吉村のこれまでの社会奉仕、実現してきた嘘みたいな本当の話
2011年の東日本大震災を機に社会奉仕に初めて取り組む。東北に縁も所縁もない所から、被災者の願い事を100こ叶える活動を開始。中止された中学バスケ大会の開催、津波で流されたぬいぐるみを写真だけで完全再現するなど、全ての願い事を実現。コロナ禍では生活困窮者支援のため、100円の赤いミシン糸を物々交換で古民家と山に。その売却額を全てNPOに寄付。ロシアのウクライナ侵攻では、ウクライナ人の知り合いもいない、英語も話せない状態で、現地に生活の糧となる仕事発注や負傷兵支援を行う。能登の震災支援など、現在までに1500万円以上の社会支援をしてきた。

【問い合わせ先】
nnb_project発起人　吉村大作（ローカル通信社 社主）
〒538-0044　大阪市鶴見区放出東2-16-28
メールアドレス：nnb.project2025@gmail.com
インスタグラムアカウント：@nnb_project
ティックトックアカウント：@nnb_project

Man preaches peace during Osaka Kansai Expo 2025.
spreading nuclear bomb damage through kamishibai show and social media becomes a hot topic.

[Opening text]

Local News Agency (Head Office: Osaka City, Representative: Yoshimura Daisaku), which publishes and operates a local newspaper in Osaka City, announces that Yoshimura Daisaku (44) will begin an unprecedented project during the Osaka-Kansai Expo, where he will read a kamishibai (picture story) about the experience of the Hiroshima nuclear bombing to people around the world outside of Hiroshima. Yoshimura himself will perform the kamishibai (picture story) depicting the experience of the nuclear bombing, “The cloud that won't disappear by Kei ” every day in Dotonbori for 184 days from April 13 to October 13, 2025, for tourists visiting from all over the world.

[Release Summary]

●Kamishibai story about the atomic bombing will be performed in English while handing out snacks in Dotonbori, Osaka.
The name of the Naniwa social worker is Daisaku Yoshimura.I am currently the editor-in-chief of a local newspaper in Osaka City. Ever since I was little, my mother told me, “You are someone who can help others. ”Those words have remained in my heart as I continue to carry out community service activities (more on that later). I read “Barefoot Gen” when I was in elementary school, and I still strongly believes that nuclear weapons should never be tolerated. In 2023, although I am from Osaka, I took the opportunity of the G7 Summit in Hiroshima that year to take people from all nuclear-weapon countries living in the Kansai region to Hiroshima (a North Korean defector was also present), where they listened to a lecture by atomic bomb survivor Keiko Ogura, and I created a kamishibai story called “Kei-chan’s Unfading Clouds” about the experience of the atomic bombing, with illustrations of Ukrainian refugees. This time, the Expo will be held in my hometown of Osaka, attracting people from all over the world. With fears of World War III over Ukraine, the Expo will be seen as an opportunity to appeal for the abolition of nuclear weapons, and the “nnb(=No Nuclear Bomb)_project” will be carried out, in which I will perform a Kamishibai (picture storytelling show) for visitors to Osaka (before the Dotonbori Yatai Mura “Matsuri” *free snacks distributed) and ask them to take the Kamishibai (picture storytelling show) for the abolition of nuclear weapons back to their home countries. Yoshimura will be performing first Kamishibai storytelling in English, which I am not very good at, for the entire 184 days of the Osaka-Kansai Expo, from April 13 to October 13, 2025. This will also be the first time that “The cloud that won't disappear by Kei ” cloud data will be made available to the public.

● Have visitors to Japan translate Kamishibai stories into their own language to promote the abolition of nuclear weapons around the world
The purpose of showing Kamishibai to tourists visiting Japan is to have them translate Kamishibai into their native language and spread it in their own countries. Peace is a theme for all humanity. The Kamishibai performances for 184 consecutive days have become a hot topic, attracting many tourists to Japan. Various reactions are expected from each country, and it is a chance to spread the opportunity to think about the abolition of nuclear weapons to the world. At the 1970 Osaka Expo, there was an nuclear bomb-related exhibit, and Hiroshima Prefecture will be exhibiting an nuclear bomb booth again this year. 80 years after the war, the way we pass on this knowledge has certainly undergone a period of change. One of the challenging features of this initiative is to make full use of social media to spread awareness of the issue to the world outside of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The numerical goal is to expand the Kamishibai to all seven continents (excluding Antarctica) and reach a total of 20,000 followers on instagram (the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Instagram has 14,000 followers. As a social media number for nuclear abolition, this number exceeds the 17,000 instagram followers of ICAN, which won the Nobel Prize in 2017). We will carry on the tradition of the nuclear bombing experience to the next generation. The venues for the performance will gradually expand, and we aim to perform at the official Expo venue and Osaka Castle Music Hall (3,000 people).

●Yoshimura’s social service to date, the true story of what I have accomplished that sounds like a lie
I first started volunteering after the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011. I started my activities to grant 100 wishes of the victims, even though I had no connection to Tohoku. I granted all of their wishes, such as holding a canceled junior high school basketball tournament and perfectly recreating a stuffed animal washed away by the tsunami using only photographs. During the COVID-19 pandemic, I bartered 100 yen worth of red sewing thread to old houses and mountains to support those in financial difficulty. I donated all the proceeds to an NPO. During Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, even though I didn’t know any Ukrainians and couldn’t speak English, I ordered jobs to help support the local Ukrainians and supported injured soldiers. To date, I have provided more than 15 million yen in social support, including support for the Noto earthquake disaster.

[Contact information]
nnb_project founder: Daisaku Yoshimura (owner of Local News Agency)
2-16-28 Hanaten Higashi, Tsurumi-ku, Osaka 538-0044
Email address: nnb.project2025@gmail.com

Instagram account: @nnb_project
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