The 9th East Asia Local and Regional Government Congress “Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishery Section Meeting” was held in Shimoichi Town. The opinions were exchanged by working-level participants of Local and Regional Government.

◆ Date: Monday, September 3rd, 2018 13:00-16:15

◆ Organizer:   Shimoichi Town (Co-organized by Nara Prefecture)
　 Assistance:  The Center for Research of NARA Studies, part of the Institute of Yamato                        Area and Kii Peninsula at Nara Women’s University

◆ Place: Shimoichi Town Rural Environment Improvement Center

◆ Participants: Working-level officials of Mie Prefecture, Kagawa Prefecture, 　　　　　　　　                       Nara Prefecture, Kashihara City, Gose City, Katsuragi City,
                       Miyake Town, Asuka Village, Koryo Town, and Shimoichi Town.
　                   (This section meeting was only for member governments in Japan.)

◆ Lecturer: Professor Shingo Teraoka,
                  the Faculty of Literature at Nara Women’s University

◆ Outline: ・Presentation of cases regarding the Rakuraku Farming at Shimoichi Town.                    (Lecturer, Shimoichi Town)
                ・Case presentations and the opinion exchanges by participating local and                     regional governments.
                ・Summary by the lecturer.

The report on the 9th Congress has been updated under “What We Do”.

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◆The 9th East Asia Local and Regional Government Congress:
  November 1st (Thu.) – 3rd (Sat.), 2018 

For more information, please see “ 9th Congress<2018> Congress Report” under “Congress Report”.

New members have been added to the Congress. They are Katsuragi City and Miyake Town in Japan. (Katsuragi City joined on the 12 ^th of June, 2018 and Miyake Town joined on the 22 ^nd of August, 2018) As a result, the Congress now has 72 local and regional government members from 7 nations.

For more information, please see “8th Congress<2017> Congress Report” under “Congress Report”.

The 8th East Asia Local and Regional Government Congress “Child-rearing session” was held in Tenri city. Fieldwork and discussions on the theme were conducted by working-level participants of Local and Regional Government.

◆ Date:       Tuesday, 31st October, 2017　10:00 – 16:40

◆ Organizer: Tenri city　（Co-organized by Nara prefecture）

◆ Place:　　  Tenri city Industrial Promotion center, Tenri city office and etc.

◆ Members:  Fukui prefecture, Kagawa prefecture, Nara prefecture, Nara city, Tenri city, 
                   Kashihara city, Gose city, Ikaruga town, Asuka village and Koryo town.
（This session was held only for members of Local and Regional Government in Japan.）

◆ Lecturer:   Shigeki Matsuda, Professor at Faculty of Contemporary Sociology, Chukyo
                   University

◆ Outline:    ・Case introduction of ”Child care generation healthy support center HUG-RU”
                    activity. (Tenri city) 
                  ・Field visit of ”Tenri station square CoFuFun” and ”Child care generation
                     healthy support center HUG-RU” 
                  ・Case introduction and discussions with regard to child-rearing support were
                     conducted by Local and Regional government participants.
                  ・Lecture and Summarization were given by lecturer.

The report on the 8th Congress has been updated under “What We Do”.

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◆The 8th East Asia Local and Regional Government Congress:
 May 10th (Wed.) –11th (Turs.) , 2017

*For more information, please see “8th Congress <2017>” under “What We Do”.