Chairman of the board of directors
The Nitobe Foundation fund

Chairman of the board of directors
Obori Tsutomu
September 1st, 2001.
It established home page " the world of Inazo Nitobe ".
We say a word, a greeting with this.

The Inazo Nitobe doctor comes from Morioka City.
Playing an active part as the agricultural administration scholar, the educator, the leader or the Mainichi newspaper editing counsellor of the medical cooperative movement in front of the rawness.
In the League of Nations office work sub director times, it showed wonderful act power.
By the place of the Baltic Sea's territory dispute,It solved a the Aland island problem.
It is the typical cosmopolitan whom Japan is proud of.

The Nitobe doctor to have ended League of Nations's working and to have returned home.
It attends the Pacific conference with the 5th time which was held in the place of Canada and Banff in August, 1933 as the Pacific problem investigation meeting trustee length.In the meeting, the doctor explains that the people coexist."Is it too much to hope then that in the intimate contact of the nationals from all over the earth the day will gradually come when not passion but reason, when not self-interest but justice will become the arbiter of races and nations?"It said.

Today is internationalization times.
It praises the achievements of the Nitobe doctor who is " the bridge on the Pacific Ocean ".
It aimed at the alternating current which becomes in national friendship and the group InazoNitobe meeting of the Nitobe doctor was founded by January, 1984, Morioka.

March, 1994, foundation Nitobe foundation were established mainly in this meeting.
" Inazo Nitobe research " The magazine,
Every year, it continues the birthday of the doctor as the start day.
In order that the Nitobe Foundation fund may conquer the difficulty of a record low interest rate time, it starts the Nitobe fund maintenance meeting and aims at enterprise continuation and enterprise development in quest of cooperation of an understanding person widely on May 31 of this year.
I ask your support and cooperation of you.

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