Eiji Han ShimizuCreative Activist
Shimizu was born in Yokohama, 1970. He is an activist with concept “Make the World Better by MANGA Media” and the founder of Emotional Content LLC., issues worldwide "Biographic Novel" -a series of MANGA, which describes the ways of lives of heroes who had changed the world such as the 14th Dalai Lama, Mohandas Gandhi, etc. Shimizu got an MBA at Miami University and joined Sun Microsystems, Inc.. Then he returned to Japan and did business development at Recruit Inc. Although he was living full life in his own way apparently, he was hit by “Midlife Crisis” –asking himself essential questions “What am I going to be?” and “What’s the way I want to live own life”. Then he quit his job, went to U.S. again and started his current project.With his motto “Just Do What I Love”, now he is living his life twice or more happier than when he earned twice more money than he does now. Aspiring that his works will become a help to make the world more positive by creating informative, inspirational and empowering pieces, he produces a documentary movie about human rights and humanity at Wadi Rum Productions in U.S. He has been making documentary movie “Happiness”, traveling all over the world, for three and a half years.
TALKS
- The Power of MANGA :Eiji Han Shimizu
- TEDxSeeds 2009, Filmed Dec 2009; Posted Feb 2010
- translated by TEDxSeeds
- There are lots of potential in Japanese MANGA. The potential is to express difficult and complex problems in easy understandable way.
"Irrasionalness", such as war and discrimination, is still happening all over the world today. Mr. Shimizu attacks this issue by spreading the severe realities through a new media, Japanese MANGA. There are lots of potentials as a new media in Japanese MANGA, as said above. By expressing stories about exploitation, discrimination and invasion in MANGA, he aims to alert everyone about what is exactly happening in the world we live in today.
In the history of human, there were great heroes who dedicated themselves to fighting with such irrationalness: Che Guevara, Mohandas Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr., for those who need help, for those who are oppressed, with the power of love, courage and their strong minds, the heroes tried to save others and their rights at the cost of their own lives. By describing these heroes in a form of MANGA, the stories can be told easily and also delicately. With this power of MANGA, he attempts to deliver to many people as possible, of the way how true hero thinks, and how true hero lives. Believing the power and the potential of MANGA, he transmits his MANGA towards the world and it starts here from the stage of TEDxSeeds.
THIS SPEAKER'S ACTIVITES
- 映画「HAPPY」をプロデュースされました
- [ Apr 22nd 2010 ]
- クリエイティブ・アクティビストの清水 ハン 栄治氏が、映画「HAPPY」をプロデュースされています。この映画は、人類の永遠のテーマを追った長編ドキュメンタリー映画です。リンク先から予告編の視聴が可能です。
source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXLoONjX8mY
