Kansai (special purpose association)

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The prefectures involved in the Kansai association

The special purpose association Kansai ( Japanese 関 西 広 域 連 合 Kansai Kōiki Rengō , English "Union of Kansai Governments") is a special purpose association ( Kōiki Rengō ) in the Japanese region of the same name Kansai . It was founded in 2010 by the administrations of the prefectures (-fu / -ken) Shiga , Kyōto , Osaka , Hyōgo , Wakayama , Tottori and Tokushima . Later also the prefecture of Nara and the cities (-shi) Osaka , Kobe , Kyōto and Sakai joined.

founding

In December 2010, seven prefectures came together in an administrative cooperation that should go beyond the cooperation in the regional governors' conference. The special purpose association Kansai is initially working together in a few areas such as the rescue service, tourism promotion or disaster control; expansion to other areas of administration is planned. It was founded with the approval of the Ministry of General Affairs under Minister Yoshihiro Katayama and is intended to serve as a precedent for other regional alliances. The central government has been working for years on a reorganization of regional administrations, in which larger units such as the regions of Japan are to be created, which then have a higher degree of autonomy and financial capacity to act than the existing prefectures (see Dōshūsei ). The prefecture of Nara under Governor Shōgo Arai initially did not participate in the Kansai Kōiki Rengō; Mie and Fukui, who had taken part in the preliminary discussions, were not among the founding members either. The four "government-designed cities" ( seirei shitei toshi ) of the Osaka , Kobe , Kyōto and Sakai region should be included in the association, although the city of Kyōto under Mayor Daisaku Kadokawa originally did not want to participate.

Web links

  • Website (Japanese, English, Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Prefectures launch regional alliance. Kansai group wants power from central government. In: The Japan Times . December 2, 2010, accessed December 2, 2010 .
  2. ↑ 兵 庫 に 広 域 防災 局 を 設置 . (No longer available online.) In: MSN / Sankei News . December 2, 2010, archived from the original on December 12, 2010 ; Retrieved December 2, 2010 (Japanese).

Coordinates: 35 ° 4 ′ 0 ″  N , 135 ° 37 ′ 0 ″  E