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夢見ヶ崎動物公園年賀状展について
Wouldn’t you like to send the animals a New Year’s Card this year?
Yumemigasaki Zoological Park invites you to send your original NENGAJO ( 年 賀 状 ), orJapanese-style New Year’s Cards, to the animals in the zoo between Tuesday, January 1st and Thursday,
January 10th of 2008. Please put your favorite drawing, painting, picture or photograph of an animal on
the card you send to the zoo. Cards received will be put on display in the zoo from Saturday, January 19th
to Monday the 28th.
Here’s the address to use:
212-0055 Nengajo-kakari Yumemigasaki Dobutsu Koen
1-2-1Minami-Kase,Saiwai-ku,Kawasaki-shi
In Japanese that’s:
212-0055 川崎市幸区南加瀬 1-2-1 夢見ヶ崎動物公園 年賀状係
Or you can bring your card in person. From the west entrance ofJR Kawasaki Station you can take a bus to the zoo; you’d get off at the“YUMEMIGASAKI DOBUTSU KOEN MAE” (夢見ヶ崎動物公園前) bus stop.
Otherwise the zoo is around 20 minutes on foot from JR Kashimada Station, or about 15 minutes on footfrom JR Shin-Kawasaki Station. If you have any questions you can call the zoological park at 0 4 4 – 5 8 8 –.
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年末年始のごみ収集について

The trash collection schedule for the New Year’s holidays is as follows:
For communities in which ordinary trash is collected on Mondays, Wednesdays
and Fridays, the last day of ordinary trash collection this year will be Sunday,
December 30th. For communities in which ordinary trash is collected on Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays, the final day of ordinary trash collection for this year will beon Monday, December 31st.
And if you’re in a Monday-Wednesday-Friday pickup area, your first day of ordinary trashcollection for 2008 is Friday, January 4th. People in Tuesday-Thursday-Saturday areas will have theirfirst ordinary trash pickup for the new year on Saturday, January 5th.
Recyclable resources will be collected as usual through the week of December 24th, and then halt for
the holidays. Recyclables will resume a normal collection schedule starting the weekof January 7th, 2008.
Applications for collection of oversized trash will be taken up through Friday
December 28th; the phone number for the Oversized Trash Center (the SODAI GOMIUKETSUKE SENTAA, 粗大ごみ受付センター) is 0 4 4 – 9 3 0 – 5 3 0 0 . If you haveany questions about garbage collection at the end of the year, please contact the waste
collection office, or SEIKATSU KANKYO JIGYO-SHO (生活環境事業所), for your area.

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休日急患診療所
If you are struck with an acute illness or injury on a holiday, you can receive initial evaluation andcare at a Holiday Emergency Clinic (a KYUJITSU KYUKAN SHINRYO JO, 休日急患診療所, in Japanese).
Treatment is offered in internal medicine and pediatrics. The clinics are open on Sundays, holidays andfrom December 29th to January 3rd every year. They receive patients between 9 and 11:30 a.m. andbetween 1 and 4 o’clock p.m.
Here are the phone numbers of the Holiday Emergency Clinics for each ward:
Kawasaki Holiday Emergency Clinic, 2 1 1 – 6 5 5 5.
Saiwai Holiday Emergency Clinic, 5 5 5 – 0 8 8 5.
Nakahara Holiday Emergency Clinic, 7 2 2 – 7 8 7 0.
Takatsu Holiday Emergency Clinic, 8 1 1 – 9 3 0 0.
Miyamae Holiday Emergency Clinic, 8 5 3 – 2 1 3 3.
Tama Holiday Emergency Clinic, 9 3 3 – 1 1 2 0.
Asao Holiday Emergency Clinic, 9 6 6 – 2 1 3 3.
Each clinic’s hours of operation and other details are subject to change,
so be sure to call the facility before you go.

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.)

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/