更新日：2019年10月1日

Ashiya Newsletter October 1, 2019 Text Version

Why don’t you visit Citizens’ Activity Center (Leed Ashiya)?

Activities at Community Schools (Komisuku)

From October, Kindergarten and Child Daycare Center Fee Has Become Free of Charge

Payment Deadline Notification

Applications for Admission to Child Daycare Centers for FY2020

Applications for Admission to Kindergartens/Certified Combined Child Daycare-Kindergartens for FY 2020

Subsidies for Children Attending Foreign Schools in Japan

Do You Know About Night-Time Junior High School?

“Open Meeting” will be held

Shio-Ashiya Exchange Center 

 Why don’t you visit Citizens’ Activity Center (Leed Ashiya)?

Inquiries: Citizens' Participation Section
Phone: 0797-38-2007

• Address: 5-8 Kimmitsu-cho
• Phone: 0797-26-6452
• Opening Days: Monday to Saturday, 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
• Closed: Sundays, public holidays, year-end & New Year’s holidays
• Free Wi-Fi available

Outline of Leed Ashiya

• Open Space 1 (with kitchen)  1st Floor
  This space is available for everyone during opening hours.
  You can hold events here (with usage fee).

• Printing Room 1st Floor
  Printers are available for a fee. USB data can be used.

• Open Space 2 2nd Floor
  Computers with Internet connection can be used for about 1 hour free of charge. Books on NPOs can also be borrowed

• Meeting Rooms 2nd Floor
  Rooms for meetings, study or lectures are available for a fee (largest room capacity: 98 people).
  Projector and screen can be borrowed free of charge.

For details, please see the website (external site) (open link in new window).

 Activities at Community Schools (Komisuku)

Inquiries: Lifelong Learning Section, Management Subsection
Phone: 0797-38-2091

Komisuku is a place for local residents’ associations, PTAs and groups conducting cultural or sports activities to gather and interact independently. Its purpose is to create better community in the local area through these activities.

Activities

• Cultural activities: painting, calligraphy, choirs, pottery, English conversation, tea ceremony, flower arrangement, etc.
• Sports activities: soccer, baseball, basketball, mini-basketball, volleyball, tennis, badminton, futsal, pétanque, karate, table tennis, physical exercise, etc.
• Local exchange activities: summer festivals, autumn festivals, sports festivals, rice cake pounding events, etc.
  

 

Municipal elementary schools in Ashiya are used as the venues for these activities.
Anyone from child to adult can join in Komisuku in their elementary school district.
Please ask Lifelong Learning Section Management Subsection for details. You can find details on our website, too.

 From October, Kindergarten and Child Daycare Center Fee Has Become Free of Charge

• Eligibility
  ・3–5 year-old children living in Ashiya City
  ・0–2 year-old children living in Ashiya City in families who are exempted from paying resident tax (do not need to pay resident tax)
  Please note that expenses for events (outings) and meals/snacks must be paid.
  
• Procedures
  For details, please inquire with each section.
  Children attending certified child daycare centers/small-scale child daycare centers have no need for procedures.
  
• Inquiries:
  • Kindergartens
    Board of Education, Management Section
    Phone: 0797-38-2085
  • Child daycare centers/Certified combined child daycare-kindergartens/Non-certified child daycare centers
    Childrearing Promotion Section
    Phone: 0797-38-2128

 Payment Deadline Notification

Inquiries: Taxation Section
Phone:0797-38-2015

Don't forget to pay your taxes by the deadlines.
Payment deadlines are available on our website.

 Applications for Admission to Child Daycare Centers for FY2020

Inquiries: Childrearing Promotion Section, Admissions Desk
Phone: 0797-38-2128

• Eligibility: Children who meet all the conditions below
  1. Living in Ashiya City
  2. Requiring childcare because their guardians are working, etc.
  3. Born between April 2, 2014 and January 1, 2020
     
• Application forms available at:
  Childrearing Promotion Section, North Wing Reception Desk, South Wing Reception Desk and Laporte Citizens’ Service Corner
  Also available on Ashiya City’s website (Japanese only).
  
• Application period:
  First application: Mon., Oct. 21-Fri., Nov. 8
  Second application: Mon. Dec.2-Fri., Jan. 17
  Please bring your application form to Childrearing Promotion Section.

 Applications for Admission to Kindergartens/Certified Combined Child Daycare-Kindergartens for FY 2020

• Inquiries:
  • Kindergartens:
    Board of Education, Management Section
    Phone: 0797-38-2085
  • Certified combined child daycare-kindergartens:
    Childrearing Promotion Section, Admissions Desk
    Phone: 0797-38-2128
• Eligibility:
  Children who meet both conditions below
  1. Living in Ashiya City
  2. Born between April 2, 2014 and April 1, 2016
• Application forms available at :
  The kindergarten or certified combined child daycare-kindergarten you wish your child to enter.
  Application forms for certified combined child daycare-kindergartens are also available at Childrearing Promotion Section.
• Application Period:
  Thu., Oct.3-Thu., Oct.10
  Please bring your application form to the kindergarten you wish your child to enter. For applications to certified combined child daycare-kindergartens, please bring it to Childrearing Promotion Section.

For address and phone number of the facility, please see our website.

 Subsidies for Children Attending Foreign Schools in Japan

Inquiries: Board of Education, Management Section
Phone: 0797-38-2085

• Eligibility:
  Guardians of foreign children who attend foreign schools in Japan (schools equivalent to elementary/junior high schools) who meet both 1 and 2 of the qualifications below

• Amount of Subsidies

 

• Payment period: Second half of December

• Applications period: Tue., Oct.1 - Thu., Oct.31
• Where to apply: Foreign Schools in Japan

 Do You Know About Night-Time Junior High School?

Inquiries: Board of Education, Management Section
Phone: 0797-38-2085

• About night-time junior high school
  ・People who could not receive compulsory education, or foreign people who did not finish compulsory education in their own country can attend classes.
  ・It is public junior high school.
  ・No school fees are required. Textbooks are provided.
  ・You can learn hiragana and arithmetic (calculation), and so on.
  ・Classes are held at night from Monday to Friday.
  ・If you complete all of the studies at this school, you will be qualified as junior high school graduate.
• Night-time junior high school inquiries office
  ・Phone: 078-362-9432
  ・Inquiry days and time: Mon.-Fri. 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
  (Not available between 12:00 noon and 1:00 p.m.)
• Subsidies for students with financial difficulties:
  Part of the expenses for school supplies is provided. Please inquire with Board of Education, Management Section.
  ・Eligibility: Students living in Ashiya City who attend night-time junior high school
  ・Depending on income, subsidies may not be provided.
  ・The amount of subsidies: 24,760 yen/year

 “Open Meeting” will be held

Inquiries: Policy Promotion Section
Phone: 0797-38-2127

Mayor Ito organizes “Open Meeting” to talk with citizens about Ashiya’s future.

• Theme:
  Ashiya’s financial situation and the next term comprehensive plan (what Ashiya will look like 10 years from now)
• Date:
  Saturday, October 19
• Time / Place:
  From 10:30 a.m. at Asahigaoka Assembly Hall
  From 3:00 p.m. at Laporte Hall
  From 6:30 p.m. at Shio-Ashiya Exchange Center 

 Shio-Ashiya Exchange Center

Shio-Ashiya Exchange Center consists of Shio-Ashiya Assembly Hall, International Exchange Center and Outdoor Exchange Plaza (tennis courts). Rooms and tennis courts are available to everyone.

The Center holds various activities as follows:

• Japanese lessons
• Cultural classes such as Sado(tea ceremony), Shodo(calligraphy) and Kado(flower arrangement)
• English conversation class
• Seminars, concerts and so on.

Shio-Ashiya Exchange Center is a consultation center for foreign people.
The Center also works as an evacuation site for people nearby when a disaster such as earthquake occurs.  

Please refer to the website (external site) (open link in new window).