I wish you A Happy New Year.

I would like to make every effort to revitalize Ichihara International Association (IIA) with you all this year as well. Your cooperation would be highly appreciated.

IIA has been volunteering for 33 years as the voluntary section with the aim of cross-cultural

understanding, multicultural coexistence, sister city exchange, etc. Recently we strongly feel the need of young people’s thought and ability for revitalizing IIA.

This year is the year of Kinoto Mi in Chinese astrology. It is said that in the year of Kinoto Mi most things grow up and bear fruit. This may suggest IIA‘ｓstrong possibility that our efforts

and preparations so far will be rewarded this year.

Let’s try our best to make IIA much more active with our grassroots international exchange.

Let’s do our best plugging away at the fruition of our purpose all together.