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Culture
Sight Seeing

Jun. 2007
Elected to be a chairman of “Forum on Dailian” in Tottori, Shogo stated in his speech; “I hope to develop this forum as a gathering of tellers who hand down the memories to posterity”.

Mar. 2006
Tottori sightseeing convention association has concluded the merger agreement with old eight municipalities on Mar. 29, 1943. As the chairman of Tottori sightseeing convention association (current City-Tottori sightseeing association), Shogo stated; “The biggest challenge we face is fund-raising. We’ll pursue the promotion on tourism in Tottori with an eye on the transformation of this association into corporation or incorporated association”.

Feb. 2006
“Tourism University (workshop)” has been started on Feb. 15, 2006. The students (participants) attend the lectures and field work. The graduates of the workshop are identified as “sight-seeing meisters”. The “Tourism University” has been founded by the “committee for the formulation of a strategic grand design for tourism” organized by Tottori city, Tottori sightseeing convention association, Chamber of commerce and industry in Tottori. The president of “Tourism University”, Mr. Hachimura, stated in his speech; “We’d like students to learn history and cultures of our hometown, hopefully someday they become the professionals of the sight-seeing in Tottori.”

Jan. 2006
Participated in the forum titled “Broad-based sightseeing cooperation in Tottori -opening of expressway and high-speed networking” jointly organized by Tottori city, Kurayoshi city, Yonago city, Sakaiminato city in Tottori, Shogo exchanged opinions regarding how to promote local tourism as the chairman of Tottori sightseeing convention association.

Feb. 2005
Participated in the design business symposium titled “Design Start” organized by Tottori Prefecture Designers Association, Shogo made a presentation from the industry standpoint in the discussion.

Dec. 2004
Participated in the forum on promotion of tourism in Tottori Sand Dune titled “Aiming to be Sand Kingdom, Tottori Sand dune”, Shogo exchanged opinions as the vice president of Chamber of commerce and industry in Tottori and made a presentation regarding the shortages and problems in Tottori Sand dune to find out the roll of the business community for the promotion of the tourism in Tottori Sand dune.

Mar. 2004
As a delegate of the inspection party organized by Kyoto Digital Archives to inspect the latest status of digital archive in Beijing, Shogo visited Beijing and inspected the Place museum, Palace culture assets digitalization center, Beijing observatory, The Chinese Century Altar, Beijing Olympic Digital Archives.

Mar. 2003
Inspected the latest digital archives related institutions in capital region, such as NHK archives and Toppan printing, with the members of Tottori Digital Archives.

Jan. 2003
In the “Culture and Arts Forum in Tottori”, Shogo made presentation as a panelist regarding the promotion of culture and art activities in 21st century, together with other panelists such as prefectural governor, vice-governor, mayor, and upper house members. As a chief secretary of Japan association of corporate executives in Tottori, Shogo requested to take such measures to promote mecenat of enterprises as the introduction of preferential tax treatment provided for the donations or the expenses on worker dispatching.

Oct. 2002
Participated in “Tottori Design Conference” held at Tottori University of Environmental Studies, Shogo exchanged opinions with other panelists such as such as mayor of Tottori city and other eminent persons.

Education

Jan. 2006
Delivered the special lecture titled “Boys, be ambitious- how to live your life-” at Tottori University.

Feb. 2005
Delivered the special lecture titled “Universities as independent administrative entities -from management perspective-” at the workshop for executive staffs at Tottori University.

Nov. 2004
Delivered the special lecture titled “Boys, be ambitious- how to live your life-” at Tottori University.

Nov. 2003
Delivered the special lecture titled “Boys, be ambitious- how to live your life-” at Tottori University of Environmental Studies.

Sep.2003
Delivered the special lecture titled “The role of Japan and Youth in 21st century” at Tottori University.

Mar. 2000
Delivered the special lecture titled “Preparation to be business workers” at Tottori University.

Sports

Sep. 2007
Organized “12th Tottori Gas Mixed-Doubles Tennis Tournament”, Shogo participated the tournaments as a player.

Nov. 2006
Organized “11th Tottori Gas Mixed-Doubles Tennis Tournament”, Shogo participated the tournaments as a player.

Nov. 2005
Organized “10th Tottori Gas Mixed-Doubles Tennis Tournament”, Shogo participated the tournaments as a player.

Nov. 2004
Organized “9th Tottori Gas Mixed-Doubles Tennis Tournament”, Shogo participated the tournaments as a player.

Jun. 2003
Organized “8th Tottori Gas Mixed-Doubles Tennis Tournament”, Shogo participated the tournaments as a player.

Jun. 2002
Organized “7th Tottori Gas Mixed-Doubles Tennis Tournament”, Shogo participated the tournaments as a player.

May. 2001
Organized “5th Tottori Gas Mixed-Doubles Tennis Tournament”, Shogo participated the tournaments as a player.

Jun. 2000
Took two junior high school tennis player in Tottori to Wimbledon championships and motivated the young players.

May. 2000
Organized “5th Tottori Gas Mixed-Doubles Tennis Tournament”, Shogo participated the tournaments as a player.

Jun. 1999
Organized “4th Tottori Gas Mixed-Doubles Tennis Tournament”, Shogo participated the tournaments as a player.

May. 1998
Organized “3rd Tottori Gas Mixed-Doubles Tennis Tournament”, Shogo participated the tournaments as a player.

May. 1997
Organized “2nd Tottori Gas Mixed-Doubles Tennis Tournament”, Shogo participated the tournaments as a player.

May. 1996
Organized “1st Tottori Gas Mixed-Doubles Tennis Tournament”, Shogo participated the tournaments as a player.

Energy
Environment

Nov. 2007
Shogo installed the “residential fuel cells for home power generation” at his home for the verification test of such fuel cells fueled by natural gas. This was the first installation of fuel cells in Tyugoku region.

Sep. 2005
Visited the gas cogeneration systems in Hobart, Adelaide, Sydney in Australia as a delegate of “Overseas Mission 2005” organized by Japan Cogeneration Center.

Aug. 2005
Trial Drama “Geo-Catastrophe Tokyo” was held in Shinagawa, Tokyo. Shogo appeared in such drama as defendant and achieved popularity.

Aug.2004
Trial Drama “Geo-Catastrophe 2004” was held in Tottori. Shogo appeared in such drama as a witness in the environmental problems such as the food crisis, and the population growth expected to reach over 8 billion in 2025.

Oct. 2003
As a head of delegation to inspect the gas industry in Australia, Shogo visited OG Australia and West Australia project to make research on the deregulated cases in gas industry and on the upstream operation of LNG supply chain.

Jul. 2003
Organized “Hydrogen Forum in Tottori” subtitled “Prospect for multi-utility business in 21st century with an eye on “Hydrogen era and local production for local consumption” having Prof. Ken Hirata, professor emeritus at Tokyo University, as a lecturer. In the panel discussion, Shogo did his vision about on-site power generation in Tottori city as an alternative for electric power transmission from Nuclear Plant in the neighborhood prefecture, Shimane.

Jul. 2003
As a delegate of the inspection group organized by gas energy news papers, Shogo visited Puget Sound in Seattle to study the fuel cells and Ballard Power Systems Inc. in Vancouver to research the status of energy industry in U.S..

Oct. 2002
As a delegate of the inspection group organized by Prof. Ken Hirata of Shibaura Institute of Technology, Shogo visited Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, Germany to research the latest status of hydrogen energy system in Europe.

Jul. 1999　
Participated in the “International Conference on Natural Gas Pipeline in North East Asia” having 73 presenters from Russia, Japan, China, Korea, Mongolia, North East Asia countries, and from Europe and U.S., Shogo studied states of pipeline projects in the world including the financial and technical problems to achieve such pipeline project.

Aug. 1998
As a delegate of the inspection group organized by The Japan Institute of Energy, Shogo visited Sakhalin in Russia and made on-site inspection to research the natural gas project in Sakhalin.

Apr. 1998
Visited Gazprom in Moscow to research the possibility for the realization of pipeline installation project in North East Asia.

Sep. 1995
Visited Irkutsk, Mongolia, China, North Korea and made on-site inspection for the pipeline installation project in North East Asia with the members of Asia Pipeline Assosiation.

Business Community

Jan. 2006
As a delegate of the inspection group organized by Japan-China Friendship Association of Tottori, Shogo visited Taiwan as the vice president of Chamber of commerce and industry for the mutual development of both countries in various areas such as agriculture, economy, and industry.

Nov. 2004
Participated in “Public-Private-Education collaboration festival 2004” organized by Tottori prefecture an d Tottori University for the purpose of promoting the collaborative relationship among industry, government and academia, Shogo chaired the panel discussion subtitled “suggestion regarding the collaborative relationship among industry, government and academia”.

Sep. 2004
Visited Praha, Budapest, Moscow to interchange with the local business groups with the members of Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry on the mission for economies in central Europe and Russia.

Aug. 2004
Participated in the “11th International Sysmposium on Peace and Development in North East Asia Regions” held in Changchun, Jilin Province in China, Shogo presented as the deputy director of Japan Research Center regarding the “network construction for the natural gas pipeline in North East Asia.”

Apr. 2004
Visited Korea as the vice president of Chamber of commerce and industry in Tottori with other delegations from Tottori and Shimane prefectures, Shogo studied the “present state of excursion courted to Japan from Korea” ,“preference of Korean people for tourism” and publicize the tourism spots in Sanin region.

Mar. 2004
Participated in the Korean ancient history excursion organized by Mukibanda Tottori Prefectural Boarders Education, Shogo visited Korea and renewed his perception for the promotion of cultural exchanges between Japan and Korea.

Jul. 2003
As a delegate of the visiting party led by Gov. Yoshihiro Katayama, Shogo visited Korea as the advisor of Japan association of corporate executives in Tottori and promoted utilization of direct flight from Yonago to Soul. The business community in Tottori regards the direct flight between Yonago and Soul, the only regular international flight service, as the keystone which has a major impact on the local economy including the tourism industry.

Jul. 1998
Participated in the North East Asia Economy Forum held in Yonago, Shogo made presentation about the “international pipeline project”.

Sep. 1997
Participated in the North East Asia Economy Forum held in Mongolia, Shogo introduced the “international pipeline project”.

Administration

Mar. 2002
Participated in the “Municipal merger symposium in the east Tottori pref. 2002” as a chief secretary of Japan association of corporate executives, Shogo reported the “importance of the merger”, “the philosophy in revitalization of local towns” “the role of the east Tottori pref.”.

Mar. 1997
Participated in “One-day Administrative Reform Conference“ in Osaka.