At the Regional Revitalization EXPO, which was held from February 24, 2021, we will be exhibiting our booth so that many people can see it."Booth Live Streaming"We carried out the following.
The program for the first day, held on February 24th, was as follows:UD Fonts and EducationWith this as the main theme, we delivered the real voices of people working in the field.

The guest is Mitsuhiro Murata from Ikoma City, Nara Prefecture!

We spoke with Mr. Murata of the Public Relations and Public Hearing Division of Ikoma City, Nara Prefecture, about the topic of "Using UD fonts in local governments, examples in the educational field, and consideration for residents."
Ikoma City, which has some of the highest academic achievement in the country among its elementary and junior high schools and is a city that is very committed to education, has undertaken the first nationwide attempt to demonstrate UD fonts in an educational setting.
The UD font was adopted as one solution to the problem. We will talk about the process that led to its adoption and the changes that have occurred in the city since its adoption.

Contents of the conversation

Q1. What prompted you to start using UD fonts?
Q2. What was the reaction of citizens to the special feature on UD fonts in the newsletter?
others

Services introduced by Ikoma City are listed here

MCCatalog+Multilingual universal information distribution tool

MORISAWA BIZ+UD font plan for public organizations

MC

The MC for all three days will be former Miyoshi town employee, Sakuma Tomoyuki!

Born in 1976 in Itabashi Ward, Tokyo, he served as a civil servant in Miyoshi Town, Saitama Prefecture, for 18 years, where he was responsible for tax, nursing care insurance, and public relations. During his time there, he self-taught himself in public relations, design, photography, and videography, winning the Prime Minister's Award at a national public relations competition and leading the town to become the best in Japan for local government public relations. He retired in 2020 to become independent. He currently serves as a visiting researcher at Waseda University's Manifesto Institute, a public relations advisor for Nakano Ward, Shimanto Town, and Kitamoto City, and a member of the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare's Pension Public Relations Study Group. He also supports companies and works nationwide as a public relations design and human resource development instructor. His publications include "Easy Office! Civil Servant Design Techniques" and "Work Techniques for First-Year Civil Servants." As a photographer, he is the author of Juice=Juice member Kanazawa Tomoko's second photo book, "Like Miyoshi Town." He is also the representative director of PRDESIGN JAPAN Co., Ltd.