HANDA ICE
Malaysia
FOUNDER
Ishikawa Dandelion’s founder is Handa Ice, a Chinese-Malaysian permanent resident in Japan. Growing up, Ice experienced a unique multi-racial and multi-cultural environment, learning all of the languages she speaks not from hard study but from daily conversations. As a result, switching languages is as natural as walking to Ice.
As Malaysia is considered one of the only countries in the world with Multicultural Symbiotic Societies deeply ingrained in its long history, generally Malaysians are more open-minded to globalization. This open-mindedness enlightened and inspired Ice, whom with 18 years of Event-Producing experience in her profile, is ambitious to help Japanese locals step into the world with everything she learned growing up in multicultural Malaysia.
Currently operating a Chinese-Malaysian Home-Cooking restaurant in Hakusan-shi, Ice is doing all her best to avoid un-recyclable and un-reuseable materials in reflecting her passionate & respect to mother nature. Meanwhile, she is also a member of Hakusan-shi Female Fire-Brigade and Japan Disaster Prevention Volunteer.
石川 ダンデライオン 創立者 は 半田夏氷（ハンダアイス）です。中華系マレーシア人で、日本に永住しています。アイスはユニークな多民族、多文化の環境で成長してきたので、話す全ての言語は、一生懸命勉強したものではなく、日常会話から学んだものです。その結果、言語を切り替えることは歩くことと同じように自然な事になりました。
マレーシアは、世界でも長い歴史の中で多文化共生社会が深く根付いている国の一つと考えられている為、一般的にマレーシア人はグローバル化に対して寛容です。18年間イベントプロデュースの仕事で経験を積んできたアイスは、多文化のマレーシアで育ち、学んだこと全てを使って、日本に住む地元の人々が世界に足を踏み入れる事を手助けしたいと考えています。
現在、白山市でマレーシア中華系家庭料理専門店を経営しているアイスは、母なる自然への情熱と敬意を表して、リサイクルできない素材を使わないように最前を尽くしています。また、白山市女性消防団や日本防災ボランティアの隊員として活動しています。
TOBY JONES
Australia
COMMITTEE MEMBER
Toby, who always shine his way to brighten up his surrounding people with his great attitude, is an ALT working with the Hakusan Board of Education, and has lived in Japan for 4 years. He loves to help people, and he has found that volunteering is a great way to get out of the house and help the community he lives in. Beach clean ups are one of the best ways he can give back to Hakusan city.
He used to be a School Aged Care program coordinator and a swim instructor back in his native Australia for 5 years before coming to Japan, and he enjoys working with people to tackle problems and make friends in the process.
Toby believe, building an international community opens doors and windows to new perspectives and understandings that everyone cannot get if remain insular. Meeting people from all across the world will improve your life in the most interesting and long lasting ways.
トビーは、いつも周りの人たちを明るくするために、明るく素敵な対応をしてくれます。
彼は、白山市教育委員会でALTとして働いていて、日本には４年間住んでいます。彼は人々を助ける事が好きです。彼は、ボランティアは家から出て、住んでいる地域のコミュニティを助ける事が素晴らしという事を見つけました。海岸清掃は、彼が住んでいる場所に恩返しができる最良の方法のひとつですです。
彼は、日本に来る前の５年間、母国のオーストラリアでスクールエイジケアプログラムのコーディネーターと水泳のインストラクターを務めていました。彼は、人々と協力しながら問題に取り組み、その過程で友達を作ることを楽しんでいます。
トビーは、国際社会を造ることは、孤独のままだと得られる事ができない新しい視点と理解への扉を開いてくれると信じています。世界中の人々に会う事は、最も興味深く、長く続く方法であり、人生を良いものにしてくれる事でしょう。
SABRINA WALCH
United States
COMMITTEE MEMBER
Sabrina is from Missouri, USA. For the past four years she has been working for the Hakusan City Board of Education as an English Instructor/ALT.
Outside of Ishikawa, she has also lived, studied, and worked in Tokyo and rural Fukushima. Before moving to Japan, she spent her life in the United States working and volunteering at various elementary and junior high schools as an assistant teacher and after school program caretaker.
In her free time, Sabrina can be found partaking in one of her hobbies: drawing, playing video games, and enjoying quality time with her friends and loved ones.
As a senior member, Sabrina hopes to connect with the community around her, as well as to help facilitate a positive and warm environment for cultural exchange for everyone, no matter one’s age.
She strongly believes in the power of education as the best tool for breaking down barriers. She has brought her passion and love for teaching to the classrooms of Hakusan City schools, and hopes to bring that same passion to members of the community.
YAMAGUCHI MASAKI
Japan
COMMITTEE MEMBER
Masaki is a promising young entrepreneur with extensive experience in international exchanges through his further studies abroad and various international business activities.
His rich experience of communicating with people from different cultural backgrounds of various countries has enhanced his worldview, and established good global relationship which also enhanced his personal charm.
マサキは有望な若手起業家で、海外留学や様々な国際ビジネス活動を通じて国際交流の経験が豊富です。
彼の様々な国の異なる文化的背景を持つ人々とのコミュニケーションによる豊富な経験によって、彼の世界観を高め、彼の個人的な魅力も高め、素敵なグローバルな関係を築くことができるでしょう。
ASHLEY HIRASUNA
United States
COMMITTEE MEMBER
Ashley is a fourth generation Japanese American from California, America currently living and working in Japan. She first moved to Japan to learn more about and connect with Japanese culture and people.
Recently she has moved to Hakusan City and currently works for the Hakusan City Board of Education as an English Instructor/ALT.
Ashley enjoys a wide assortment of activities and hobbies. Although heat and humidity are some of her weaknesses, she enjoys outdoor activities such as hiking, kayaking and nature photography. Ashley also has a real passion for handicrafts, art and culture. Some of her best memories are participating in Japanese culture and crafting events such as tea ceremony, cooking classes, and various painting opportunities.
She wants to help build a community that is both welcoming to native Japanese people as well as foreign and believes that she can help dispel the idea of what an “American” is as well as serve as a reminder that “Japanese” people can be foreign.
Ashley’s hope is to create and foster deep and meaningful friendships and relationships with people of all nationalities and ethnic backgrounds.
SUSAN MAY
Australia
COMMITTEE MEMBER
Susan is from Australia and lives and works in Japan. Her deep passion in life is to create a better world for the future, and she has a strong desire to protect the environment.
Her main job is working as a geologist and international relations officer at the Hakusan Tedorigawa Geopark Promotion Council, and through the activities of the council she is working to build a sustainable society that lives and works with nature.
Outside of her work she is also an aspiring craftsman, and has been practicing the local traditional craft of hinoki-zaiku cypress weaving since 2017. She acts as a spokesperson for promoting traditional crafts, and hopes to pass on this intangible knowledge to future generations.
スーザンは、オーストラリア出身で、日本に住み働いています。彼女は、未来に向けてより良い世界を造ること、そして環境を保護したいととても強く願っています。
彼女の本職は、白山手取川ジオパーク推進協議会の専門員です。協議会の活動を通じて、自然と共生する持続可能な社会の構築に取り組んでいます。
仕事以外では職人として活動しており、2017年から地元の伝統工芸品であるヒノキ細工を実践しています。伝統工芸品振興の代弁者として、彼女はこの伝統工芸の知識を受け継ぎ、後世に伝えたいと考えています。
PHILIP CADZOW
New Zealand
COMMITTEE MEMBER
Philip is from New Zealand, that great outdoor playground filled with beautiful landscapes and sheep. He loves outdoor activities, hand crafts, and people.
Philip aggressively participates in most kind of culture and crafting related activities, to further explore the new environment he is living in. He also enjoy climbing the beautiful mountains, skiing in the winter season, joining volunteering activities, help protecting the nature and also making friends around.
He believes that through the craft events the group fills a hunger that social media can never fill. The meeting and sharing of knowledge and skills with people that activating the making of friends and experiences, can change the outlook of a foreigner who feels alone and unsupported in Ishikawa. Also, he suggests the beach cleaning has a real impact on people more than the beaches (although they do look cleaner) with the consideration that the way society is currently going will lead to poor environments for our children to grow up in.
フィリップは、ニュージーランド出身です。ニュージーランドは美しい風景と羊がいっぱいのアウトドアの素晴らしい遊び場です。フィリップはアウトドアと手芸、そして人が大好きです。
フィリップは、自分が暮らす新しい環境を更に追求するために、あらゆる種類のカルチャーやクラフト関連の活動に積極的に参加しています。彼は、美しい山に登る事を楽しみ、冬はスキー、ボランティア活動への参加、自然を保護すること、それらは周りに友達を作ることにも繋がります。
彼は、クラフトイベントを通して、ソーシャルメディアでは決して満たされない事が、このグループであれば満たす事ができると信じています。仲間作りや経験を活性化する人との出会い、知識・技術の共有をすることで、石川で孤独で支えられていない外国人の見方を変える事ができます。また、彼は海岸清掃に参加しており、現在の社会が私たちの子供たちの成長によくない環境に繋がると考え、海岸清掃は人々に大きな影響を与える願っています。
TASHIRO KEIKO
Japan
COMMITTEE MEMBER
田代さんは白山市に住んで32年経ちます。4年前に ICE さんと知り合い、この活動にも参加するようになりました。
2021 年の2月に行われた白山市議会議員選挙で2期目に入りました。まだまだ学ぶことの多い毎日です。
たくさんの人と出会うことが私の楽しみであり、人の役に立てる自分になりたいと願っています。
NISHIKI YUKI
Japan
COMMITTEE MEMBER
ユキは日本のあちこちに住み、ボランティアやNPOを含む様々な活動に参加してきました。しかし募金や年会費を募る事がメインとなる事が多く心苦しくなり、自分のできる範囲で自分ができるサポート活動をしたいと思うようになりました。
彼女は、人が大好きです。国内外問わず旅行が好き。音楽を愛し、ジャンルを問わずDJ活動も行っています。自然、食、文化、観光が揃った石川県で、県民とグローバルな結び付きを願い、ダンデライオンで活躍してくれるでしょう。