●●○ medium
There is no confirmed −; independently verified + decide the position (B). No unreachable strike-through.= non-additive meter
TABLE FOR TWO International: “Another shared table” solving obesity in rich countries and hunger in poor ones at once. Masahisa Kogure, who had worked at McKinsey and Shochiku, kept holding a wish to “be of use to someone.” Hearing from a senior about the imbalance of food — “about 800 million people in the world go hungry, while about 2 billion are obese” — he thought he could help through “food,” familiar to everyone, and launched the NPO TABLE FOR TWO in 2007. The mechanism is simple. At company cafeterias and shops in developed countries, when you buy a calorie-conscious healthy menu with ¥20 added, that ¥20 becomes one school meal in a developing country. At one table, an adult in a rich country and a child in a poor country “share a meal.” Participation has spread to about 650 companies and organizations, delivering a cumulative total of over 50 million school meals. The letter is B; certainty is medium. (As of 2026-Q2; estimate based on public information.)
Main narrative
Masahisa Kogure, who had worked at McKinsey and Shochiku, kept holding a wish to “be of use to someone.” Hearing from a senior about the imbalance of food — “about 800 million people in the world go hungry, while about 2 billion are obese” — he thought he could help through “food,” familiar to everyone, and launched the NPO TABLE FOR TWO in 2007.
The mechanism is simple. At company cafeterias and shops in developed countries, when you buy a calorie-conscious healthy menu with ¥20 added, that ¥20 becomes one school meal in a developing country. At one table, an adult in a rich country and a child in a poor country “share a meal.” Participation has spread to about 650 companies and organizations, delivering a cumulative total of over 50 million school meals.
One person’s story (N1)
+ before → after
Warm school meals using locally grown ingredients arrive at elementary schools in Rwanda and Uganda. When the meals begin, enrollment and attendance jump from 50–60% to nearly 100% — because hunger is satisfied and children can come to school and learn. The “surplus calories” of rich countries turn into a meal for a child in a poor country.
Source nature: BRUTUS / P2 major media. Positive effects are not used to offset negatives.
Positive / negative effects
+ effects
- Received the Award of the Deputy Director-General for SDGs Promotion (Minister for Foreign Affairs) at the 3rd Japan SDGs Awards.P1 cert/award/academic/international body / 外務省（SDGs推進本部）
− effects (confirmed)
- No confirmed −.
Nothing of note at present.
A second look
To what extent the improvement in schooling and nutrition from donations can be independently verified through local follow-up.
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.”
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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-Q2 | Back to top