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The first General Assembly of Meguro UNESCO Association as an NPO organization, was held on May 14, 2005, at Moriya Kyoiku Kaikan in Meguro City from 2:00 p.m., attended by 44 members (with 201 letters of attorney).
We had many guests visit the conference, including Mr. Eiji Aoki, the Mayor of Meguro City, Mr. Yukinobu Ogasawara, the Director General of Meguro Board of Education, Mr. Takashi Kosugi and Mr. Yoshio Tezuka, members of the House of Representatives, along with many others from administrative offices, members of Meguro City Council, Meguro International Friendship Association, etc.
Mr. Okusawa, the vice president of Meguro UNESCO Association, declared the meeting open and led silent prayers for the members who had passed away last year. Then congratulatory addresses were given by Mr. Ogasawara, Mr. Tezuka, and Mr. Kosugi, after which the proceedings of the General Assembly commenced. The bills below were discussed and approved in their original form.

Bills
(1)Activity report / a statement of accounts / an inspection report in FY 2004
(2)Election of new directors of the board ? 30 people nominated by the nomination committee were recognized.
(3)Activity scheme discussion/ a budget discussion in FY 2005.
(4)Other Items (approval of having advisors, entrance and annual fees and organization of the secretariat and its operations)

The meeting was closed with a speech by Mr. Saito, a new vice president: “As an NPO organization, we have started a new way of operating in accordance with articles of incorporation backed up by a law.”

≪New directors≫Junko Ashida, Yoshiko Ishibashi, Masayuki Imai, Shizuko Otaka, Yukio Okusawa, Keiko Kajitani, Mitsuko Kato, Reiko Kato, Yukiko Katsuoka, Setsuko Kurotani, Takashi Saito, Moriaki Saito, Satoshi Sasaki, Youichi Shimosato, Kimiko Shibutani, Sumio Suzuki, Yasuyuki Suzuki, Tomotaka Segawa, Yoshiko Nakajima, Tadashi Nakamura, Takeko Hashimoto, Yasuko Hamada, Kenichi Harada, Sadako Harada, Fumiko Harada, Yae Honjyo, Keiko Matsuura, Fumiko Miyazaki, Noriko Morie, Noboru Mochizuki (30 people)
≪Auditors≫Toyoko Sakuma, Sachiko Okada
≪Advisors≫Eiji Aoki, Kizan Itaka, Michio Ochi, Takakiyo Otsuka, Tetsuya Kataoka, Isamu Kawahara, Minoru Kurihara, Takashi Kosugi, Taichi Sasaoka, Mikio Shouhouji, Yuji Suzuki, Yoshio Tezuka, Shigeo Tajima, Eiji Hattori, Ichiji Hayashibe (15 people)

President and vice presidents ? elected from among the new directors
≪President≫Reiko Kato
≪Vice Presidents≫Yukio Okusawa, Takashi Saito, Fumiko Harada reported by Saito