Visiting Tokyo with NMT

I was selected with many recommendations from my colleage to visit Japan with a group of sub-committee on Human Resource Development of the National Municipal League of Thailand.

The aims of this group was quite high. The objectives were to look at how Japanese local government manage cooperation amongst local governments and how local personnel would be developed and encouraged to work effectively. How Japan successed on reducing numbers of local government. The group tends to closely look at what are under the interface of exiting Japanese style of bureaucratic system.

Well, I don't think that the seven days of visiting could bring such a good result to meet through the objectives. However, positively, the visiting could make some of us to comparatively explore something behind the Japanese local governments and their organisation culture.

The trip could be bored for someone who used to go to japan several times as me,but it was not close to that boring as Dr. Pijitra, Dr.Namwan from Thammasat University joined with the group. I was impressed by their frankness and sincerity. Both were good to talk to.

The Mount Fuji was bright and clear from our accommodation which located at the far foot of the mountain. Since I had been in Japan, this time was the first time that I could see the top of the Fujiyama so clear. While other parts of the world for instance, China and Europe,were under the heavy snow fall, but here is fine.