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My name is Takumo Yamada, and I arrived from Tokyo into Germany on Friday, to work for Oxfam on the G8. This week I need to make sure the Japanese media are covering the G8 Summit and know what is going on. They need to know what the G8’s decisions mean for the millions of people living in poverty - and this is particularly important for the Japanese people as we will be hosting the G8 next year. I’m working from the Oxfam Media Office and from the official G8 Press Centre just near where the summit actually takes place. And I will be spending the week trying to find out as much up-to-the-minute G8 gossip as I can!

I´m writing this on the train to Rostock, Rock im Park just behind me. I´m exhausted but pleased and happy at the same time.

Four days ago the Oxfam ´Rock-im-Park´ team arrived in Nuernberg for the biggest rock music festival in Germany. This year it was a sell out, which meant we were sharing the camping area with 60 000 people. Our aim was to collect as many signatures against poverty as possible, to help build up more than a million names for a symbolic handover in Rostock during the G8.