Project Sunshine for Japan (motto “Your colours can brighten the land of the rising sun again!”) is a worldwide campaign by Mansoureh (Mana) Rahnama [1][2] in Dortmund, Germany.
Rahnama started the networking project in April 2011 in the form of a poster competition in support of the survivors of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster Japan in March 2011.
[9] A jury (Pamela Campagna + Thomas A. Scheiderbauer (Italy), Holger Jacobs (Great Britain), Wilfried Korfmacher (Germany), Uwe Loesch (Germany),[10] Luba Lukova (USA), John Moore (Venezuela), Woody Pirtle (USA), Christopher Scott (Ireland),[11] and Shinoske Sugisaki (Japan))[12] selected the 100 best posters.
[13][14][15] Six posters received recognition and awards (Mark Andersen (USA), Kristina Jovanovic (Serbia), Scott Laserow (USA), Zafar Lehimle (Turkey), Yossi Lemel (Israel), and Tristan Schmitz[16] (Germany).
Participating authors are Yuri Andrukhovych (Ukraine), Rolf Bertram (Germany), Andrea Biscaro (Italy), Biyú Suárez Céspedes (Bolivia), Kevin Chen (Taiwan), Thomas Dersee (Germany), Anton Eisenhauer (Germany), Rainer Frentzel-Beyme (Germany), (Germany), Günter Grass (Germany), Angelica Guzmán (Bolivia), Günther Hager (Austria), Ohm Jung Ho (Korea), Taro Igarashi (Japan), Mustafa Ijaz (Turkey), Koji Ikeda (Japan), Tokiko Kiyota (Japan), Prof. Dr. Masayuki Komatsu (Japan), Wilfried Korfmacher (Japan), Josef Lutz (Germany), Michiko Mae (Germany/Japan), Sarita Mansilla (Bolivia), Stephan Moldzio (Germany), Shinji Nakagawa (Japan), Akmal Nasery Basral (Indonesia), Sixto Paz Wells (Peru), Peace Boat (Japan), Michael Pilath (Germany), Mansoureh Rahnama (Germany/Iran), Sapna Rangaswamy (India), Naemi Reymann (Germany), RICOH Deutschland GmbH (Germany), Ryuichi Sakamoto (Japan), Prima Santika (Indonesia), Elisabeth Scherer (Germany), Gert Scobel (Germany), Shinnoske Sugisaki (Japan), Shinpei Takeda (Japan), Dejan Vukelic (Serbia), Izumi Yamaguchi (Japan), Peter Zec (Germany), Dirk Zimmermann (Germany), and Rui Zink (Rui Zink).