Ayase International Friendship Association
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Ayase's population was 83,167 according to the results of the national
population census taken in 2010, and more than 3,000 people from 46 countries
live in Ayase as of May 1, 2016.
AIFA( Ayase International Friendship Association ) was established in 1998
to promote mutual understanding between Ayase citizens and foreign residents
through various events and activities and enrich our community by respecting
one another's cultures and different values.
お知らせEVENTS in 2016 
Bon Dance Party
to "Hiroko's group activities"
Kimchi Cooking Class
Date：Friday December 16, 2016
10:00～13:30
Place：Cooking Room, 1st floor
Ayase Community Center
Fees : ￥2,000
Introduction to
Korean Culture
Date：Saturday November 27, 2016
13:00～15:00
Place：Audio-visual room, 3rd floor
Ayase Community Center
Professional Chef's
Indian Cooking Class
Date：Wednesday August 24, 2016
10:30～13:30
Place：Ayase Nanbu-fureai-kaikan
Fees : ￥2,500
Bon Dance Party
Date：Saturday August 6, 2016
13:00～16:30
Place：Ayase Community Center,
3rd floor
enjoyed talking with those guys about the latest global phenomenon game, called 'Pokemon Go',
which is a location-based reality game as everyone knows. They showed me the gameplay screenshots of Pokemon Go and explained to me how to play the game. They said, late at night, they often go out onto Ayase streets, and try to locate, pursue, catch and
fight with the creatures called Pokemon, and usually meet a number of strangers walking in the same direction for the same purpose. They sometimes become friends and cooperate with each other to do the job. I enjoyed listening to their story.
displaying traditional yukata clothing
bon-dance instructors, a volunteer high school boy, a young lady participant, & guys from the Philippines
three volunteer high school girls & staff
Following the AIFA chairman Akase's opening speech, there was a brief introduction of participants. Then bon dance lessons began.
Dancing movement looks smooth and perfect, really. But don't be worried.
You don't have to look like him. Participation in
Bon Dance Festival and enjoying it with your family or friends is more important than anything else.
Doraemon dance, etc.
Each dance consists of repeated actions such as harvesting the rice, carrying the rice on one's shoulder, scooping the mud,
which are all quite easy to remember, so people looked very relaxed and enjoying themselves.
The title is 'Dancing Hero or Dancing colours (English title:Eat You Up)'. The singer is OGINOME Yoko. The instructor said,"You can see this video on YouTube."
tea and light refreshments were served.
Akase and Takahashi showed volunteer players how to play kendama.
Soon they learned the way. The photo below shows how skillful the man became in handling the kendama. What a proud and happy smile!
wooden ball is connected to the stick with a string of about 40cm long.
The ball has a small hole in one end. The stick has a point at one end and a cup at the other end. There are two more cups at both sides of the stick. Those three cups are of different sizes.
The basic play is to hold the stick and pull the ball upward using the string, and attempt to catch it in one of the three cups or to spear it with the point of the stick.
In Japan there're Kendama competitions, where people taking part compete the various tricks and performances with each other.
When playing a game, how serious an expression young men always put on!
This is quite safe and easy to use, but difficult to hit the target!
Both names look and sound brave and manly, but ’Kanji or Chinese characters' is used only as a phonetic symbol. So, if you show it to a Japanese, she or he may not be able to pronounce it as you wish. That's because Kanji was made an arbitrary selection, while usually it's pronounced differently depending on the case.
Every Japanese can pronounce it correctly because 'Hiragana' is written above.
It's hard to pronounce it correctly.
There are several readings for one Kanji.