HISTORY
2005 Opening a drug rehab (now GARDEN under the Oneness Foundation) in Nara Prefecture (6 facilities of it in Nara as of 2018)
2011 Opening a gambling rehab (now The Emotional Literacy Center) in Nara (6 facilities of it in the prefecture as of 2019
2013 Opening The Serenity Park Japan Okinawa, an addiction rehab, in Okinawa Prefecture (10 facilities of it in Okinawa as of 2019)
2014 Opening The FLOWER GARDEN, a therapeutic community for women (5 facilities of it in Nara as of 2019)
2014 Opening The Serenity Park Japan Nagoya, an addiction rehab in Nagoya
2014 Started the administration of the IGCCB certification process in Japan and became its liaison in Japan
2015 Appointed to a commission member of The Colombo Plan Global Centre for Credentialing and Certification (GCCC, fka ICCE)
Started the GCCC’s credentialing programs in Japan
2017 Founded The GIVENESS INTERNATIONAL, a business development company
2017 Founded YUJIYA Inc., producing premium strawberry while hiring people with addiction and developmental disorders
2017 Held The Hero’s Journey Conference Japan, featuring Mr. Kyle Maynard, a mountaineer born with the congenital limb defects and attended by 400 people
2017 Opened the Oneness Foundation’s Yokohama office
2017 Opened Oneness Foundation Yokohama Office
2018 Co-founded YeeY, Inc., a human/ organizational development and consulting company
2018 Opened the Oneness Foundation’s Osaka office
2018 Invited Dr. Martin Seligman, a former president of The Amrican Psychological Association, and held The Positive Psychology Workshop
2018 Organized The Positive Psychology Conference, with 1300 attendees
2019 Initiated The PERMA25JAPAN, a movement that aims to improve the level of well-being in Japan
2018 Held The Delivering Happiness Bootcamp, a human development methodology spun off from Zappos, the world’s happiest company
2019 Organized The Well-Being 3.0 Conference with 400 attendees, where Dr. Martin Seligman, Dr. Ed Diener, Grand Acharya Ryojun Shionuma, and others delivered talks
2019 Held The Positive Psychology Workshop, instructed by Drs. Martin Seligman, Ed Diener, and Tal Ben-Shahar
2019 Founded The Delivering Happiness Japan, partnering The Delivering Happiness
2019 Launched a D2C website that merchandizes the premium strawberry BERRY
2019 Held The Well-Being3.0 Conference titled: Achieving PERMA and Innovations around Well-Being
2019 Held the first series (3-days) of The NLP Addictionologists® Workshop
2020 Held the workshop of The Positive Psychology Business Practitioner Certification instructed by Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar
2020 YeeY, Inc. introduced the Japanese translation of the Certificate in Happiness Studies (CiHS) course created by The Happiness Studies Academy (HSA)
2020 Invited Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar as an advisor to The Oneness Foundation
2020 The Oneness Foundation and YeeY, Inc co-produced The Power to the Prisoners, Japan’s first life & career school for formerly incarcerated adults and juveniles
2020 Held The WELL-BEING DIALOGUE Vol.21, titled Communities and education towards the future
2020 The Giveness International and The Ryukyu Rehabilitation Academy co-organized the Communication & Art Week campaign
2020 Published The P2P Magazine Vol.1 targeting the people in correctional facilities
2021 Started PONY, an afterschool nursery service featuring equine-facilitated programs and espcially catering to children with mental/ learning difficulties
2021 Started workshops certifying The Positive Psychology Practitioners
2021 Started workshops cerifying The Positive Psychotherapists, based on the therapy recently developed by Dr. Martin Seligman and his colleagues
2021 Started The CHO SCHOOL, a training course for chief happiness officers who take charge of improving the level of well-being in the organiztion
2021 Initiated The Promotion Council for Well-being in Okinawa, (PCW Okinawa) to lead a pioneering case of community building based on well-being from Okinawa
2021 Started The Okinawa Well-being, a home-vist nursing service
2021 Started Ryukyu Okinawa Estates, a real-estate brokerage
2021 Founded The GREEN FOR GOOD Inc.
2021 Started Happy Go Okinawa, one of businesses licensed by the prefecture for scheming a continuum of service for and with people having mental/ behavioral difficulties
2021 Designated by the city of Naha to operate a drop-in center for people with mental/ behavioral difficulties
2021 Started the Hashifune (Bridges and Ships) Project, a network of welfare services for people with criminal records or incarceration
2022 Formed The Well-Being Horse Activities Association Japan (WHAA)
2022 Incorporated The Promotion Council for Well-being in Okinawa, (PCW Okinawa, currently PCW Japan)
2022 Okinawa Well-Being Conference 2022 with the theme Post SDGs: Thinking of Okinawa’s Future 10 years Later
2022 Started the project team for developing a horse coaching program with The Adventure World, one of the most popular zoo/ theme park in Japan
2022 Co-founded The Good Green Farms, producing premium strawberries while reducing their environmental impact
2022 Started Happy Go Osaka, one of businesses licensed by the prefecture for scheming a continuum of service for and with people having mental/ behavioral difficulties
2022 Founded The Okinawa Vanilla Company, which can add to happiness of the whole world from Okinawa
2022 Formed The Promotion Council for Well-Being in Japan
2022 Held The JAPAN WELL-BEING CONFERENCE
2022 The PCW Japan achievecd the crowd fund-raising above its target
2023 Opened Resonance, one of our clients’ night-care house
2023 Opened Maize, one of our clients’ night-care house
2023 Held The Well-being Dialog in Ishigaki Island
2023 Started The Life Style Design Hub, an online salon focusing well-being
2023 Started The Gamushara Dojo (Daredevils’ Club) where ambitious comrades to get together and share ideas & actions to contribute to the world
2023 Started The Nihon Jinji Kaigi (Japan Human Resources Conference), a society of people trying to solve problems in organizations, HR departments, teams, and human relations and fostering next-gen C-suites (Human Resources Officer, Well-Being Officer, Happiness Officer, etc.).
2025 Full-fledged expansion into Europe & world; founding 3 companies: UZI Europe, Giveness International Holdings BV, TAMARIYA Global BV