The 2025 theme is #BeatPlasticPollution. You can choose to follow along with the current theme and their movement through https://www.worldenvironmentday.global/, or you can focus on environmental issues within your community.

Peace is a concept that we are all familiar with in varying capacities.  To the fortunate, it is a part of their everyday life.  To others, it is a hope for the future.  There will always be people who crave chaos and seek to sow it into the world, but where there is darkness, there will always be light.  That light can be seen in people who strive to promote peace with their actions and words.  A beacon of that peace can be seen in the peacekeepers stationed throughout the w

どの文化にも新年を祝う独自の方法がありますが、日本では12月31日の最後の瞬間は、ほっとするような一杯の蕎麦で締めくくられることが多いです。年越しそばは、単なる料理ではなく希望、再生、感謝の象徴的な意味合いが込められています。

Every culture has its unique way of celebrating the New Year, and in Japan, the final moments of December 31st are often marked with a comfo

While Christmas is celebrated in just about every country in some capacity, the way it is celebrated can be very different.  In America and

Today marks the second annual celebration of Giving Tuesday in Japan! Wrapping up our first full year with the Giving Tuesday Global team, w

Tanabata, also known as the star festival, is celebrated in most places on the seventh of July.  During this festival, it is common to write

七夕は星祭りとしても知られ、多くの地域では7月7日に祝われています。 この祭りでは、色とりどりの紙に各々の願い事を書いて竹にくくりつけるのが一般的です。