Eriko's Local Updates May 29th
Eriko's List of Local Happenings
Tuesday, 28 May 2013
Good morning. Let me introduce the local events this weekend. The parking fee at the Pearl Sea Center will be raised starting on Saturday, 1 June. Parking fee is free only for 30 minutes!
Spotlights on Events You Don't Want to Miss!
Haiki Tea Market
The Haiki Cha-ichi (Tea Market) with the history over 400 years has been held until June 9th. It has started the tea producers brought the freshly picked green tea to the Haiki Bay to exchange them with the seafood and products (proteins). The fishermen brought their fish they caught to the bay to get green tea (vitamins). About 400 stalls lined up on the Tagonoura wharf in Haiki-cho. The stage shows and walking tours are scheduled to entertain the shoppers. Please call the market office at 0956-38-1503 for more information.
Ato-ichi (The Latter Market)
Wednesday, 29 May
Arkas Lobby Concert Special 2013
Saturday, 1 June 1830
Arkas Sasebo
Admission: Free
The Arkas lobby concerts started 9 years ago to give opportunities for the local musicians to perform on stage and to promote the classic music to the local people. Once a year, the special concert is held and it's held this Saturday. The admission is free but you need to get the admission tickets. Unfortunately, all the 500 tickets have been distributed to the classic music funs. But if there are any open seats on that day, you can listen to the special concert. Please visit Arkas Sasebo at 1820 and check it.
Saza Sarayama Matsuri (Festival)
Saturday, 1 and Sunday, 2 June
Saza Sarayama Park in Saza-cho on Route 204
The iris flowers in the park started blooming! Local products are on sale. Fun events such as Eel Catching Contest are held. Some stage shows are scheduled. A professional soccer team hosts a soccer class for children.
Evening Iris Light Up
Saturday, 1 to Saturday, 8 June 1900-2100
400 bamboo or Chinaware lanterns are lit up at night for 8 nights. You can see the beautiful iris flowers in the shimmering candle lights. How romantic the night could be! Take out your loved one to Sarayama Park on Route 204. Do you like to know how to get there? It's quite simple to get there. Drive on Route 204 toward Hirado Island. If you are not sure, please stop by your ITT office before you leave. The ITT staff will show the way kindly.
China on the Park Lavender Fair
Until Sunday, 2 June
China on the Park in Arita-cho 0900-1730
The Chinaware regarding the Lavender are displayed and for sale. As well as the chinaware, you can pick a small basket full of lavender flowers for Y500. The genuine lavender flowers smell very refreshing and soothing. It'll take your fatigue away. Call China on the Park at 0955-46-3900 for more information.
All-you-can-eat Early Summer Dessert Fair
Sunday, 2 June (1) 1300-1430 (2) 1500-1630
Yumihari-no-oka Hotel at Mt. Yumihari
Fee: Y1,500 (adult), Y750 (child), Y500 (toddlers)
Japanese desserts are not only delicious but beautiful. The hotel dessert chefs create their art works with candy, chocolates, fruits, ice cream, whipped cream and other ingredients. You can start your diet the next day. Please call the hotel NLT Thursday, 30 May to reserve your seat.
Dental Festival
Sunday, 2 June 1100-1500
Shimanose Park
June 4th in Japan is Mushiba (Cavity) Day in Japan. The number 6 can be pronounced mu, and 4 can be pronounced shi. Actually it's Prevent the Cavity Day. You see the events to prevent the cavity all through Japan in the beginning of June. The dental festival is a promotional event sponsored by Sasebo city to promote the cavity prevention. The promotional posters are displayed. To commemorate the World No-smoking day (May 31st), the counselors will give advices to the people try to quit smoking. Please call Sasebo City Hall at 0956-24-1111 for more information.
Healthy Mouth and Teeth Week Promoting Painting and Poster Exhibition
Wednesday, 29 May to Monday, 3 June 1000-1600
Shimanose Art Center
Admission: Free
The 200 paintings and posters created and painted by local students ranging from day care center/kindergarten to high school are exhibited. Since the art center is located at the corner of the Shimanose Park, please stop by the art center as well as the park.
Economic history of Japan
The economic history of Japan is most studied for the spectacular social and economic growth in the 1800s after the Meiji Restoration, when it became the first non-European power, and for the expansion after the Second World War, when Japan recovered from devastation to become the world's second largest economy behind the United States, and from 2013 behind China as well. Scholars have evaluated the nation's unique economic position during the Cold War, with exports going to both U.S. and Soviet aligned powers, and have taken keen interest in the situation of the post-Cold War period of the Japanese 'lost decades'.
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HighWay-DRIVE(^^♪Nagasaki‐Tarami To Isahaya!
We enjoyed driving along the expressway.
Nagasaki Expressway is one of the Expressways of Japan from Tosu to Nagasaki. It runs through the prefecture of Saga, and the southern half of the Nagasaki prefecture. The total length is 120.4 km
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Francis Xavier, S.J. (; born Francisco de Jasso y Azpilicueta; Latin Franciscus Xaverius; Basque: Frantzisko Xabierkoa; Spanish: Francisco Javier; 7 April 1506 – 3 December 1552), was a Navarrese Basque Roman Catholic missionary, who was a co-founder of the Society of Jesus.
Born in Javier (Xavier in Navarro-Aragonese or Xabier in Basque), Kingdom of Navarre (in present day Spain), he was a companion of Saint Ignatius of Loyola and one of the first seven Jesuits who took vows of poverty and chastity at Montmartre, Paris, in 1534. He led an extensive mission into Asia, mainly in the Portuguese Empire of the time and was influential in evangelization work, most notably in India. The Goa Inquisition was proposed by St. Francis Xavier. He also was the first Christian missionary to venture into Japan, Borneo, the Maluku Islands, and other areas. In those areas, struggling to learn the local languages and in the face of opposition, he had less success than he had enjoyed in India. Xavier was about to extend his missionary preaching to China when he died on Shangchuan Island.
He was beatified by Pope Paul V on 25 October 1619 and canonized by Pope Gregory XV on 12 March 1622. In 1624 he was made co-patron of Navarre. Known as the Apostle of the Indies and Apostle of Japan, he is considered to be one of the greatest missionaries since Saint Paul. In 1927, Pope Pius XI published the decree Apostolicorum in Missionibus naming Saint Francis Xavier, along with Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, co-patron of all foreign missions. He is now co-patron saint of Navarre with San Fermin. The Day of Navarre (Día de Navarra) in Spain marks the anniversary of Saint Francis Xavier's death, on 3 December 1552.