Director General tile version January 2018 (Message from Director General)

We sincerely thank the inhabitants of the ward for having reached the new year in a healthy manner.
This year is the Year of the Dog. A dog with a loyal and rugged personality is one of the most familiar animals to humans. As the staff will work together on the issues of the ward administration with full power like a dog chasing the ball until the end, we look forward to seeing you again this year.

This year, we would like to work on ward administration with special awareness of the following.
By 2025, when baby boomers will be 75 years of age or older, we will work hard to build a comprehensive community care system. The Kanagawa Ward Action Guidelines will be formulated and announced in March. Based on these guidelines, we will promote (1) cooperation between home medical care and nursing care, (2) promotion of care prevention, (3) life support for the elderly by various actors, and (4) dementia measures. .
The third community-based welfare health plan "Kanagawa support love plan" which we devised with local everybody reaches the third year this year. This year, which is the middle point of the plan, we will look back on our efforts so far and consider various issues with the local community to achieve our goals.
In addition, we will work to further improve the local disaster prevention capabilities of the self support and community support to support the development of local human resources so that many inhabitants of the ward can take disaster prevention and reduce disaster damage as their own.

This year, as well as the closest administrative organization for the inhabitants of the ward, we will provide basic administrative services accurately, promptly and carefully, and discuss local issues in a face-to-face relationship with the local people. I would like to promote collaborative efforts to think and sweat.

In the future, we will work on the enhancement of the ward administration aiming for Kanagawa Ward where you can feel warmth with peace of mind so that we can reach the 100th anniversary of the brilliant ward system in the future. Thank you.
We sincerely pray for your health and happiness so that this year will be a fruitful year for the inhabitants of the ward.

January, 2018
Tomomi Ninomiya, Chief of Kanagawa