To know about own country

''Japan'' was the theme of English Corner in June 24.
We searched and learned about various things of Japan, and we presented it and shared them. We chose 5 or more topics from ''food, education, technology, language, the national character, history, climate''. I'll show the contents briefly in the following.

*Festivals in Saga prefecture
Karatsu-kunchi, Arita Ceramics Fair
*Japanese Technology
not lose screw, surgical needles
*Japanese food culture
seasonal cuisine, Sushi
*Features of Japanese religion
Buddhism and Shintoism, the culture of respecting other religions

Though these are about my own country Japan, there are a lot of things I don't know. I learned many things from other member's presentations. After presentations, we asked questions each other and looked further.

In the overseas training to China in last year, I was asked many questions about Japan by Chinese students, but I could hardly answer them. However, on the other hand, when I asked about China, they gave ready answers to my questions. I was very surprised. For this year's training, I'd like to prepare well. This presentations is the first step, and it was a good opportunity to understand Japan. Next week, we'll hold English Corner on Indonesia, so we want to discuss with comparing Indonesia to Japanese culture we learned.

By Haruno KUROIWA

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