Yamagata Prefecture is known throughout Japan as an area that has a high percentage of international marriages involving registered aliens.
There are foreigners in the family and region, and there are friends in the classroom who grew up in a different culture.
They may have questions regarding things they encounter in the region or society that are often taken for granted, but they also provide an opportunity for things to be changed for the better.
There are no national borders for children.There are indications of “family collapse” throughout the world. However, it is necessary for us as adults to repeatedly provide support to those children and their guardians in order for them to live in a way that makes them feel proud about "themselves" and “their own culture.”
The IVY Foreigner Support Section, with the keywords of “life” and “language,” is involved in providing support to registered aliens, their families, and the region.
The enjoyment of the “richness of multicultural society” that exists in every culture is our common property that is made possible because of the age in which we now live.
We want to continue making an effort in order to seek out and realize a better social system…
In addition to receiving requests for various consultations over the telephone or in person, in cooperation with related organizations, we are involved in various activities as we search for better ways to solve problems so that foreigners may live life more smoothly in Japan.
The languages we use are Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Tagalog, Spanish, and English.
We provide interpretation and translation of Chinese,
Korean, Portuguese, Tagalog and other languages.
Japanese Classrooms
We manage Japanese classrooms for the benefit of foreigners.
We provide support to children
whose mother tongue is not Japanese.
We perform consultations regarding such matters as transferring to elementary and junior high school, going on to higher education, etc.
We also dispatch interpreters to schools or boards of education.
For details regarding dispatch fees, etc, please inquire at our office.
We hold medical interpreter training courses and legal study meetings in order to improve the skills of interpreters who are dispatched to health medical institutions, bar associations, administrative bodies, etc.
There are children living in Yamagata Prefecture who for various reasons have crossed national borders to come to Japan.
１．Consultations
Regarding the various difficulties that those children encounter, together we will think of ways to overcome whatever winds that blow.
Please consult with us about anything. Telephone, FAX, email, etc, any method is okay.
２．Children's Chinese Classrooms
(1) Chinese classrooms held in elementary school classrooms.
For children whose roots are in China as well, the Chinese calendar is various.
While their parents speak Chinese as their mother tongue, many of the children born in Japan do not speak Chinese well.
Therefore, we hold classes at elementary schools in the city for learning Chinese as an inherited language (a language of a parent which is different from your own mother tongue).
If you think you would like to have your children learn Chinese, please contact our office for details, such as the place, time, etc.
Those who are eligible: Elementary school children with Chinese roots. (Whose parents were born in China or Taiwan.)
Lecture fee: Free of charge
(2) Children's Chinese classrooms held in provate association activities rooms onn the 2nd floor of the Kajo Central Building, etc.
A class will open on September 6 (SUN), 2009! Now accepting applications for participants!
Two times per month, the 1st and 3rd Sunday, from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Lecture fee: 1500 yen/month
Those who are eligible: Elementary school children (can be either Japanese or Chinese)
Inquiries: IVY Office (023-634-9830...Japanese only)
or (090-2365-1208...Japanese or Chinese)
