14/04/2010
There will be a Japanese Garden Party held in Hammersmith Park on Sunday 23rd May. The park is located behind the BBC Television Centre near Westfield Shopping Centre. The Japanese garden in Hammersmith Park is a relic of the 1910 Japan-British Exhitibion and was featured in our latest issue of Myriad Leaves. The restoration of […]
14/04/2010
A delegation of Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly members were accompanied by Nobuharu Hikiba of JLGC (seconded from Tokyo Metropolitan Government) to a series of appointments in London this week. The group visited the London Assembly, where they met with Assembly Member James Cleverly, Chair of London Food Rosie Boycott and the London Development Agency’s Group Director […]
13/04/2010
Inlogov and Japan partnerships
Professor Nakamura and Associate Professor Masao Kikuchi from the Department of Public Management at Meiji University visited Inlogov at the University of Birmingham in March to sign a memorandum of understanding between the two universities. They also took part in a roundtable discussion on Trust chaired by Simon Baddeley, attended by Eileen Dunstan, Chris Game, […]
25/03/2010
Building a Sustainable Solid Waste System
The C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group Waste Workshop took place at London City Hall this week. Among the speakers were Yasuo Furusawa, Deputy Director of Resource Recovery Section, Waste Management Division, Tokyo Metropolitan Government (‘Tokyo Super Eco-Town Project and the Role of Gasification’) and Natsuko Matsuoka, Zero Waste Academy, Japan (‘Building Zero Waste Communities’).
23/03/2010
Japanese municipalities halved in 11 years, 1,727 by end of March
It has been confirmed that the central government-led “large scale consolidation programme of the Heisei era (the current emperor’s reign)” finishing on the March 31st, has resulted in 1,727 municipalities being formed by merger. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, after the consolidation to incorporate Kuni Village into Nakanojou Town (both in […]
19/03/2010
Japan-UK Local Links Conference
On the 16th of March 2010 the Embassy of Japan in the UK and the Japan Local Government Centre hosted the second Japan-UK Local Links Conference. The conference provided the opportunity for local authorities in the UK who have ties with a counterpart in Japan, either as official sister-cities or more informally, to come together […]
18/03/2010
Japan Study Tour 2010 – Tokyo and Kyoto
25TH JULY – 4TH AUGUST 2010 View flyer (PDF) Applications are now open for the Japan Local Government Centre’s Japan Study Tour 2010. The tour aims to foster a deeper understanding of Japan, its culture and system of local government, and encourage the exchange of ideas and information. It is an ideal opportunity for senior […]
18/03/2010
North East of England becomes electric car hub
As widely reported in the media today, the UK’s first mass market electric car, the Nissan Leaf, will be built in Sunderland. The move safeguards existing jobs at the plant and creates a number of additional high value jobs in the North East, a Low Carbon Economic Area and an Electric Car Hub. In July […]
12/03/2010
Maintaining JLGC’s ties with INLOGOV
For a long time – pretty much since its inception – JLGC has enjoyed good links with the Institute of Local Government Studies at the University of Birmingham, the oldest and most respected academic department specialising in local government in the country. As one important element in that relationship, the Institute ran a two-week special […]
10/03/2010
The Centre for Remote and Rural Studies at the University of the Highlands and Islands in Scotland has recently published a briefing paper ‘Demographic Change and Retirement Migration in Japan’. The paper can be downloaded here (PDF).
