Ikemachi is competing in the Dakar Rally 2024, the toughest rally in the world.
Ikemachi will be carrying a banner showing our intention to “fight through breast cancer”.
It is almost one year since my wife died since January 2023.
My wife’s thoughts go abroad again a year later, in January 2024, after a long living abroad,
Her will be going through the deserts of Saudi Arabia.
My wife’s friends as Volunteers from Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, Canada, Spain, Thailand and the USA have designed, converted it into data, and everyone’s hearts will be going with Mr,Ikemachi across the Middle East in January 2024 in the world’s most prestigious race.
Below are the banners made by Satoko’s friends.
Mr.Ikemachi, controlling a motorbike with a powerful engine, bravely rides through the vast deserts of Saudi Arabia.
She musters up the courage to accept a breast cancer test.
She takes control of her breast cancer.
And she moves on with her life.
We spent a month working together on the words so that the two seemingly very different actions overlap.
This project has one wish
‘Get tested for breast cancer ASAP!’
Especially those who leave their own country to live abroad,
They are able to fight abroad because they are healthy and energetic.
We tend to think that such people are free from illness.
My wife was one of them.
She lived abroad for a long time in Nepal and Malaysia,
She lived a healthy, active and disease-free life and rooted in the local community.
If you live in Japan, you are regularly informed of breast cancer check-ups.
But when you live abroad, you are far away from breast cancer check-up, which has no symptoms.
This project,
We want all such women living abroad do for ‘breast cancer check-up’.
And it’s not only for woman herself, but also all those involved should not be saddened.
We started this project in the hope that it would help.
Mr,Ikemachi also agreed with the idea,
He has kindly agreed to carry the banner on his back.Click here to see where Ikemachi is now according to the official Dakar Rally website.
Dakar rally official:
https://www.dakar.com/en/competitor/66?fbclid=IwAR2DHKKoQEJ7sV5pDKSGIBLu5MTDnUb_4yutEZ-9ni8qezT7Z0KNahpQ-bI
Ikemachi FB:
https://www.facebook.com/ikemachi
Praying that the number of people suffering from breast cancer will decrease.
We would like to express our gratitude to Ikemachi.
Arigatou-Gozaimasu.
Masanori Nishihama
Beloved Satoko Nishihama