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Viewing cable 08TOKYO3004, NOMINATION FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMAN OF COURAGE AWARD

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08TOKYO3004 2008-10-28 05:50 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Tokyo
VZCZCXRO6203
OO RUEHFK RUEHKSO RUEHNAG RUEHNH
DE RUEHKO #3004 3020550
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
O 280550Z OCT 08
FM AMEMBASSY TOKYO
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 8326
INFO RUEHFK/AMCONSUL FUKUOKA PRIORITY 0637
RUEHNAG/AMCONSUL NAGOYA PRIORITY 8706
RUEHNH/AMCONSUL NAHA PRIORITY 2995
RUEHOK/AMCONSUL OSAKA KOBE PRIORITY 4420
RUEHKSO/AMCONSUL SAPPORO PRIORITY 1210
UNCLAS TOKYO 003004 
 
SIPDIS 
SENSITIVE 
 
ANDREA BOTTNER, SANDRA PEDROARIAS, G/IWI 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PREL KPAO PHUM JA
SUBJECT: NOMINATION FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMAN OF COURAGE AWARD 
 
REF: STATE 00099729 
 
 1. (SBU) Embassy Tokyo nominates Nami Takenaka, Chairperson 
of Prop Station, a non-profit welfare organization for people 
with disabilities, to receive the Secretary of State's 2009 
Award for International Women of Courage (IWOC). 
 
2. (SBU) Nami Takenaka was born in 1948 in Kobe, Japan. 
Blessed with the birth of a daughter some 30 years ago with 
serious mental and physical disabilities, Nami taught herself 
the issues surrounding the medical care, welfare, and 
education for children with disabilities.  Nami was a single 
mother who refused to give up on her own daughter's 
potential, and that of other children with disabilities.  On 
her own she courageously stood up to the pervasive and severe 
stigma that both children with disabilities, and the families 
of children with disabilities, face in Japan, 
 
3. (SBU) Initially finding little support, she began a 
volunteer career that has now spanned more than 20 years. 
Her activities have included running a toy library, sign 
language translation, guidance for the visually impaired, 
assistance at institutions for the severely physically 
disabled, day-care for those suffering from Alzheimer's, and 
providing nursing care for paraplegics.  She says that her 
breakthrough came when an American friend referred to people 
with disabilities as "challenged".  "That's it!" she said, 
"We have to stop thinking of these people as damaged.  We 
have to concentrate on what they can do and not what they 
cannot do." 
 
4. (SBU) Recognizing the great potential that computers and 
the Internet have for the lives of people with disabilities, 
Nami established Prop Station in 1991.  Prop Station offers 
training in employable skills and arranges job opportunities 
that help people with disabilities to live more independent 
lives and take on a greater role in society.  In September 
1998, after seven years of operation as an NPO, Prop Station 
was granted recognition as a Social Welfare Corporation and 
she became the Chairperson.  Since its inception, Prop 
Station has helped thousands of disabled Japanese to find 
meaningful, productive work.  It has become an 
internationally recognized innovator in the field of 
vocational education and advocacy for people with 
disabilities. 
 
5. (SBU) Recognizing that Japanese society and government 
needed to change their ideas about the disabled, Nami 
Takenaka began teaching about her "Universal Society" concept 
in which everyone, men and women, young and elderly, able and 
disabled, could find a useful contributing role.  In 1995 she 
organized the first "Challenged Japan Forum" (CJF).  In 2002 
she helped to teach a team of leading Japanese women 
lawmakers about the Universal Society goal.  In 2004 the 
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport made her 
Supervisor of the Free Mobility Support Project. In 2005 she 
became a member of the Cabinet Office's Central Council for 
the Promotion of Measures for Disabled Persons.  In 2008 she 
served as a member of former Prime Minister Fukuda's National 
Commission on Social Security, formed to discuss welfare and 
other policies. 
 
6. (SBU) Rising above great difficulties, and in an 
environment of ignorance and stigma, Nami Takenaka turned 
what could have been a personal tragedy into a source of 
inspiration that enabled her to help thousands of disabled 
people find productive livelihoods.  Because of her uncommon 
courage and commitment to equal justice, equal rights, and 
human dignity, she was able to begin a transformation of the 
way Japanese think about disabled people, a transformation 
that is continues to grow in strength. 
 
7. (SBU) Biographical Data: Full Legal Name: Nami Takenaka. 
DOB: 1948, Kobe, Japan.  Citizenship: Japanese.  Job Title: 
Chairperson.  Association: Prop Station.  Address: Kobe Head 
Office 6E-13, 6-9 Rokko Island, Koyo-Cho-Naka, 
Higashinada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan 658-0032.  Phone: 
81-78-845-2263. E-mail: nami@prop.or.jp.  Passport number: 
currently unavailable. Nami Takenaka has been informed of her 
nomination. 
SCHIEFFER