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KAWASAKIINTERNATIONALASSOCIATION(370)「かわさき市民まつり」について
The Kawasaki Citizens’ Festival will be held over three days, from Saturday
November 1st to Monday November 3rd.

(Monday happens to be bunka no hi(文化の日), the “Culture Day” holiday in Japan.)

The place is the Fujimi Park

area in Kawasaki Ward, including Kawasaki Stadium, Kawasaki Keirin
Velodrome, and the Fujimi Park softball stadium.
Things will get started at 11am on the 1st with an opening parade, and after that the various venues willfeature product exhibitions, stage shows, et cetera. Kawasaki Frontale will put on a soccer workshop, andthere will be an American Football activities corner as well as lots of other things to do and see.
The festival will be located just ten minutes on foot from JR Kawasaki Station.

You could also

take a bus, in which case you would disembark at the stop called keirinjō mae (競輪場前).
Detailed answers to questions can be found on the homepage of Kawasaki City. Or you can callthe offices of the Kawasaki Citizens’ Festival Executive Committee, called the Kawasaki shimin matsuri

jikkō i-in kai jimukyoku (かわさき市民まつり実行委員会事務局); their phone number is044–200–7429.

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市南部市場食鮮まつり」について「川崎A Fresh Food Fair will take place at Nambu Market on Sunday, November 9th from 9am to 2pm.
Japanese name for the event is nambu shijō shokusen matsuri.

TheNambu Market is in Saiwai Ward inKawasaki City.
There will be a lot of fresh vegetables,
course, and a lot of refreshment

seafood, flowers et cetera for sale, ofbooths as well. There will also bea demonstration of the art oftuna-cutting.

be a variety of performances,including light music performed

by

taiko

middleschoolstudents,

Also on offer will

drumming

bykindergartners, and baton andtap dance routines.

ofemployees’ manga club will also

theKawasaki

CityMembers

be on hand to draw your face in caricature should you wish them to do so.
The Nambu Market is just a five-minute walk from Shitte Station on the JR Nambu Line.
It is expected that the market will be quite crowded on the day of the fair, so please use public
transportation to get there.

Autumn is the season to eat well, so why not come out to the Nambu Market and get the freshest foodavailable?
If you have any questions you can call the Kawasaki City Nambu Market (Kawasaki-shi nambu shijō; 川崎市南部市場) at 0 4 4 – 5 4 8 – 6 2 0 3.

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「第 52 回川崎市観光写真コンクール作品募集」について
The Call for Submissions to the 52nd Kawasaki City Tourism Photography
Competition has officially been promulgated!
The theme of this year’s competition is Tsurete ikitai, watashi noKawasaki (連れて行きたい 私のかわさき), which means, moreor less, “I Want To Bring You To My Kawasaki.”
are looking for images that show the beauty and special character of Kawasaki City.

The organizers

So, photos of naturalscenery, urban scenes, traditional performing arts and all kinds of events would all be appropriate for thecompetition.
Photos need to be in color, printed on photographic paper and should be 25.4 by 30.5 centimeters: thepaper size called yotsugiri (四つ切) in Japan.
Entry is limited to original photographs which were taken inside Kawasaki City and which have not been
published elsewhere.

Each contestant may submit up to three pictures. Photos taken with a digitalcamera are no problem, but digital composite photographs will not be accepted.
Entries are being accepted between November 17th of this year and January 30th, 2009.
First prize is one hundred thousand yen, second prize is ten thousand yen.
Autumn seems like an excellent season to go roaming around Kawasaki with camera in hand, doesn’t it?
Questions about the contest should be directed to the Economic and Labor Affairs Bureau, Commerce andTourism Division, or keizai rōdō kyoku shōgyō kankō ka (経済労働局商業観光課); their phone number is 0 4
4–200–2327.

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Date & Time: 3rd Sunday from 2:00pm-4:00pm Place: Kawasaki InternationalCenterPlease call 044-955-6657 (Urata Office) or 044-811-2436(Takeshita Office) for further information.
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:kiankawasaki@kian.or.jp HP URL:http://www.kian.or.jp/