Report for November activities

• Nov 1, 2022 ~ Nov 30, 2022

November Report

JFYG Culture Center

Art and Culture Activities

Culture Center Re-opening and Reading Space Opening for Japanese culture lovers

Just after the JFYG cultural activities resume occasionally on Saturday-s, there are demands from the visitors and Japanese language schools to increase the opening dates. Thus, starting from 12 November, JFYG re-opened the culture center to semi- physical mode on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday along with new reading corner. Every month, the inner layout of culture center is curated into the Japanese seasonal theme: Tsukimi, Christmas, O shogatsu and Setsubun. As Japanese Language learners have limited access to Japanese literature books and cultural books, the reading corner displays all sorts of Japan-related books such as Manga, books of history, culture and philosophy, Japanese children storybooks, novels, and Japanese language learner books. Facebook announcement post of reopening went viral and started from November, around 20 visitors and some Japanese language schools come to cultural center per day to read the books and play Japanese games. 176 visitors came to culture center in November.

Saturday Yoke Shin: Pop-in Q Screening

19 Nov, 2 pm

On the Saturday of the second week after reopening, we held the movie screening program called Saturday Yoke Shin in the culture center and Pop-in Q animation was shown. Pop-in Q is the musical animation directed by Naoki Miyahama and produced by Toei animation in 2016. 49 people came and enjoyed the movie.

Shodo Basic Class: Second Week

5 Nov, 1 pm & 3 pm

Starting from the second class of Basic Shodo course, there were relocation of the students into two different classes based on their language preference: Japanese and English. English language shodo class starts from 1:00 pm and Japanese language shodo class starts from 3:00 pm. After the class separation based on language, it is noticed that the students could absorb more and followed shodo strokes that sensei taught.

On second class, Yume sensei taught how to write “Tsuki” (Kanji). After that, she introduced the essential techniques. Then, the students write the Kanji again using the techniques. Then, sensei asked them to write the best shodo word for the competition and chose the best one for today class.

Kendo Club

On every Saturday, the Kendo Club continues to practice and do the club activities for beginner and senior classes. There are new club members who signed up for beginner class.