I have traveled in more than 80 countries while creating TV programs. Many of the places I visited were unexplored areas retaining the original conditions of the Earth. The stark contrast between interacting with the indigenous people of such places and living in the city back in Japan -- while repeating such an experience over the years, I thought about establishing an organization that will seek for the answer on the true richness and the happiness in people's life, and put that answer into practice.

Jun Miyauchi was born in Ehime Prefecture in 1950. He graduated from Bungakuza's School of Dramatic Arts. He made his acting debut in Nippon Television's TV drama Taiyou ni Hoero! After that, he traveled in more than 80 countries around the world shooting television programs, which gave him the chances to interact with the people living in primal conditions. From that experience, he began to work on problems of the global environment, and the cultivating of aesthetic sentiments in children. Currently he manages the Shadow Play Theatre Kashinoki, which in 1992, with the cooperation of Yasushi Akashi Special Representative of the Secretary-General to the UNTAC, conducted the first theatrical performance in Cambodia by a private NGO. On the same year, Theatre Kashinoki held a nationwide performance in Japan of the shadow play adaptation of the UN Award-winning Secrets of the Earth, by Aika Tsubota. In 1995, he invited former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to Saitama as the Head of the Prepatation Committee of the Students' International Environmental Symposium. He administers activities to promote the UNEP's ideals throughout Japan until today.