24/02/2011
JETAA UK Annual General Meeting in Birmingham
Director Noboru Fujishima, Assistant Director Yuji Akaike and Communications and Events Assistant Phillippa Harvey attended the UK Japan Exchange and Teacher (JET) Programme Alumni Association annual general meeting in central Birmingham on 19-20 February. The AGM brought together representatives of four of JETAA UK’s six regional chapters and was an opportunity for chapters to gather […]
23/02/2011
Assistant Director Yoshihisa Ogawa and Research Manager Andrew Stevens visited the University of Greenwich Business School’s Economic Development Resource Centre this week for a CLAIR report on local authority policies for tourism promotion as part of local economic development. Staff from the centre presented on their work around the regeneration challenges facing seaside towns in […]
23/02/2011
Creating value through local partnerships and the arts
Registrations for this year’s Japan Day Seminar and Local Links Conference in Rochester will close soon, so don’t miss your chance to attend on March 4. Speakers include Professor Marie Conte-Helm of the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, who will discuss her longstanding historical research into the vibrant links between Japan and the North East of England. […]
17/02/2011
Minamata declares itself an eco-tourism model
The city of Minamata in southern Japan, since famous for its legal struggles with big business over ‘Minamata Disease’ and the devastation of the local eco-system, has declared itself a top destination for environmentally conscious individuals and businesses. Not just as a vacation spot, but as a place to live and work. Over 100 people […]
17/02/2011
Assistant Director Yoshihisa Ogawa and Research Manager Andrew Stevens visited Cheshire West and Chester Council this week for a CLAIR report on local authority policies for tourism promotion as part of local economic development. In Chester they learned how the new local authority is using its significant heritage assets to promote the visitor economy while […]
16/02/2011
Tokyo Named Asia-Pacific’s Greenest City
Tokyo has been named as Asia-Pacific’s greenest city, followed by Seoul, Melbourne, Singapore and Osaka. A survey by Solidiance evaluated ten cities in categories such as CO2 emissions, energy, transportation, air quality, water, waste and green space as well as environmental governance. The study’s editor, Jennifer Elison, told the City Mayors website that the results […]
11/02/2011
Europe and Japan discuss intercultural cities in Tokyo
The Council of Europe, European Union and Japan Foundation held a joint seminar in Tokyo in January in order to introduce and compare initiatives towards integration at regional and community levels in Europe and Japan. “Japan, though it may be considered outside as ethnologically monolithic, has in fact a long history of accepting immigrants from […]
10/02/2011
Professor David Cope, Director of the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) spoke to Japanese officials at JLGC today about the work of the office, particularly its international dimension. The talk addressed not only its advisory role on issues as diverse as the menace of chewing gum in the urban environment and local authority […]
10/02/2011
First ever conference of German cities with Japanese links in Berlin
As part of the 150-year anniversary celebrations of the first Prusso-Japanese treaty, on February 8 2011 the first ever conference of German cities with ties to Japanese cities took place at the Japanese Ambassadors’ Residence in Berlin. More than 70 participants turned out for this event, among them mayors and former mayors for major German cities as […]
09/02/2011
Creating value through local partnerships – Japan Day Seminar
The Japan Day Seminar: Local Links Conference will be held on Friday March 4 2011 at the Corn Exchange, Rochester in Kent. Featuring presentations from British local authorities and Anglo-Japanese organisations, the event will focus on how local bodies have been able to use their international partnerships with counterparts in Japan in new ways to […]
