Organisation
The Redwood, from which our organisation takes its name, is the world's tallest tree in North America. While the average height of the trees is 80 metres and can reach 115 metres, their roots are only 3 metres deep. With roots that are only three metres deep, giant trees of over 100 metres can stand because they intertwine their roots and support each other. Helping each other generates great power. This is our basic philosophy. We help communities and countries to become self-reliant and to carry out medical activities.
Redwood Mission's activities began in Africa in 2013. We started by participating in the activities of an international multinational medical volunteer organisation, working in
rural and urban slums in African countries, and since 2016 we have also been involved in
Buruli ulcer treatment in West Africa. As we gained more medical experience in Africa,
we began to think about establishing autonomous medical facilities at the local and national level that would improve public health and prevent disease outbreaks, and we are now working with a group of innovative IT companies in several countries to build an autonomous African medical organisation that does not require external assistance. We would be grateful for your understanding and support of our organisation's philosophy and activities.
President : Masaharu Nobuyoshi, M.D., Ph.D.
He is from the Department of Haematology, Hiroshima University School of Medicine, Japan. He received the Hiroshima University School of Medicine Kojinkai Incentive Award for his research as a medical student. After a three-and-a-half-year exchange research fellowship at St Louis Washington University School of Medicine, USA, during his postgraduate years at Hiroshima University, he obtained his Ph.D. in medicine. Subsequently, he conducted research in molecular and cell biology at the Radiation Effects Research Foundation in Hiroshima, Japan, Hiroshima University School of Medicine, and Jichi Medical University, Japan. He published papers in Blood [1], the journal of the American Society of
Haematology, and other journals, and was a co-author of Nature [2]. Later, as a Christian, he decided to pursue medical
care in Africa. He studied tropical medicine at the Department of Internal Medicine, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University School of Medicine,Japan and community medicine at the Department of Community Medicine, Nagasaki University School of Medicine. He started his medical activities in Africa in 2013. To date, he has carried out a total of 26 medical missions in 15 African and Asian countries (as of December 2023).
(Impact Factor : Blood 22.1 Nature: 49.9)
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Nobuyoshi M, Kusunoki Y, Seyama T, Kodama K, Kimura A, Kyoizumi S., Arrest of human dendritic cells at the CD34-/CD4+/HLA-DR+ stage in the bone marrow of NOD/SCID-human chimeric mice. Blood. 2001 Jun 1;97(11):3655-7. 2001
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Sanada M, Suzuki T, Shih LY, Otsu M, Kato M, Yamazaki S, Tamura A, Honda H, Sakata-Yanagimoto M, Kumano K, Oda H, Yamagata T, Takita J, Gotoh N, Nakazaki K, Kawamata N, Onodera M, Nobuyoshi M, Hayashi Y, Harada H, Kurokawa M, Chiba S, Mori H, Ozawa K, Omine M, Hirai H, Nakauchi H, Koeffler HP, Ogawa S., Gain-of-function of mutated C-CBL tumour suppressor in myeloid neoplasms. Nature. 2009 Aug 13;460(7257):904-8. 2009
Greetings from the President of the Board of Directors
Executive Officers
President
Masaru Nobuyoshi
Vice-President
Mitsuhiro Yamashita
Director
Hitoshi Oishi
Takayuki Koyama
Auditor
Eiji Miyamoto
Advisor
Yasuhiro Miyoshi
Nobue Kunito
History
2013
Redwood Japan Nagasaki Start of activities
■Medical volunteer activities in rural areas of Nairobi, Kenya
2015
Tanzania
2016
Kenya, Ghana, Benin, Tanzania,
■Buruli ulcer medical care
2017
Ghana, Togo, Benin, Tanzania
2018
Philippines, Côte d'Ivoire
2019
Côte d'Ivoire, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia,
■Lecture at international medical conferences in Thailand
■Meet Malawi's Deputy Ambassador to Japan at TICAD 7 (7th Tokyo International Conference on African Development)
2020
Malawi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo
■Visit to Malawi Ministry of Health at the invitation of the Malawian Deputy Ambassador to Japan. Meeting with Malawian Minister of Health.
2021
TICAD 8 related project: Redwood Japan webinar
2022
Malawi, Zambia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo
■Keynote speech at Nagasaki Higashi High School WWL lecture meeting
■Educational lecture at the Japan Society of Perinatal and Neonatal Medicine
■Approval of the Malawi project by the Council of the Malawian Ministry of Health
■Courtesy visit to the Faculty of Medicine, University of Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo
2023
Malawi, Bangladesh
■Former name Redwood Japan Nagasaki NPO registration (April)
■Keynote speech at the International Peace Conference for High School Students
■Côte d'Ivoire Abidjan International Medical Volunteers
■Presentation at the Global Medical Sharing Conference in Cote d'Ivoire
■Preparatory survey for Malawi project
■Interview with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus
■Visit to rural areas in Dhaka, Bangladesh
■New name Redwood Mission NPO registration (December)
■Visit to rural Lilongwe, Malawi