{"id":1630,"date":"2013-06-21T08:06:43","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T23:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lovekatano.com\/?page_id=1630"},"modified":"2019-01-02T22:24:37","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T13:24:37","slug":"current-katano-city","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lovekatano.com\/?page_id=1630","title":{"rendered":"Current Katano City"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Katano<\/a>

Katano in the 1970s (c) Katano City Education Board<\/p><\/div>\n

In 1971, Katano Cho (the Town of Katano)\u00a0and Hoshida Mura (the Village of Hoshida) merged and became the 31st city of Osaka prefecture. Katano City Council\u00a0(KCC) launched their business at\u00a0new council buildings in Kisabe.<\/p>\n

KCC decided a cherry blossom as the\u00a0official tree and an azalea as the\u00a0offical flower of the city in 1972.<\/p>\n

\"Katano's

Katano’s Official Tree; Cherry Blossom<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Katano's

Katano’s Official Flower; Azalea<\/p><\/div>\n

KCC also decided to newly build a Jr. high school (the Katano Daini JH), a nursery school (the Katano Daiichi nursery school), and a kindergarten (the Katano Daiichi kindergarten), with the rise of population of the city.<\/p>\n

To broadly\u00a0appeal the city’s natural beauty, Katano’s 8 natural spots were determined in 1981; Myoken’s\u00a0cherry blossoms, winter moon in\u00a0Hoshi no Mori, the Kaigake rode, the morning mist in the Ama no Iwasufune valley, the\u00a0forest\u00a0around the Shishikutsu\u00a0Ji temple, the green shadow\u00a0in Shakuji, the Genji waterfall, and the dawn\u00a0from the summit of\u00a0Konosan.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, in November 1981, the Katano’s civic charter, which\u00a0was ‘Wa (harmony) with nature, culture, and people’, was declared\u00a0and the international sister city agreement was concluded with Collingwood (Canada).<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The Logo of Katano City Council<\/p><\/div>\n

In 1982, the Katano-Collingwood sister city association was established to develop the relationship between two cities. Since then, Katano and Collingwood have held various exchange events to deepen the relationship.<\/p>\n

In 1983, Katano made the declaration of a\u00a0nuclear-free city to appeal the significance of denuclearisation to the world. It was\u00a0restated as the declaration on observance of “peace and human rights”\u00a0on November 3rd 2001. The statement says….<\/p>\n

With our strong will,we can eliminate nuclear weapons and wars.<\/center>
With our love, we can eliminate discrimination and abuse.<\/center>
The spirit of Katano is \u201cWA\u201d\u3000or \u201cPeace.\u201d<\/center>
The desire for peace and the respect for human rights are
\nat the heart of Katano.<\/center>
Together we stand and together we protect what is precious in life.<\/center>
We wish that this circle of hope extends to and unites
\nall people throughout the world.<\/center>
Basedon our commitment to these principles, we hereby declare Katano
\nto be a \u201cNon-nuclear, abuse -free city with compassion for all humanity.\u201d<\/center>
November\u30003rd, 2001<\/center>
City of Katano<\/center>
<\/center>The 1st Katano festival was held in August 1983.\u00a0The annual festival\u00a0had been held until 2010. Instead,\u00a0a new festival, the Ama no Gawa Hoshi Matsuri festival has launched since 2011.<\/p>\n
\"the

the Katano festival<\/p><\/div>\n

KCC designated a pheasant as the city’s official bird in 1986.<\/p>\n

\"Katano's

Katano’s Official Bird; Pheasant<\/p><\/div>\n

Go on to the Current Katano City Part 2 page\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 1971, Katano Cho (the Town of Katano)\u00a0and Hoshida Mura (the Village of Hoshida) merged and became the 31st city of Osaka prefecture. Katano City Council\u00a0(KCC) launched their business at\u00a0new council buildings in Kisabe. KCC decided a cherry blossom as the\u00a0official tree and an azalea as the\u00a0offical flower of the city in 1972. KCC also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":233,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1630","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lovekatano.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lovekatano.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lovekatano.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovekatano.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovekatano.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1630"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovekatano.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5010,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovekatano.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1630\/revisions\/5010"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovekatano.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lovekatano.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}