Updated at 8:45 a.m., Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Japan-U.S. mayors meeting wraps up today in Honolulu
Advertiser Staff
Mayors from throughout the United States and Japan are today wrapping up the Ninth Japan-United States Mayors FellowshipExchange Meeting.
Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann is hosting the three-day event, at the request of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. Hannemann is on the advisory board of the nonpartisan, 1,100-member organization and is chairman of its Tourism, Arts, Parks, Entertainment and Sports Committee.
"We'll be exchanging ideas on environmental challenges, including solid waste, facing our municipalities, as well as other matters of mutual concern," Hannemann said in a news release.
"The conference will provide a great opportunity to showcase what the city is doing to protect and preserve our resources, through our 21st Century Ahupua'a initiative, and give the mayors a taste of how we're sustaining the development of Waikiki as a tourist destination."
The two top leaders of the U.S. Conference of Mayors will be participating: President Douglas H. Palmer, the mayor of Trenton, N.J.; and Tom Cochran, the executive director of the conference.
The president of the Japan Association of City Mayors, Akita Mayor Norihisa Satake, and the secretary general of the association, Tatsuro Yoshiyama, will attend. They will be joined by 11 other U.S. and Japanese mayors.
