Kirk here with an Asahi.com article that covers more-or-less the same territory as my post yesterday about the president of Sojo University. One thing in this article that I didn't mention yesterday was that "he (President Nakayama) said he took the chairman’s post at the organization in 2011, when it was established, because he was asked to do so by a former Kumamoto city assembly member." I wonder who that former city assembly membeter might be and how they might have been connected to the project.
Here's the URL of the post I made yesterday. If links to the online Bunshun article: