It's been almost a year since the East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami hit. And "Ishinomaki Voice vol.1 Future" arrived. This quality free paper is edited by Akio , my ex-colleague at WKT and currently a committee member of Ishinomaki 2.0 project, and filled with voices of people living in Ishinomaki who are trying to rebuild their city to make it better place than the one before tsunami. Ishinomaki 2.0, its partner project Ishinomaki Laboratory , and the business cafe IRORI Ishinomaki which also serves as a base for these 2 projects, are now becoming a magnet for people around the world as the place to generate new ideas for the future of the city and the region. The slogan of Ishinomaki 2.0 is "Ishinomaki creates new ideas for Japan." I'm sure these new ideas can be delivered only by these visionary private sectors who can think and act quickly, proactively, and creatively, not by present authorities and government who do nothing but maintaining the status