The Long Beach-Yokkaichi Sister City Association Program began in 1963 in the spirit of President Eisenhower’s 1956 “People to People” program.  Mayor Edwin Wade, The Port of Long Beach, Friends of Yokkaichi and numerous citizens in both countries, established the first and one of the most successful sister cities (8-25-2011).

The Association operates 4 annual programs:

TRIO EXCHANGE
1 Teacher and 2 students visit the host city each year in late July.

YOKKAICHI ENGLISH FELLOWSHIPS (YEF)
7 graduates of Cal State Long Beach work for 2 years as English teaching assistants with the Yokkaichi Board of Education. 2012 INFORMATION & APPLICATION

PHYSICIANS EXCHANGE
Each February doctors from Yokkaichi Hospital visit Long Beach to study medical issues at Memorial Hospital.

ENVIRONMENTAL SUMMIT EXCHANGE
4 students and 1 teacher go to the Yokkaichi Environmental Center to study environmental issues with students from Japan and China.

MEMBERSHIP
This is a public citizen’s committee and open to members of the public interested in the goals and ideas of the association. 
Contact Mike Vaughn for information at mike@vaughnlawoffice.com.

FACEBOOK
We are now on Facebook.  Please view posts and photos at Yokkaichi Long Beach Sister City.

ASSOCIATION NEWS

• Newsletter for August 2011
• Learn about the City of Yokkaichi
• Monthly Meetings
  Next Meeting: February 6th, 2012
  Port of Long Beach Bldg
  5th Floor Conference Room
  925 Harbor Plaza
  Long Beach, CA
• Open Meeting Agenda
• Supporting Organizations:
  --City of Long Beach
  --Port of Long Beach Board of
     Harbor Commissioners
  --Earl Miller Burns Japanese
     Garden, Cal State
  --Sister Cities of Long Beach

MISSION STATEMENT
To create rapport between the cities by exchanging cultural, civic and educational ideas and issues and to promote better understanding and friendship between the United States and Japan.

YEF 2012
Instructions &
Application
Now available
Deadline for Application March 7, 2012