aWa life

July 2015# 300

THE 300th ISSUEOF AWA LIFEIn this issue:

The Yukata
Japanese Lesson
The Great Tokushima Air Raidand more

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Prefectural International Exchange Association

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Why not enroll your child in these Summer School Japanese Lessons? Japanese teachers are here tohelp you out, your child can do his/her summer homework in class, and there will be fun activities as
well, like games and quizzes.
For:
Elementary, Junior and Senior High School students whose first language is not Japanese.
When: July 21, 23, 24, 25, 28, 30, 31, August 1, 10:30 - 12:00
Cost: Free!
URL: www.topia.ne.jp
Organizer and Location: TOPIA, Tokushima Station Clement Building 6F

夏休み子ども日本語教室
日本語の先生といっしょに夏休みの宿題をしたり、ゲームやクイズをしたりしながら楽しく勉強しま
しょう！！
対象： 日本語を母語としない 小学生、中学生、高校生
日時： 7 月 21 日、23 日、24 日、25 日、28 日、30 日、31 日、8 月 1 日 10:30 ～ 12:00
参加費：無料
ＵＲＬ：www.topia.ne.jp をご覧ください！
主催・開催場所： 徳島県国際交流協会（徳島駅ビルクレメントプラザ６階）
Editors:
Jenifer Tanikawa & Till Dumke
Contributors This Month:
Austin Smith, Melissa Palsenberg, Kazue Inoue, Michi Mori, Terumasa
Nagano, Toshiyuki Bando, Jenifer Tanikawa, Till Dumke, Junko Kimura

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Contents
Pg. 2-3:

The 70th Anniversary of the Great Tokushima Air RaidPg. 3-4:

Anan College of Technology at Idea Expo Hannover 2015

Pg. 5:

Japanese Lesson

Pg. 6:

Welcome Messages

Pg. 6-7:

Letter from "SUKETO NAKAYOSHI"

Pg. 7:

Changes to Traffic Laws

Pg. 8-9:

The Yukata

Pg. 10-11: Events and Memoranda:

Arasowaren Applications 										Japanese Speech Contest

The 70th Anniversary of the Great Tokushima Air Raid
By Austin SmithTokushima was one of anumber of Japanese cities
that were heavily bombed on thenight of July 3rd and the earlyhours of July 4th, 1945. Newsof the bombings
was proclaimedon the front pagesof newspapers in
the USA to coincide with American
Independence Day.
Sixty-two percentof the city was
hit by incendiarybombs from low
flying B29 bombers, approximately
one thousandpeople died and about two
thousand were injured. Manyof the survivors fled to familiar
locations in the city for safety –up Mt. Bizan, to Konpira Shrine
and even into the Shinmachi
River. Some of the few buildingsthat survived the bombing

were the thick-walled indigo
storehouses and westernstyle, reinforced concretebuildings along the banks of the
Shinmachi.

Every July, the “Tokushima
Air Raids Archive”, a low-key
photographic exhibition, is heldin the former Takahara Building
to commemorate the event.
This renovated space is now
known as the Kokusai Building
and the second floor room inwhich the exhibition is held
retains the original windows
which were cracked on thatnight. The photographs in thecollection span the twentiethcentury history ofTokushima, including
pre-war, wartime andpost-war images.
While I would
encourage you tovisit the exhibitionin person, it is also
possible to view thecollection online.
The Tokushima Air
Raids Digital Archive
was launched in2013 and is available
all year round. Last year I wrote
English explanations for thecollection to coincide with the2014 exhibition.
T h i s y e a r, a g r o u p o f J E T
Programme participants,
including myself, have been
voluntarily translating a

3collection of fifty-nine personalaccounts of the Tokushima
Air Raid in time for the 70th
anniversary. This collection wascompiled by the Tokushima City
Government to markthe 65th anniversary
in July, 2010. At thattime, it was estimatedthat more than seventy
percent of the population of Tokushima had
not experienced thewar firsthand. These
accounts cover a broad
spectrum of experienc es from acro ss theGreater Tokushima area. The
contributors provide an insight
into the lasting trauma causedby the air raids and subsequent
war defeat; some of them were
just children at the time of thebombings. These accounts areseen as the perfect complement
to the photographs anddescriptions provided in theTokushima Air Raid
Tokushima Air Raids Digital
Archive and, together, theseresources can provide a broader
understanding of the event to
the international reader.

The Tokushima Air Raids Digital
Archive and Personal Accountsof the Tokushima Air Raid canbe found below with links to
the full text in both English andJapanese:
Tokushima Air Raids Digital
Archive:
http://impressionsofeastasia.

com/tokushima-air-raids-digitalarchive
Personal Accounts of theTokushima Air Raid: http://
impressionsofeastasia.com/
personal-accounts-ofthe-tokushima-air-raid
Austin Smith has beenan Assistant Language
Teacher (ALT) on theJapan Exchange andTeaching Programme
i n To k u s h i m a s i n c eAugust 2011. He will
start studying towards a
PhD in Modern History
at the University of St Andrews,
Scotland, from September.
2015, having been awarded a
postgraduate studentship fromthe Great British Sasakawa
Foundation. His research will
involve placing the modern
h i s t o r y o f To k u s h i m a i n anational and international
context.

Anan College of Technology at Idea Expo Hannover 2015
By Till DumkeT

he Anan Institute ofTechnology (ACT) will be
exhibiting a “Full Color LED
Display Equipped with an
Optical Sensor” at the Idea
Expo Hannover 2015 from the
3rd until the 12th of this month.
The ACT has two ongoing
relationships with German
universities and has beene xhi bi ti ng te chn ol og y fr o m
To k u s h i m a a t t h e b i y e a r l y

Idea Expo in Hannover
since 2011. ACT’s partners
in Niedersachsen, Germany
are the University of Applied
Science of Osnabrück, and the
University of Applied Science ofWolfenbüttel. Both universities
have been helping the ACTwith its projects at the Idea
Expo Hannover. Also Leibnitz
University Hannover has always
been helpful in making Anan’s
appearance at the Idea Expo agreat success.
Every semester the ACT
welcomes German and otherinternational students from India,
Thailand, China and Korea toname a few to their campus towiden their horizon and get an
insight to Japanese technology.
But also students at the ACT
benefit from its international
ambitions by being able tostudy abroad in America or
Germany and even having theIdea Expo 2015
chance to gain work experience
at different local companies inGermany. In Exchange German
and Thai students can acquire
important experiences at various
Japanese companies such as
NICHIA, SANYO, SHIKOKUKAKOUKI CO., LTD, and AWA
PAPER MFG, CO., LTD.
The Idea Expo Hannover started
in 2007 with the goal to spark
the interest of German students
for science and technology
and a career in related fields.
Quickly it has grown to be
the biggest youth event forscience and technology in all ofGermany. On an area of 41,185㎡ at Hannover Messe visitors
will be able to interactively
enjoy more than 500 exhibits
and take part in more than 400
workshops. For 2015, 350,000
visitors are expected. Global
players like ExxonMobil, VW,
Komatsu, Volvo, BASF andmany more present exhibits andcontinuously support Idea Expo.
The ACT will have its thirdappearance at Idea Expo
H a n n o v e r t h i s y e a r. A f t e r
exhibiting a “One Color LEDDisplay with Optical Sensors”
in 2011 and a “Small HydraulicPower Generating Device” in
2013, it will come back this yearwith a “Full Color LED-Display
with Optical Sensors”.
When LEDs are exposed to lightthey generate a small amountof energy which can be used to
power a small optical sensor.

LEDs emit light in waves whichmeans they basically flicker ina very high frequency, so highthat to the human eye it looks
like they are shining constantly.
In the intervals where they do
not emit light they assume theirfunction of optical sensors andgenerate minimal amounts ofpower.
The information from the opticalsensor is transmitted to a minicomputer which processes the
input and can make the LEDs
shine in different colors and/or
shapes.
Like in 2011 the LED-display will
come with a laser which allows
visitors to try to hit the bullseye shown on the display from
4m distance. The display will
also be equipped with different
functions like laser drawing orcolor changing.
That last aspect of color
changing seems marginal but
actually has a great impact on
our everyday lives. So great of
an impact that the invention thatmade it possible was awarded
with the Noble Prize in Physics
2014. Professor Nakamura, aformer employee at Nichia Corp.
Anan and current professor at
University of California, Santa
Barbara and a pair or professor
and researcher (Hiroshi Amano,
Isamu Akasaki) from Nagoya
University won the Noble Prize
for their invention of the Blue
Light Emitting Diode. Previous
to its invention, without thecolor “blue” it was not possible4

to create white light. Now that
LED-systems combining red,green and blue are madepossible every color can becreated by LEDs. When ShujiNakamura first invented blueLEDs, he introduced them todormitory students at Anan
National College of Technology.
However, the great benefit of theinvention is not only that everycolor of light can be created, butthat every color can be createdby highly power efficient andlong living LEDs. Their CO2
footprint is very small and theirdisposal is considerably easy
because they contain little toxic
chemicals as opposed to for
example fluorescent lights. Their
broad applicability to everyday
life makes the invention from
Tokushima so valuable.
With its exhibit this year the
ACT is aiming to educate
German students about thehigh efficiency and environment
friendliness of LED lighting
systems. Through firsthandexperience German students
can understand the value andthe properties of the blue LED.
Also the promotion of safety
and educated gun control is partof the exhibit through the lasershooting game.
We hope a lot of interested
German students will make it to
ACT’s booth this year.

5Japanese Lesson

By Michi MoriT

his month we will be learning expressions that can be used when relaying information about our
future plans to others. The following conversation takes place between exchange student A andexchange student B, who are about to graduate from school.
そつぎょう

A:

B さん、卒業したらどうしますか。

そつぎょう

B:

くに

かえ

おも

卒業したら、国に帰ろうと思っています。
くに

A:

かえ

そうですか。国へ帰るんですね。
かえ

B:

いえ

しごと

てつだ

帰って家の仕事を手伝うつもりです。

A：

さんはどうしますか。
わたし

A:

にほん

べんきょう

つづ

おも

かえ

私 は日 本で勉 強を続 けようと思 っています。まだ帰らないつもりです。
いこうけい

おも

『意 向形（V よう）＋と思 っています』This expression isused to relay the speaker’s future course of action or plan to
くに

かえ

おも

べんきょう つづおもthe listener:「国に帰ろうと思っています」「勉強を続けようと思っています」. Looking at Ms. A andMr. B’s conversation, the listener can make out that they have a plan or have something in mind for the
future.
じしょけい

There is a very similar expression:『（V 辞書形）＋つもりです』. Once Mr. B returns home he is planしごと

てつだ

ning on「仕事を手伝うつもりです」. This expression is used to relay the speaker’s future course ofaction or plan to the listener but in this case, the plan or future course of action is more concrete and is
かえmore or less set in stone. As well, Ms. A’s response「まだ帰らないつもりです」uses the expression『なけいけいい形 ＋つもりです』. By using the expression『ない形 ＋つもりです』she is strongly expressing her
かえ

future desires:「帰らない」.
Exercise

かえ

なに

くに

かえ

と思っています。

おも

学校を卒業したら何を（します）
なつやすと思っていますか。
しょうがつ

夏休みに国へ帰りますか。

かえ・・いいえ、お正月まで（帰る）つもりです。

④帰らない
かえ

Answers④

おも国へ帰ったら、わたしは先生に ( なります )がっこう そつぎょう③

つもりです。

せんせい

③ しよう

くに

②

なら

わたしは来週からピアノを（ 習います ）

② なろう

①

) to the appropriate form and write your answer on the underlined space.

なら

らいしゅう

① 習う

Change the words in the (参考文献

日本語表現文型（ナツメ社）日本語表現文型ドリル（J リサーチ）
みんなの日本語・初級日本語文法（スリーエーネットワーク）

Welcome Messages

By Terumasa Nagano and Toshiyuki Bando

H

ello and nice to meet you
all. My name is Terumasa
Nagano and I am the newVice President of TOPIA. I firstbegan working at the Tokushima
Prefectural Office in 1979 as acivil engineer and since havebeen working in the same
field. This will be my very firsttime doing any work related tointernational exchange so every
day brings new surprises.
With my work in civil engineering, our job is to enrich andbetter the lives of the people
through infrastructure, suchas through maintenance ofthe rivers and the roads. We
also work towards making the
local area safer and sound andmore resiliant against disasters.
Contrary to civil engineering,international exchange is aboutenriching people’s lives throughnon-structural means, such as

Hello everyone, my name is
Toshiyuki Bando and as of
May 1st, I have been working at
TOPIA as the executive director.
This will be my first time working
in the field of international
exchange, but we sincerely
hope that you will continue tosupport us, as myself and theVice President of TOPIA work
towards achieving our goal as
an association of fostering amore multicultural society.
To tell you a bit about myself,

every weekend I play tennis with
my friend. I’m not particularly
good at it or anything but it’ssomething that I really enjoy
doing. I also enjoy watchingsoccer and baseball, so muchso that I went to Kobe in April
to cheer on the soccer team,
INAC Kobe, who plays in theNadeshiko League.

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creating a society where people
with different values can live
together. I hope to be able tosee things through this different
perspective.
At our association, we offer
Japanese Classes, train
volunteers, such as interpreters,
hold a speech contest forforeign residents and among
other things we also organize
the Arasowa-ren dance troupe.
We hope that you will be able
to support us as we work
towards deepening mutual
understanding between thelocal Japanese and foreigncommunities.

you are interested, please cheer
them on with me. Go! Vortis,Go!

I’m also a supporter of theTokushima Vortis soccer teambut unfortunately they haven’t
been doing so well. If any ofLetter from SUKETO NAKAYOSHI

By Kazue Inoue (Center for Early Childhood Education and Care SUKETO NAKAYOSHI)W

ith the days growing
warmer with each passing day, summer is finally upon
us. In Japan, July 7th is when

Tanabata takes place, a festival
originating from the Chinese
Qixi Festival. Tanabata is associated with the folklore that tells

a tale of two star crossed lovers,
Orihime and Hikoboshi, who are
vanished to opposite ends ofthe Milky Way as a punishment

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from God and are only allowed
to meet once every year. During
the festival, this story is often
told to children and many people will also write wishes on
slips of paper and will tie it to abamboo. Let’s all cross our fingers and hope for a clear starrynight on July 7th this year.
This month I would like to introduce ways that will help children
drink medication more easily. In
particular, powdered medicine
has a rather strong bitter taste
and is hard to consume. Mixing
the powder with sweet or cold
food or drink will help it go down
more easily. Some of the items
you can mix it with are, commercially available medicated jellies,
and things that are more readily
available are syrup, condensed
milk, cake syrup and ice cream.
(One word of caution: only mix
the medicine into food that youThe police will be stiffening
penalties for traffic law
violators in hopes of reducing
the number of bicycle-related
accidents. Under the newlaw, which came into effect onJune 1st of this year, those
who are caught violating traffic
regulations more than twice
within 3 years will be required
to take a safety course. The
course is three hours long andwill cost 5,700 yen. Anyone whodoes not attend the course after
receiving the order will be fined

Suketo Nakayoshi
don’t mind them forming anaversion to.) I will also like tointroduce some food items you
should not mix medicine with.
Do not mix medicine with staple
foods (especially because you
eat it so often you don’t wantthem to form a dislike towards
the food). Do not mix antibiotics
with sour foods as the chemical
properties may be changed by
the food (i.e., yogurt, orange
juice, drinks with lactic acidbacteria, sports drinks, etc.).
As well, depending on the typeof medicine, whatever you mix
it with may cause the medication itself to change or become
bitterer so it is best to consult adoctor first.

＊ This Month’s Craft ＊Playing with Dyes: Making
Morning Glories
1) Prepare the following: a coffee filter (white), paint mixed
with plenty of water, morning
glory leaf made from construction paper.
2) Dip the ends of the coffee
filter into the paint to absorb thecolor.
3) Spread it open and allow it
to dry. While holding the bottom
portion of the filter, form the filter
into a shape of a flower. Attach
the paper leaf and you’re done.
You can mount it on anotherpiece of paper and put it up on
your wall or you can attach it toa paper fan.

Changes to the Road Traffic Laws
up to 50,000 yen.
Some of the traffic violations
include: ignoring traffic lights,
entering railroad crossings
after the bar has come down,
ignoring stop signs, drinking andcycling, etc.
5 Major Traffic Regulations
1. In principle, cyclists should
ride on the street and use
sidewalks only in exceptional
cases.
2. Cyclists should ride on theleft side of the street.

3. If you are cycling on the
sidewalk, pedestrians have theright of way and cyclists should
stay on the side closest to theroad.
4. Cyclists must obey safety
rules (a. Drinking and cycling,riding double and riding side byside are prohibited; b. Cyclists
must use bicycle lights at night;
c. Cyclists must obey traffic
lights. As well, they must checkfor safety after coming to a fullstop.)
5. Children must wear a helmet

The Yukata

By Melissa Palsenberg

It’s almost summer again,
which means it’s time for hot
nights, fireworks, festivals, andyukata ( ゆ か た ). If you go to
any festival in Japan, seeing
young men and women in
yukata is a very common sight.
Compared to kimono, yukata
are very easy to put on, andthey are much cooler in thesummer heat and humidity. But
buying your first yukata can still
be intimidating. Today, I’d liketo give you some tips on what tolook for when buying your own
yukata.
How to identify a yukata
A yukata is an unlined, cotton
garment. It’s not a kimono, but
the shape is the same, except
for the collar. Kimono collars
are usually twice as wide as
yukata collars and have to befolded in half before putting it on.
Yukata collars are already sewn
in half. To tell the difference
between a men’s yukata anda women’s yukata, take a lookat the pattern
and the sleeves.
Women’s patterns
are loud, bold, andcolourful, while
men’s patterns
are darker andmore subdued.
The sleeves on awoman’s yukata
are only attachedto the body along
the top half of thesleeve and thesleeves are open

at the back. The sleeves on amen’s yukata are attached tothe body completely except forthe bottom few centimeters, andthe sleeves are sewn shut at theback.
How to find the right size.
Lots of people (even shopkeepers) think that a yukata is“one size fits most” which is far
from the truth. There are threemeasurements you want to lookfor. First is the mitake ( 身 丈 )this is the length of the yukata.
For men, a yukata should reachto your ankles when hanging
straight down. For women, youneed extra length to create theohashori (the folded waist) in theyukata. Generally, if the yukata
is around the same length as
you are tall, you’ll have enoughfabric to make an ohashori.
The second measurement is
the width of the yukata. Thereis no official name for thismeasurement in Japanese
because usually the widths

8of the individual panels aremeasured separately. Basically,
the yukata should be wide
enough so that when you wrap
it around yourself, the edgesof the fabric should be able totouch your hips on the opposite
side.
Finally, you need to measure
the yuki ( 裄 ). The yuki is themeasurement from the center ofyour back to your wrist with yourhands held out to the sides.
The yuki is also half of thewingspan of your yukata. The
sleeves of a well-fitting yukata
should reach to your wrists.
Ready-made or Custom-made?
The choice is up to you. If
you find that you will fit into a
ready-made yukata, then you
have endless choices. They
are cheap and available almost
everywhere in the summer. The
sizing on ready-made yukata
can be listed a little differently
from what I’ve described above,
depending on the company
that sells them.
Sometimes they’relisted as M or
L size, but theyusually have hip,waist, length,
yuki, and othermeasurements
marked on thetag. If in doubt,
you can ask thestaff to take yourmeasurements.
Custom makeyukata have the9advantage of fitting perfectly.
If you are taller or wider than
the average Japanese person,
or if you have long arms, it
might be worth the cost to get acustom made yukata
for yourself. However,this option is much
more expensive thanb u y i n g o ff t h e r a c k(usually around 30,000– 40,000 yen) andit will take several
weeks for your yukata
to be made so plan
accordingly.
What about the obi?
Both men and women
have the option ofa traditional obi that you tie
yourself, or a tsukue obi (pretied obi). Both are perfectly
acceptable with yukata. If you
decide to go for a traditionalobi, men will want to look foreither a kaku obi (stiff obi 角帯 )or a heko obi (soft obi 兵児帯 )in darker colours. Women will
want to look for a hanhaba obi(half width obi 半幅帯 ). Women
can accessorize their hanhaba
obi with a colourful heko obi,
but only young children wear acolourful heko obi by itself. For
both men and women, choose
a contrasting colour for yourobi. It will make the obi standout against your yukata. For
women, a floral yukata and afloral obi can be flower overkill.
A geometric or a solid coloured
obi is a good fit for a floral
yukata.

The Yukata
Accessories
While yukata don’t need nearly
as many accessories as akimono, you still need a few ties
to keep everything together.

For men, you need either akoshihimo (a cord that you tie
腰 紐 ) or magic tape (a cord
fastened with velcro マ ジ ッ ク
テープ ). This holds the yukata
closed at the waist. And that’s
it. Lucky men!
Women need a little more. First,
I would recommend wearing
a sports bra. Essentially, you
are wrapping a flat piece offabric around a curvy object.
The more you can reduce thecurves, the lesswrinkles you haveto worry about.
Another trick I use
is to fold a towel
into thirds and wrap
it around my waist.
It works really wellto smooth out anhour gla s s f i g u r e
and it has theadded benefit of soaking up any
sweat and preventing damage
to your yukata.
Women also need a koshihimo
or a waist belt (an elastic tie ウ
エ ス ト ベ ル ト ) to
hold the yukata inplace at the waist,and a datejime (awider tie 伊 達 締 め )to keep your collars inplace. There are lotsof other accessories
that you are free
to use with yukata,but these are theabsolute minimum.
What about footwear?
Geta ( 下 駄 ) are thestandard footwear for both men
and women, but I find themextremely uncomfortable andusually go with sandals instead.
If you do decide to go with geta,
be sure you are getting thecorrect ones. Women’s geta
are smaller and rounder thanthe blockier, rectangular shapeof men’s geta. Geta are neverworn with tabi socks.

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Applications for the Arasowa-ren Dance Troupe
あらそわ連参加募集中
The chance to join the Arasowa-ren and to secure your place in the 2015 Awa Dance Festival is here!
Make sure you sign up soon, as places go quickly! We are also looking for individuals to play the
instrument or be a staff. To play an instrument with us, no experience is necessary, and there will bepractice sessions before the event.
When:
Friday, August 14
Location:
Meet at the Awa Kanko Hotel
Time:
Assemble from 15:00-16:00
Opening Ceremony and pre-dance party from
16:20
Dancing from approximately 17:40-21:30
Participation Fee:
3000 yen for Japanese
2000 yen for non-Japanese participants
Applications:
Apply in person at TOPIA or reply via paid
postcard (see below)
On receiving your application, TOPIA will mail you
whether you can participate or not. We will include
a post-office bank account number to where you
can pay the participation fee within one week. Or
you can pay at TOPIA.
PLEASE NOTE: We cannot accept applications
by fax or telephone. You cannot apply on the
day of the event. Also, we cannot refund theparticipation fee for any reason. In the event ofrain, the party and dance will take place inside
the Awa Kanko Hotel. Participants will be limited
to the first 80 applicants. ★ Applications will betaken until 4PM that day.

日時 :8 月 14 日（金）集合場所 :
阿波観光ホテル
スケジュール :15:00-16:00 集合
16:20~
開会式
17:40~
踊り開始
21:30		踊り終了参加費（中学生以上）：
日本人 3,000 円、外国人 2,000 円
申込み方法：往復はがきにて、①名前②性別③
住所④電話番号⑤国籍⑥年齢（20 歳未満の方のみ）をご記入の上 TOPIA までお申し込みください。また、女踊り（先着 30 名）ご希望の方はその旨をはがきにご記入下さい。
（それ以外の方は男踊りとなります。
）応募者には返信用はがきにより参加の可否をお知らせ致します。参加可能な方には郵便局の振込口座番号をお知らせしますの
で、返信はがき到着後 1 週間以内に参加費をお支払い下さい。尚、一度払い込まれた参加費は、いかなる場合でも払い戻しできませんのでご注意下
さい。
注意：電話・FAX での受付はご遠慮下さい。当日
参加は不可能です。募集定員 80 名になり次第締
め切ります。★当日受付は午後 4 時で終了いたします。運営スタッフ及び鳴り物の方、大募集！

11 Events & Memoranda
2015 年 外国人による
徳島県日本語弁論大会
Tokushima Prefecture Japanese Speech Contest

Foreign residents whose native language is not Japanese will begiving a speech in Japanese on various topics such as culturaldifferences, their experiences with life in Tokushima, and more. Let'stalk and exchange each other about our cultures.
Date: Monday, July 20, 2015 (holiday)
Time: 1:30pm – 4:30pm
Place: Awagin Hall, Small Hall 5F( あわぎんホール 5 階 )(Tokushima Prefecture Kyodo Bunka Kaikan)
TEL (088)622-8121
Sponsor: Tokushima Prefecture International Exchange Association
TEL (088) 656-3303

Seeking Instrumentalists for the TIA Awa Dance Group
阿波踊り連 TIA の鳴り物奏者を募集！
The Tokushima International Association (TIA) islooking for new instrumentalists (for big or small
drums, flute, gong, shamisen, etc.) who canhelp liven up our international dance troupe withmusic. TIA will be dancing on August 12th. You
don’t need to have any experience to participate.
We look forward to hearing from you! VIVA Awa
Dance!
Contact: Satoru Fukui
TEL: 088-622-6066
E-mail: info@tia81.com

徳島市国際交流協会では阿波踊り連 TIA の鳴り物演奏者（大太鼓・締太鼓、笛、鉦、三味線等）を募集しております！一緒に演奏をし、TIA の国際的な連を盛り上げていきませんか。TIA 連は 8 月
12 日の徳島市の阿波踊りに参加します。未経験者も大歓迎です。ご応募をお待ちしております！
VIVA 阿波踊り！
問合せ：福井暁
TEL: 088-622-6066
E-mail: info@tia81.com

Counselling Service at TOPIA・トピアの相談窓口
TOPIA offers a counselling and advisory service to all foreign residents to help with issues involving
accidents, working conditions, housing, visas, international marriage, and more. Counselling isavailable in English and Japanese. Please note that although every effort will be made, we may not beable to deal with all cases.
Everyday, 10:00 - 18:00 (closed during the New Year's holidays)
Tel: 088-656-3303 or 088-656-3320 (allows three-way conversations with an interpreter)