Support Activities for Staff of the City of Yokohama

From 9 to 14 Dec, Ms KONO Haruka from the Family Register Section, General Affairs Department, Tsurumi Ward of Yokohama City visited Sydney to conduct research in multicultural policies in Australia. Similar to other municipal governments in Japan, Yokohama City is experiencing an increase in its non-Japanese population, and the Yokohama City Government included the establishment of an intercultural society as one of its priority efforts in its international strategies. Ms Kono visited nine organisations during her time in Sydney, such as the City of Sydney and Ethnic Community Services Co-operative, and had meetings with relevant staff to discuss and learn about each organisation’s multiculturalism policies as part of research for Yokohama City’s efforts in establishing an intercultural society. Ms Kono expressed that the visits were very informative as she was able to compile first-hand information from each organisation which she could not have found by researching on the internet alone. To support Ms Kono’s research, CLAIR Sydney assisted with setting up the meetings with the organisations. The CLAIR Sydney office will continue to support Japanese local governments’ overseas researches in topics such as multicultural policies.