Akira is a lawyer, entrepreneur, social entrepreneur, international writer, and speaker. Part of his childhood was spent in Yokohama, Japan, and part of his adolescence and adulthood were in the United States. During this period, he attended high school in Massachusetts and improved his English through the ESL Program at Harvard University.
He holds a degree in Law from the Pontifical Catholic University of Goiás, with a specialization in self-composed methods of conflict resolution, acquired through the Negotiation Program at Harvard University in negotiation and mediation.
In 2014, he launched the RePacificar project, focused on the prevention and restoration of conflicts in schools and communities, using an innovative methodology of reframing the roots of conflicts. In recognition of his commitment to peace, Akira received the World Peace Tartan in 2016, a global symbol representing the longing for a peaceful and non-violent future. The RePacificar initiative benefited from the collaboration of influential peace advocates, such as Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, Verne Harris, friend of Nelson Mandela, and Mark Kleiman, a pioneer in community and school mediation in New York.
In 2022, he represented Brazil at the JAMS Weinstein International Fellowship in conflict prevention and resolution. As a scholar of Japanese culture, he brought the Houtoku system of administrative and economic restructuring to Brazil, applying it to a second social action focused on the Third Sector.
As a writer, he published his first book, based on his undergraduate thesis, early in his legal career. In 2019, he released a book in New York during a lecture at John Jay College in Manhattan. Since the beginning of the pandemic, he has been converting his knowledge into ebooks, disseminating them through digital platforms.
In the realm of speaking engagements, at the age of 33, he was invited to deliver two lectures in the United States in 2015, at the New York Conference for Conflict Resolution (ACR-GNY) and at the American National Conference (ACR National), presenting the Reframing Method disseminated by his social initiative RePacificar. Akira has delivered dozens of lectures and participated in various panels in Brazil and internationally.
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