The Construction Tycoon in Hokkaido Mr. Yoshiro ITO who was also the Chair of Japan-America Society in Hokkaido pleasantly delivered the speech on the significance of the affiliation between Japan and the USA including Hokkaido and Hawaii.
Originally, he was against the establishment of the Sister-state Affiliation between Hokkaido and Hawaii because Hokkaido Prefecture had already had established the Sister-State Affiliation with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the USA.
I explained to him, before the event, that there was no "Friendship Affiliation " category in the states of the USA. "In Japanese, we will use Friendship Affiliation 友好提携 but in English, we will use Sister-States Affiliation. Fortunately, he had agreed with me before the event.
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