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KAWASAKIINTERNATIONALASSOCIATION「第１１回 Buy かわさきフェスティバル in たかつ」について（319）

The 11th Buy Kawasaki Festival in Takatsu is happening on Saturday November the

10th from 10am to 5pm in the walkway/pedestrian deck area in front of the ticket gatesof JR Mizonokuchi Station.
At the festival you’ll be able to check out (and purchase if you’d like) high-quality
specialty products made right here in Kawasaki City.

In connection with the Buy

Kawasaki Campaign there will be an exhibit of glass arts and crafts as well, and even a workshop area
where you can try your hand at making something yourself.
On top of that, they’ll have a stage set up in the festival area where street musicians will be putting on ashow for the crowd.
If you have any questions about the Buy Kawasaki Festival in Takatsu, you can call the Economic Affairs
Bureau, Planning Section, which is called the KEIZAI KYOKU KIKAKU-KA (経済局企画課) in Japanese;
their phone number is 0 4 4 – 2 0 0 – 2 3 2 2

川崎市アートセンターオープニングイベントについて（320）
On October 31st, as part of the “City of Art” development project, the Kawasaki
Art Center opened in Shin-Yurigaoka.

The Center includes facilities forscreening films and staging live performances.
From Thursday November 15th to Sunday November 18th the Kyorakuza theater company （京楽座）will
perform the concert-drama The Story of a Piano （ピアノのはなし、”PIANO NO HANASHI”）in the Center.
On Thursday November 22nd and Friday November 23rd the Jakushu Ningyo-za puppet troupe (若州人形座) will perform Echizen Takeningyo (越前竹人形) and other things.
In addition, during the Kawasaki Shinyuri Film Festival from Thursday November 15th to Sunday
December 16th, the cinema in the Art Center will be quite active.

It will be used for showings of films bydirectors featured in the Festival, for talks, and for screenings of films with subtitles and/or with earphone
guides.

For more information on these or other events please see the Kawasaki Art Center’s homepage, or

else call them at 0 4 4 – 9 5 5 – 0 1 0 7 .

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市民ミュージアム企画展について
There’s a new exhibit at the Kawasaki City Museum about samurai who used to live
right here.

It’s called TSUWAMONO DOMO NO HIKARI TO KAGE : INAGE

SABURO TO SONO JIDAI（「つわもの」どもの光と影－稲毛三郎とその時代－）, whichmeans “Light and Shadow of the Samurai: Inage Saburo and His Times.”

And it runs until Sunday the9th of December.
Inage Saburo Shigenari (稲毛三郎重成) was a person of considerable importance to the history ofKawasaki City.
lived.

The exhibit both recounts his achievements and explains a lot about the era in which he

Shigenari made his home on the Inage landed estate within what is now Kawasaki City from theend of the Heian period to the beginning of the Kamakura period, and was active as one of the Musashi
Bushi.
On exhibit are various artifacts such as a helmet used in the Kamakura period, and on display for thefirst time ever is the “Hojo Yoshitoki Gejijo” （北条義時下知状）document.

In addition, you can put on

replica samurai armor and have your picture taken wearing it.
Entry to the exhibit is 700 yen for adults, 500 yen for high school or college students and those 65 andolder.

Elementary and junior high school students get in free.

For more information you can call theKawasaki City Museum; their phone number is 0 4 4 – 7 5 4 – 4 5 0 0 .

The new office of the “Hello Work Kawasaki” will open on Nov.26,2007.
New Address: Kawasaki-ku, Minami- cho , 17-2
Tel: 044-244-8609 FAX: 044-233-4343 (These numbers are notchanged.)

From Nov. 20, 2007, foreign nationals who apply for entry into Japan will be required to be fingerprinted
and photographed (facial photographs) by means of special devices, and then interviewed by immigration
inspections.
The new procedures will apply to all foreign nationals upon their entry into Japan, including the casewhere foreign nationals with re-entry permits enter into Japan, except for the persons eligible forexemption listed below.
If foreign nationals who are not eligible for exemptions from this requirement refuse to submit theirfingerprints or photographs, they will be denied entry into Japan and ordered to leave.
(Persons eligible for exemption)1) Special permanent residents
2) Persons under the age 163) Persons engaged in activities which fall under the status of residence for “Diploma” or “Official”
4) Persons invited by the heads of administrative organs
5) Persons provided for by the Ministry of Justice Ordinance as equivalent person listed in (3) or (4).

Gyouseishoshi Lawyer Organization is offering the consulting services for foreign residents as thefollowings. Please feel free to come and consult what you are worrying about now.
Contents of Consultation: Visa problem, Extending period of Stay, Changing status of residence,Naturalization, Permanent visa, Long Term resident visa, Certificate of eligibility, International
marriage/divorce, Extraordinary permit of residence by minister of Justice, Establishing acompany/branch of foreign company, getting licenses for business, etc.
Date & Time: 3rd Sunday from 2:00pm-4:00pm (Nov/18, Dec/16)
Place: Kawasaki International Center
Please 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/