Supply Logistics
Scheduled cargo runs delivering food, medicine, building materials, and essentials to underserved island communities.
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🇯🇵 Seto Inland SeaNonprofit in development
Bridging Japan's remote islands to a sustainable future.
A maritime logistics company + nonprofit in the making — carrying supplies, stories, and skateboards to the communities big carriers forgot.
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Our mission
Moving supplies, stories, surf & skateboards to the islands we love.
We deliver essentials, support elder residents, preserve cultural heritage, and sponsor the next generation of surf & skate kids on Japan's depopulating islands.
What we do
Cargo and community, on the same deck.
Two programs, one boat: scheduled supply runs to underserved islands, and hands-on revival work with the people who live there.
Community Revival
Elder home restoration, cultural heritage documentation, and local workforce development led by the community itself.
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Two arms, one mission
One enterprise sustains the routes.The other makes sure those routes carry hope.
A commercial arm running small-scale maritime cargo across the Seto Inland Sea, and a nonprofit sponsoring surf & skate youth, participating in Japan's 協力雇用主 cooperating-employer system, and running donation cargo to protect island culture.
For the kids who get it
サ ー フ & ス ケ ー ト チ ー ム
A skateboard, an ocean,and a reason to give back.
We're building a surf & skate team for island youth — sponsored boards, sponsored sessions, all tied to community service for the elders and the places that raised them. Local artists hired. Local shops supported. Real things happening on real beaches.
"Japan's small island communities deserve more than to fade from memory — I believe a kid with a board and a big heart can help shape their future."
Partners across the Seto
Learn from — and reach out to — the people already doing the work.
A living directory of the artists, researchers, NPOs, funders and government programs shaping the Seto Inland Sea. Filter by focus, then jump to their site.
Gov / Public
Setouchi Triennale
Art festival for island revitalization across 12+ islands
📍 Kagawa & OkayamaVisit
NPO
Setouchi Koebi Network
Year-round volunteers (5,000+/cycle) — no Japanese required
📍 All Triennale islandsVisit
Foundation
Benesse Art Site Naoshima
Art museums & Art House Project — the template since 1989
📍 Naoshima, Teshima, InujimaVisit
Private
Art Front Gallery
Planning & production for the Setouchi Triennale
📍 Tokyo → SetouchiVisit
Public-Private
SETOUCHI DMO
Regional tourism across 7 prefectures · ¥15B sustainability fund
📍 All Seto prefecturesVisit
Academic Network
Small Island Cultures Research Initiative (SICRI)
Island studies, culture & revitalization research
📍 Global · Hiroshima hubVisit
University
Hiroshima University — IGS Dept.
Island revitalization, migration & tourism geography
📍 HiroshimaVisit
Research Org
Art Island Center Japan
How art & creative tourism revitalize peripheral communities
📍 Japan (Hiroshima Univ.)
Community Network
Tobishima Life
In-migrant advice from people who actually moved to the islands
📍 Tobishima KaidoVisit
Gov Program
Regional Revitalization Cooperation Corps
地域おこし協力隊 — placing urban workers on islands 1–3 yrs
📍 NationwideVisit
Public-Private
Setouchi Oceans X
Zero ocean waste goal · 26 tons of debris collected in 2025
📍 4 prefectures + Nippon Fdn.
Foundation
The Nippon Foundation
Ocean affairs & MEGURI2040 autonomous ferry program
📍 Japan-wideVisit
Community Org
Mitarai Base & Music Festival
Music festivals & cultural preservation in Mitarai
📍 Mitarai, Hiroshima
Community Org
Mitarai Shiosai Art Festival
Community-led art festival programming
📍 Mitarai, Hiroshima
Community Org
OKAMURAJIMA Film Festival
Independent film festival on the Sekizen Islands
📍 Sekizen Islands
Social Enterprise
Omishima Minnano Winery
'Everyone's Winery' — social enterprise on Omishima
📍 Omishima, Ehime
Government
Kagawa Prefecture — Triennale Division
Prefectural office driving Triennale promotion
📍 KagawaVisit
NPO
NPO Green Valley (Kamiyama)
The playbook for rural revitalization in Japan
📍 Kamiyama, TokushimaVisit
National Org
Japan NPO Center (JNPOC)
National infrastructure & support for Japanese NPOs
📍 Japan-wideVisit
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Boarding open · 乗船受付中
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across the bridge.
Sign the ship's manifest. You'll get shipment logs from Japan's remote islands, dispatches from the deck, and stories from the groms learning to read the sea.
- ◈ Field notes from ritō communities
- ◈ Grom → Ambassador milestones
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RSB
Dispatches
便り · From the deck
Issue
Nº 26・07
質問 · Q&A
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