| Council position | Title | Name | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chairperson | Mayor of Mito | Yasushi Takahashi | ||
| Vice chairpersons | Mayor of Ashikaga | Naohide Hayakawa | ||
| Mayor of Bizen | Takeshi Yoshimura | |||
| Mayor of Hita | Michiko Mukuno | |||
| Councilmembers | Superintendents of the Municipal Boards of Education in member cities | Superintendent of the Mito Board of Education | Harumi Shida | |
| Superintendent of the Ashikaga Board of Education | Kazuhiko Oshima | |||
| Superintendent of the Bizen Board of Education | Seiji Imawaki | |||
| Superintendent of the Hita Board of Education | Hisanori Ejima | |||
| Experienced consultants | Business/economics | Chair of the Mito Chamber of Commerce | Manabu Naito | |
| Chair of the Ashikaga Chamber of Commerce | Minoru Soma | |||
| Chair of the Bizen Chamber of Commerce | Toshiro Terao | |||
| Chair of the Hita Chamber of Commerce | Yasuhiro Totoki | |||
| Experts | Designated by the Mayor of Mito from among the expert committee members studying the registration of World Heritage sites in the city | Manabu Oishi | ||
| Designated by the Mayor of Ashikaga from among members of the council charged with studying the registration of World Heritage sites in the city | Akihiko Hashimoto | |||
| Designated by the Mayor of Bizen from among the expert committee members studying the registration of the Former Shizutani School as a World Heritage site | Masaru Araki | |||
| Designated by the Mayor of Hita from among the expert committee members studying the registration of World Heritage sites in the city | Tsuguto Ezura | |||
| Prefectural officers | Director, Cultural Division, General Planninng Department, Education Bureau, Ibaraki Prefecture | Yosui Maki | ||
| Director, Art,Culture, and Cultural Assets Promotion Division, Department of Citizens,Culutre, and Sports Tochigi Prefecture | Junko Kagami | |||
| Director, Cultural Properties Division, Education Bureau, Okayama Prefecture | Koji Hamahara | |||
| Director of the Cultural Division and Councilor for the Education Bureau, Oita Prefecture | Makoto Mieno | |||
| Committee (focal area) | Members | |
|---|---|---|
| Expert Committee A (registration promotion strategy) | Yasuyoshi Okada (Mito) | Kozo Nagasawa (Ashikaga) |
| Masaru Araki (Bizen) | Munetoshi Goto (Hita) | |
| Expert Committee B (evaluation of Japan’s educational heritage at home and abroad) | Manabu Oishi (Mito) | Eiichi Suzuki (Mito) |
| Masanori Ikeda (Ashikaga) | 〇Akihiko Hashimoto (Ashikaga) | |
| Masanobu Kimura (※) | Masahiro Miyake (Bizen) | |
| Juji Azuma (Hita) | ||
| Expert Committee C (preservation and management strategy) | Keisuke Fujii (Mito) | Ichiro Ichihashi (Ashikaga) |
| Masa’aki Masuyama (Ashikaga) | 〇Tsuguto Ezura (※) | |
| Akihiro Sato (Hita) | ― | |
※ Bizen/Hita 〇 Committee chair
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