30/11/2010
Assistant Director Yoshihisa Ogawa visited the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust yesterday for a CLAIR report on local authority policies for tourism promotion as part of local economic development. Mr Ogawa was accompanying a visitor from Utsunomiya City, Tochigi Prefecture, who was also conducting research on how to best make use of industrial heritage as a […]
26/11/2010
Visits to New Forest and Greenwich
Assistant Director Yoshihisa Ogawa and Research Manager Andrew Stevens visited New Forest District Council in Lyndhurst, Hants this week for a CLAIR report on local authority policies for tourism promotion as part of local economic development. New Forest has previously won a Beacon council award for its promotion of sustainable tourism. They also visited Greenwich […]
24/11/2010
Shibushi City in Kagoshima best recycling city
Shibushi City in Kagoshima is best recycling city in Japan for three years running Of all councils designated as cities (which can have anything between 10,000 and 3.5 million people) in Japan, the City of Shibushi (34,000) in Kagoshima on Kyushu has been named as achieving the highest recycling rate in Japan, and this for […]
19/11/2010
UK Parliamentarians express support for JET Programme
The 27th Meeting of the UK-Japan 21st Century Group took place in Tokyo and Karuizawa last month: Japan and the UK have developed the closest of partnerships, based on shared fundamental values including democracy, respect for human rights, a market economy and the rule of law. Since the new British administration took office in May, […]
19/11/2010
JLGC’s Andrew Stevens and Marie Yoshikawa visited the Yorks and Humber Regional Resilience Team in Leeds this week as part of preparation for a CLAIR report. They also visited the Emergency Planning College near York. The report will detail for the Japanese audience how the UK plans for and copes with risk scenarios in emergency […]
18/11/2010
City of Kawasaki Visits Sheffield to Renew Friendship Ties
JLGC Director Noboru Fujishima, Assistant Director Motoko Tsujii and Public Relations Officer Keith Kelly visited Sheffield City Council last week in support of a visit by Kawasaki City Mayor Takao Abe. The visit cemented the 20th anniversary of the Friendship City relationship between Kawasaki and Sheffield, with the prospect of vibrant city to city links […]
18/11/2010
COP 10: Conference on Biological Diversity in Nagoya reaches a new agreement
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Environment Secretary Caroline Spelmen released a statement on Friday 29th of October following the agreement reached at the tenth Conference for Parties (COP 10) for setting targets to protect the natural environment. The conference was held in Nagoya, Japan. The Conference of the Parties is the governing body […]
17/11/2010
Japan Local Government Centre is now on Twitter! You can now follow us and receive regular updates on JLGC activities in 140 characters or less from our profile here.
16/11/2010
The Political and Constitutional Reform Committee of the House of Commons has recently decided to conduct an inquiry to explore constitutional and practical issues around the possibility of codifying (or formally writing down) the principles and mechanics of the relationship between central and local government in the UK. The committee is now inviting submissions from […]
12/11/2010
JLGC Assistant Director Yoshihisa Ogawa and Research Manager Andrew Stevens visited Hartlepool in the North East this week to meet with the organisers of the Tall Ships Race 2010 and find out about the bid for and organisation of the races which were held earlier in the year, particularly its economic impact on the town. […]
