{"id":1444,"date":"2010-11-18T10:53:57","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T10:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jlgc.wordpress.com\/?p=1444"},"modified":"2020-06-15T18:40:24","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T17:40:24","slug":"city-of-kawasaki-visits-sheffield-to-renew-friendship-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/about-jlgc\/city-of-kawasaki-visits-sheffield-to-renew-friendship-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Kawasaki Visits Sheffield to Renew Friendship Ties"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 in the future on the grounds of economic cooperation and innovation partnering. \u00a0The visit was organised by Sheffield City Council Economic Strategy Policy Officer Michael Hellewell and Manager of International Trade and Relations at Creative Sheffield<\/a> Jo Lavan.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mayor Abe’s group was accompanied by a traditional Japanese music ensemble who performed in the Winter Gardens for the public. \u00a0Another group in Sheffield with the mayor was the Kawasaki-Sheffield Friendship Delegation (a local citizens group) who attended various events at local schools and hospices, as well as the friendship renewal and signing ceremony with Mayor Abe and Lord Mayor of Sheffield, Alan Law, where there was also another performance in the mayor’s parlour\u00a0by the ensemble\u00a0as part of the ceremony.<\/p>\n

Mayor Abe’s group also had a guided tour of the Advanced Manufacturing Park<\/a> on the edge of the city, where companies, such as Boeing in collaboration with the University of Sheffield, work together in producing metal products for high value high technology industries, including the nuclear industry and defence. \u00a0AMP Business Development Manager Joe Anwyl gave a presentation on the background to the AMP and the future plans for the park.<\/p>\n

Mayor Abe’s group also met with senior staff at the University of Sheffield to discuss future collaboration between the university and education institutes in Kawasaki, before Mayor Abe gave a presentation to a packed lecture theatre on his policies in Kawasaki. \u00a0He compared the city to Sheffield as both have a long history in the production of steel and in heavy industry. \u00a0\u00a0Kawasaki developed as one of the key industrial cities in Japan and instead of concentrating solely on research and development facilities, the city is currently working on an image change. \u00a0Focusing on arts and culture, Kawasaki is diversifying into a \u201cCity of Music\u201d, \u201cCity of Films\u201d, and \u201cCity of Sports\u201d, much like Sheffield.<\/p>\n

Many thanks from JLGC to Michael Hellewell, Jo Lavan and Joe Anwyl, as well as all the University of Sheffield staff for their warm welcoming and hosting of the three groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-jlgc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1444"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8900,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions\/8900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}