studying about Taiwan, japan, and Saga

Sorry for our late updating. In this post we will report about our previous activities.
In the English Time in July we set a theme, “know more about Taiwan, Japan, and Saga.”
Then, we divided us into three groups and each group was in charge of a theme and made presentations for each other. I’m going to summarize what the groups presented!
 
About Taiwan:

• Capital City: Taipei
• Area: 36,000km²
• Population: 23,570,000
• Time difference between japan and Taiwan: 1 hour
• Climate: the subtropics in northern Taiwan and the tropics in south
• Industry:
  High-tech industry and IT industry has highly developed. Many kinds of parts for computers such as memory, semiconductors, etc. is manufactured in Taiwan and the major trading partners of the products are Japan and The U.S. for a long time.
• Popular spots:

- Miyahara (宮原眼科):
While the name, “宮原眼科(Miyahara eye hospital)” sounds not like sweets store, it is a sweets store in Taichung that represents “dawancake, 日出” group. Originally, the building of the store was used for an eye hospital in Japanese colonial period.
- Night markets:
 Night markets are the street markets a lot of stores and hawkers gather and open from the evening. In the markets there are a lot of food, clothes or shoes stores and hawkers, and it’s bustling with many tourists.
 
About Japan:

• Area: 378,000km²
  The area of Taiwan is as large as that of Kyushu, Japan
• The number of tourists (per year)
  - Taiwan to Japan: 4,564053
  - Japan to Taiwan: 1,895,702
• Japanese inventions
  -  Compact Disk (CD), QR code, Karaoke, Rice cooker, etc.

 
About Saga:

• Population: 850,000
• < >- Karatsu Kunchi (唐津くんち)

The Karatsu Kunchi is an annual fall festival that held in November 2, 3 and 4. It is the fall festival of the Karatsu shrine and the biggest event in Karatsu city. Another way of writing “Kunchi(くんち)” is “供日(the meaning is the day for offering harvest to the god)”. As you can see from the name, this festival is put in gratitude for harvest.
- Saga International Balloon Fiesta
     The Saga International Balloon Fiesta is an event of hot air balloons held in every fall and attract around one million of visitors. It is one of the biggest balloon competitions not only in Japan but also in the Asia in numbers of balloons. This event is attended by 70-80 balloons from ten or more countries every year. In some balloon events one of the competitions is called “task”. That compete how accurate pilots can drop a sandbag called marker to the assigned target.
 
In this presentation, we can learned not only just the basic knowledge of Taiwan but about the relationship between Japan and Taiwan, and about Saga. Learning the basic knowledge before visiting Taiwan would make our studying in Taiwan more meaningful. And we will get ready to introduce ourselves well in English.
 
By Konan SAKAMOTO
 
Translated by Yasushi SATO
 

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