Long Beach-Yokkaichi Sister City Association

Long Beach-Yokkaichi Sister City Association. Building Leaders for a Global Community. , This plaque was dedicated on the 50th Anniversary of the establishment of the Long Beach-Yokkaichi Sister City Association to honor the citizens of both cities who are dedicated to each through personal diplomacy. November 8, 2013 , , Bob Foster , Mayor, City of Long Beach, Toshiyuki Tanaka , Mayor, City of Yokkaichi, Jeanette Schelin, President , Long Beach-Yokkaichi Sister City Association, Yokkaichi Friendship Garden , Rededicated in 2013 to the friendship between the citizens of Long Beach and Yokkaichi, this garden features cherry trees donated by the Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens and the Consulate-General of Japan in Los Angeles, and crab apple trees donated by S.C. Yamamoto, Inc., Special thanks to the Long Beach Parks and Recreation Commissioners and staff and to Professor Keiji Uesugi and his students at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona who contributed to the design as a class project., The Long Beach-Yokkaichi Sister City Association Programs and Our Partners , Trio Exchange Program--Established 1965. Alternating each year with our sister city, one teacher and two high school students from Long Beach are selected to visit Yokkaichi as goodwill ambassadors on a three-week cultural exchange. , Long Beach Unified School District. , Yokkaichi English Fellows Program (YEF)--Established 1987. Each year Long Beach teachers or CSULB graduates have the opportunity to serve two years in a paid position as assistant language teachers at elementary and middle schools in Yokkaichi, Japan. , California State University, Long Beach , Yokkaichi Board of Education. , Environmental Summit Program--Established 2007. Each summer 4 students and 1 chaperone from Long Beach study environmental issues and solutions with students from Japan and China at the International Center for Environmental Technology Transfer (ICETT) in Yokkaichi. , Port of Long Beach , ICETT. , The Physicians' Program -- Established 2002. Each year visiting doctors from Yokkaichi Hospital study medical issues at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center and other local hospitals. , Long Beach Memorial Medical Center. , To learn more about the Long Beach-Yokkaichi Sister City Association and its programs, please visit us at www.longbeach-yokkaichi.org