Chiba City & Houston
SISTER CITIES Chiba City & Houston Chiba City Logo This year marks the 30th anniversary of a to ask about partnering with a Japanese city • Baseball games between little league teams sister-city agreement between Chiba City, with similar interests and characteristics. Chiba from the two cities Japan and the City of Houston, USA. City recognized that it had many commonali- Festivities celebrating the event were held this ties with Houston. Both are port cities with • An agreement starting in 1990 between the past July in Houston. The mayor of Chiba strong industrial bases. Chiba accepted the University of Houston’s College of Business City, Keiichi Tsuruoka, led the visiting offer and after a short but fruitful courtship, Administration and Chiba University’s Japanese delegation which also included the cities completed a sister-city agreement on Faculty of Law and Economics for joint Hiroshi Ichihara, Chairman of the Chiba City October 24, 1972. research studies and faculty and student Municipal Assembly, and members represent- exchanges ing the public, private and academic sectors. The 30 year relationship has continuously deepened, and has been punctuated by numer- Mayor Tsuruoka, Chairman Chiba City, the capital of Ichihara and the Japanese Chiba Prefecture, is located on anniversary delegation met with the Boso Peninsula, approximate- Houston Mayor Lee Brown in his ly 40km (25 mi) east of Tokyo. office at City Hall last July. After Blessed with a moderate climate, the meeting, commemorative the city has grown recently, and photographs were taken and the its population now exceeds City of Houston hosted a public 900,000; as a result, in April of anniversary celebration during 1992 Chiba was named a “desig- which the two mayors spoke and nated city.” Chiba has an interna- exchanged gifts.
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