Quick Facts about Japan and Hawaii Hawaii State & Total Capital City Okinawa Prefecture’s Population Tokyo’s Population Populations 126 million 13.7 million 1.4 million each Japan Continues to be a Close Partner of Hawaii with Japan Related Websites 150 Years of Historical Ties

Japanese businesses Ministry of Foreign Affairs located in Hawaii support http://www.mofa.go.jp/ 17,000 workers in the Japan External Trade Organization(JETRO) Aloha State https://www.jetro.go.jp/usa.html Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (2015) 2018 marks the Study in JAPAN Comprehensive Guide Spending nearly th http://www.studyjapan.go.jp/en/ 150 anniversary $2 billion/year, of the first Japanese immigrants Scholarships: http://www.studyjapan.go.jp/en/toj/ Japanese visitors are the arrival in Hawaii – about 150 toj0302e.html Hawaiian tourism industry’s Japanese immigrants came to top foreign customers Hawaii in 1868 Independent Administrative Institution Japan Source: Hawaii Tourism Authority (2016) Source: kizunahawaii.com Student Services Organization http://www.jasso.go.jp/en/study_j/index.html

Scholarships: http://www.jasso.go.jp/en/study_j/ Over16,000 students There are 24 scholarships/index.html study the Japanese sister state and city language in Hawaii relationships between Japan Foundation Hawaii and Japan http://www.jpf.go.jp/e/index.html Source: Japan Foundation (2015) Source: Consulate General of Japan in Honolulu

WEB Japan The Honolulu Museum of http://web-japan.org/index.html Art has a collection Surfing becomes an official sport for the Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO) of more than 10,000 first time at the 2020 https://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/ Japanese ukiyo-e Tokyo Olympics woodblock prints Source: The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Source: Honolulu Museum of Art Paralympic Games

Consulate-General of Japan in Honolulu Close Partnership with Japan: Good for America, Good for Hawaii 1742 Nuuanu Avenue, Honolulu, HI 96817 TEL: 808-543-3111 FAX: 808-543-3170 WEB: http://www.honolulu.us.emb-japan.go.jp Consulate-General of Japan in Honolulu | March 2018 Sister State & Sister City Relationships State of HAWAII between Japan and Hawaii

KAUAI • Suo-Oshima, Yamaguchi Prefecture (since1963) Sister-State Relationship • Moriyama City, Shiga Prefecture (since1975) HOKKAIDO County • Ishigaki City, Okinawa Prefecture (since 1999) Sister-City Relationship Prefecture • Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture (since 2011) Sister-Beach Relationship Since 2017 • Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture (since 1959) City and County • Naha City, Okinawa Prefecture (since1961) of HONOLULU • Uwajima City, Ehime Prefecture (since 2004) • Nagaoka City, Niigata Prefecture (since 2012) HIROSHIMA • Chigasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture (since2014) • Saiki City, Oita Prefecture (since 2003)(Friendship City) Prefecture Since 1997 • Hachijo Island, Tokyo MAUI Prefecture (since 1964) County • Miyako Island, Okinawa WAIKIKI BEACH Prefecture (since1965) • Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture (since 2008)

SHIRAHAMA BEACH (since 2000) HILO FUKUOKA Prefecture Since 1981 EHIME Prefecture Since 2003 HAWAII County • Nago City, Okinawa Prefecture (since 1986) • Yurihama, Tottori Prefecture (since1996) • Shibukawa City, Gunma Prefecture (since 1997) • Sumoto City, Hyogo Prefecture (since 2000) • Kumejima, Okinawa Prefecture (2011) • Oshima, Tokyo Prefecture (since 1962)—with Hilo

OKINAWA Prefecture Top 5 Hawaii Nikkei ① HIROSHIMA ④ OKINAWA Since 1985 ② YAMAGUCHI ⑤ FUKUOKA Ancestral Prefectures ③ KUMAMOTO