2. Outline
Population:3.7million
(Second largest in Japan)
Area: 435.17 km2
GDP: 125 billion dollars
Most Livable City in Japan
(source: SBI Life Living)
Yokohama
Japan
Tokyo
Mayor:
Fumiko Hayashi
2
3. History: Our Initiatives in the Global Community
1859 Opening of the Port
1957 Start of Sister-city Relation with San Diego, USA
1963 Deployment of Representative Office in Hamburg
1973 Friendship-city Relation with Shanghai
1986 Inviting ITTO to Set HQ in Yokohama
1987 Establishment of CITYNET
1987 Designation of Peace Messenger City by UN
1994 International AIDS Conference,
World Conference on Natural Disaster Reduction
2008 TICAD IV
2010 APEC Leaders’ Meeting
2012 Joint Statement with Tel Aviv-Yafo
3 2013 TICAD V
4. International Policies
Inter-City
Exchange
Sister Cities
Partner Cities
Multicultural
Coexistence
Toward Growing Together
and Promoting World Peace
International Cooperation
Support of International Organizations
Technical Cooperation
4
6. CITYNET
The Regional Network of Local Authorities
for the Management of Human Settlements
Network of 131 Cities/Organizations (24countries/regions)
➢ Full Members: 84 cities in Asia-Pacific region
➢ Associate Members: 2 non-Asian-Pacific cities and 43 organizations
➢ Other Members: Private companies and individuals
CITYNET Member Distribution 6
7. CITYNET Projects -1
<AWAREE Project>
AWAREE = Awareness of Environmental Education in Asian Cities
Objective: Promote the awareness of environmental education in Asia-
Pacific cities
Term: FY2004 ~ FY2006
Participants (cities): Hanoi, Vietnam Phnom Penh, Cambodia
<Post-AWAREE Project>
Post-AWAREE = Post-Awareness of Environmental Education in Asian Cities
Objective: Achieve a society with a high degree of awareness on climate
change mitigation and adaptation based on the result of AWAREE Project
Term: FY2007 ~ FY2009
Participants (cities): Colombo, Sri Lanka Da Nang, Vietnam
Dhaka, Bangladesh Makati, Philippines
7
8. CITYNET Project -2
Community Based Adaptation and Resilience Against Disasters
(CBARA Project) with the City of Iloilo (Philippines)
Objective: Devise effective community-level adaptation and resiliency
schemes, and increase citizen awareness of self-sustaining the
community in the event of a disaster in the City of Iloilo.
Term： 2012 ~ 2014
Training Programme near the Tsurumi River Site Visit (Earthquake Simulation)
8
9. Cooperation with JICA
Agreement for International Cooperation in 2011
Cooperation for Africa
Technological cooperation for Africa in the field of water works,
Port and Harbor, and Wildlife Conservation together with JICA.
Water Works Port and Harbor Wildlife Conservation
9
10. Cooperation with JICA
Cooperation by the
Yokohama Waterworks Bureau
since 1973
Contribution in Hue, Vietnam
in the field of waterworks
➢ “Safe Water Declaration" in 2009
➢ Spread to 17 other provinces in the
central region of Vietnam
➢ 10th anniversary of exchange with Hue
10
11. Towards Solving Global Issues -1
Support when large-scale disasters strike
After the 2004
Indian Ocean
earthquake
and tsunami,
Yokohama sent
four officers to
Banda Ache for
recovery.
After the
Kashmir
earthquake in
Pakistan in
2005,
Yokohama sent
an officer for
recovery.
11
12. G30: Solving Urban Problems
Target in the G30 Plan
1,130,000 tons
(▴30%)
FY2010
914,900 tons
(▴43%)
12
13. Towards Solving Global Issues -2
Y-port Yokohama Partnership of Resources and Technologies
International technical cooperation based on public-private partnership
and drawing on the resources and technology of Yokohama
Support from national
government
Y-PORT Project
（hub of public-private
Small and Medium Companies
in Yokohama
partnership）
High potential toward foreign business
Unique technologies for improvement of
environment in urban life
※Sludge dehydration, hybrid/solar power generation,
waste recycling, EV technologies, etc.
Know-how and
technologies of the
City of Yokohama
Technologies of private
companies in Yokohama
Agreements with
Agreements with
13
14. Towards Solving Global Issues -3
Promotion of Women’s Participation in Society
Discussion in APEC promotes Yokohama’s Policy
APEC Yokohama in 2010
Women and Entrepreneur Summit
APEC USA in 2011
Women and the Economy Summit
APEC Russia in 2012
Women and the Economy Forum
APEC Indonesia in 2013
Women and the Economy Forum
Programme for female entrepreneurs
Provision of shared office space;
Financing services with preferential interest rates
Follow up of APEC in Yokohama in 2012
“APEC Leadership Forum on Women”
Yokohama Women Network Forum
Extend the discussion to TICAD in 2013
TICAD5 official side event
”Women and Economic Growth”
Feedback of Yokohama’s Best Practice to APEC
14
15. Towards Solving Global Issues -4
Child Care Support: Bringing the number of children on
waiting lists of child care centers to “zero"
Long Waiting Lists
1,552 Children in April 2010
⇒ “Zero” in April 2013
• Increased the number of
childcare centers via
cooperation with private
companies.
• “Nursery Concierge” to listen
to the needs of working
mothers.
(Line graph: Number of children on waiting lists)
15
16. Support of International Organizations
1986 Headquarters of ITTO, International Tropical
Timber Organization
1987 Inter-University Center for Japanese Language
Studies
1990 Institut Français Yokohama
1992 CITYNET
1996 Japan Relations Office of WFP, United Nations
World Food Programme
1997 Liaison Office in Japan of FAO, Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
2004 UNU-IAS, United Nations University Institute of
Advanced Studies
162013 CITYNET Yokohama Project Office
18. Promoting World Peace
“Peace Messenger City”
conferred
by the UN
in1987
Initiatives towards
world peace:
• Peace Symposium in 1986, United Nations’ Year of World Peace
• UN Youth Peace Ambassador Dispatch Program
• Yokohama Childrenʹs International Peace Program
• Protest nuclear tests
18
