The next stop on our virtual tour of violence prevention education programs is Tokyo, Japan, where Hiromi Kusano, an ESD Global Level 1 trainee (New York, August 2019), is working to combine her background in gender and peacebuilding with Empowerment Self Defense (ESD) to empower the women of her community. Hiromi’s journey into the world of violence prevention began when she was studying gender and peacebuilding at The University for Peace in Costa Rica. As a supplement to h