Anaheim English Teacher Visits Students in Japan from Anaheim-Mito Sister City Student Exchange

In April 2015 Anaheim teacher Katie Filbeck traveled to to Mito, Japan to visit with the students she had taught in August, 2014 during their one-week student exchange in Anaheim, California. Mito, which has been Anaheim’s sister city since 1976, is located 70 miles north of Tokyo, is the Plum Blossom Capital and a center […]

The Japan Foundation – May 2015 newsletter

Please see the Japan Foundation’s May newsletter  

Conference details for Puerto Vallarta ACHA Conference May 22 – 24, 2015 (English)

Please click here for the Complete Conference Details (English) for the registration, hotel, and agenda for Puerto Vallarta ACHA Conference May 22 – 24, 2015

Save the date! 8th International Conference of Sister Cities Associations of the Americas May 22-24, 2015

Save the date for the 8th International Conference of Sister Cities Association of the Americas – In Puerto Vallarta! See below and website:http://ciudadeshermanasdeamerica.org/

“Shadows for Peace, for the Sake of the Children, the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Experience” Forum and Art Exhibit

“This Forum will be the largest and most important of its kind,” Doug Erber, President of the Japan America Society of Southern California. The year 2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the dropping of atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing approximately 120,000 men, women, and children instantly. Thousands more died […]

Los Angeles and Nagoya Celebrate 55 Years of Sister City Relations

This 2015 article on Nagoya Day in Los Angeles appeared in Issue #276 of the Tokyo Journal.

Sister Cities International Conference Promotes Digital Diplomacy

This 2015 article on the 2014 annual Sister Cities International conference appeared in Issue #276 of the Tokyo Journal.

Sister Cities Pioneer: Thelma Press, Southern California Sister Cities Co-Founder

This 2014 interview with Sister Cities International Southern California Chapter Co-Founder Thelma Press appeared in Issue #275 of the Tokyo Journal.