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KAWASAKIINTERNATIONALASSOCIATION(367)「 秋のばら苑一般開放」について
The Rose Garden in Ikuta Park will be open to the public from Friday October 17th to Monday November
3rd.

Here, in Ikuta Park in Tama Ward, citizen volunteers help to cultivate many different types of roses

in a variety of different settings.
It’s an expansive site on a hill surrounded bygreenery where about four thousand colorfulroses of four hundred forty different

varieties are coming into full bloom.

noble scent of the flowers drifts over theproud blossoms.

TheIn the Royal Corner arecollected roses named after members of

the Imperial House and similar personages.

Elsewhere roses spill over a pergola.

There’s an English Rose Garden, too, among

other highlights.
So why not gather your family

and friends together for an outing to

see the many beautiful faces of theroses in Ikuta Park.

The Rose Garden is about a 15-minute

walk from Shukugawara Station on

the JR Nambu Line, or about a 12-minute walkLine.

from the Mukogaoka-yuen Station on the Odakyu

The Garden is open Tuesday through Friday from 10am to 4pm. On Saturday and Sunday it’sopen from 9 to 4, and it is closed on Mondays.

Admission is free.

For more information you can call the Rose Garden in Ikuta Park, which is called the IKUTARYOKUCHI-NAI BARA-EN (生田緑地内ばら苑) in Japanese; their phone number is 0 4 4 – 9 7 8 – 5 2 7 0.
Or you can contact the Environmental Protection Bureau, Park Management Division of the City ofKawasaki, called the KANKYŌ-KYOKU KŌEN KANRI KA (環境局公園管理課) in Japanese; their number
is 0 4 4 – 2 0 0 – 2 3 9 4.

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「カワサキハロウィン２００８」についてThis annual event has become something Kawasaki City is famous for.

And this year

again, from Saturday October 18th to Sunday October 26th the area around La
Cittadella, on the East side of JR Kawasaki Station, will be hosting the festivities.
During this time, the merrymakers will be painting the Higashiguchi area orange,figuratively speaking.
An opening ceremony will be held on the 18th, and in the days following there will be astamp rally, a party (actually several of those), horror movies, and contests.

There will be a face-painting

booth, a place to get special-effects makeup applied to you, and all sorts of other things to do.
On Saturday the 25th, in the plaza in La Cittadella, there will be a dance party to bring out a new song
written especially for Kawasaki Halloween.

And on the final day, Sunday the 26th, the largest costume parade in the country will be held; aroundthree thousand people are expected to show up in their best monster garb to parade around the Kawasaki
Station area.
So why not come out and join the fun at the biggest Halloween event in all of Japan?
For any questions concerning this festival, please call the Kawasaki Halloween Project at 0 4 4 – 2 3 3 – 1934.

(369)「外国人児童・生徒の川崎市立小・中学校の入学」について

If you have a child who is a foreign resident of Kawasaki, and you intend for that child to enter amunicipal elementary or junior high school in April next year, please go to your local ward office or branchward office now for a consultation.

Children will be able to begin the first year of elementary school ifthey were born between April 2nd, 2002 ad April 1st, 2003. Children will be able to begin the first year ofjunior high school if they are on track to graduate from elementary school by March of 2009.
For more information, inquire at your local ward office or branch ward office. At a ward office youwould ask at the Ward Residents Division, or KUMIN-KA (区民課).

At a branch ward office you will wantto speak to the individual with that responsibility; they will be known as the KUMIN-KAKARI (区民係) or
the KUMIN DAI-ICHI KAKARI (区民第１係).
In addition, at city-run elementary schools there will be health checkups offered for children who arestarting elementary school next year.

To arrange for your child to get one of these checkups please phone

the city’s Board of Education, Health Education Section, called the KYŌIKU I-IN KAIKENKŌ KYŌIKU KA (教育委員会健康教育課) in Japanese; their phone
number is 0 4 4 – 2 0 0 – 3 3 2 1.

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 ofJustice, Establishing a company/branch of foreign company, getting licenses forbusiness, etc.
Date & Time: 3rd Sunday from 2:00pm-4:00pm Place: Kawasaki InternationalCenter
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/