The Tokyo Metropolitan Government enters environmental and energy-saving exhibits in trade fairs as well as organizes an inter-city workshop to help find solutions to environmental problems and energy-saving alternatives in Asia. This is a report on the exhibits at the trade fair and the workshop offered in Kuala Lumpur this year.

The Crisis Management Conference is an annual meeting where crisis management experts from Asia's large cities meet and share their experiences. Tokyo hosted the conference this year. This is the report on the conference in which Tokyo's sister cities participated for the first time.

Tokyo hosted the first "Tokyo Global Partners Seminer" with the goal to forge ties with other large cities in the world. Heads responsible for international policy of large-cities exchanged ideas in the seminar.