Shiodome Media Tower, headquarters of Kyodo News in Minato, Tokyo, Japan

Kyodo News (共同通信社, Kyōdō Tsūshinsha^?) is a nonprofit cooperative news agency based in Minato, Tokyo. It was established in November 1945 and it distributes news to almost all newspapers, and radio and television networks in Japan. The newspapers using its news have about 50 million subscribers. K. K. Kyodo News is Kyodo News' business arm, established in 1972.^[1] The subdivision Kyodo News International, founded in 1982, provides over 200 reports to international news media and is located in Rockefeller Center, New York.^[1]

Their online news site is in Japanese, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Korean, and English.

The agency employs over 1,000 journalists and photographers, and maintains news exchange agreements with over 70 international media outlets.^[1]

Satoshi Ishikawa is the news agency's president.^[2]

Kyodo News is the only remaining news agency to transmit news via radiofax. It broadcasts complete newspapers in Japanese and English, often at 60 lines per minute instead of the more normal 120 because of the greater complexity of written Japanese.

A full day's news takes hours to transmit. Kyodo has a dedicated transmission to Pacific fishing fleets from Kagoshima Prefectural Fishery Radio, and a relay from 9VF, possibly still in Singapore. The frequencies formerly used by JJC radio outside Tokyo are now sent from an unknown location, using the same identification in Japanese as 9VF. They are still active and heard daily in 2010.

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Kyodo News

• Official site (English)
• Official site (Japanese)

K. K. Kyodo News

• Official site (Japanese)
• Official site (traditional Chinese)
• Official site (simplified Chinese)
• Official site (Korean)

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Angel Kyodo Williams
angel Kyodo williams, Photo Bethanie Hines, 2008
Born	(1969-12-20) December 20, 1969 (age 42) New York City, U.S.
Residence	California
Nationality	American
Other names	angel williams, Rev. angel Kyodo williams
Ethnicity	Mixed Race
Citizenship	US
Occupation	Spiritual Teacher, Author, Entrepreneur
Home town	New York City
Religion	New Dharma Tradition, Zen Buddhist
Website
http://angelkyodowilliams.com

angel Kyodo williams (born December 2, 1969) is an African American//mixed race writer, ordained Zen priest^[1] and the author of Being Black: Zen and the Art of Living with Fearlessness and Grace (ISBN 0-670-89268-8), published by Viking Press in 2000. Called "the most vocal and most intriguing African-American Buddhist in America" by Library Journal,^[2] she is the Spiritual Director of the meditation-based New Dharma Community and founder of the Center for Transformative Change (formerly Center for Urban Peace in Oakland) in Berkeley, California^[3] and is also credited with developing fearlessMeditation, fearlessYoga and Warrior Spirit Training. Her given buddhist name, Kyodo, means "Way of Teaching."^[4]

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Early life[link]

Williams was raised by her firefighter father in Queens and Brooklyn and then by her mother in Tribeca, Manhattan after her parents separated. She attended junior high school in Chinatown, New York, a school that was ninety percent ethnic Chinese, high school in Chelsea and attended Nazareth College in Rochester, NY.

Spiritual History[link]

After reading D. T. Suzuki's "Zen and Japanese Culture", Shunryu Suzuki's, "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind", and receiving her first formal meditation instruction at San Francisco Zen Center while visiting California, Williams sought a community and teacher.^[5] Originally a formal student of Roshi Pat Enkyo O'Hara at the Village Zendo in New York,^[6] she was ordained as a priest by Francisco "Paco" Lugoviña from whom she also received denkai and hoshi empowerments, authorizing her to transmit the precepts to others and making her a dharma holder in the Zen tradition, respectively.

Career[link]

In 1996, she and Rebecca Walker, daughter of novelist Alice Walker, opened Kokobar, the first cybercafe owned and operated by African American women, in Fort Greene, Brooklyn with financial backing from, among others, rockstar Tracy Chapman, filmmaker Spike Lee and Rita Owens (mother of Dana Owens, aka Queen Latifah.)^[7] Walker withdrew from the affairs of the business and left it to Williams shortly after it opened. Chapman, who originally agreed to be an investor but later offered only a highly collateralized loan, called in the loan and less than six months later, in a surprise seizure action, sent sheriffs to remove the physical property of the cafe, causing the popular neighborhood cafe to close in 1997.^[8]

In 2000, Williams wrote Being Black, a nonfiction work published by Putnam/Penguin, to introduce more Black people and people of colors to Buddhist principles by writing what Boston Globe staff writer Vanessa E. Jones called, "an easily understandable explanation of Zen practice."^[9] She sought to use Buddhism's "profoundly anti-elitist, anti-authoritarian, and antisectarian essence to revitalize" black identity politics and practice in America,^[10] but the book was rejected by many white-owned Buddhist bookstore owners who objected to the conversational tone Williams used, categorizing it as an African American book, rather than a Buddhist book."^[11] Interestingly, the book was critically acclaimed by mainstream reviewers and predicted to become "a classic" by one of American Buddhism's foremost and most teachers, Jack Kornfield.

In 2003, Waxploitation Records founder Jeff Antebi approached Williams' publisher to create a musical companion to Being Black. The CD, published by Spun Records,^[12] features work by well-known hiphop artists, MCs and producers, including Blackalicious, Will.i.am of Black-Eyed Peas, Jazzy Jeff, Jurassic 5 and King Britt, among others. The CD includes both original and existing music "inspired by" the book. Poet Ursula Rucker performs vocal interludes which are quotes of Williams taken directly from the book. A Japan-distributed import version was released shortly after the American release.

In 2003, she also received a Spiritual Activism Fellowship along with seven others considered at the forefront of that field.^[13]

Later that year, she moved from New York City to Oakland, CA and in January 2004, founded the New Dharma Meditation Center specific serving as teacher and spiritual director. The center was established specifically to serve the spiritual needs of people of color while developing an approach to training that viewed individual, community and social transformation as a spiritual practice.^[14] Williams consistently challenged the established Buddhist communities in America, which are largely white, to make people of color welcome in practice settings, which she regarded as a failure of that population. Beginning in a small sublet, it transitioned to a 3-story Victorian home on the border of Emeryville.^[15]

Having grown into a residential practice center with a focus on social transformation, the New Dharma Meditation Center moved to its current home in Berkeley, California in 2007. There, it was renamed the Center for Urban Peace and in 2009 became the Center for Transformative Change (CXC).

Williams has been featured on the Oxygen Channel (Oxygen (TV channel)) and CNNfn, and has appeared in The New York Times, Boston Globe, Village Voice, Wired (magazine), Essence (magazine), and other publications. She now focuses her attention on the emerging field of "Transformative Social Change" an approach to social justice outcomes Williams deems a new social movement and is credited with coining the phrase for with respect to this area and field of work^[16] by way of several essays.

See also[link]

• Buddhism in the United States
• Five Precepts#Sixteen Precepts

Books[link]

• Being Black: Zen and the Art of Living With Fearlessness and Grace, Hardcover Edition ISBN 0-670-89268-8 (2000)
• Being Black: Zen and the Art of Living With Fearlessness and Grace, Paperback Edition ISBN 0-14-019630-7 (2002)
• Framing Deep Change: Essays on Transformative Social Change, Editor, ISBN 978-0-9828845-0-8 (2010)

Recordings[link]

• Being Black: A Musical Companion Inspired By the Angel Kyodo Williams Classic, worldcat.org ASIN B00007KFSG (2003)
• Being Black: A Musical Companion Inspired By the Angel Kyodo Williams Classic, Japan Release (2003)

Selected Board Participation[link]

• Seasons Fund for Social Transformation
• Forest Ethics

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official site
• Center for Transformative Change
• Fearlessyoga.org
• Videos about angel Kyodo williams and Transformative Social Change