Happy New Year! Wishing everyone the best in 2016, and looking forward to more significant developments in terms of realizing the ILC. Be sure to tune in again this year to news from Japan, and its ILC candidate site in the Kitakami Mountains.
A small toy of local mascot “Omocchi” looks on with interest at the latest edition of ILC News, especially the bit about his new brother “ILC Sobacchi.”
In addition to contributing to the “Kitakami Times” and making use of Facebook and Twitter and so on, the ILC Promotion Division in Ichinoseki also issues a newsletter four times a year, known as the Ichinoseki Linear Collider Bulletin or “ILC News.” Each issue focuses on ILC-related events and developments that took place over the last couple of months in Ichinoseki, other cities in Iwate Prefecture, and wider Japan.
The first edition was released in July 2012 and the 15th or most recent edition was issued in December last year. Each edition is posted to all households in the city (46,176 as of January 1, 2016), and also made available in various locations such as the lobby of the city office, and in Ichinoseki station near the platforms for the bullet trains which zip to Sendai, Morioka, Tokyo and so on.
A photo taken earlier last year of the “ILC News” line-up.
The inaugural edition and the last three editions have been translated into English and can be seen at Ichinoseki’s ILC website. The last three editions include a section called Ichinoseki Lives Cosmopolitan (a play on the ILC abbreviation) which introduces foreign residents in the city.
The latest edition features news of elementary and junior high school students visiting the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK); managers of local companies and members of the Ichinoseki Chamber of Commerce and Industry visiting ports in Ofunato and Kesennuma; the second “Science Cafe” for this fiscal year being held at the city library; and other news.
The next edition due out in March will feature news of the third and fourth “Science Cafes”; a gathering in Daito (a town in Ichinoseki’s northeast and near the ILC) where everyone ate locally-made soba noodles, and in “Ichinoseki Lives Cosmopolitan,” husband and wife Nigel and Jenny will tell us their favorite spot in Ichinoseki and comment on making the ILC a reality.
Japanese
一関市のILCニュース［６号］ ネイト ヒル（一関市）２０１６年は皆さんにとって良い年でありますように。ILC実現については更なる発展を期待しています。今年も日本のILC建設候補地である北上山地からのニュースをお見逃しなく！
一関市のILC推進課では、キタカミ・タイムズへの寄稿やFacebook・Twitterアカウントの活用の他に、１年に４回「いちのせきリニアコライダー通信ILCニュース」を発行しています。各号では、最近の数ヵ月に一関市や岩手県、国内で開催されたILC関連のイベントや動きを取り上げています。
創刊号は2012年７月に発行し、最新号である15号は昨年12月に発行しました。各号は市内の全世帯（2016年１月１日現在４万6,176世帯）に配布されるほか、市役所１階のロビーや一ノ関駅新幹線コンコース内など市内のあちこちに置いています。
創刊号と１３号からは英訳があり、一関市ILC推進ホームページでご覧いただけます。１３号からは市内在住の外国人を紹介する「Ichinoseki Lives Cosmopolitan」というコーナーも始めました。
15号では、市内の小・中学生による高エネルギー加速器研究機構（KEK）の視察・研修や、地元企業の幹部や商工会議所の方々による大船渡湾や気仙沼湾での視察、市内で開催された今年度、第２回目のサイエンスカフェなどのニュースを取り上げています。
３月に発行する１６号は、第３回と第４回のサイエンスカフェや、ILC建設候補地付近の大東町で講演後、自家製のそばを食べる集いのほか、「Ichinoseki Lives Cosmopolitan」では市内在住のナイジェルさんとジェニーさん夫婦による市内のお気に入りの場所やILCの実現に向けた一言などを掲載します。
