Regional collaboration with the town of Nagawa, Nagano prefecture, Japan

The Meiji University Center for Obsidian and Lithic studies promotes collaborative
programs with Nagawa, as follows:

1. Supporting archeological obsidian education at Wada Junior High School
2. Participation in a committee for the investigating and preserving of a historic obsidian mining site from the Jomon age at the Hoshikuso Pass, Nagawa
3. Participation in a committee for investigating a historic obsidian mining site from the Jomon age at the Hoshikuso Pass, Nagawa
4. Supporting a local obsidian festival in Nagawa
5. Supporting the excavation at the No. 1 mine-digging crater at the Jomon-age mining site at the Hoshikuso Pass, Nagawa