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KAWASAKIINTERNATIONALASSOCIATION
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Recruiting Members for the Kawasaki City Representative Assembly for Foreign Residents
The Kawasaki City Representative Assembly for Foreign Residents is currently seeking people to join
as representatives for the 2 year term starting from April 2006. This assembly was set up with the aim ofhelping to promote foreign citizens participation in city administration, to help mutual understanding of
citizens and to help forge a vibrant community here in Kawasaki. To qualify to join you have to have beencontinously registered as a citizen in Kawasaki since at least the 1st of April 2005. You must also be aged
over 18 and have an understanding of Japanese. People who have already been representatives for 2
consecutive terms or people who are members of similarly attached organizations cannot apply.
In all 26 representative members are being sought. Selection is done through a basis of judging applications
and then interviews.
The Kawasaki City Representative Assembly’s main function is to meet and examine city policy from theviewpoint of foreigners, to make proposals and form opinions and then submit them to the mayor. Meetings
take place on Sunday afternoons throughout the year. There will also be times when you
might have to join in fieldwork on some topic. Part time worker level remuneration will be paid when you takepart in meetings.
There will be an explanation meeting on this appeal for members. It will be held on Sunday the 27th ofNovember from 1:10 pm to 1:40pm at the Kawasaki International Center. Please feel free to come by and takepart.
Application forms can be found at ward offices, ward branch offices and so on. Please send your completed
application form by the 13th of January 2006 to the Gender and Equality Section of the Kawasaki Citizens
Bureau for Citizens Rights.
For more details please telephone 044-200-2359.

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The Kawasaki Modern Sculpture Exhibition is an outdoor exhibit open for people to come and view.
It is being held in the new industrial area around the seafront of Kawasaki.
The exhibition will run until Friday the 16th of December. You can come and see various sculptures in thegarden area of "Techno-Hub-Innovation Kawasaki" which is located in Minami-Watarida in Kawasaki
Ward.
"Techno-Hub-Innovation Kawasaki" is the center point for the "Asia Innovator Town Framework" project
being promoted by Kawasaki City.
The works on display were created by Mr. Atsuo Ishii, a professor at the the Tama Art University, as well
as 8 other sculptors, 6 sculptors from the group RA and the members of the art department of the theKawasaki City Rinko Junior High School. The artists will hold open meetings about their artwork every
Saturday during the duration of the exhibition. These meetings will be held at the Auman House is within
the grounds of "Techno-Hub-Innovation Kawasaki" which is the base of Kawasaki’s Asian Entrepreneurs’Valley Project.

Auman House has been designated as one of the Modern Heritages of the Kawasaki Industry Museum.
This building was formerly the living quarters of a German factory chief who worked when NKK wasoperating in the area. It has now been restored as a commerative record museum.
Please come along and see why the artists have their exhibits here and see how the old industrial area ofKawasaki has changed.
The Kawasaki Modern Sculpture Exhibition 2005 will be open to the public from 10:00am to 5:00pm. To
get there please take either the Shiei bus No.40 or the Rinko bus No. 24 from the east exit of Kawasaki
Station and get off at the bus stop marked "JEF Mae". It’s about a 15 minute ride.
For more details please call the Planning and Publicity Section of the Kawasaki Chamber of Commerce at044-211-4112.
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Publication of a new book, called“ The Yumemigasaki Zoo SOUDOU-KI” ( The Much Ado at the Yumemigasaki Zoo”)
Much Ado at the Yumemigasaki Zoo" is a collection of stories about the struggles and troubles
encountered by the animals and staff at Yumemigasaki Animal Park. This book’s compilation andpublication has been organized by Mr. Ikuhisa Detake from Kitakase in Saiwai Ward. The inspiration forthe putting together of this book was the penguin incident at the zoo. The penguin incident was when apenguin which had his beak broken off , it had been beautifully replaced thanks to the help of a regulardental technic for human beings. Even though it is rather a small zoo, Yumemigasaki zoo has had quite a lotof interesting episodes. The book is based on the interviews of the zoo managers, vets and keepers. It tells
the story of the struggle the previous zoo manager had trying to protect baby deer and ducklings fromcrows, the story of how a keeper caught parrot fever while watching the birth of an elk, the animal theftstory, the story of how a capuchin monkey warned a keeper about a wild snake that was in the zoo area andother heart warming stories. There are 15 chapters altogether in this book and Chapter 9 gives the keeper’s
answers to such questions as what the animals eat, whether animals are also afraid of fire. At the back of
the book is the section that briefly explains how the animals are kept. This section is useful as guide forwhen you come and visit the zoo.
"Much Ado at the Yumemigasaki Zoo" is on sale at bookstores nationwide and at the zoo itself. The retailprice is 1,575 yen.

Issued by The Kawasaki International Association
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