Welcoming Tribute

The 21st Junior Chamber International Academy meeting will be held in Tachikawa City as represent Tokyo, hereby, I would like to "welcome" all the members from over seas and all over Japan as a represent of our citizen of 175,000 in Tachikawa.

Some of us have still have strong impression of Tachikawa area, had started as Japanese Military air force base and it had been converted to US military base after the WWII.

In 1977, all US military bases had returned to us, and we have been　selected as designated are for "Tama Major Urban City Project" to start development that still fresh in our memories of Showa Memorial Park, Monorail was open for traffic, JR Tachikawa Station area development and Public Institution have moved to new place and other projects, Tachikawa the place still progress for the future.

We hope and expect to achieve our goal of "Introducing Japanese culture to all the world and developing leaders in next generation pursuit World peace" through this meeting with JAYCEEs from 80 countries and also all over Japan.

I strongly believe that we will be successing this meeting of the 21st International Academy in Tachikawa with my appreciation to all of people who dedicated to this meeting and continuously supporting our future.

Best regards,

Mayer of Tachikawa City
Shohei Shimizu