To bear the unbearable and tolerate the intolerable.

Nicolas Bouvier, a Swiss writer and artist wrote, “ My belief is that one must have passed through fire oneself....to be able to sort out...the contents of those storehouses of sorrow, where fortunately we can also find, more often than we might have dared to expect...enough small miracles to motivate and encourage those in the field who are so often compelled, to quote a mediaeval Japanese poem, ‘to bear the unbearable and tolerate the intolerable.”

Today when I accidently discovered this photograph of Tadateru Konoe and Naoki Kokawa (above) giving support and encouragement to rescue workers who were searching through rubble in a residential area of tsunami-hit Otsuchi, my heart lept.

Konoe said after his visit "After my long career in the Red Cross where I have seen many disasters and catastrophes, this is the worst I have ever seen. Otsuchi reminds me of Osaka and Tokyo after the Second World War when everything was destroyed and flattened. Konoe who is President of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Tadateru Konoe and the Japanese red Cross has a huge burden on his shoulders, 

The affected people feel incredible pain and bewilderment, and families who have lost loved-ones in the earthquake and tsunami will grieve interminably. It is a truly undescribeable tragedy.

But I know our President, Tadateru Konoes, who was born in 1939 before the 2nd World War started, suffered the hardships of as a child of a country reeling from aerial bombing and the explosion of two nuclear bombs, and having to grow up in temporary shelter and on rationed food - has passed through fire himself....to be able to sort out...the contents of those storehouses of sorrow, where fortunately we can also find, more often than we might have dared to expect...enough small miracles to motivate and encourage those in the field who are so often compelled, to quote a mediaeval Japanese poem, ‘to bear the unbearable and tolerate the intolerable.”

Konoe, who I have known since we worked in Bangladesh at the conclusion of the Indian-Pakistan war in early 1972, and have worked not only in Geneva, but in disasters in India, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Sri Lanka. Kokawa and I have worked closely for more than 15 years in earthquakes and tsunami in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Indonesia. So I know the calibre of these men. Outwardly men of compassion with constitutions of steel and I know they will deliver.

With leadership like our President and able lieutentants such as Kokawa, Tanaka, Nagazumi, Oiwa, Dr. Mikishima, Sugai, Saito, Hori, Hiroshi Higashuira and many others who I apologise if I have forgetten you, I know this is an organisation that will provide the highest quality of rescue, relief and all round medical care, including pyscho social support. for thousands of traumatised people.

With a number of the above I have shared life-threatening moments. In Kabul in 1995 when the Taliban's were killing at least 120 people a day by rockets and mortars as they closed in on the capital, Hori and I had to share a bunker. We survived the heaviest bombardment of the year. When I came to Tokyo some years later, he gave my wife and I a beautiful gift. These are our friends in the Japanese Red Cross.

Soldiers and a rescue worker carry a body through Kesennuma City on March 15, 2011.


This afternoon, Matthias Schmale, Under Secretary General, Programme Services Division send us this very sincere note

"There have been numerous expressions of concern and support from many of you, and we know that the whole network stands with the Japanese Red Cross in the Spirit of Togetherness inspired by Mr Tadateru Konoé, who is President of the National Society and also of our IFRC.



As we now all know, this is an unprecedented disaster, which has caused tremendous damage and loss of life. Friday’s earthquake, which measured 9.0 on the Richter scale, triggered a ten metre high tsunami that has ravaged the northeast coast of the country, surging a quarter of a mile inland and destroying everything in its path.

To date, more than 3,000 people have been rescued, but the death toll currently stands at 1,600 and is expected to rise. The most affected area is a town called Minami-Sanriku-cho in the northern part of Miyagi Prefecture. The entire village has washed away and there are grave concerns for 10,000 residents – half the town’s population.

Around 380,000 people evacuated from the tsunami and earthquake affected areas are being sheltered in 2,050 evacuation centres. Another 210,000 people living within a 20 km radius around the Fukushima nuclear power plants have also been evacuated.


The Japanese Red Cross, in its role as auxiliary to the government, has mobilized its full emergency response capacity in response to the disaster. More than 60 response teams are in operation, and 178 disaster medical teams have been deployed with another 111 teams on the way. However, the response is being hampered by continuous aftershocks, tsunami alerts and fires, and many affected areas remain inaccessible.


Earlier today I had an opportunity to briefly talk to President Konoé. The Japanese Red Cross is expressing its sincere thanks for the messages of sympathy and offers of support it has received from sister National Societies around the world. At present, the Japanese society is not launching a national or international appeal, but expressions of solidarity in the form of un-earmarked financial contributions would be gratefully received.

In happier times in Tokyo. In 2002 IFRC head of regions in Asia Pacific dining with, on the left side of the table, Tanaka, Tadateru Konoe and Kokawa. We came to discuss disaster preparedness and the setting up of a regional Disaster Management Unit in the region, the brain-child of Mr. Konoe. Photo: Bob McKerrow

My old mate Patrick Fuller has been traveling with Mr. Konoe and Kokawa and last night slept in a tent and Patrick reported it was - 6 o C.  As I have said previously, Patrick is one of the best humanitarian communicators in the game and his reports on most of the world's media have been outstanding.

But like the Fire Services, Police, Ambulance drivers, armed forces, para-medics, social workers, rescue workers, government administrators, who are in the frontline, and sometimes unsure about the safety of their own families and friends: Red Cross and other humanitrian workers face similar challenges of lack of sleep, hunger, cold, toxic fumes, lack of clean water, insecurities that are exacerbated as the days drag on, and the successes few. But to be President of the IFRC and the Japanese Red Cross at the same time, and to be directing and motivating two huge organisations within one movement, is an almost impossible task. But Tadateru Konoe is a talent spotter, and over the years has recruited, nurtured and coached staff and volunteers of the highest calibre, and led an International Federation of 187 Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies who are staunchly behind him. The power of humaity will triumph in this disaster.

To close this post I will let Patrick Fuller have the last words.

Many of the wounded are burn victims whose homes caught fire when the diesel from sinking fishing boats ignited the mass of debris being carried inland by the tidal surge. In one area, local residents are now too afraid to stay in their homes at night because of the frequent aftershocks and the fear of a repeat tsunami. Instead, they sleep in their cars on the second storey of a car park.

Some of the seriously injured taken to the hospital are people who were swept up in the tsunami. They’re being stretchered in with internal injuries and severe wounds. Others are at risk from pneumonia having inhaled large quantities of contaminated sea water.

Hundreds of Red Cross medical staff have come in to work at the hospital on four-day rotation from other hospitals across Japan. Whilst morale is high, medical supplies are running low, and with no electricity and problems finding fuel to run the hospital generator, conditions are difficult.

In the coming days, search and rescue efforts will turn towards the retrieval of dead bodies, which litter the devastated coastline. The hospital is setting up a special tent to store the bodies and help with the identification process.

As well as providing basic relief items such as blankets to evacuees, the Japanese Red Cross has deployed over 80 medical teams, which are based in hospitals receiving the sick and injured. The teams operate mobile clinics to provide care for the thousands of people displaced by the earthquake and tsunami.

Japan earthquake update 15 March

President of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Tadateru Konoe walks among rescue workers searching through rubble in a residential area of tsunami-hit Otsuchi. "After my long career in the Red Cross where I have seen many disasters and catastrophes, this is the worst I have ever seen. Otsuchi reminds me of Osaka and Tokyo after the Second World War when everything was destroyed and flattened," Tadateru Konoe told Reuters during a visit to the coastal town.

The Japan Meteorological Agency on Sunday upgraded the magnitude of Friday's catastrophic earthquake to 9.0, making it the world's fourth-strongest in more than a century.
The agency had earlier put the magnitude of the quake off the coast of Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan, at 8.8.
A 0.2 increase in magnitude translates into twice the amount of energy generated.
The energy released by Friday's quake was about 45 times that of the Great Kanto Earthquake that killed some 140,000 people in the Tokyo area in 1923, and about 1,450 times that of the Great Hanshin Earthquake that leveled much of Kobe in 1995 and left more than 6,400 people dead.

Other major earthquakes that have hit since 1900 are as follows: In 1952, a magnitudeearthquake struck Kamchatka. A magnitude 9.5 quake devastated Chile in 1960, and a 1964 quake in Alaska had a magnitude of 9.2. The 2004 quake off Sumatra, Indonesia, that triggered a tsunami that claimed many tens of thousands of lives had a magnitude of 9.1.


An injured girl is brought to a Japanese Red Cross hospital after being evacuated from the area hit by tsunami in Ishinomaki March 13, 2011. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters)

Earlier today, contact was made with the team travelling in north-eastern Japan, comprising Mr Tadateru Konoé, President of the Japanese Red Cross Society and IFRC, another member of the Japanese Red Cross and Patrick Fuller, the IFRC’s communications manager for Asia Pacific. The team travelled to Otsuchi where they saw the devastation of a number of small villages in at least five bays on the eastern coast of Japan.

On arrival in Otsuchi, the team witnessed the utter destruction of the town. The remains of a town which was previously inhabited by about 17,000 people was nothing but a sea of burnt, twisted metal and splintered wood. A few survivors remained, picking through the rubble in the hope of finding survivors – friends and family. For many, it will be a pointless quest.

To Mr Konoé, the destruction in this town alone brought home the true impact this disaster has had on the people of Japan. Almost lost for words, he expressed his shock only able to say, “I have never seen anything as bad as this before. It defies belief.” In this town, 9,500 people remain unaccounted for. The utter destruction leads us to believe that the potential for further survivors to be found remains slim.

Upon hearing another tsunami warning, a father tries to flee for safety with his just reunited four-month-old baby girl who was spotted by Japan's Self-Defense Force member in the rubble of tsunami-torn Ishinomaki. Photo: Reuters

The Japanese Red Cross has already deployed a mobile clinic to the town to assist survivors, who remain without electricity, and with increasing concerns about access to water. For the Red Cross, the focus remains on the survivors – assisting them in any way possible.

In the words of Patrick Fuller, “It doesn’t get any worse than this. Half the town’s population or more have lost their lives.” In situations like this, the work of the Japanese Red Cross Society’s psychosocial support teams will be essential. Just as it may take weeks to discover the true extent of this disaster, it may take years for the people of towns like Otsuchi to even begin to recover from the trauma of this disaster.



 Japan: Red Cross steps up response to meet needs of evolving disaster


As Japan continues to grapple with a rapidly evolving humanitarian crisis following Friday’s massive earthquake and tsunami – as well as the developing nuclear situation – the Japanese Red Cross Society is offering medical and psychosocial care for increasing numbers of survivors and evacuees.

Search and rescue workers are now discovering increasing numbers of bodies in areas that have previously been hard to reach because of ongoing tsunami alerts. And the number of missing is adding to the fear that the death toll could reach 10,000 or more.

“I have never seen anything as bad as this before. It defies belief,” said Tadateru Konoé, President of the Japanese Red Cross Society and the IFRC, who has just returned from a visit to Iwate prefecture in north-eastern Japan, one of the worst-hit areas.

There are now more than 430,000 people housed in some 2,500 evacuation centres, mostly in schools and other public buildings. In addition, Red Cross medical teams are reporting many cases of people arriving at hospitals suffering from hypothermia and at risk of pneumonia. Many people are suffering the effects of having swallowed contaminated water during the tsunami.

At present, 85 medical teams are operating out of hospitals and mobile clinics treating survivors. Each team includes a trained psychosocial nurse, who allows survivors to voice their grief and anxieties, as well discuss practical concerns. The Japanese Red Cross has 2,400 trained psychosocial nurses, and an eight-member specialist psychosocial team has just returned from a mission in New Zealand, where they were helping survivors of the Christchurch earthquake. They had no idea their services would be so badly needed at home, so suddenly.

As concerns mount about possible radiation leaks from nuclear power plants in Fukushima prefecture, Red Cross staff and volunteers are playing a key role in caring for the thousands of people evacuated from the 20-kilometre exclusion zone surrounding the affected plants.

All 47 of the Japanese Red Cross Society’s prefectural branches have trained nuclear decontamination teams and equipment, including special tents in which radioactive material can be washed off. The teams are designed to be mobilized in conjunction with the government’s specialist units, which have the equipment and expertise to measure radiation. So far, there has been no request from the government to mobilize these teams, but they remain on standby.

With the support of government authorities, the Japanese Red Cross is monitoring the situation in hospitals close to the exclusion zone, in case radiation levels rise and pose a risk to patients.

For those who would like real-time updates of activities on the ground, please follow the IFRC’s official twitter feed: twitter.com/Federation.


Cooling system fails at another Fukushima nuclear reactor

The cooling system failed at another reactor at the troubled No. 1 Fukushima nuclear power plant Sunday, as the government acknowledged that a meltdown may have already hit the quake-damaged site.


"We are dealing with the situation as though a core meltdown has occurred," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said at a Sunday morning news conference.

While government officials continued to urge the public to remain calm, Tokyo Electric Power Co., the operator of the plant, has been forced to resort to a number of unorthodox measures, including pumping in seawater, to cool reactor cores and prevent radiation from leaking out.

TEPCO is now dealing with problems at two reactors at the No. 1 Fukushima plant and three reactors at its No. 2 Fukushima plant, both in Fukushima Prefecture, north of Tokyo.

Radiation levels exceeding legally established safety standards were recorded at the boundary to the No. 1 Fukushima site, creating an emergency situation that TEPCO reported to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry on Sunday.

TEPCO officials said nuclear fuel rods in the core of the No. 3 reactor had become exposed above the cooling water level.

While TEPCO officials were unsure if a core meltdown had occurred, they said water mixed with boric acid was injected into the core at 9:25 a.m. Sunday. By 11:30 a.m., the water level in the core had again risen above the fuel rods.

Edano later Sunday provided more details. He said that after the fuel rods were exposed for a short period, radiation levels around the plant reached a high level of 1,557.5 microsieverts. But the insertion of seawater to the core reduced the radiation level to 184.1 microsieverts after about an hour.

However, Edano noted that insufficient cooling of the core may have caused excess hydrogen to accumulate in the building that houses the core containment vessel.

That buildup runs the risk of triggering an explosion like the one that destroyed the building housing the No. 1 reactor at 3:36 p.m. Saturday, Edano said.

The government's top spokesman said that, like Saturday's blast, an explosion at the No. 3 reactor building would not likely damage the core containment vessel nor release large levels of radioactive materials.

To better serve the ever growing number of vulnerable people.

Tadateru Konoe, the new President of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.

I was just 26 when I went to Geneva to work for the International Red Cross, in 1975. It was a snowy January when I arrived. Fresh from climbing in New Zealand, one of the first things I tried was a winter ascent of Mt. Blanc, in a weekend. I almost died as a huge storm came in and dumped almost 2 metres of snow in late January 1975. I remember struggling in white out conditions to find the tel-cabine on the summit of Aguille du Midi. My first month in Geneva was a difficult time as I struggled to adapt after working four years in the field, to an international headquarters where a suit and tie were the rigour de jour.

I was fortunate to be working with Tadateru Konoe who was Deputy Director of the disaster preparedness bureau, where I was assigned. Our boss was Sverre Kilde a former Norwegian Army Officer.

I first met Konoe in Bangladesh in 1972 when he was leader of the Japanerese Red Cross medical team on the island of Hatia, and I leader of a New Zealand Red Cross team at Nilphamari in northern Bangladesh. This was a joint ICRC or LORCS ( Federation) operation and there were about 15 medical/refugee teams from all around the world.

So when I met Konoe in Geneva in 1975 we were no strangers. We worked well together and after about a year, he returned to Japan. I recall meeting him the next time on a field trip in Southern India, in 1981, when he had just become Director of the Disaster Preparedness Bureau in Geneva. When he visited, I was supervising the construction of 225 cyclone shelters along a 2000 km stretch of coastline in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. We travelled some days together visiting remote villages. He was a pleasant companion with an eye for detail and a strong sense of curiousity. From the Royal family in Japan, I was impressed by his gentleness and the way he displayed such courtesy, humility and respect for the culture. Then I recalled one of his colleagues in Tokyo telling me that in the olden days his family were scholars, poets, and calligraphers. Konoe had an aura about him and I enjoyed his company so much.

In late Match 1975 I was assigned to work in Nepal and I recall getting a briefing from Konoe as he had visited Nepal some years early. It was a thorough briefing. Recently I found a photo (above) depicting his visit.

We lost contact until I visited Osaka in 1987 as a guest speaker at the International Syposium on Outdoor Education and Youth Development Towards the 21 st Century which was organised by Kansai Television and Osaka School of Physical Education. There I heard people speaking of Konoe in hushed tones and with great respect. He seemed to have an aura of a living God. Some leading Japanese academics told me how Konoe was in the process of setting up and Outward Bound School in Japan.

We met many times after that and I recall in Seville in 1997 at the International Red Cross conference, having a long talk to him about outdoor education and Outward Bound. He had a real passion for giving youth opportunities to build character and self reliance. It was during the conference in Seville that I noticed a marked change in Konoe. In a tense debate where two strong opposing factions had reached an impasse, the ever maturing Konoe took to the floor and made a wise and eloquent intervention, breaking a very tense situation. That day in December 1997, an elder Red Cross statesman emerged. I knew that very moment that here was a future President of the International Red Cross. Having travelled with Konoe in the field in India on two ocassions, he really has a deep concern for the welfare of children and has done much work in Japan as a Councillor of the Japan Committee for UNICEF.


He is a born and career Red Crosser. Born on "Red Cross and Red Crescent Day" of 8th May in 1939. Joined the Japanese Red Cross Society (JRCS) in 1964, initially as a volunteer. He has visited many countries in Pacific, Africa, America, Europe, Middle East and Asia where he had witnessed the suffering caused by ideological, religious, racial and ethnic differences and conflict. He has dedicated his whole career to the Red Cross and Red Crescent work, both at home and abroad.
As a staff member of the JRCS he has worked mostly at its International Department where he built experience in supporting National Societies in the implementation of relief operations and of development projects, in settling the pending humanitarian issues of the post-war years with National Societies of the countries who had no diplomatic relations with Japan, and in representing the JRCS at different international meetings, He worked at the Secretariat of the International Federation as a staff-on-loan between 1972 and 1975 and as Director of the Disaster Preparedness Bureau between 1981 and 1985. During these periods he represented the International Federation in relief operations in different countries. His first experience with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) relief operation was in Bangladesh (then East Pakistan) in 1972 when he headed a JRCS medical team to look after the cyclone and the conflict victims. Ever since, as a representative of one of the major supporting National Societies to ICRC, he has visited various sites of the ICRC operations in different countries where JRCS provided services.
After returning to Japan, he was elected Vice President of JRCS in 1991 and to the office of President in 2005. In these capacities, he has been overseeing the Society's sizeable domestic activities, including medical services, blood transfusion services, disaster management, nurse training and social welfare services, as well as the Society's support for international activities.


As of 1 April 2009, the Japanese Red Cross Society (JRCS) is run by over 56,000 paid staff, mostly involved with Medical Services and Blood Services, both of which are two of the major auxiliary functions to public authorities. Total budget of 2008 fiscal year reaches around 2.37 billion USD.
JRCS is currently running 92 hospitals and 6 clinics. These Red Cross medical institutions have a capacity of more than 38,000 hospital beds in total and treated more than 11 million in-patients and 19 million out-patients in 2008. From its Red Cross nursing schools, including 6 nursing colleges, over 1,300 nurses and 60 midwifes are graduated every year. Such continuing efforts of JRCS in the training of nurses results in the fact that 4.2% of nurses in the country are now educated by the Red Cross. 34 Social welfare institutions for elderly, children, and the disabled are also run by JRCS.
JRCS is the only supplier who is providing blood for transfusion in Japan. In 2008, more than 5 million people donated blood to JRCS which was utilized for the transfusion of 1 million patients in Japan.
More importantly, JRCS is supported by over 2 million community Red Cross Volunteers in the country. Moreover, more than 11,000 schools are members of the Junior Red Cross which promotes Red Cross youth activities.


He also served as a member of the Finance Commission of the International Federation between 1985 and 1993, as a member of the Standing Commission between 1995 and 2003, as a Governing Board member of the International Federation between 2001 and 2005 and as Vice President of the International Federation between 2005 and 2009. He has also been a member of the ICRC Finance Commission since 2003.
In his different management and governance capacities within the JRCS and the Movement, he has made field visits to about 90 National Societies on all continents. This has enabled him to gain a special insight into the challenges faced in the conduct of Red Cross and Red Crescent relief and development programs. It has also underlined for him the unique role played by Red Cross and Red Crescent volunteers in fostering the spirit of humanity and protecting human dignity.


OTHER POSITIONS HE HAS HELD:
With his wealth of experience in various humanitarian fields, Mr. KONOÉ serves in different capacities at various public, non-governmental, academic and social organizations including the Central Disaster Management Council for the Prime Minister of Japan, Councillor of the Japan Committee for UNICEF, Advisor of the Japan Campaign to Ban Landmines, Advisor of Japan Center for Conflict Prevention.
FAMILY
Wife and one son. The KONOÉ house is the senior of five houses of the Fujiwara family whose members were eligible for the post of regent. It was established in the late Heian period (794-1185) in Kyoto. Family members served for generations as regents and grand ministers of state. Many were also scholars, poets, and calligraphers. After the Meiji Restoration (1868) and the establishment of a new peerage for the family, the head of the family was given the rank of prince.

Before finishing, I would like to quote Konoe himself were he reflects and talks of his vision for the Red cross movement.
Our Federation has a proud history of achievements over the last 90 years and rightfully has established the claim today to be the largest worldwide humanitarian network. To sustain and substantiate further this proud humanitarian record we must be better prepared to address the escalating needs of those suffering from the humanitarian consequences of climate change, physical and social insecurity, health emergencies and the world's financial crisis.

"I am firm in my belief that the member National Societies of the Federation possess great capacity and even further potential to better serve the ever growing number of vulnerable people. To reach our full potential, I believe, the Federation leadership has a key role in reinforcing the shared vision so necessary to deliver much needed services through unity of action. We need to strive to be even more efficient, not only for those who depend upon our support but also because competition and market forces in today's world demand efficiency if we are to remain relevant and a humanitarian force for good over the next 150 years and beyond.


National Societies are diverse in their history, relationship with their governments, humanitarian environments, activities and capacities.
So are their expectations of the Federation. I regard this diversity as a strength, so long as we can retain unity in our action. We need to share the "Spirit of Togetherness" by fostering the culture of working as a Federation.

In this regard, the President of the Federation must be a good listener to diverse views, particularly those within the components of our Movement.
He needs to be a consensus builder, resolving conflicting views and interests where he can. He needs, then, to be able to articulate and advocate the Federation's views to the outside world.

Having been born on the Red Cross/Red Crescent Day of the 8th May, perhaps it was my destiny to devote my whole professional career to service within the Movement. I have rich experience in management and governance, both at the national and the international levels.
As you will find in the attached personal profile, my career has allowed me to build a deep understanding about the realities faced by many National Societies.

The General Assembly in November will become a closing event of this commemorative year and also an opportunity for us all to pledge new commitments. As I proceed with my presidential campaign, I hope to meet as many leaders of National Societies as possible, including yourself of course. I look forward to a frank exchange of opinions so that I may benefit from these in shaping the aspirations I have to serve our membership as President of the Federation.

Coming as I do from one of the five founder members of the International Federation and the first ever candidate from the vast and the most populous Asia/Pacific Region, I look forward to your positive consideration of my candidature, taking into account my personal history and professional career as a born Red Crosser.

I am proud that Moriteru Konoe is President of the International Fedeartion of Red Cross for he will provide the vision and direction we need at this juncture in history. He has an exceptionally able secretary general in Bekele Gelata and together they will lead us to tackle the increasing humanitarian challenges the world is facing.

My mind goes back to a misty morning in Bhuj, Gujarat, India, when Konoe and I were having a bowl of soup together outside the Japanese Red Cross tent. He was so proud of the work the Japanese Red Cross medical team were doing for the many thousands injured by the earthquake, that killed over 25,000 people.
On that muddy school compound we had over 600 Red Cross staff and volunteers living in tents next to the 400 bed Finnish-Norwegian Red Cross field hospital.

Konoe spoke to me of this wonderful relief operation and how it must be replicated in the future. Rather than pump more money into the Japanese Red Cross, Konoe was the driving force behind the concept of and the Asia and Pacific disaster management unit, which is now well established in Kuala Lumpur, and provides a zone-wide disaster response, coordination and technical support to the whole of asia and Pacific. We have a man of vision with a history of implementation at the helm of Red Cross, and I for one, am highly motivated in my work with such leadedrship.

Check his website

http://tadateru-konoe.com

Spirit of Togetherness.