Assessing the people with disabilities as the Challenged people given challenging tasks by God, aiming to make the challenged become taxpayers and achieving the Universal Society.

The promotion of employment and social participation by the challenged have long been the ultimate goal for supporting activities for the challenged while no other organization had ever committed positively as Prop Station. Dramatic advancement of computer and IT related resources made it realistic.

Nami Takenaka, the Chairperson, with her severely challenged daughter, a resident of Higashinada-ku, Kobe, has founded Prop Station in 1991. It has been approved as a class two Social Welfare Organization in 1998 with her assuming the post as the Chairperson.

Prop Station has been offering computer trainings for more than 1,500 challenged while some ten percent of them obtained jobs at home, including those with severe challenges such as cervical diseases, cerebral paralysis, and elderly people. In 2003, Prop Station has started a "Challenged Creative Project" to promoting a nationwide catalogue sale of cookies and other items produced by the challenged working at small workshops in collaboration with Felissimo, a Kobe based leading mail order retailer, Kobe City, and Hyogo Prefecture. The starting of government, industrial, academic and business complex is widely supported in society and has a promising opportunity of business promotion for the challenged throughout the country.

"It is our goal to realize the Universal Society where the challenged, elderly people, and women with children can work with pride depending upon their talent and capacity, and enjoy social participation with equal opportunity." says Takenaka, known as "Nami-ne."

Manufacturer of industrial belts founded in 1919. Mitsuboshi Belt did great contribution in the community by opening its gymnasium as a shelter at the Hanshin-Awaji Great Earthquake while participating in fire-fighting team and relief activities. They also moved in the Head Office Building back to Nagata-ku, their starting place, complying the request of residents in the community working together for mutual harmony and benefit.

Presiding a Haiku Poet Magazine "Seigen." Started Haiku Poet when he was 13 years old.
One of leading and reforming Haiku Poets established a unique reform in Haiku by initiating a form of Seasonless, Colloquial Style, and leaving space between words. Created transcribing Haiku and traveled some 40 countries with creative activities resulted a great expansion of Haiku.

The first winner at the national Ekiden Road Relay held in December, 2003 with record time of 1:07:46. Six runners participated in the prefectural and city governments girls matching Ekiden which resulted a great work of straight victory to Hyogo Prefecture.