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KAWASAKIINTERNATIONALASSOCIATION

199(成人式サポーターの募集について)
Kawasaki City is seeking people to form a "Coming-of Age Day Team" to help
planning, support, organize and generate ideas for the Coming-of-Age Day Ceremonythat will take place on January 9th, 2006.
To become a member of the "Coming-of-Age Day Team" you have to be aged between 18 and 25 years old,
living, working or studying within Kawasaki City and have an interest in Kawasaki City’s Coming-of-Age
Day Ceremony.
Joining the Team means you will attend meetings 3 or 4 times per month from about 7:00pm at theChuushou-Kigyou Fujin Kaikan Building at Musashi-kosugi. The main topic will be examining plans for
the Coming-of-Day Ceremony, discussing about PR for the event and so on. The meetings will be running
until about February of 2006. You can apply to join the team any time.
To apply please call the Youth Support Department of the Citizens Bureau at 044-200-2669.
We need volunteer staffs (teenagers or adults) to help produce a fantastic Coming-of-Age Day Ceremony.

200（商店街空き店舗アイデアコンペについて）This is about a competition to help generate ideas for revitalizing empty shops inshopping areas of Kawasaki. Within the Kawasaki area specialists who help revitalizing
shopping areas are given some support by Kawasaki City government. As part of this support Kawasaki
is organizing a Revitalization Idea Contest.
Kawasaki City is seeking young people who have original ideas and unique imaginative powers about
how to help revitalize shopping areas and what to do about vacant shop lots to submit their ideas to thiscontest. If we can somehow encourage people to use shopping areas we will be able to brighten up theseareas.
If you would like to enter this Revitalization Idea Contest you have to be a high school, university or
vocational technical school student. It is also open to ordinary people aged up to and in twenties. It is
possible to join the Revitalization Idea Contest as a group. The winner of the contest will be decided byfirst judging written submissions and then by listening to a public presentation of the ideas.
The prizes given are: one prize of 100,000 yen for the top winner; two prizes of 50,000 yen for the twobest runners-up; a judges special prize of 30,000 yen will also be awarded.

Please send your submissions from between the 5th and 30th of September to The Business and Tourism
Section, The Economic Bureau, Kawasaki City, zip-code〒210-8577 (in Japanese 210-8577 Keizai-Kyoku
Shogyou-Kankou Ka). For more detailed information please call the Business and Tourism Section at theEconomic Bureau. The phone number is 044-200-2300.
201(川崎ロボット競技大会について)
The Robot Contest is held in order to give young people a chance to experience how tomake robots. It also raises knowledge and helps to promote electronics, mechatronics, computers and soon among young people who will become future engineers.
The Robot Contest is sponsored by the Kawasaki City Industrial Promotion Group. It will be held on
the 19th,20th and 21st of August at the Kawasaki City Industrial Promotion Hall.
The Junior Robot Contest will be held on Friday the 19th of August from 1:00pm to 5:00pm.
The qualifying rounds of the Battle Robot Contest will start on Saturday the 20th of August from
8:00am to 7:00pm, and the final will start on Sunday the 21st of August from 8:00am to 6:00pm.
The Battle Robot Contest is open to people of and over high school age. You must enter as a 4 person
team made up of a captain, a driver, an electrician and a mechanic. The robot must be a radio controlled
robot with arms or legs that complies with the rules decided by the contest committee. The rules refer toweight, parts used, size and so on.
This will be the 12th Robot Contest held. Who will be the winner? Fierce battles will be expected thisyear also. Please come along and watch the Robot Contest at the Kawasaki City Industrial Promotion
Hall. Admission is FREE. To get to the hall it’s a 5 minute walk in the Tama River direction from JR
Kawasaki Station West Exit. For more details please call the Business Promotion Section of theKawasaki

CityIndustrial Promotion (Support Section for New Business Start-up) at 044-548-4117.
The Kawasaki International Association offers free consultation for foreign residents
concerning daily living and problems. The service is free and confidential.
Hours: 10:00a.m.to 4:00p.m.:
Language: English Tuesday-Friday

Chinese: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday

Korean: Tuesday, Thursday

Tagalog: Tuesday, WednesdaySpanish: Tuesday, Thursday

Portuguese: Tuesday, Friday

Issued by The Kawasaki International Association
2-2 Kizuki Gion Cho,Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki 211-0033

Kawasaki International Center

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