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KAWASAKIINTERNATIONALASSOCIATION

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路上喫煙の防止に関する条例について
A city-wide regulation against smoking on the street went into effect in April of this year.
In order to protect pedestrians from being burned by other people’s cigarettes, this ordinance bans smoking
on the street anywhere in the City of Kawasaki.
The areas around Kawasaki Station, Musashi-Kosugi Station, Musashi-Mizonokuchi Station,
Saginuma Station and Shin-Yurigaoka Station have been designated as priority areas for enforcement.
In these priority areas, anybody found smoking outside of designated smoking areas will be liable for a finestarting in October. A person found smoking on the street may be given a warning, given directions to thenearest smoking area or ushered to the smoking area. If the person ignores this guidance and continues
smoking, that person may be given a nonpenal fine of 2000 yen.
For more information about this ordinance please call the Citizen Affairs Bureau, Community Affairs
Department (the SHIMIN-KYOKU CHIIKI SEIKATSU-KA)
at 0 4 4 – 2 0 0 – 2 2 8 4.

263

外国人の相談窓口の増設について

In addition to the consultations already provided at the Kawasaki International Center, counseling forforeign residents of the City of Kawasaki will now be available at the Kawasaki-ku Ward Office andAsao-ku Ward Office. Advice on daily living and problems will be available in several languages. The
service is free. The schedule for the various locations is as follows:
Kawasaki International Center:
Chinese: Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays
Tagalog: Tuesdays and Wednesdays
Spanish: Tuesdays and Wednesdays
English: Monday through Saturday
Korean: Tuesdays and Thursdays
Portuguese: Tuesdays and Fridays
Counseling on all days is from 10 to 12 am and from 1 to 4 pm.
Kawasaki Ward Office:Chinese: first and third Tuesdays of the month, 2 to 4:30 pm
Tagalog: first and third Wednesdays of the month, 9:30 am to noon
English: first and third Thursdays of the month, 2 to 4:30 pm.
Asao Ward Office:Chinese: first and third Tuesdays of the month, 9:30 am to noon
Tagalog: first and third Wednesdays of the month, 2 to 4:30 pm
English: first and third Thursdays of the month, 9:30 am to noon.
For more information please call the Kawasaki International Association at 0 4 4 – 4 3 5 – 7 0 0 0.

264

来年４月からごみの収集が週３日になる

Starting in April 2007, ordinary trash will be collected three times a week inKawasaki City, not four times a week as it is now. This change will help evenout the garbage collectors’ work load through the week and make for a more
efficient garbage collection system.
In addition, the way to separate your trash is going to change: envelopes, cake boxes, and similar
office paper or light cardboard will go into a new ‘mixed paper’ category and be collected separately fromordinary trash. Furthermore, the number of garbage collection trucks will be reduced by about 20percent.
These changes are part of an effort to reduce the number of garbage incinerators used and decrease
the amount of rubbish disposed of in landfills by the City of Kawasaki. Your cooperation in making thesechanges is appreciated.
There will be leaflets distributed to every house in Kawasaki City explaining the new schedule andnew rules, and presentations will be made at community meetings across the city. And you’ll be able tofind information on the new system on Kawasaki City’s own home page.
For now you can direct questions about the upcoming changes to garbage collection to the Kawasaki CityEnvironment Protection Bureau’s waste management policy office (the KANKYO-KYOKU HAIKIBUTSUSEISAKU TANTO) at 0 4 4 – 2 0 0 – 2 5 5 8.

New Counseling Services for non-Japanese will start in October, 2006 at thetwo ward offices. The same services will continue to be provided at theKawasaki International Center. The schedule of consultation services are as
follows:
Asao Ward OfficeLanguage

DayKawasaki Ward OfficeHour＊ Language

ChineseTuesday

9:30-12:00＊Chinese

Tagalog

Wednesday14:00-16:30＊ Tagalog

EnglishThursday

9:30-12:00＊EnglishDayHourTuesday

14:00-16:30

Wednesday 9:30-12:00
Thursday

14:00-16:30

Issued by The Kawasaki International Association
2-2 Kizuki Gion Cho, Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki 211-0033 Kawasaki International Center
Tel 044-435-7000 Fax 044-435-7010 Ｅ-mail:kian@bremen.or.jp HP URL:http://www.bremen.or.jp/kian/