Category Archives: City Life

Abiko City, City Life, Community Partners

Welcome to Abiko City in World Campus – Japan 2015!!!

Abiko

我孫子市は都心にも成田空港にも電車で40分ぐらいと便利な町ですが、豊かな自然が沢山残されています。人口は14万で都心に通う人のベッドタウンとして人気があります。住民の人柄は飛び抜けて温かく、親切ですがシャイな人が多いです。主流の農村には江戸時代から伝わる郷土芸能のお神楽なども伝承されています。我孫子市を一言で言えば「素朴な人情味溢れる田舎町」でしょうか？

Abiko city has rich nature and is located in such a convenient area that takes to 40 minutes both to the center of Tokyo and to Narita airport by train. The population is about 140,000 and Abiko is very popular as a bed-town of Tokyo. People are extremely kind and a bit shy. You can enjoy traditional performing art, Kagura, which have been handed down since Edo period. We are looking forward to having you here in country town with full of human warmth, Abiko!

City Life, Suita City

Welcome to Suita City in World Campus – Japan 2015!!!

Suita-SING役員写真

吹田国際隣人グループSING（Suita International Neighors Group)は、2005年にUWPの訪問を受け入れから始まって、2007年WCIを受け入れるためにUWP吹田実行委員会から、SINGが立ち上げられました。

現在、役員は5人。
＜代表＞三原滿里（画廊経営）　
＜副代表＞半崎智恵美（看護師）
＜会計＞西川利子（会社役員）
＜理事＞林　健治（IT会社経営）
＜理事＞は、岡田眞里（行政書士）

吹田ならではの、活動をして頂くために企画を考えています。去年に引き続き、商店街体験、企業、大学、ゆいぴあロビー活動、アサヒビール工場見学などを考えています。本年は、吹田千里山駅前に、住民のためのコミュニティセンター（千里山）の施設がオープンするので、地域の活性化に協力をお願いします。
　　　　　

SING (Suita International Neighbors Group) has started as a supporting community of Up With People in 2005, then we have been hosting the group of people from World Campus International since 2007.

Mari Mihara is the head of our group and we have Chiemi Hanzaki, Toshiko Nishikawa, Kenji Hayashi, and Mari Okada as official members of SING.

Now we’re preparing for the upcoming World Campus – Japan program. This summer, you might experience to work for Japanese traditional shopping street, interact with high school/university students, and explore Asahi beer factory as activities in Suita city!

Announcements, City Life, Community Partners, Toride City

Welcome to Toride City in World Campus – Japan 2015!!!

Welcome to Toride

都内まで40分ですが、日本を代表する河川の１つである利根川が流れ、自然環境に恵まれた地域です。また、芸大がありアートの街でもあります。
WCI取手での活動のイチ押しは、夏の凧揚げ大会です。ホストファミリーの皆様と一緒に４０連凧を作り、利根川土手で凧揚げをします。涼しい川風に吹かれての凧揚げは最高です！！
他にも、地域の方々と日本文化体験も予定しています。是非、取手へ！！待ってま~すヽ(^o^)丿”

Even though it takes only 40 minutes to get to the center of Tokyo, there is rich nature in Toride city such as the Tone River, one of the largest rivers in Japan! And there is an art college in this city, so Toride is known as a city of art as well!

We have several activities for the World Campus – Japan program 2015, and “Flying kites” activity would be the most exciting part of your stay in Toride! We are going to make 40 kites with the host families and let them fly in the sky by the Tone River!

Also we’re planning to have some more experiences of Japanese traditional cultures! Welcome to Toride! We all look forward to meeting you!

City Life, City Theme Activities, Tama City

Arigato Event & Country Presentation Day

Arigato Event & Country Presentation Day

Day of activity: August 9th 2014

Yesterday concluded a beautiful chapter of my life. Though I have experienced enough in the last two months to fill in a few years’ worth, I can’t help but feel that this amazing experience came to an end prematurely. As it is for most days in Japan, yesterday’s schedule was quite filled. The Tama community organized an event in which all WCI members got to present their countries to the Japanese youth. After this warm interaction, we moved on to our Thank You event, which consists of dances, musical performances, and other playful activities. It aims to show our gratefulness to all of those involved with the WCI program. This was for me the last of 8 events of this kind, and undoubtedly, it was the most emotional of all; as a mix of joy and nostalgia were present throughout the night. In the last few weeks WCI has become a family to me. We have played together, laughed together, cooked together, and discovered tasty foods together. We have sung together, danced together, and signed a ridiculous amount of thank you cards together. We have been happy together, and we have been sad to say goodbye to each other. Now I hope we take all of this home and make the world a better place together. Love to all my WCI family and everyone who was involved with the program. Thank you Hiro Nishimura for allowing us to live this experience. From the bottom of my silly canadian heart!

Jeremy (Canada)

City Life, City Theme Activities, Tama City

JUKI company visit

JUKI company visit

Date of activity: August 7th 2014

Today, we were allowed by the JUKI group to tour their facilities. Mainly, they demonstrated how their signature industrial and home model sewing machines worked. It was quite amazing to see all of the ingenuity behind machinery that mostly sits in the back of people’s houses. However, we were given the opportunity to see them in action. Some of us used the machines to sew buttons and others fixed some holes or sewed sturdy stitches. This all paled in comparison to the machine that sewed an entire suit pocket or a suit front all in about a second! This is work, that when done by a human instead of the machine, would require at least half an hour. But this machine did it with care and very fast. It was a surprise to see that the same technology that is used in the big automatic sewing machines was also used to mount chips and other parts onto circuit boards. All in all I learned a lot today and it was a lot of fun!

Michael (USA)