1 Okazaki Kanako（27）
“family”
It does not matter my current family or the one I will have after getting married and have children, I think the family is the most important.
2 Maekawa Shiro（30）
“movies”
I cannot stop thinking about what to see next 24/7. And movies show me whole another world including strange places, foods and languages.
3 Aoki Izumi（29）
“meal”
It is fun to have a meal. It colors life and relationship with people. I love spending enjoyable time of meals with people. Although we often forget by a flood of foods surrounding us, it is a life-maintaining act. I would like to always remember and thank the wellbeing of being able to have foods and being given lives of creatures.
4 Tanaka Megumi（30）
“family”
The only thing I would risk my everything to protect. At the same time, the only place to embrace me for what I am.
5 Horiike Maki（29）
“workplace”
I am fortunate to have met my current workplace which makes me want to live my life with it.
6 Takahashi Yumiko（30）
“family”
Family is what is given to be always together and feel safe. I can be myself because family is there for me. Even if family grows bigger in the future, my feelings will not change. I am thankful.
7 Harasawa Koji（31）
“life”
Humans, animals, the ground, the earth, and the universe, all living beings are linked each other. I feel heavenly bliss to be part of that circle.
8 Funakoshi Masaaki（31）
“family（including me）”
The most important existence as we give births, raise children and live together.
9 Kurosawa Rie（24）
“family”
It makes me calm to have home to go back whenever I have hard time working, unpleasant things happen to me or I hate myself. It is more like a place for me to return, not home.
10 Arai Chie（17）
“myself”
I am very proud of myself being and living myself more than anybody. While distressed by many things, I feel happy for many other things. But I am not perfect. I fail a lot, and sometimes I hurt others’ feelings. That makes me sad too and I feel pain. But there are still people who support me under such situation. I connect with everybody in the world, meet them and live my life. So it is thanks to everybody. I cannot be happy by myself. But I love myself being able to say “it is thanks to everybody” and thinking connected with everybody. I feel joy for being such myself. Today, I feel that many of the youth deny themselves in their mind as “my existence is meaningless” or “nobody accepts me unless I am “good kid”. It is a fault of the current society to leave such way of life as the only choice for them. Thus, I love myself for being myself among people I care about and live my life for what I am.
11 Hirai Kimitoshi（30）
“bath”
I suffer from atopic dermatitis. Release from the itch is worth everything.
12 Migita Asuka（30）
“family”
I cannot help myself suffering from the idea of losing my family. I am sorry to my husband, but my parents and brother are special.
13 Nogaki Akiko（29）
“myself”
Without caring for oneself, we cannot love foreign countries and neighbors. There are many Japanese who cannot love themselves due to excessive competitiveness, recession and difficulty to get a job, but I think we should have higher self-esteem.
14 Sumi Iyo（25）
“family”
No matter what happens, they love me for nothing and I feel special bond between us. I love them as well as thank them.
15 Tokunaga Yoshie（30）
“dogs”
They are not just pets, but my own family. Besides, I did not chose my family to be family, but I chose my dogs to be so.
16 Henmi Shiho（35）
“life”
It is irreplaceable and precious.
17 Kozai Katsusuke（35）
“family and colleague”
They are precious existence for me to support each other without profit or return. They teach me many things.
18 Miyake Tomoko（31）
“family”
My parents and older sister who have built together what I am now, and my current partner and my daughter whom I live together now. Any of those pieces cannot be missing. Since home is the place to feel safe and secure, each of us can stand on our feet with free will.
19 Kubota Naoko（28）
“peace”
If the world is at peace, my loving family, friends, and everyone else in the world can enjoy our lives hand in hand and without hatred.
20 Seki Keiithiro（29）
“my weakness and defect ”
There are some parts within me that are hard to accept such as anger, anxiety, jealousy, desire to escape. If I could accept and love these feelings inside, maybe I could love outside parts of the world as well.
21 Higuma Erika（26）
“nature”
Humans are part of the nature, we are born from the nature and return to the nature.
30 Ishihara Miki（22）
“music”
Music connects people beyond sexes, generations, nationalities. Music gives me passion, music touches my heart, music is my source of energy. I love music.
31 Matsushita Mayumi（31）
“nature”
I feel being given energy from everything including the ocean, mountains and the sky. Nature relaxes me and I cannot live without it.
32 Hasebe Yae（30）
“peace”
“health/well-being” “family” “faith” – They are everything what I am made of.
33 Honda Hiromi（22）
“sympathy”
Invisible, but I cannot exist without such feelings as friendship and love from many people.
34 Harada Ai（26）
“family and music”
Both are what sustain me and teach me the importance of life.
35 Yamamoto Tetsuya（29）
“friends”
They have been always there for me who is I myself think selfish.
36 Yoneda Mai（27）
“mother who raised me”
To think about when she dies gives me chill and makes me cry.
37 Ichikawa Yoshinori（30）
“children”
More important than my own life.
38 Yamamoto Taiki（26）
“wife”
She is the one whom I hate to lose the most.
39 Miyaoka Mai（30）
“music”
It has many possibilities like connecting people all different from each other and being means to communicate between them.
40 Fukushima Tomomi（30）
“my child”
irreplaceable treasure.
41 Takasaki Yuki（25）
“nature”
The origin and source of everything.
42 Sasaki Yukei（31）
“fiancé”
Because we will get married.
43 Kosakai Hiroshi（26）
“cats”
They give me healing which I need.
44 Okoshi Aya（38）
“smile”
Smiling to each other when failed. Smile when you relieved. Smile with nodding when you see people working hard. Smile when you are sound-asleep. Smile makes anyone attractive. Smile makes you communicate with strangers. Smile on our faces does not yield threats and fears.
46 Eda Nodoka（22）
“family”
Under any circumstances (for instance, being unable to move due to illness, to talk, to keep rationality by psychological disorder), family is tied by the special bond that is never cut off.
47 Kaneko Kentaro（33）
“love”
It creates all my emotions and actions. When I search the origin of things, people and acts that I love, I always end up finding love. Selfless love, charity, love inside myself are also important. We cannot take it out and say “here, this is the love”, but as a guide of actions and way of expression, I want to cherish love for all time.
48 Shiobara Ai（18）
“cooking”
Humans cannot live without eating. It is fun to think what to cook, with what ingredients and sources. And so is to think what to eat. I feel happy when family or friends eat what I cook and say “it’s delicious”. It makes me feel great and want to try cook better.
49 Iwai Shota（35）
“Smile”
Humans percept the greatest happiness when living surrounded by smiles.
50 Ueda Yasuko（29）
“mother”
No matter what happens, she will always be on my side for lifetime.
“children”
There is no reason. But instinct tells that even I would risk my life to protect them.
52 Onaha Wakako（24）
“friends”
We meet our friends by a series of coincidence and if anything happens they try to reach out to me. I think that it is wonderful to build our relationships through it.
53 Masaoka Hisae（31）
“husband”
He is my all. His existence is my source of energy, nutrition, and the cornerstone of peace. By loving your partner and being loved by him/her, you can feel secure and have a social foundation to think and act against various problems and hardships.
54 Kanogawa Yuki（26）
“music especially reggae”
It unites a large number of people beyond our language differences, and gives us vitally.
55 Kataoka Nanae（28）
“family”
Its existence gives joy and happiness to my life.
56 Ishimoto Nao（22）
“faith”
It is like a compass which guide the direction of our lives.
57 Higuchi Yuriko（19）
“my cat”
l love my cat “Lin”!
58 Takahashi Naoki（27）
“wife”
As the partners, we share sorrow and joy. We ride on the same ship called “family” and move forward together. She is precious.
59 Ishii Miki（22）
“friends”
With trustful friends, I can go up or down. I always have them on my back supporting me. And I want to cherish them forever.
60 Izawa Miho（33）
“family”
Everything starts here. The greatest love to give them and receive from them, and they also give me power. Their existence relieves me and makes me feel thankful.
61 Shimomura Makoto（30）
“peace”
Were it not for peace, family and couples or even my loving cat cannot stick together.
62 Miyatake Maki（35）
“chocolate”
I just love it. I always carry it around with me. Chocolate of fair-trade is delicious and safe. It is indispensable for mental health.
63 Koga Norio（28）
“pork ramen”
Humans cannot survive without eating. Among foods, there are hardly anything that never bores me to eat it even everyday. But this is the one and valuable for me because it remains me of my hometown, Fukuoka Prefecture.
64 Tamura Akiko（29）
“friends”
They have supported me on various occasions. Because they are there for me to share excitement, sorrow and joy, I can be myself and work hard. When troubled, their support makes me feel strong. Chatting and diving with them are great. Time to spend with them is my source of energy.
65 Memori Chisato（33）
“love”
It is a bit strange answer to say I love love. I do not mean passion, but something deep inside of people’s heart. And not only humans, but everything in universe has it in nature. Thinking about air and density of seawater lets us realize how much our existence is loved. I realize we are all connected in the first place. And I have that deep connection of life. You may ask how come? I love it because it loves me. Love does not require a reason.
66 Chiba Takashi（31）
“music”
It teaches me thoughts, history, culture and ideas of many people. It also gives me energy to live tomorrow.
67 Okada Sayuri（22）
“family and friends”
Both were needed to be what I am now. They are important to me.
68 Ono Mitsuko（25）
“connection with people”
Every encounter and connection I have ever had with my family, friends, colleagues and everyone else makes who I am today. I want to cherish them forever.
69 Inase Akiko（30）
“family”
Family connected by blood, or the one without. They are equally important.
70 Shiino Aya（24）
“family, friends, comrades”
They are just really important to me. Support from them has made who I am. And their existence sustains me so that I can work hard.
71 Kamei Tomoko（32）
“my child”
Now is the time for my child to need to be taken care of the most, so I always think about them. Their existence is precious.
72 Uematsu Teppei（30）
“smile”
If it were not for this, everything sucks. If there is smile, the boring would be fun. It is happy to have a life filled with smile.
73 Mochizuki Toshihiko（21）
“history”
The only thing that anybody has and feel sympathy. Like branches and leaves of a tree, it connects us with family, friends and boyfriend/girlfriend. Heritage that we can learn wars and discrimination.
74 Yamazaki Nami（29）
“spirit of ALOHA”
A as Akahai (elegance), L as Lokahi (harmony), O as Olu’olu (kindness), H as Ha’aha’a (modesty), A as Ahonui (patience). Important spirit for hula. It is also a heart to truly love friends and family.
75 Okawa Ikumi（19）
“encounters”
I have had many encounters, and I met good friends and important people. There are still many other encounters waiting for me.
76 Torino Tsubasa（24）
“all art works called nature”
Natural figure and green earth and forest that could never be made by human hands. And many animals overwhelm and move me. Lessons from the nature guide many artists to painting, sculpture, performing arts, and music! I myself want to be an artist and always learn from the nature. From here, I will work more as one artist.
77 Adachi Kana（28）
“all people that I have met”
None of them cannot be missed to create who I am today. I want to keep on living with people with gratitude.
78 Okubo Natsumi（23）
“people I love”
many people around me, I love them. Thanks to them, my life has become several times more wonderful that it would have become without them. I feel joy for being able to share the world I’m living with them. It is very conventional to say that “no one can live by oneself”, but I actually feel happiness to have people who I can share my joy and sorrow. Only to have someone to share a phrase like “it’s beautiful, isn’t it?“ makes your life so much happier. So, it does not matter where it happens, I would curse any situations to take someone’s precious someone away.
79 Oishi Fumiki（32）
“all the people who have had and will have connections with me especially family”
I would not be able to survive without these people.
80 Takiya Naoki（25）
“nature”
It fosters diversity of all lives including human beings.
81 Kawano Yuki（27）
“people”
Family, friends, colleagues, they are all important to me. And sometimes, people just passing by help me. Not always, not everybody, but someone helps you sometimes. They are indispensable to live a life.
82 Fujino Tatsuki（18）
“friends”
They have let me grow up.
83 Nishida Shio（33）
“friends”
The existence of friends who accept, help and scold me makes me feel that I want to support someone too. They helped me to make it this far.
84 Tanaka Tomoki（29）
“music” and “family”
no matter how deep I am depressed, both would cheer me up. They are indispensable to my future life too. Family is what you love and also have to protect at the same time.
84 Yamazaki Erina（21）
“chocolate”
The bitter part of life always needs sweetness of chocolate.
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