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5th International UNESCO
Conference on Geoparks

■Adviser of Organizing Committee

Houdou Nakamura

Governor, Nagasaki Prefecture

Shuichiro Yokota

Mayor, Shimabara City

Shintaro Okumura

Mayor, Unzen City

Yoneyuki Fujiwara

Mayor, Minamishimabara City

Yukio Miyauchi

Chairperson, Nagasaki Prefectural Assembly

Kiyoshi Hamasaki

Chair, Shimabara City Council

Takehisa Inoue

Chair, Unzen City Council

Shigetoshi Kajiwara

Chair, Minamishimabara City Council

Toshinori Watanabe

Superintendent of Education, Nagasaki Prefecture

Toru Yoneda

President, Japanese Geoparks Network (Mayor, Itoigawa City)

Ryuji Funayama

Vice President, Japan Travel and Tourism Association

Genji Nozaki

President, Nagasaki Prefecture Convention and Visitors Bureau

Kanji Kato

President of the representative governing body, Japan Agricultural Co-operatives Shimabara Unzen

Morikane Kitaura

Representative of Fishermen’s cooperatives in Shimabara Peninsula (President, Association for Rights Assignee of Nankyo No.79 Common Fishery Rights)

Nobuki Kawamura

Deputy Director General for Technical Regulations, Standards and Conformity Assessment Policy, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry

Takao Kuramochi

Director-General for International Affairs, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology

Tetsuo Tamura

President, Japanese National Commission for UNESCO

Kazuhiko Yano

Director, Monuments and Sites Division, Cultural Properties Department, Agency for Cultural Affairs

Naoki Murata

Director-General, Public Diplomacy Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Noriyuki Minami

Director-General, Sabo Department, Water and Disaster Management Bureau, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism

Naoyoshi Yamada

Vice Commissioner for International Affairs, Japan Tourism Agency, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism

Eiji Furukubo

Director-General, Private Forest Department, Forestry Agency

Masaaki Kobayashi

Deputy Director General, Nature Conservation Bureau Ministry of the Environment

Shigeru Katamine

President, Nagasaki University

Makoto Aratono

Professor, Faculty of Sciences, Kyushu University

Sumio Miyashita

President, The Geological Society of Japan

Setsuya Nakada

President, The Volcanological Society of Japan

Noritaka Yagasaki

President, The Association of Japanese Geographers

Kazurou Hirahara

President, Seismological Society of Japan

Kunihiko Endo

President, Japan Association for Quaternary Research