August 24th, 2016 Miyako International Community Radio via Miyako Harbor Radio 82.6 FM [LIVE]

Producer: Hisao Hashimoto

Assistant Producer: Takahiro Akanuma

Navigator: Hisako Yamaguchi

Guests: Mr. Matsu'ura, Ms. Komukai (Miyako International Association)

The topic for this show was about Miyako International Associations that had established recently. Because they were all Japanese, they did not need the interpreters, so neither Togo-san nor I was there.

But, I joined the show via email by asking Miyako International Associations some questions.

Those questions and answers were as below:

Q1: Do you have a phone number or email address that foreigners can reach directly to English speaker there in the office?
A1: Phone number is: 0193-62-3534 (Weekday) (after September 1st)

Q2: If somebody show up to the Miyako International Associations office saying "I have a stomachache. I'd like to see a doctor, but I cannot speak Japanese," will you support him/her?
A2: If s/he come to the office or give us a phone call, we can hook them up to the proper international organizations or associates who can support them.

Q3: How about for their other troubles/problems, would you give them some helps?
A3: They can come to the office or call us for the helps.

Q4: Do you give support to the foreigners who are not living in Miyako, but just visiting?
A4: Yes. And the office is attached to the sight seeing department of the city office, so we can provide them sight seeing information as well.

Q5: How do you inform the foreigners in Miyako events and/or evacuation information?
A5: We are making website and facebook page right now. So, we can provide them those information there.

I hope it won't be like this though:

Don't Drive and INGRESS

INGRESS is an interesting smartphone game and I have been playing months now. What is INGRESS? Here's a wiki. Ingress (game) via Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingress_(game) Players have to move around their towns for this game, so some players walk, another players use their bikes, and others drive. But you have to be very careful when you play this game and drive your car at the same time. When you get caught by watching smartphone while your are driving, you will get 1 penalty point on your driver's license and also the ticket cost you 6,000 yen. How do I know about it?

[PolitiC@Nippon] Ryukougo Taisho 2016: Japan’s Most Vogue Words of the Year

Ryukougo Taisho is one of the unique events of Japan. In the end of the year, they choose the buzzing words that everyone is using them in common during the year from TV shows, dramas, news, so on. (Sometime, it's not really used in common, but they pick those words anyway.) Last year, they chose some words from from politic, such as Abe Seiji wo Yurasanai (or "We won't tolerate Abe's politics") SEALDs, the "youth (well, there are some young folks but mostly old folks in their 60s and 70s) group" going against to Abe's politics) and so on. Ref: [Ryukougo Taisho 2015: Japan's Most Vogue Words of the Year] http://www.mtv81.com/features/specials/ryukougo-taisho-2015-japans-most-vogue-words-of-the-year/ This year, one of the words they choose is:

I got banned from facebook AGAIN for a week.

Facebook banned me of posting and sharing on timeline, sending messages, and like button for any post for a week. Right now, what I can do on facebook is only to login. 　　　　　 I asked what I did wrong to get banned to the help desk, but they have not replied me anything yet. 　 What I did right before I had got banned was re-activating one of my pages about discussing the differences between the facts and the fake news on fake medias. 　　 Well, these are my new pages: Please give your "like" on my pages. You will be receiving tons of update (since those pages are updated by bots) from the pages, but you can hide them too.

Ito Shunsuke

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