D×P (Dee-Pee) is a certified NPO flying the banner of solving 'the isolation of teens' and creating 'a society where each young person can hold hope for their own future.' Its board chair, Noriaki Imai, was a party to the 'Iraq hostage incident'—taken hostage by an armed group in Iraq as a high-schooler—and after returning home was hit by 'self-responsibility' bashing, developed a phobia of people, and came back to society supported by a mentor and one friend. His own experience overlapped with teens who had dropped out or stopped attending school and been denied by parents and teachers, and he founded D×P in 2012. To give young people who tend toward isolation due to economic hardship or family circumstances someone to rely on, it runs the LINE consultation 'Yukisaki Chat' (ages 13–25, over 13,000 registered) answering nationwide, operates classes and places to belong at part-time high schools and a Night Youth Center near the Minami entertainment district of Osaka; its food support exceeds 200,000 meals and its cash grants approach 80 million yen. It covers almost all its operating costs with donations—a rare donation-sustained NPO.
●●○ medium
There is no confirmed −; independently verified + decide the position (B). No unreachable strike-through.= non-additive meter
D×P: Giving isolated teens someone to rely on. The letter is B; certainty is medium. Unconfirmed concerns are placed under “Watching.” (As of 2026-Q3; estimate based on public information.)
Main narrative
One person’s story (N1)
+ A single story
A 17-year-old lying at home alone thinking 'there's nothing left but to die.' Someone reached out to a feeling they had idly posted on social media, introduced them to Yukisaki Chat, and when they consulted without expecting much, they were listened to warmly, could even speak of the parental violence they had told no one, and came to think 'maybe there's a choice to live apart from my parents.' The benefit appears as a collective: over 13,000 young people aged 13–25 are registered with Yukisaki Chat.
Source nature: P1 First-party. Positive effects are not used to offset negatives.
Positive / negative effects
+ effects
- Founded in 2012 (certified NPO in 2015). Working on 'teen isolation,' it runs the LINE consultation Yukisaki Chat (ages 13–25, over 13,000 registered), classes and places to belong at part-time/correspondence high schools, the Osaka Minami Night Youth Center, food support over 200,000 meals, and cash grants approaching 80 million yen. Operating costs are almost all donations. Chair Imai, a party to the Iraq hostage incident, roots the work in lived experience.P2 Independent (reporting)
− effects (confirmed)
- No confirmed −.
- D
- o
- n
- a
- t
- i
- o
- n
- d
- e
- p
- e
- n
- d
- e
- n
- c
- e
- ;
- y
- o
- u
- t
- h
- -
- s
- u
- p
- p
- o
- r
- t
- o
- u
- t
- c
- o
- m
- e
- s
- h
- a
- r
- d
- t
- o
- m
- e
- a
- s
- u
- r
- e
- ;
- o
- r
- g
- a
- n
- i
- z
- a
- t
- i
- o
- n
- a
- l
- s
- c
- a
- l
- e
- (
- a
- b
- o
- u
- t
- 4
- 0
- p
- e
- o
- p
- l
- e
- )
- .
- Progress on the 2030 goal of reaching 30% (150,000) of isolated 13–19-year-olds; making outcomes visible; expanding and sustaining the donation base; preventing supporter burnout.
A second look
The plus is connection, a place to belong, consultation, food and cash grants for teens isolated by poverty, abuse, non-attendance, dropping out, or being a young carer, and a footing to 'hold hope for one's own future' (People), backed by 13 years, certified-NPO status, concrete figures (Yukisaki Chat 13,000, food 200,000 meals, cash grants 80 million yen), and the founder's own lived experience. Caveats: donation dependence (though a rare case sustainable on donations); youth-support outcomes (effects on later life) are hard to measure; and organizational scale (about 40 people).
Sources
How to read this assessment
- Reachable upper bound (ceiling): a confirmed − sets the ceiling, and independently verified + decide the position within it. + do not cancel out −.
- The weight of evidence is not symmetric: only confirmed − are counted; the volume of disputes or allegations goes under “Watching.” + are counted from independent evidence, while an organization’s own PR is treated as “reference.”
- Size is not value: scale is not used in the assessment. Matters that stay within money or competition—investors, shareholders, sanctions, trade secrets—are also excluded.
- The letter (assessment) and certainty (how reliable the information is) are separate axes.
This is a translation; the Japanese version is authoritative. The assessments here are generated automatically by AI based on published criteria. The operator does not alter individual results. Because they are AI-generated they may contain errors, and they are opinion and commentary, not statements of fact. Where evidence is insufficient, the entry is marked “On hold.” Requests for correction are accepted via the form.
Terms: Narrative Value = an assessment (A–G) of the distance between the story an organization tells and its reality / Ceiling meter = a visualization of the reachable upper bound / Watching = unconfirmed matters not counted / Protected stakeholders = people, animals, nature, and future generations. | Generated by: AI | As of: 2026-Q3 | Back to top