The Japanese Ambassador to Germany's Courtesy Visit with the Governor (February 27th)
Mr. Takahiro Shinyo, the Japanese Ambassador to Germany, had a courtesy visit with Governor Manabe after he made a speech at Marugame Senior High School, his alma mater.
While talking, the ambassador and the governor found that they once worked in Geneva, Switserland at the same period, and this discovery soon led them to lively conversation about what they did at that time. Such was the conversation that they talked up until the time just before the courtesy visit with the chairman of the Prefectural Assembly and the speech for the Prefectural Assembly thereafter.
Mr. Shinyo said that measures to deepen the relationship between Kagawa and Germany should proceed further. In Germany, ramen and soba have both seen much recognition, but udon has yet to catch on. The governor cited that the works of Okyo Maruyama and Jakuchu Ito, owned by Kotohira-gu Shrine, were shown at the Guimet Museum, France, as an example of the introduction of Kagawa culture overseas.
When they came to talk about the Kagawa Prefectural Higashiyama Kaii Setouchi Art Museum, he commented that Higashiyama Kaii used to study at Humboldt University in Berlin, and so there are many works of his in the Japanese Embassy in Germany.
