Duties may include:

• receiving guests from abroad
• editing and producing pamphlets in English or Japanese
• interpreting at locally organised international exchange programmes
• advising on planning for international exchange programmes
• assisting with the language instruction of government employees, local residents

Japanese interest in international exchange has never been greater. Coordinators for International Relations work with their Japanese colleagues to promote and develop exchange activities at a local level.

This could mean working on projects to bring Japanese into contact with local foreign residents, or developing relations between the contracting town, city or prefecture and the CIRs home country through, for example, "Sister-City" relationships.