{"id":2973,"date":"2009-05-31T12:44:18","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T03:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=2973"},"modified":"2009-05-31T21:05:59","modified_gmt":"2009-05-31T12:05:59","slug":"sunday-tangent-shinjuku-ku-issues-its-own-quadralingual-guidebook-to-life-in-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=2973","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Tangent: Shinjuku-ku issues its own quadralingual guidebook to life in Tokyo."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nHi Blog. Turning the keyboard over to JK. Comments? Debito<\/p>\n

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Hi Debito:<\/em><\/p>\n

Looks like <\/em>your handbook<\/em><\/a> has some competition:<\/em><\/p>\n

Guide to Living in Shinjuku<\/em><\/p>\n

http:\/\/mdn.mainichi.jp\/mdnnews\/news\/20090411p2a00m0na015000c.html<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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http:\/\/mainichi.jp\/area\/tokyo\/archive\/news\/2009\/04\/07\/20090407ddlk13040344000c.html<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

I don’t suppose Shinjuku-ku would be kind enough to release a “Guide to Living with Foreigners,” in Japanese aimed at the existing residents of the Ward….<\/em><\/p>\n

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Debito here again<\/strong>: \u00a0Page down below articles to see sample scans of book. \u00a0I contacted Shinjuku-ku for copies, which they very kindly sent at their own expense. \u00a0Thanks.<\/p>\n

Personally, I think it’s a good college try, and every local govt should issue one of these to its NJ residents. \u00a0Better than not having a book at all. \u00a0And I appreciate that it’s quadralingual. \u00a0I assume they took the four top nationalities in their district and extrapolated languages (no Spanish or Portuguese, however. \u00a0Ah well.) \u00a0Get yourself a copy from Shinjuku. \u00a0Way cool.<\/p>\n

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Shinjuku Ward issues daily living guide in four languages<\/h2>\n
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The municipal government of Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward has released the “Guide to Living in Shinjuku,” a daily life manual in four languages aimed at new foreign residents.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The illustrated guide is in English, Chinese, Korean and Japanese with furigana phonetic readings above the kanji characters for easy reading. The guide covers details of moving into an apartment, such as the deposit and so-called “key money,” as well as etiquette such as polite greetings to neighbors after moving in, not playing music too loudly at night, and making sure to check with the landlord before getting a pet.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The 74-page manual also covers practicalities of everyday living in the ward, such as separating garbage, procedures to follow in case of a natural disaster, bicycle manners and making it clear that smoking is prohibited on the streets.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The manual is available at the foreigner registration desk at the ward office, and at the Shinjuku Multicultural Plaza in Kabukicho.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The ward has also issued a new version of its English language ward map. The previous map was printed on a single large sheet of paper. The new version, however, comes as an easy to carry 58-page booklet of highly detailed maps.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Both the map booklet and the living guide are available for free. Copies of either can be obtained by contacting the Shinjuku Ward Culture, Tourism and International Affairs Division at 03-5273-3504.<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n

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(Mainichi Japan) April 12, 2009<\/p>\n

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Mainichi: The municipal government of Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward has released the “Guide to Living in Shinjuku,” a daily life manual in four languages aimed at new foreign residents.<\/p>\n

The illustrated guide is in English, Chinese, Korean and Japanese with furigana phonetic readings above the kanji characters for easy reading. The guide covers details of moving into an apartment, such as the deposit and so-called “key money,” as well as etiquette such as polite greetings to neighbors after moving in, not playing music too loudly at night, and making sure to check with the landlord before getting a pet.<\/p>\n

The 74-page manual also covers practicalities of everyday living in the ward, such as separating garbage, procedures to follow in case of a natural disaster, bicycle manners and making it clear that smoking is prohibited on the streets.<\/p>\n

COMMENT FROM JK: I don’t suppose Shinjuku-ku would be kind enough to release a “Guide to Living with Foreigners,” in Japanese aimed at the existing residents of the Ward….<\/p>\n

IMO\u300c\u65b0\u5bbf\u751f\u6d3b\u30b9\u30bf\u30fc\u30c8\u30d6\u30c3\u30af\u300d = ‘Read This Book, Become A Good Gaijin, And Don’t Cause Us Any Trouble”. <\/p>\n

DEBITO: I’m not quite that negative about it. Sample scans of the book enclosed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,38,12,4,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-news","category-handbook-for-newcomers","category-immigration-assimilation","category-japanese-government","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}