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Bridges linking Japan and Sweden
For the second year was a major delegation from Japan on a visit to Malmö - Copenhagen region, partly to visit the Oresund Bridge, partly to inaugurate the exhibition "Children Build Bridges" in the Malmo City Hall. Two of the world´s longest cable bridges are the Oresund Bridge and Seto-Ohashi bridge, 7.8 and 9.4 km long. In Japan is the bridge connecting the provinces of Kagawa and Okayama, as the Oresund Bridge links Scania and Zealand.
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President of Sanyo Shimbun Takamasa Koshimune and the City Council President of Malmo Kjell-Arne Landgren with interpreter inaugurate the
exhibition "Children Builds Bridges" in the City Hall.
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12 representatives from Okayama
and Takamatsu, the capital of
Kagawa, Japan, were in Malmö
City Hall when Takamasa
Koshimune, President of Sanyo
Shimbun newspaper and
Okayama Corporate Executives,
together with Malmö’s mayor
Kjell-Arne Landgren inaugurated
the exhibition "Children build
bridges".
Also the Japanese
industrial magnate Nakashima
Motoyoshi and Consul-General of
Japan Leif Almö attended.
Thousands of drawings were
received in Japan and the
winners were Takasashi Satohi 12
years and Miyu Takao, 14 years
(see photo). They won the first
prize, a trip to the Øresund
Region.
Both held speeches at
City Hall.
The students from
Bergaskolan presented their
drawings as well.
After the inauguration,
City of Malmö invited all to
refreshments in the beautiful
Town Hall where the Mayor Kjell-
Arne Landgren in an inspiring way
presented the Danish-Swedish
royal portraits through the centuries. |
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Mr Takamasa Koshimune, the students Takasashi Satohi and Miyu Takao, Mr Nakashima Motoyoshi and Mr Furuichi Daizo in Malmo´s beautiful Town Hall.
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The representatives of Kagawa Matsuda Kiyohiro och Furuichi Dazou forwards an invitation from
the governor of Kagawa, Takeki Manabe, to Leif and Sonja Almö. |
On a short visit in Malmö was also Matsuda Kiyohiro, President of Japan Railways Shikoku. Mr Matsuda presented a special invitation from Kagawa governor Takeki Manabe to Consul General Leif Almö with wife to visit the International Setouchi Art Festival 2010, a 105-day arts festival which will be displayed on seven islands in the Seto Inland Sea.
| The Japanese guests pay a visit to Leif Almö and his wife Sonja. |
During the week the delegation also visited Copenhagen for
one day but also Bergaskolan where education manager Mats
Bååth presented his school and the students who
won the corresponding drawing contest in Malmo.
Project Coordinator of the visit was Mats Bruzaeus, former
technical attaché at the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo and
business manager of the city of Malmö. Today Mats Bruzaeus
successfully runs a recruitment company in Japan.
The exhibition in the Malmo City Hall is open for a week.
Malmö, April 2010
| Drawing by Miyu Takayo, 14 years.
Takamatsu-Shi, Kagawa, Japan |
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| Drawing by Takahashi Satoshi, 12 years.
Takamatsu-Shi, Kagawa, Japan |
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