Japanese New Year
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Japanese New Year
Ota City Navigation 2012.12 2013.01 Multilingual Newsletter for International Residents Population of Ota City Vol.17 English Total = 697,405 Japanese = 679,016 Foreign Residents = 18,389 As of November 1, 2012 N e e w s e n Y a e p ar a O-Shogatsu J Kadomatsu Kadomatsu (New Year ’s decorative pine branches), Shime-kazari (New Year’s sacred straw festoon); Kadomatsu is a pine b r a n c h a ff i x e d t o the front of a gate or entrance to a house. Shime-kazari is hung Shime-kazari at a house’s entrance, etc. It is considered ideal to adorn your home from December 13-28 or 30. This is the origin of Kadomatsu. To set up a tree as a sign when Toshigamisama descends at the beginning of a new year. What is the Japanese New Year (o-shogatsu)・・・? The Japanese New Year falls on the first day of the first month (January) of a new year. This holiday is observed to welcome Toshigami-sama (a god celebrated at the beginning of the New Year). “Shogatsu” is another name for January. It is said that Toshigami-sama descends at the Osechi-ryori Osechi-ryori(special dishes prepared for the New Year) is an assortment of lucky home-style dishes for offering to Toshigamisama and hope of a family’ prosperity. These dishes will keep unspoiled for a few days. Osechi-ryori is typically packed in lacquered boxes (Jubako) so that guests can also eat from these dishes. Each dish has a special meaning and expresses a wish for a new year. beginning of a new year so that crops will grow in abundance and families will be happy. Ozoni (a soup containing rice cakes, is eaten on New Year's Day) is a soup with rice cakes, vegetable and chicken. It is offered for Toshigami-sama at Kamidana (household Shinto altar); It is also known as “Zonimochi”. Differing in each region and household, Ozoni can be prepared in many various ways and can contain ingredients such as round or squared rice cakes, or white or red miso (bean paste). Ozoni Kagami-mochi(round rice cakes), formed from large and small circular rice cakes, is used as a decoration before God or in an alcove on New year’s Day as an offering for Toshigami-sama. It is usually displayed until January 11, which is a day of Kagami-biraki (the custom of cutting and eating round rice cakes). Kagami-mochi Notice from the City Office High Cost Medical Expenses -If you are paying a high amount of medical expense per month◆ Full Provision of High Cost Medical Care ◆ High Cost medical expense Loans When medical expenses for one month exceed the maximum Paying off High-cost medical care expenses takes time. If amount borne by illness or injury, you can apply for you are having difficulty paying medical care expenses reimbursement of the expense amount that exceeded the person’s share. An application form will be sent by mail to any person falling under these requirements three months from the month of these treatments. Please note that this reimbursement is inapplicable after two years from the 1st of the next month of because of high-cost, you can take out an interest free loan of up to 90% of the expected amount of the medical care expenses provided, However, loans under 10,000 yen are excluded. these treatments. ● Required items ① Receipt or bill issued by a medical institution ② National Health Insurance Certificate ③ Seal (stamp cannot be used) 【Inquiries】 National Health Insurance & National Pension ④ Account number of householder ☎ 03-5744-1211 FAX 03-5744-1516 School Enrollment Application Forms Enrollment applications will be sent out on December 18 to children who will be attending Ota City’s elementary or junior high school next spring. Children who fall under the following categories are required to comply with the following procedures as soon as possible. In particular, the following groups ② - ④ have an effect on a classroom organization. Please do not delay in the following circumstances ① Children who wish to attend an Ota City’s school other than the locally designated school They need to submit an application of change on January 5-7. Please note that enrollment in some schools may be not accepted or selections will be made by lottery according to the facilities’ size or organization of classes. For further details about reception desk times, etc., please refer to the school's notice. ② Children who are enrolled in a National, Municipal or private school Please comply with the following procedures for notification of the national, municipal or private school attendance with an admission permit (written approval) at the following Department or each special branch of Ota City Office. 2 ③ Children who wish to enroll in a municipal school in a different city Please contact the board of education which governs the proposed school. ④ Children who wish to enroll in junior high school in Ota City and have graduated from an elementary school in another city Please visit the following Department with the certificate of graduation. After application procedures, a notice of accepted students school attendance will be issued. 【Inquiries】 School Affairs ☎ 03-5744-1429 FAX 03-5744-1536 Ota City Navigation 2012/12/15 Issued on the 15th every month (excluding January and August) Procedures for Child Allowance ◆ Child Allowance application during the ※ When moving from another city, the scheduled date in New Year’s Holiday the Notification of moving from the previous residence Child allowance’s desks of Ota City Office will be closed falls under transfer date during the New Year’s holiday season (December 29-January 3). Deadlines for children born in December or transferring to Ota City in December is as follows (if you are sending the application form by post, it should be postmarked on or before the following deadline). For more details about electronic application, please refer to the Ota City Office’s web site or contact the following Department ◆ First month of Child Allowance payment In principle, child allowance payment starts on the following month you application for this allowance. However, payment of this allowance will begin on the month of application if you apply for this allowance within the 15 days after birth. Please note that even if D a t e o f b i r t h / Application Deadline to Receive this application is accepted, after the deadline, the start of transferring, etc. Child Allowance from January 2013 payment will be delayed. Dec. 1- 13 Dec. 28, 2012 Dec. 14- 20 Jan. 4, 2013 Dec. 21- 31 Within 15 days from the date after birth or moving, etc. (if the 15th day is a weekend or national day, deadline is the next business day) 【Inquiries】 Child -Raising Support ☎ 03-5744-1275 FAX 03-5744-1525 Take precautions against food poisoning this winter Food poisoning is always a risk throughout the year but. Norovirus, the most common form of food poisoning, occurs mainly in the winter season. Campylobacter, the second most commonly occurring. food poisoning is present throughout the year. Please note that these symptoms may be worse for children or elderly people. Norovirus Norovirus is an extremely contagious infection, so you are always at risk of being infected by one little virus. Period of Campylobacter You are always at risk of being infected by one little virus. Therefore, when you eat raw or rare meat you may be infected even though the meat of fresh. It can still be infected with the virus. ●Symptoms: diarrhea, abdominal pain and fever (average 38 degrees) ※ Onset of symptoms is 2-5 days. ●Prevention methods: ・Heat all meat fully ・When having a barbecue or roasted meat, prepare separate infection is one or two days. These symptoms usually alleviate tongs or chopsticks to use only for roasting meat. within a few days. ・When cooking dishes using both meat and rare foods, use a ●Symptoms: separate cutting board or kitchen knife for cutting meat. Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain and fever ・After touching rare meat directly, wash hands well. ●Prevention methods: ・Wash hands frequently. ・Fully cook all food * Dispose of vomit by wearing gloves and try not to touch 【Inquiries】 Sanitation & Public Health vomit directly. ☎ 03-5764-0697 FAX 03-5764-0711 Ota City Navigation 2012/12/15 Issued on the 15th every month (excluding January and August) 3 Thank you so much for reading Ota City Navigation (hereinafter referred to as OCN). We held a roundtable discussion for readers of OCN on October 23 (Wed.) 15:00-17:00 to get feedback and advice from Ota City Navigation The 1st round-table discussion for readers was held! Q. What information should OCN include? LIN: articles about differences between Japanese and foreign cultures, customs of daily life in Japan, attention to seasonal diseases. readers of OCN. TOLENTINO: school events, good places for Does OCN include information which you would like having a barbecue in Ota City, famous places to know more about? for cherry-blossom viewing, good places We received many ideas from foreign readers in Ota for walking, evacuation areas at the time of City. Participants of this discussion (name, nationality and time living in Japan) LIN RONG Chinese, living in Japan Q. How do you get information about Ota accidents. City? RYU: origin of the name “Japan”, origins of RYU: I get multilingual pamphlets from Ota City. interesting places in Japan, information about TOLENTINO: I ask the Ota City Office directly, or sports facilities. ask MEL: information about Japanese flower MEL: I ask my Japanese husband or family, or arrangement (ikebana) lessons, foreign research on the Internet. residents in Ota City or mothers’ meeting. CRIS: I get this information when the Ota City for 10 years Office sends this information by post to us. SEUNG RYU Korean, living in Japan for 7 years Q. Where could we offer OCN OZAWA CRISTINA in order to increase number of Filipino, living in Japan for 22 years foreign readers? Q. Where do you always get OCN? CRIS:at pachinko parlors! LIN:at my resutaurant. MEL:at big supermarkets. MEL:received by e-mail or each library. MICHELL AQUINO ITOH Filipino, living in Japan for 10 months TOLENTINO NORMITA AQUINO Filipino, living in Japan for 17 years Mel USHIKUBO Canadian, Q. How long have you been reading OCN? CRIS: since July, 2011 (the 1st issue) RYU: since 2011 in autumn TOLENTINO: for 2 months MICHELL: for a month Q. What information are you interested in? LIN: periodic medical examinations for children. living in Japan for Ota City sends information by post to us. 5 years Master of the discussion: But it may be better to give information Q. How did hear about OCN? everywhere about these examinations. RYU: when having something at Ota MEL:events information, because I am interested Taiwanese, City Office, I see at 1st floor of the in exchanges between residents in Ota City. living in Japan for 20 Office, because I decided to place years OCN at my shop. YE YULING 4 Ota City Navigation 2012/12/15 Issued on the 15th every month (excluding January and August) <Editors’ comments > Thank you so much for many previous opinions. This discussion was lively with lots of opinions and laughs. We aim to make more interesting newsletters・・・ Please let us know what you would like to hear about in the future. Ota City Navigation 2012/12/15 Issued on the 15th every month (excluding January and August) 5 Event Information New Year’s events at Ota-Bunka-no-mori Ota City TAIKO Festival ●January 5 (Sat.): ● January 13 (Sun.), 5:00 p.m.- ① Japanese street performance and magic show = 1:30 p.m.-4:00 ● Venue: Aprico (Ota Kumin Hall) p.m. limit 200 people (first-come basis) ② S hishimai (Japanese lion dance), Ohayashi (Japanese orchestra) and Mochi-tsuki (pounding boiled rice into mochi) = 9:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m. Limit 200 people (first-come basis) ③ Wafuku Dress-up (get dressed up in a Japanese kimono) = 10:00 a.m.- 12 noon, limit 50 people (first-come basis). ● Entrance fee: Reserved seats only. S-grade seat: \1,000, A-grade seat:\500 (Same day purchase= S-grade seat: \1,500, A-grade seat: \1,000) ● Tickets on sale at: Ota Kumin Plaza, Aprico (Ota Kumin Hall), Ota-Bunka-no-mori Please bring your own kimono. (Cultural Activities Support Facilities for Ota Residents) 【Inquiries】 Ota-Bunka-no-mori Association 【Inquiries】 Aprico ☎ 03-3772-0770 FAX 03-3772-0704 ☎ 03-5744-1600 FAX 03-5744-1599 “Ikegami Shichifukujin Guided Tour” This tour is a walking guided tour through Ikegami area highlighting seven temples. ● Date/Time: January 5 (Sat.), 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. ● Fee: \500 ● Capacity: 25 persons (selected by lottery) Application: Please contact the Ota Tourism Association (1-20-20 Minami-Kamata, 144-0035) by sending a reply pre-paid postcard or FAX. The application must arrive no later than December 25st. ※ One application is good for up to two people. 【Inquiries】 Ota Tourism Association ☎ 03-3734-0202 FAX 03-3734-0203 6 When you need to inquire the contact numbers on this magazine in a foreign language,the services could be available at Interpeople Community Centre(ICC)'s multilingual Information desk. TEL = 03-6424-8822 Opening hours = 10:00 〜 17:00 Ota's Tourist Attractions Upcoming events Cool Ota-Ku Ambassador (12th) Relay Column Tamae Nakayama January 1 (New Year’s Haneda Shichifukujin Inari Tour Day)- 5 (Sat.) (Anamori-Inari Shrine, etc.) January 5 (Sat.) Iki-iki Ota Photo Contest Exhibition I came to Japan from Taiwan 30 years ago. I never dreamed of living in Japan before then. Maybe I had (Ota Kumin Hall Aprico) - 9 (Wed.) a deep relationship to Japan since This exhibition is of photographs taken by residents of Ota City. before I was born. Today, Taiwan Let’s discover the charms of Ota City keeps a close relationship with through these photos. Take the Shichifukujin Tour by going January 12 (Sat.) on a yakata-bune (house boat) and and 26 (Sat.) walking on the former Tokai-do Road: This tour includes taking a yakata-bune (house boat) from the Haneda Airport Japan. I will try to become the bridge between Taiwan and Japan as the Ota City tourism ambassador. One of the charms of Ota City is convenience of facilities for ground, sea and air transportation. You can reach the center of Tokyo or Yokohama in 20 minutes by train. Also, it is very convenient to go to the Haneda Airport. wharf to Shinagawa Port visiting The oldest five-story pagoda of Important Cultural Shichifukujin (Seven Deities of Good Properties and Shoto-en, a Japanese garden, are located Fortune), and also walking on the in Ikegami-honmon-ji Temple. At Magome-bunshi Village, former Tokai-do Road. there is a Calligraphy Museum of Tsuneko Kumagaya (Please apply in advance by December 27. For more details, please refer to the Ota Tourism Association’s web site) (kana character calligrapher), and a Folk Museum preserving remains and precious cultural heritage, etc. Also, there are excellent tourist spots such as the Ota January 14 Hashigonori (at Ikegami-honmon-ji Market which is one of the largest in Japan to handle (Mon. holiday) Temple) fish and vegetables. Yacho Park, Omori Nori Museum and 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. (scheduled time) Omori Coast all have the scent of the sea. Ota City has many exiting tourist spots. It is said that “Seeing is believing”. I hope that people all over the world, Hot Topic Hashigonori not only Japanese people, visit Ota City and enjoy the charms. Hashigonori (at Ikegami-honmon-ji Temple) is a traditional Japanese performance that has been passed down from the Edo Period Firefighters to this day. In the Edo Period, firemen would climb up a ladder to find the origin of a fire. The Hashigonori performance originated from this action. Come and see these amazing acrobatic techniques performed on ladders 6 meters tall. For more details, please refer to the following web site: Ota Tourism Association (http://www.o-2.jp/) Please come directly to the front of the Big Hall of Ikegami-honmon-ji Temple. 【Inquiries】 Tourism Department ☎ 03-3733-6190 FAX 03-3733-6103 Ota City Navigation 2012/12/15 Issued on the 15th every month (excluding January and August) 7 Ota Interpeople Community Center Two minutes walk from Ota City Office http://www.micsota.jp/index.html TEL = 03-6424-8822 ◆ About Ota Interpeople Community Center? This is a place where international residents can meet, and interact freely. Ota City Interpeople Community Center was established in September 2010 by Ota City by reforming the Multilanguage Information Center established in October 2009. ◆ Services provided by the Center ◇ Consultations in Multiple Languages: Support is offered in multiple languages to the international residents residing in Ota City. Consultations regarding daily matters, employment, aid with application procedures to Ota City Office, and more. Please feel free to ask us for assistance. Interpeople Community Center 蒲 Consultations are free of charge. For example- Frequently asked questions regarding 東急線 JR 線 ◇ Translations: Generally free of charge for documents to submit to Ota City (e.g. Birth 大田 区役 所 Consultation schedules listed below. 田駅 Child Allowance (Kodomo Teate), divorce, visa, etc. certificate for Child Allowance application, etc). Please consult us for other kinds of 東口 ロータリー 銀行 translation. ◇ Interpretation (verbal translations): Interpreters are sent to Ota City related facilities. Inquries: Interpeople Community Center ☎ 03-6424-8822 至川崎 環状八号線 December 28 Usually opened December 29 Closed December 30 Closed December 31 Closed January 1 Closed 【Inquiries】 Interpeople Community Center January 2 Closed ☎ 03-6424-8822 FAX 03-5710-6330 January 3 Closed January 4 Usually opened New Year’s Holiday Information Multilingual consutation schedule Languages Monday Tuesday English Thursday Friday 10:00-17:00 10:00-17:00 10:00-17:00 10:00-17:00 Saturday Sunday 10:00-17:00 Chinese 10:00-17:00 10:00-17:00 Tagalog 10:00-17:00 10:00-17:00 Vietnam Wednesday 10:00-17:00 13:00-17:00 (2nd,3rd) 13:00-17:00 (1st,2nd) 13:30-17:00 (2nd,4th) 13:00-17:00 Thai (4th) ▶ Make a reservation when you need an interpreter of any of the following languages: Korean,Spanish,Portuguese,Thai,Russian,Urdu,Nepali,Hindi Bengali,Persian,Burmese,Mongolian 8 Issued on December 15,2012 Multicultrual Society Section,Ota City Office 144-8621 5-13-14,Kamata,Ota TEL = 03-5744-1717 FAX = 03-5744-1518 http://www.city.ota.tokyo.jp E-mail: [email protected]
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