Haruhisa Handa is a Japanese religious leader and a businessman.
44 Facts About Haruhisa Handa
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Haruhisa Handa is known by the name Toshu Fukami in his artistic career, as well as the pen name Toto Ami.
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Haruhisa Handa uses the pseudonym Leonardo Toshu, which is used as his radio personality.
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Haruhisa Handa is the founder of the Japanese Blind Golf Association.
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Haruhisa Handa is a chancellor and professor of the University of Cambodia, a professor of Japan Culture Research Institute at Zhejiang Gongshang University, and an honorary consul of the Kingdom of Cambodia in Fukuoka, Japan.
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Haruhisa Handa was born in 1951, in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, into a multi-generation sake-barrel manufacturing family.
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Haruhisa Handa graduated from Doshisha University in Kyoto with a Bachelor's Degree in Economics, with an emphasis in international economics.
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Haruhisa Handa has received honorary doctorates from the University of Western Australia, Curtin University, and Edith Cowan University in Western Australia.
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Haruhisa Handa is the cofounder of the Sihanouk Hospital in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
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In 2000 Haruhisa Handa cofounded the Spring Bud elementary school in China.
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Haruhisa Handa launched Akarusugiru Gekidan Toshu for popular Japanese theater in May 2007, at the age of 56.
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Haruhisa Handa received no formal musical education during his childhood, and began training in various art forms during his thirties and forties, including in tea ceremonies, Noh theatre, the piano, the violin, musical composition, Peking opera, conducting, music theory, and then ballet at the age of 42.
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Haruhisa Handa is a chief patron and guest artist of Opera Australia which has staged every year since 2012 Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour, an outdoor opera production using a special floating stage.
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Haruhisa Handa is on the board of trustees of the Japan Design Cultural Association and markets his own fashion label.
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Haruhisa Handa has worked in association with Michael Bolton, Jimi Jamison, and Peter Cetera.
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Bolton and Haruhisa Handa specifically have worked on various projects regarding the promotion of human rights activities.
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Haruhisa Handa has partnered with Nick Faldo to produce the Haruhisa Handa Faldo Cambodian Classic.
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Haruhisa Handa serves as the Official International Ambassador for the Faldo Series Asia and as Honorary Advisor to the Faldo Trust for Tomorrow's Champions Limited.
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Haruhisa Handa is Director of the Toshu Haiku Society and a member of the Gendai Haiku Association.
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Haruhisa Handa's haiku are included in the Gendai Haiku database.
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Haruhisa Handa is a member of the Nohgaku Performers' Association and a lead actor in the Hosho School of Noh theater and the sponsor representative of the Tokyo Dai Takigi Noh.
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Haruhisa Handa is the head of the Toshu Hosho Noh Troupe, which has over 1,500 affiliated members.
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In 2000 Haruhisa Handa staged a takigi Noh at the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts and Peking University, performing the lead role in Midare, and held public performances of Hosho School Noh in China, at Peking University and at the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts, where he performed the lead role in the Noh play Midare.
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Haruhisa Handa introduced blind golf to Japan in 1988 by establishing its first Blind Golf Club and today is Honorary Chairman of the Japanese Blind Golf Association and Honorary President of the International Blind Golf Association.
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Haruhisa Handa has stated that because the blind golfers he witnessed playing in Australia were the most cheerful, pleasant, and happy people with a disability he had ever met, he began developing worldwide activities to promote blind golf as social contribution through golf in the private sector.
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Haruhisa Handa launched the ISPS Haruhisa Handa PGA Academy Program in January 2012 to disseminate disability classification in golf and to provide British PGA pro golfers with the qualifications to coach disabled golfers, through the ISPS and the PGA in the United Kingdom.
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Haruhisa Handa has been involved with working to spread disabled golf internationally, with the goal of it becoming an official sport in the Paralympics.
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Haruhisa Handa is the first Japanese person to serve as Vice President of The Royal National Institute of Blind People.
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Haruhisa Handa serves as a Golf Australia Advisor and International Ambassador.
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Haruhisa Handa founded and serves as Chairman of the Asia Faiths Development Dialogue, which promotes development of dialog among religions in Asia.
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Haruhisa Handa is one of the Presidents of Religions for Peace USA.
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Haruhisa Handa began studying and practicing Zen, Shinto, and Chinese philosophy at the age of 25.
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Haruhisa Handa was one of two religious leaders representing Japan, who propounded a means of resolving problematic issues.
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Haruhisa Handa is an Honorary Advisor to the Human Rights Council of Australia, established the first chair in human rights education in Australia, at Curtin University, Western Australia, and was bestowed the title of Citizen of Humanity by the Human Rights Council of Australia.
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Haruhisa Handa established the WSD HANDA Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Stanford University.
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Haruhisa Handa serves as Chairman of the Kyowa Foundation.
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Haruhisa Handa serves as a director at The Japan Forum on International Relations, a private policy think tank.
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Haruhisa Handa serves as Chairman of Worldwide Support for Development, which engages in international cooperation and support projects in welfare, scholarship, and education.
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Haruhisa Handa serves as the Chancellor of the University of Cambodia, which was opened in 2003.
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Haruhisa Handa has served as a professor at the university since January 2006.
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Haruhisa Handa established the Chancellor's Honors Scholarship Fund in 2012 and has been providing full tuition fees to academically advanced students since then.
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Haruhisa Handa has held posts as Visiting Professor at the Post-Graduate Japanese Culture Research Center in Zhejiang University since September 1998 and as Professor of Japanese Arts and Culture at the School of Japanese Language and Culture at Zhejiang Gongshang University since September 2007, both in China.
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Haruhisa Handa serves as Honorary Consul of the Kingdom of Cambodia in Fukuoka.
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On 26 May 2022, Haruhisa Handa was appointed an Honorary Officer of the Order of Australia, for distinguished service to the arts, education and sport through philanthropic contributions.