Self-Introduction
Greetings everyone! My name is Brandon Roberts and I hail from the United States (specifically, Muncie, Indiana). I arrived in Toyohashi at the end of July and will be taking over for Brian Baker as Toyohashi City Hall's Coordinator for International Relations (CIR). I have worked in Japan in the past during my summer vacations in college, but this will be my first long-term stay here. I am really excited to get to know more about Toyohashi!

I graduated from DePauw University, a small liberal arts university in the Midwest, in May so my appointment as Toyohashi's CIR will be my first "real" job. I previously came to Japan when I was in middle school as a member of a youth choir. We came to Aichi and toured around Nagoya and Okazaki. It was that trip that first sparked my interest in Japan and Japanese culture so I was very excited when I heard that I would be placed in Aichi.

As a CIR, I will be responsible for helping to facilitate international exchange between Toyohashi and the world. Internationalization is rapidly progressing in Japan, as well as around the globe, so I am very excited to be appointed to this position at this momentous time. I really hope I will be able to make a lasting contribution to Toyohashi's internationalization efforts!