Designated City Mayors' Association

　Mayors of 20 designated cities (designated cities) (*)

　※Sapporo City, Sendai City, Saitama City, Chiba City, Kawasaki City, Yokohama City, Sagamihara City, Niigata City, Shizuoka City, Hamamatsu City, etc.
　　Nagoya, Kyoto, Osaka, Sakai, Kobe, Okayama, Hiroshima, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Kumamoto

　2003 (designated city joint activities started in 1948)

• Deliver the voice of designated cities (such as requests for national budgets and requests for expansion of capital city tax resources).
• Holding various meetings, coordinating with the government, etc. (holding of designated city mayor meetings, round-table meetings with the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications, etc.).≫
• Promotion of Decentralization and Investigation and Research on Metropolitan System
• Public Relations and Awareness Activities
• Response to Disasters　

　　　　　As for the details, please see activity report (outside site) of designated city mayor society homepage.

• Designated City Mayor's Association homepage (outside site)
• Designated cities (20 cities)
  Sapporo City (outside site)/Sendai City (outside site)/Saitama City (outside site)/Chiba City (outside site)/Kawasaki City (outside site)/
  Sagamihara City (outside site)/Niigata City (outside site)/Shizuoka City (outside site)/Hamamatsu City (outside site)/Nagoya City (outside site)/
  Kyoto City (outside site)/Osaka City (outside site)/Sakai City (outside site)/Kobe City (outside site)/Okayama City (outside site)/
  Hiroshima City (outside site)/Kitakyushu City (outside site)/Fukuoka City (outside site)/Kumamoto-shi (outside site)