Japan
She/Her
2023 Cohort
Ms. Kazuko is an ardent SRHR activist in Japan with a focus on access to Comprehensive Sexuality Education(CSE), modern contraceptives, safe abortion, and youth-friendly SRHR services as a founder of a grass-rooted SRHR advocacy movement called #Nandenaino project, which means “Why don’t we have?”, and also co-chair of the Citizens Initiative for Pharmaceutical Access To Emergency Contraception(CIPATEC).
Translations, workshops and community of pleasure 
Ms. Kazuko is an ardent SRHR activist in Japan with a focus on access to Comprehensive Sexuality Education(CSE), modern contraceptives, safe abortion, and youth-friendly SRHR services as a founder of a grass-rooted SRHR advocacy movement called #Nandenaino project, which means “Why don’t we have?”, and also co-chair of the Citizens Initiative for Pharmaceutical Access To Emergency Contraception(CIPATEC). From 2022, she is the deputy representative of FIFTYS PROJECT, a youth-led organization pursuing gender equality in Japanese politics. She dedicates to SRHR globally too as a program analyst in UNFPA Rwanda in 2022, co-chair of Women7(W7) in 2023, a member of Youth-Initiative at World Association for Sexual Health(WAS), and selected young leader by SheDecides and Women Deliver. As one of the official translators of the “International Technical Guidance on Sexuality Education” to Japanese, she delivers CSE at the University of Tokyo. She holds a Master of Public Health from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden.
Kazuko plans to do translation of resources from the Pleasure Project into Japanese.
Likewise, she intends to develop workshops about having a sex-positive, pleasure-based approach based on the material provided by the Pleasure Project which suits the Japanese context so that we and sex educators can implement workshops and include sex-positive perspectives in their way. She intends to share the content through social media such as Instagram and podcasts in Japanese. Kazuko also plans to organize an online community for educators and activists to learn more about sex-positive, pleasure-based approaches and share their experiences of putting a sexual pleasure perspective into their work. She intends to have an event every month in this community to keep the community active. By doing these, Kazuko would like to create the first pleasure movement in Japan that can be put in the Global Mapping of Pleasure!
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