Dectuplets?
The District Adopts a Seoul Sister -- number 10 of DC's "sister" cities. We're part of a litter!
Sister city arrangements are really, really popular in Japan. It's an excuse for academic and cultural exchanges, and it does facilitate closer relations. It certainly doesn't detract from them. I am really surprised that DC doesn't have a sister city in Japan -- unless I'm missing something??? With the cherry blossoms, you would think that sisterhood would have been established a long time ago. Kyoto would be good -- both are smallish cities with lots of culture and height limits (no skyscrapers), and Kyoto is a former capital. Tokyo, the modern capital of Japan, would be okay but it's such a gi-normous city that it would be more appropriate as a sibling to New York City. Where I lived in Japan -- Shiga Prefecture -- was had a sister-state relationship with Michigan because they both had big lakes in them. Apparently, one of the oldest sister cityhood relationships is between Riverside, CA and Sendai, Japan -- coming up on its 50th anniversary next year.
Ten is a good start for li'l ol' DC, but we definitely need to add Japan. Still we ain't got nuthin' on Chicago which is in the sisterhood with 25 cities. A set of score-quintuplets?
With the ceremony March 13, Seoul became the District's 10th sister city and the latest conquest in the Williams administration's campaign to firmly imprint the nation's capital on the global imagination. Since Williams took office in 1999, he has signed seven sister city agreements, including pacts with Paris, Athens, Brussels and Brazzaville in the Congo Republic. Williams has scheduled visits to several previously designated partners, including Bangkok, Beijing and, later this year, Dakar, Senegal.Hmmm, that sounds like a fun itinerary for a global adventure tour.
Sister city arrangements are really, really popular in Japan. It's an excuse for academic and cultural exchanges, and it does facilitate closer relations. It certainly doesn't detract from them. I am really surprised that DC doesn't have a sister city in Japan -- unless I'm missing something??? With the cherry blossoms, you would think that sisterhood would have been established a long time ago. Kyoto would be good -- both are smallish cities with lots of culture and height limits (no skyscrapers), and Kyoto is a former capital. Tokyo, the modern capital of Japan, would be okay but it's such a gi-normous city that it would be more appropriate as a sibling to New York City. Where I lived in Japan -- Shiga Prefecture -- was had a sister-state relationship with Michigan because they both had big lakes in them. Apparently, one of the oldest sister cityhood relationships is between Riverside, CA and Sendai, Japan -- coming up on its 50th anniversary next year.
Ten is a good start for li'l ol' DC, but we definitely need to add Japan. Still we ain't got nuthin' on Chicago which is in the sisterhood with 25 cities. A set of score-quintuplets?
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