For the 10th (and last) session of Vision Formulation 2, we were honored to welcome the artist Mr. Yoshiaki Kaihatsu who gave a lecture about “How to approach the disaster of March 11th through art”. Mr. Kaihatsu who saw the huge amount of wreckage caused by the disaster, understood that many cultural assets were also being lost, and decided to organise various projects in order to bring back culture to places that lost it. Mr. Kaihatsu, through his projects that are aiming at providing emotional support, helping with the handling of wreckage, and keeping alive existing intangible cultural assets, offers a long-sighted approach of the issues and tackles the problems from varied points of view. He said : “Actions will definitively trigger something,” and his words were a source of encouragement for the students. (Hashimoto)