On May 22, 2007, a panel with a poem of the philosopher Martin Heidegger from Mayor Arne Zwick of the German sister city of Messkirch arrived in Kahoku. As a sign of the friendship between the "towns of philosophy," which have both produced world-renowned philosophers, the city will display the panel in the Nishida Kitaro Museum of Philosophy.

The panel is 1 meter long and 70 centimeters wide. Mayor Zwick gave it hoping for continuing exchange between the two cities for many more years to come.
Inscribed on green canvas is one of the poems of the collection "The Thinker as Poet" that Heidegger published in 1947.

By the time the Messkirch City delegation with Mayor Zwick as the head comes to Kahoku on May 30, the panel will be exhibited in the Heidegger Corner of the Nishida Kitaro Museum of Philosophy, where it will salute the delegation.

A panel with the words of the Messkirch-born world-renowned philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889 -1976), sent by Kahoku's German sister city of Messkirch, arrived in Kahoku. It is the anniversary gift of the Messkirch delegation that will visit Kahoku from May 31, 2007. On the same day it will be showcased at the welcome ceremony held in Kahoku.

The panel is 1 meter long and 70 centimeters wide. The German text is written in poster style longhand on heavy green paper in red and blue color.
According to Kahoku, the poem is considered to be one passage from the literary work with the title "The Thinker as Poet,", but its content can only be understood by experts. After receiving the panel, Kahoku plans to exhibit it in the Heidegger Corner of the Nishida Kitaro Museum of Philosophy.

The two cities, which are tied by the bond of Messkirch being the birthplace of Heidegger, and Kahoku being the birthplace of Japan's representative philosopher Kitaro Nishida (1870-1945) have been doing exchange for more than 20 years.