City-run facilities have been closed in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.
Public halls, Exchange centers, Assembly centers, Residents’ halls, Community centers, Welfare centers, Libraries, Kids house, Elderly welfare centers, City Culture Center and Sports facilities.
Through May 10 (Sun)
Closure period can be extended depending on the situation in the coming days. In the event of extension, an announcement will be made via Home Page, Iwakuni Citizens News App. or Citizen Mail.
List of closed facilities can be confirmed from the Home Page.
Hope page for list of closed facilities
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Crime prevention cameras have been in operation since 1 April to nip the crime in the bud and to quickly respond to the scenes of crime and accident. The installation of cameras is one of the city’s efforts to make Iwakuni a safe and secure city to live in.
Installation and running cost of the cameras are funded by MOD’s “U.S. Forces Realignment and Related Grants for Special Defense Facilities Environment Improvement Adjustment” and installation work for 40 cameras was completed in FY2019.
Most of the cameras have been installed at locations including crowded intersections, busy streets in downtown where crime rate is reportedly high and hub of major roads.
The use of image data collected by cameras is stringently restricted and only used for the purposes of early solution of criminal cases and for ensuring the security of citizens per Implementation Agreement signed with Iwakuni Police Station.
In the next fiscal year, additional 120 cameras will be in operation throughout the city as further effort to prevent crimes. Please check the locations of cameras and guidelines of use with city’s Home Page.
● Inquiries: Livelihood Safety and Security Section Tel: 0827-29-5018
Image data from crime prevention camera will be appropriately managed and used with abundance of consideration to privacy.
Crime prevention cameras are installed at west-east concourse and underground walkway of Iwakuni train station.
Mr. Hirofumi Ishimoto ( resident of Futashika)
Engaged in activities with his local friends to revitalize
Futashika district, his home town and taking advantage of his passion to breed killifish, he is hosting a killifish-give-away event every year.
Hirofumi Ishimoto is the one who is hosting the killifish-give-away event in every August at Futashika Outdoor Activity Center with his local friends.
Depopulation’s been progressing in Futashika where he was born and grew up. There used to be 60 or so households but 1/3 of the houses are vacant now. Until two years ago, he had been hosting a marathon event but it was abolished due to aging of local residents which made it difficult to manage to hold the event. However, he kept on hosting a variety of events to revitalize his home town with his local friends.
He likes creatures from way back when he was a child and he’s been breeding killifish for 40 years as his passion. One day his friend encouraged him to hold an event featuring his killifish. Ishimoto, since then, has been hosting the event for 18 years, thinking that he’d be more than happy to pay back to his home town if his experience could be of any help.
The event is held in every summer. Ishimoto is always hoping that “it could become one of the most memorable experiences in summer for the kids.” Some older people also come to the event as killifish remind them of good old days when they used to breed killifish themselves when they were young.
In the event, participants are given tips on how to breed killifish and some dos and don’ts and Ishimoto’s killifish are given away as a present. Growing number of participants come to the event every year-more than 100 people from Iwakuni and neighboring municipalities showed up last year. Ishimoto said, “100 is quite a number. I’m more than happy.”
「My time and efforts pay off when kids come and eagerly ask me questions about killifish and when I see them smiling and having fun,” said Ishimoto. An appealing aspect of killifish, according to Ishimoto, is that anyone could breed them easy because they don’t give you many problems.
In order to have enough killifish ready to be given away as a present, Ishimoto’s been breeding 500-ish killifish in used bathtub or sink given to him instead of an aquarium. Eggs will be hatching from May to summer, enabling Ishimoto to have about 2,000 killifish ready for the event.
“It’s good to see many people coming to Futashika. I wish our efforts would help revitalize our home town,” said Ishimoto. He continues to be involved in activities driven by his passion to see smiles of children and for his home town, Futashima.
At Futashika Outdoor Activity Center, Ishimoto’s killifish are seen swimming in the biotope created by him and his friends.
He breeds black, yellowish-orange, and white killifish in bathtub and sink, a total of five, set in the back yard of his house.
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