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KAWASAKIINTERNATIONALASSOCIATION
NEWS１５１

Asao Ward has been celebrating the 80th anniversary of Kawasaki as a city with Lunch
Time Concerts being held in June, July and August.
This month,Lunch Time Concerts will be held from the 23rd to the 27th of August at thehall on the 2nd floor of the Asao Ward Office from 12:15pm to 12:45pm. Anybody can come along andenjoy the concert for free.The music played will be as follows :Aug. 23rd : Japanese traditional music
Aug. 24th : a piano concert
Aug. 25th : a piano and a viola
Aug. 26th : a jazz piano and bass performance,Aug. 27th : a piano solo and a duo

Nakahara Ward Summer Holidays Family Concert : the Pandora’s Box of Music for Children andParents".
It will be held from 12:10pm to 1:00pm on Friday the 27th of August on the 5th floor of Nakahara Ward
Office. Famous pieces of music by Haydn and Mozart will be performed by the Belcanto Chamber
Orchestra with Ms.Amari Kawashima on piano and Antonin Kuhnel conducting. The conductor Antonin
Kuhnel came the second in the 1970 Czechoslovakia Olomouc International Conductors Contest. He had
been invited to Japan to conduct for the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, the New Japan PhilharmonicOrchestra and the Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra. It’s free to come along to the concert and nobooking is necessary, just pop along on the day. Doors open at 11:45.
１５２The Kawasaki City Representative Assembly for Foreign Residents was establishedwiththe aim of contributing to the forming of a cooperating community with mutual understanding throughthe promotion of foreign residents involvement in Kawasaki City’s administration.
Meetings are held over a 2 day period four times during the year, so there are 8 days of discussion heldin one year. The results of these meetings are told to the mayor of Kawasaki who then publicizes theproposals. The following is a summary of the proposals issued by the Kawasaki City Representative
Assembly for Foreign Residents in 2003.
1. Create an educational environment in municipal elementary, junior high and high schools that createsa better level of international understanding and a respect for other cultures among students andteachers.
2. Provide support for foreign parents so that they can better understand Japans educational systemand be independent and confident caregivers.
3. To enable foreign residents to be active members of their local communities and participate in thecity's administration, Kawasaki should give foreign residents the right to vote in local referendums
when creating its local referendum system.

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Create an environment in which foreign residents have access to quality housing, stable living
conditions and easy access to public housing.
5. Urge the government to improve its lump sum withdrawal system for the pension plan.
Each of these proposals have further points to them as well as background information andreasons. The Kawasaki City Representative Assembly for Foreign Residents next meeting will befrom 2:00pm to 5:00pm on Sunday the 12th of September at the Kawasaki International Center.
Everyone is welcome to come along and listen to the discussions.
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You are invited to join a project for free by the Youth Science
Museum in Tama Ward, which is the Ikuta Green Park Observation Guided Tour.
In Ikuta GreenPark there are woodlands where many different kinds of animals andplants can be seen at different seasons, and it is these woodlands that will be the focusof the observation of the Ikuta Green Park Observation Guided Tour gathering alongwith the Kawasaki Nature Survey Group. The observations take place every Sunday
morning from 10:00 to 12:00. You are given a guided tour of the nature in the park, eachweek the theme being different. The tours are basically held even if there is a little rain,
except if the theme is wild birds. In this case the tour will be called off.
To join this program,please come along to the front of the Youth Science Museum by
9:50am. On the 5th of September the theme is plants and on the 12th of September it will beinsects.

Information about a Star Watching Evening at the Youth Science Museum.
First a 30 minute explanation about stars and constellations will be given at the planetarium. This will
be followed by viewings of the moon, stars etc.through the telescope at the observatory and on the roof ofthe Youth Science Hall. The Star Watching Evening will be held two Saturdays every month. On
September 11th, the M13), M57 (M stands for Messier, French astronomer )and other stars will be thefocus of the evening. September 25th the moon, the Albireo and so on will be the focus.
The Star Watching Evenings will go on for one and a half hours between 6:00pm and 7:30pm. The time
will differ with the months. In October the event will start from 5:30pm.
It is not necessary to book, just come along and show up on the day. Also if the weather is cloudy orraining on the day then there will only be the 30 minute explanation. If any young people of elementary
school age and under want to come then they must come with an adult guardian. The Kawasaki YouthScience Museum is a 15 minute walk from the Odakyu Line, Mukogaoka-yuen Station.
For more information you can phone the Youth Science Museum at 044-922-4731.

Issued by The Kawasaki International Association
237-1 Kizuki Gion Cho,Nakahara-Ku, Kawasaki 211-0033 Kawasaki International Center
Tel044-435-7000 Fax044-435-7010 Ｅ-mail:kian@bremen.or.jp HP URL:http://www.bremen.or.jp/kian/