Building Cultures through Understanding.
The Saint Paul-Nagasaki Sister City
Committee is committed to cultural understanding and appreciation,
through both public and members-only events, and the continual
development of our sister city relationship with Nagasaki, Japan.
The Saint Paul-Nagasaki Sister City
Committee (SPNSCC) was commissioned as the first Japanese-American city
partnership in 1955, predating the International Sister City Affiliation
enacted by Congress during the Eisenhower administration. Its purpose
was, and continues to be, to promote beneficial relationships between
the American and Japanese people in the two cities, and to promote the
cause of peace.
Our first programs helped the city of
Nagasaki recover from the damage it sustained from nuclear bombing
during World War II. Today, we continue to connect Japanese and
American cultures through grass-roots ambassadorship and to promote
Japanese culture in the greater Twin Cities metro area.