"Being national 'Feeling hard' Response the prefecture goes beyond 'Exchange'"

Oita Godo Newspaper (morning edition on November 29, 2008)

The representative of Oita prefecture and Kumamoto prefecture has discussed in the meeting, in order to make the benefit to each other working sections which was held on 28^th. The workers who have such a qualification of 'work worth doing' are what they are looking for. Amongst the citizen, between Oita's and Kumamoto's also feel that it is hard to achieve to be at the national scale, therefore, the time the exchange to tighten up the relation was held  for this reason. 

From the board named Hanjyakuko Board, the cities benefit shooting is served to make it real. From Niigata city, Oita prefecture the road was dispatched, the people who got their occupation and the workers are preparing things up upon. The entrance ceremony of both working sections has closed by the cooperative signboard raised up by the representatives from both sides. After the visiting the workers in the city office and other offices all people thoughts are that 'the achievement is formed by main power from the coordination of the whole city' this is one of the mottoes they have.  Mr. Kuwahara Katsurai, the head manager from the head office, 55 years old, he said that from Niigata city and nearby areas have a good cooperation at the city's board from both prefectures, 'from the preparation there is the public performance in each area by doing the competition and this can be the comprehensive synthesis also.

The profits for the cities also have been planed and researched to get through the local people such as house wives group, and volunteers group within next year around Oita prefecture. At the entrance door of the working office, the decoration style has already set up, and presented by 'Mejiron' the monument to remind people about the prefecture relation in locality.

Comment; It is great to hear that everyone has a good collaboration, began from the bottom; local scale and sub- local scale then goes up to the higher scale, the idea to develop the cities and give all the benefit for the cities such a great thought. Nowadays, it is better to be interdependent as there are lots of people want to be on top, or want to have power without communicate or coordinate with anyone, if do like this we can develop even the small scale in a wide range. This project could be a good model for other cities to follow and no worries about the profit benefits too.

PUNTHUCHAT Siripun

Thailand

APS3, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University