Monthly Glocal News May 2020 Local Partnership Cooperation Division

Ministry of Foreig n Affairs of

Local governments showed their charms at the reception Host Town exchange : Hyuga City/Togo celebrating the birthday of Town, , and His Majesty the Emperor (Embassy of Japan in Belgium) Republic of Togo

The booth of Prefecture The booth of Kanazawa City

inistry of foreign affairs offers Japanese local govern-

Elementary school students in Hyuga City welcome a delegation from Republic of Togo MJapan. February 2020, Kanazawa City, and Tochigi Pre-

-making experience and their local food and drink were also served.

Regional revitalization from the perspective of international people

-vol.9- Ms. Amanda WAYAMA ✈ "Ihatov" in my heart Citizens enjoy dancing with Togolese dancers at an event hosted by Hyuga City

yuga City, Miyazaki prefec- ture and the Republic of To- go started their Host Town exchanges, because the Hname of “T ogo” town in the Hyuga city As a drummer in Morioka Sansa Odori Festival As an interpreter in the reception hosted byGovernor of and Minister for Foreign Affairs has the similar reading with the coun- " try’s name. hatov", a coined word by Kenji Miyazawa, a poet We introduce their wide range of ex- form Iwate Prefecture, means a Utopia in his changes in the fields of music, dance, works. Ms. Wayama, who came to Japan from sports, etc. These exchanges have America in ２００９ to work as CIR in JET Program been promoted to develop global hu- Iwas f ascinated by nature, history and culture of Iwate man resources in local areas through Prefecture, and above all Iwate's people. As she be- regional internationalization. lieves Iwate is her "Ihatov“, she decided to stay there. She has worked in the Iwate Prefectural Government and been in charge of overseas public relations. She launched the blog "PEOPLE OF IWATE" to introduce at- tractive people of Iwate Prefecture.

Sister city relationship through Initiatives to achieve the SDGs the Olympic torch relays in City

The Rio 2016 The 2012 O Konomiya Hadaka Matsuri Olympic Torch Relay lympic Torch Relay (Naked Festival) selected as a “SDGs Future City” selected as a “Fair Trade Town” （June, 2018） （June, 2019）

nazawa city, , and Olym-

pia city, Greece, established a sister city any companies and organizations

relationship in 1987. Since then, both cit- are respectively working on their

own challenges to achieve the SDGs ies have developed their relationship; for Iexamp le, junior high school students from (Sustainable Development Goals).

Inazawa city participated in the Greek leg of MLocal govern ments are no exception. Sapporo

several Olympic torch relays, and Inazawa city City, which was selected as a “SDGs Future

invited the mayor of Olympia to “Konomiya City” in June 2018, is promoting various initia- Hadaka Matsuri (Naked Festival).” In July tives to make citizens aware of the SDGs. Sap- 2018, junior high school students from Olympia poro City was also selected as a “Fair Trade did a homestay in Inazawa city. Based on these Town” in 2019 since the whole city promoted exchanges, Inazawa city became a Host Town fair trade to achieve the SDGs. Sapporo City is of Greece. trying to be a sustainable city so that it can continue to create its charms and vitality.

Connecting with the world! Something 外交実務研修員研修 begins here! G Messe Gunma starts up! “ Vol.9 e will let

ANnteangnaa Snhoop people in GINZA the metroWpolitan area and the world know about the "sense of happiness" in , and try to G MESSE GUNMA Main Hall build a relationship that

truly connects people.” he convention facility "G Messe Gunma" , GINZA NAGANO is an an- the largest scale in the northern Kanto tenna shop that has such a region, will open this year in grand concept. Since it was City, Gunma Prefecture. It will enable opened in Ginza in October GINZA NAGANO Tlarge-sca le events that were previously difficult to hold in the region, such as international confer- 2014, they are always ences, large-scale academic societies, exhibitions, working to convey the and concerts with audience of around 10,000. Shinshu Nagano's life- Unique efforts such as the “Gunma Vegan Project” style full of "sense of are also underway. happiness" through not

only introduction of Indoor grape picking Nagano's fascinating

specialty products but also a variety of other events.