奥州市は「外国人のための生活支援ガイドブック」を発行した。外国人が戸惑いやすい交通ルールなど生活に関わる情報を紹介する。ILC誘致への期待も高まる。易しい日本語を含む８言語版をそろえ、同市での快適な暮らしに役立ててもらう。(Oshu City has issued a “Life Support Guidebook for Foreigners”. Introduce information related to daily life such as traffic rules that foreigners are easily confused. The expectation for attracting ILC has increased. Available in 8 language versions, including easy Japanese, to help you make a comfortable living in the city.)

The Kitakami Mountains run through Ichinoseki, with a single peak, that of Mount Murone, dominating the skyline. The name might sound familiar, and that’s because this mountain overlooks the ILC candidate site, providing an excellent visual of where the ILC would run.

The FCC study complements previous design studies for linear colliders in Europe (CLIC) and Japan (ILC), while China also has similar plans for a large-scale circular collider (CEPC).

On June 12th, the Tohoku ILC Promotion Council, the Hokkaido/Tohoku Governors’ Association, the Hokkaido/Tohoku Prefectural Assembly Chairpersons’ Association, and the Tohoku Mayors’ Association visited with the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan’s ruling political party) to urge them to make their intentions known on the ILC as quickly as possible.

Moreover, he co-led the design of the Silicon Detector, one of two designs under consideration for the future International Linear Collider.

On June 11th, the Association of Iwate Prefecture and Iwate Mayors (Chair: Mayor of Morioka Hiroaki Tanifuji) visited with various national government organizations to urge their support of the reconstruction from the 2011 disaster and the realization of the ILC Project.

The Iwate Prefectural Government will be holding a research contest for Iwate high school students on October 26th, where students will be conducting their own research into physics, chemistry, and other sciences. The first place team will be invited on a research trip to CERN in Switzerland.

岩手県は６日、政府の２０２０年度予算編成に向けて、県からの提言・要望をまとめた。最重要事項として、復興の確実な推進に必要な予算確保や、国際リニアコライダー（ＩＬＣ）の実現を掲げた

Higgs-kun is an anthropomorphic Higgs Boson particle who teaches schoolchildren about the International Linear Collider (while advocating that the site be built in northeast Japan’s Iwate prefecture).

計画では３１事業に取り組む。岩手、宮城両県境にまたがる北上山地が建設候補地の超大型加速器「国際リニアコライダー（ＩＬＣ）」誘致に向け、国際協議を支援する。

On June 4th, nine organizations from southern Iwate and northern Miyagi prefectures visited with four members of the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan’s ruling party), including Hon. Takeo Kawamura who also serves as the chair of the Federation of Diet Members for the ILC. There, they petition the LDP to ensure that the national government would host the ILC.

Plans are in the works to upgrade the Office of ILC Promotion plans to the status of Bureau*. The plans are to upgrade the office this fiscal year, and double its workforce from the 13 staff it has currently. This will boost their preparations for the ILC project as the national government moves to make a decision whether or not to host the project.