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Expert's Workshop on Aliteracy Held
With aliteracy a growing societal concern in recent years, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government launched the cross-bureau Measures Against Aliteracy Review Team led by Vice Governor Naoki Inose. The Review Team invites specialists from various fields to participate in workshops and meetings in order to grasp the actual conditions and impact of aliteracy. On April 21, 2010, a workshop led by Yurika Mimori, President of the Tsukuba Language Arts Institute, was held for employees of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.
(Photo taken on April 21, 2010.)
Hamura City Tulip Field Awash with Color
Hamura City hosted its annual Tulip Festival from April 9 to 22 at the Negarami-Mae Suiden rice paddies, where nearly 400 thousand tulip bulbs representing approximately 20 different varieties are planted as an aftercrop while the rice paddies are not being cultivated. One of the largest tulip fields in the Kanto region, in full bloom the field appears like a giant and coloful patchwork quilt covering the land when seen from the viewing platform.
(Photo taken on April 19, 2010.)
Uenoshita?The Last Remaining Dojunkai Apartments
Dojunkai Apartments were built in a total of 16 locations in Tokyo and Yokohama between 1926 and 1934 using donations received from Japan and overseas following the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. The last remaining Dojunkai Apartment today is the Uenoshita Apartments, located in Higashi-Ueno, Taito Ward, which was completed in 1929. The apartments consist of two 4-story reinforced concrete apartment buildings with a total of 76 units. At the time of completion, the apartments featured the most modern facilities of the time, including electricity, gas, water, garbarge chutes and water-flushing toilets.
(Photo taken on April 13, 2010.)
Paralympic Medalists Honored
On April 13, 2010, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government welcomed five Tokyo-based medalists from the Vancouver 2010 Winter Paralympics for a ceremony to award the Tokyo Medal of Honor and the Tokyo Residents Sports Award. Governor Ishihara lauded the medalists saying, "You displayed the truest form of human strength and beauty." Winner of two gold medals, Yoshihiro Nitta was awarded with the Tokyo Medal of Honor and the Tokyo Residents Sports Award, while silver medalists Taiki Morii, Mikio Annaka and Kazuhiro Takahashi, and bronze medalist Kuniko Obinata were each presented with the Tokyo Residents Sports Award.
(Photo: Nitta, at right, receives the award and a handshake from Governor Ishihara)
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