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On 28th September 2015, at courtesy call to the prefectural governor,

With Mr.Yuji Kuroiwa, Governor of Kanagawa Prefecture

FOREWORD

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With the end of Kanagawa Prefectural Government Overseas Technical Trainees Program as of 2015, we hereby publish the Overseas Technical Trainees Report.

This program has been carried out since 1972 by Kanagawa Prefectural Government as part of activity of international contribution by regions which is in purpose of supporting the development of human resources of developing countries. For this year, we accepted 8 trainees from different countries (China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Benin, Vietnam and Comoros) of which add up to 597 in total. After finishing one month Japanese training, acceptance trainees were applied to perspective centers for technical training for around 6 months.

This report briefly includes experiences and knowledge of what each trainee had impressed acquired by the time in Japan. Please be informed that reports will only be published in Japanese and English version. We are strongly encouraged they could help developing their own countries by taking advantage of those they have acquired in training.

In addition, as an opportunity to learn Japanese culture, they have participated in a lot of activities such as home stay and prefectural events and had close communication with many friendly residents which they would never forget. Hereby, we would like to convey thanks and will for closer communication from county to regions going forward.

At last, it was much appreciated those who had help and support to this program. Thank you very much.

March,2016

Kanagawa Prefectural Government

Japan Overseas Cooperative Association

Annual number ofKanagawa Prefectural Government Program for Overseas Technical Trainees

YEAR/

15

14

13

12

11

10

09

08

07

06

05

04

03

02

01

00

99

98

97

96

95

94

93

92

91

90

89

88

87

86

85

84

83

82

81

80

79

78

77

76

75

74

73

72

TOTAL

27

26

25

24

23

22

21

20

19

18

17

16

15

14

13

12

11

10

9

8

7

6

5

4

3

2

1

63

62

61

60

59

58

57

56

55

54

53

52

51

50

49

48

47

ASIA & EUROPE

BANGLADESH

1

1

1

3

BHUTAN

2

1

1

1

1

1

1

8

CAMBODIA

2

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

2

3

2

2

2

1

2

1

1

1

1

1

28

CHINA

2

1

3

2

1

1

1

2

1

2

1

1

1

2

3

4

5

5

6

7

7

7

12

12

12

11

11

11

8

10

7

10

5

5

5

184

INDIA

1

1

1

1

1

2

1

1

1

1

11

INDONESIA

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

2

1

2

15

JORDAN

1

1

2

KOREA

2

2

2

2

2

1

1

1

1

1

1

16

LAOS

1

1

1

1

1

1

6

MALAYSIA

1

1

1

2

1

2

1

2

2

2

1

1

2

1

1

2

1

2

1

1

28

MYANMAR

2

2

MONGOLIA

1

3

1

1

2

1

2

2

3

2

1

1

21

NEPAL

1

1

1

2

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

16

PHILIPPINES

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

2

2

3

2

1

20

ROMANIA

1

1

SINGAPORE

1

1

1

1

2

1

1

1

2

1

1

13

SRI LANKA

1

1

1

3

THAILAND

1

1

1

1

1

1

2

1

2

2

3

2

2

2

1

1

2

1

2

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

2

1

1

43

UZBEKISTAN

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

8

VIET NAM

2

1

2

2

1

1

9

AFRICA

ETHIOPIA

1

1

GHANA

1

2

1

4

KENYA

1

1

1

1

1

1

6

LIBERIA

1

1

LIBYA

1

1

MALAWI

1

1

2

1

1

1

1

8

MOROCCO

1

1

1

3

RWANDA

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

8

TANZANIA

2

1

1

4

ZAMBIA

1

1

1

1

1

1

6

COMOROS

1

1

BENIN

1

1

CENTRAL AMERICA

CUBA

1

1

1

3

COSTA RICA

1

1

1

1

4

DOMINICAN REP

1

1

EL SALVADOR

1

1

1

3

HONDURAS

1

2

2

1

1

1

1

9

JAMAICA

1

1

MEXICO

1

1

2

NICARAGUA

1

1

PANAMA

1

1

1

3

SOUTH AMERICA

ARGENTINA

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

11

BOLIVIA

2

1

1

1

1

1

7

BRAZIL

1

1

2

2

2

2

3

1

2

3

3

2

1

1

1

2

2

1

2

1

2

4

4

5

50

ECUADOR

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

7

PARAGUAY

1

2

1

1

1

6

PERU

1

1

FIJI

1

1

2

MICRONESIA

1

1

SAMOA

1

1

2

TONGA

1

1

1

3

TOTAL

8

4

6

7

5

5

6

9

8

8

8

8

10

12

14

14

16

19

24

25

25

25

28

27

27

24

23

23

19

20

17

19

12

13

14

9

9

7

7

7

7

7

7

5

597

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Name: Zhao Dan DanEmployment Anshan Normal University

Training Subject: Japanese linguistics and Japanese language teaching method

Place of trainingYNU International Strategy Organization,

Asia International Language Center

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2015We are the world

Before coming to Japan

I am a Japanese teacher at Anshan Normal University in Anshan City in Liaoning, China, and in charge of beginners and intermediate classes of the Japanese Language Department. I have been teaching Japanese in China for 10 years and I would say the students understand the grammar well, however, their speaking and listening skills are poor. Additionally, they cannot write essays or compositions and thus it was a trouble to me to find ways to make them speak and write essays in Japanese. For those reasons, I wanted to apply for the Kanagawa Prefectural Government Program for Overseas Technical Trainees in order to learn methods of teaching Japanese language.

My speciality is Japanese linguistics. I study proper use of expressions that are easy to mistake, pronunciation rules and how to use expressions for greeting and terms of respect. In China, as there are many scholars who study Japanese linguistics, I thought it was difficult for me to find new study themes. I accordingly applied for the program thinking I might be able to find themes in choice of words by communicating with other foreigners in Japan.

Since giving birth, I had been concentrating on raising my child. Furthermore, I had gradually lost my passion for work as students nowadays became less and less enthusiastic about studying Japanese. My Japanese ability also deteriorated since I hardly studied Japanese. I knew I could not stay in this way and hoped that my application to the program would enable me to improve my Japanese and experience Japanese culture.

On Specialized training

I had my training at two places. At first, I was at Yokohama National University from October 2015 to January 2016. The two main objectives of my training were improving my Japanese ability and acquiring methods of teaching Japanese language. I observed beginners and intermediate classes and attended advanced level classes. Here is my schedule.

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

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J200

J352

J100

J200

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J650

J610

J100

J605

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J101

103

J609

4

J603

J514

J653

100 and above : Beginner level, 200 and above : Intermediate level, 500 and above : Advanced level

The contents of the lessons I observed are as follows:

Classes J101 and J100 - They teach Japanese starting with Hiragana and Katakana followed by expressions for greeting and the basic grammar.

Class J200 - They teach how to hold simple conversations and read and write Japanese with the beginner level grammar.

Class J352 The students are exposed to discuss or present various topics, write compositions and express their thoughts and opinions in Japanese.

The contents of the classes I attended are as follows:

Class J610 - The aim is to develop Japanese communication skills by writing My personal history. My subject was My future. I wrote the reasons why I learn Japanese, my work situation, problems at work which trouble me and so on. The theme My steps, my path that I chose was accepted as theme of this course.

Class J603 This class is to acquire a wide range of Japanese ability as an advanced level student by finding the subjects for study in everyday life through fieldwork, and by getting exposed to a large variety of Japanese language through reading technical documents, interviewing and discussing repeatedly. Specifically, the students make presentations using photos on a subject that they find interesting or strange in Japan. Each student took 8 photos and chose one of them to study it more deeply as a theme to present in the class. I myself made 3 presentations on owls.

Class J609 - The aim is to develop students learning ability in a local community through deepening knowledge of Kanagawa including Yokohama City which is our place to live and study. My theme was Observation of tea ceremony lessons at my host familys home. I chose this theme because my host mother was a tea ceremony teacher and I also wanted to experience traditional Japanese culture. At the end of the course, we made a booklet titled Discovery of Kanagawa by foreign students and I made a poster presentation on my subject.

Class J605 - The purpose is to cultivate discussion skills in Japanese by learning Japanese culture and its social background through videos, and by giving ones thoughts and opinions on a chosen subject. I wrote my opinion about the videos such as, Under maidenhair trees, Mystery of Chinese culture 2, Mysterious development of babies, Angela Aki and so on. Moreover, I studied the information in China about foreigners in China, Disabled sportsmen in China and About prenatal diagnosis and summarized them. I also made a presentation on Malala Yousafzai Changemaker of the world and wrote a report on Acceptance of refuses in China.

Class J653 The Students learn what happened when Thoku earthquake and tsunami occurred on the 11th March 2011 and afterwards, mainly focusing on people. They aim at expert level of Japanese by reading articles and books, watching videos, having discussions and making presentations on this matter. I was so impressed by the great determination Japanese people had after the disaster to reflect on the problems caused by the catastrophe and try to tackle them. This strong determination has grown their consciousness of disaster prevention and improved countermeasures. Besides watching videos, I made presentations on the second chapter of a book called Giant Tsunami How people reacted and Great Hanshin earthquake Transformation of Japanese government, and also reports on my presentations at the end of the course.

Class J650 - The students are supposed to learn the writing skills required for a college student through practice on targeted writing styles and formats, proper use of facts and opinions, effective methods of quoting, suitable constructions of the passage, and so on. Although I was a Japanese teacher, my Japanese writing skill was poor. The other day, a Japanese teacher from my training program of September pointed out that I mixed up the spoken language and the written language. I accordingly wanted to learn how to write theses properly at this class. I was thinking that I would be able to not only improve my writing skill but also teach the method to my students after leaning it. The theme of my essay was Whether the use of Katakana should be restricted or not.

Class J514 This class is to improve students writing skills for reports and theses and their presentation skills in Japanese. Here, they also teach how to write reports and theses in Japanese. The theme of my essay at this class was Study on acquisition of contradictory conjunctions in Japanese language for Japanese learners in China.

Class 103 - The lessons deepen students respective subjects concerning learning contents in Japanese language education. The students study learning contents and methods to Japanese learners including schoolchildren after overviewing contrastive study, theories of teaching materials, research results concerning teaching methods and the present situation of teaching materials. In fact, most subjects that I studied here were the use of appropriate language and of synonyms.

The above classes are advanced level. I would like to note as below the differences in teaching methods between in China and in Japan that I noticed through observing the beginners and intermediate classes.

1. It is easy to understand the meaning of words and make short phrases as they use illustrations.

2. The teachers provide opportunities to their students to speak in Q&A format during the lessons.

3. At most intermediate classes, they make the students to prepare various questionnaires and present the results with power point.

4. They did not explain new words and the use of grammar much, but the students can check them up themselves by Internet.

In brief, in China, they give importance to the grammar however students lack language communication capability whilst in Japan, they primarily try to develop it.

In February 2016, I started my training at Asia International Language Center. I observed lessons in the morning and gave extra classes to a parent and 2 children from China in the afternoon. Here is my schedule.

Morning : Mon - B3, Tue - C1, Wed - A9, Fri - A7

(A : Beginner level, B : Intermediate level,

C : Advanced level (10:05 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.)

Most students were Chinese. I took notes and summarized them during the lessons as I wanted to know how they teach Japanese when the students do not understand the language.

Besides observing the lessons, I taught Japanese to the parent and the children from China. They were a mother and her 16-year-old and 9-year-old sons, but the 9 years old boy was reluctant to study Japanese and I did not know what to do with it for a long time. At that time, Mr. Kimura thought me how to play a game like Hyakunin Isshu that he made himself and gave me his opinion about my lessons. I learned a lot from him.

My impressions and thoughts at specialized training

At Japanese advanced classes in China, they have only typical subjects, such as Japanese literature, Japanese interpretation and classical Japanese which are uninteresting and difficult. Nevertheless, it might be practical to prepare for postgraduate school entrance exams. The advanced classes at Yokohama National University were very interesting to me. I think the aim of the Japanese language education is not the same as in China and the method was completely different. The purpose at advanced classes for foreigners in Japan is mainly to improve conversation ability in Japanese. During the lessons on Japanese teaching method practice, we studied grammar misuse that we had not noticed at all. I would like to study it in the future.

Moreover, I was impressed by the sense of responsibility of the teachers. I imagine that it is difficult to teach Japanese from scratch as all the students at Asia International Language Center are foreigners who do not understand Japanese. If students are not enthusiastic, they think out methods and teach them tenaciously. They always work until late and I should learn their diligence.

After going back home

I will be in charge of beginners classes soon after going back to my country and would like to give lessons with the methods I learned in Japan. Obviously, there is no Japanese-language environment in China and thus I will not be able to avoid explaining in Chinese. However, I would like to teach Japanese in Japanese as much as possible and also like to develop my students communication capability in Japanese by making them do presentations and interview each other. I am also thinking of writing an essay on linguistic issues which we studied in Japan.

Moreover, I would like to tell my students the Japanese culture and affairs that I experienced in Japan. After coming to Japan, I realized that the Japanese and the Chinese did not understand each other enough. I think many Japanese know only big cities like Pekin and Shanghai and do not really know Chinese culture or Chinese current affairs and the Chinese should learn the seriousness, the sense of responsibility and self-examination of the Japanese.

Life in Japan

Besides the training, I experienced many events in Japan such as a blueberry picking, a university festival, a Japanese festival in Kimono and so on. There were several memorable things. First of all, my homestay. My host familys sur name was Ozuyori and my host mother was a tea ceremony teacher. I was so glad to have this opportunity the most because I had been longing to experience Japanese tea ceremony for a long time. I explained the Chinese affairs to my host father and mother. They were very kind and helpful to me and I was able to work on my homework from the university with her help.

Secondly, we sang a song We are the world when Kanagawa International Fan Club participated in a cultural exchange meeting 2015. As we had practiced very hard every evening, our performance went very well. I also had a great time making chigiri-e art craft, doing a barbeque, singing at a new years party and talking to other foreigners at the invitation of Ebina International Society.

Finally, my trips in Japan. I went to Kamakura, Kyoto and Tokyo with other trainees. In my winter holidays, I travelled Hakone, Osaka, Nara, Kobe and Himeji on my own. Before the trips I was a little bit worried because it was the first time I travelled alone and I easily lose my way. However, the Japanese transport was highly convenient and even if I got lost, station staff or even ordinary people were so kind as to show me the way immediately when I asked. I also had various famous foods which were expensive but really delicious.

I always felt the kindness of Japanese people when I was living in Japan, in particular, when I lost my way. The people whom I asked took me to a destination, or looked at a map or took me to a police box if they did not know the way. I was really moved by their kindness.

Other trainees were also very kind when I spent time with them. We celebrated our birthdays and travelled together like a big family. I was very touched that they celebrated my birthday even it was already passed.

Lastly, I have an impression that there is very little interchange between China and Japan. Speaking of Japan, the Chinese probably think of Shopping more than anything. It can be said that there are only few Chinese who know Japanese history or culture. They should learn the diligence, the seriousness of Japanese, and the countermeasures against disasters and the protection of the environment in Japan.

Needless to say, Japanese people are very welcome in China. China is spacious and not only famous cities like Pekin and Shanghai but also local areas have a long history and a culture of their own. We also have a lot of delicious foods in China.

During my 7 month stay in Japan, my Japanese ability, especially my writing skill improved. I also participated in international exchange activities and was able to experienced traditional Japanese culture. Last of all, I would like to express my appreciation for those who were helpful to me.

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Name: GuoFangChen

EmploymentLiaoning Province Center for Disease Control and PreventionTraining Subject: Preventive health, nutrition, fund management of public health, etc.

Place of training Kangawa University of Human Services,

Kanagawa Prefectural Institute of Public Health

CDC

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Before coming to Japan

I work at an institution called Liaoning Province Center for Disease Control and Prevention, or Liaoning Province CDC in short, which has similar function as that of Kanagawa Prefectural Institute of Public Health. Its main task includes prevention and control of severe diseases, prediction of disease trends and issuance of warning, training of public health emergency team, investigation and treatment at time of public health emergency, identification of pathogenic microorganisms, identification of poisonous/pollutant substances, identification of obstructive factors for public health, risk assessment in areas such as industrial health science, radiation science and environmental science, examination and prediction, and clerical and administrative work related to public health.

In this institution, I work at the fund management office for the public health projects. The section is in charge of management of funds, most of which are public, for disease prevention and control initiatives in Liaoning Province, while monitoring, reporting, and liaison with municipalities under the jurisdiction are also included in its duties. My job is to report breakdown of the fund (used) for disease prevention/control activities within the province to the national government. By using a dedicated platform, I report to the national government breakdown of (used) subsidies from the national government and the provinces fund, and to give notice to municipalities under the jurisdiction. In my work, I also give training to city/ward officials to use the dedicated platform, as well as answering their inquiries and providing them with the latest information.

By hearing from my colleagues that many people suffer from infectious diseases and lifestyle diseases, I came to keenly feel the importance of health to all humans. Japan is known as the country with the worlds longest life expectancy and it also has advanced disease prevention and treatment systems, along with well-organized welfare programs. Because I wanted to acquire elementary knowledge about nutrition, Japanese welfare systems, and the basics of disease prevention and control, I decided to apply for this training program.

On specialized training

I got training at Kanagawa University of Human Services and Kanagawa Prefectural Institute for Public Health, in order to take the courses on nutrition and social welfare systems, and also to gain basic knowledge about of Japanese infectious disease surveillance system and disease prevention.

In the nutrition course, aside from the basics of nutrition, I extensively studied about nutrient balance and registered dietitian system.

Japan is currently facing a dual problem comprised of overnutrition and undernutritionPEM: protein energy malnutrition. High-energy diet and lack of physical activity in recent years have lead people to face overnutrition which could cause obesity and increase the risk of lifestyle diseases. In Japan, males have higher obesity rate while many females are being underweight which is linked to higher risk of PEM. According to a data on worldwide study, Japan is the only country where male and female show contrasting obesity rate, while in other countries the rate tends to be almost the same among both sexes within a country. Females high underweight rate is now an emerging issue in developed countries. By age, females in their twenties had the average BMI of 20-21, between 1980-2010, reflecting overall tendency of underweight. However, females in twenties are mothers-to-be. Being underweight may be one of the reasons for declining birthrate because being seriously underweight is likely cause of infertility and miscarriage.

It is important to eat balanced diet and to know about five major nutrition groups carbohydrate, fat, protein, vitamin and mineral and their major functions that are all essential to sustain our life.

Although The Japanese Food Guide Spinning Top provides a general idea of balanced diet, it is difficult to determine one common guideline as people have different age, body type, health condition and intensity of daily physical activity so guideline should vary accordingly. Therefore, it is important to comply with dietitians instruction and consume nutrition properly.For instance, calorie consumption and requirements for each nutrition vary for an active athlete, a grocery store clerk, and an office worker because they have different intensity of daily physical activity. Similarly, people on different life stages, such as neonatal stage, infancy, adolescence and adulthood, have different energy and nutrient requirements. Newborn babies need far more calories as they grow rapidly in this stage, having basal metabolism level higher than twice as much as adults.Elderly people must reduce intake of calories and salt in order to prevent and control lifestyle diseases, as their physical function declines and basal energy requirement decreases.Pregnant women need to take in extra calories, as well as to increase intake of folic acid, while restricting vitamin A, to enhance cell division and to avoid fetal malformation.Even if two people had the same body weight, if they had different body type from one another, their basal energy metabolism volume is not the same. Therefore, they require different amount of protein and energy. Hospitals serve patients therapeutic meals that are planned by dietitians at clinical nutrition department, according to each persons condition. The planned meals are classified into three categories: general therapeutic diet (liquid, soft and solid diet); special diet for treatment with controlled nutrients; and diet to eat before special examination. Patients with hyperlipidemia, hypertension, diabetes and kidney disease must keep a good balance of nutrients by the special diet for treatment as they need to control intake of energy, salt, carbohydrate and protein.

In social-welfare courses, I studied about welfare systems and welfare institutions in Japan. Japanese social welfare systems began with the former Public Assistance Act enacted in 1946, followed by the Physically Disabled Persons Welfare Act, the current Public Assistance Act and the Social Welfare Services Act. In 1989, Ten-Year Strategy to Promote Health Care and Welfare for the Elderly (The Gold Plan) was enacted to require municipal governments to make further effort. Then in 1994, it was revised into the New Five-Year Strategy to Promote Health Care and Welfare for the Elderly (The New Gold Plan). To create a better living environment for the elderly, the integrated community care system was also established. Meanwhile, Japan also established the Model City Program for Welfare of the Physically Disabled, the Barrier-Free Transportation Act and the Act on Buildings Accessible and Usable by the Elderly and Physically Handicapped (Heartful Building Law), to create a better social environment for people with disability, introducing barrier-free and universal design to create a better environment.

At Kanagawa Prefectural Institute of Public Health, I gained basic knowledge about prevention and treatment of infectious diseases and lifestyle diseases, management system of governmental organizations and financial systems in Japan.

In Japan, infectious diseases are classified into five groups. Through the infectious disease surveillance system, with cooperation of medical institutions such as hospitals, clinics, health centers and prefectural public health institutes, daily, weekly and monthly report on confirmed infection cases are made to the national government. Prefectural public health institutions issue alert or warning according to the number of confirmed cases per fixed point to prevent infection and wider spread. To have a long and healthy life, it is essential to prevent lifestyle diseases by healthy diet, regular exercise and social participation. I also had an opportunity to visit the Research Institute of Tuberculosis and participated in the 67th National Convention for Tuberculosis Prevention and got general information on prevalence of tuberculosis in Japan, as well as examination method and their effort for prevention. At the Association of Prefectural and Municipal Public Health Institutes Greater Kanto area branch, I made a presentation in a meeting of study group on bacteria, mainly on the latest study on food poisoning bacteria. Visit to Ucoop and Aeon Co., Ltd. gave me an opportunity to learn about food-safety confirmation system and the inspection method for food-safety. I also visited Terumo Shonan Center, whose R&D activities for devices for the elderly and was very impressive, while their human resource development projects were also remarkable. At Odawara Health and Welfare Office, I learned about operations at welfare office. At Odawara branch of Kanagawa Prefectural Institute for Public Health, I was quite impressed by its officials diligence, as well as its advanced facility. At Hot Springs Research Institute of Kanagawa Prefecture, I was given an opportunity to receive a lecture from the director and learned about seismogenic mechanism and disaster management. As Japan is an earthquake-prone country, citizens are educated about disaster management in their everyday life. They are taught that while it is absolutely necessary to protect themselves, helping others is also important. Earthquake again needs to be taken into account when designing buildings. The National Institute of Infectious Diseases offered me an extensive explanation about prevention and research system of infectious diseases, focusing on their AIDS-related study, AIDS prevalence and their challenges. I also visited their P3 laboratory. At Kanagawa Prefectural Offices Health Promotion Section, I learned about their effort for Kanagawa Health Plan 21, and their initiatives for treatment of mibyou (pre-symptomatic state).

After going back home

1. Short-term goals

I would like to teach people around me the importance of nutrition and nutrient balance, balanced diet, regular exercise and social participation for ones health. At the same time, I would like to encourage them to know about relationship between smoking and lifestyle diseases, as well as to raise their awareness for importance of healthy lifestyle and their own health condition. I would especially focus on nutrient balance and emphasize that it varies depending on each life stage, as well as to tell them how to apply the knowledge, because I believe it is most important and effective. People would be motivated to practice what they know when it shows significant effect.

I would also like to share with my colleague what learned from Japanese peoples strong sense of responsibility and dedication for their work, so that we can better cooperate with one another and efficiently carry out our duties.

I am very grateful to people at the training sites and my neighbors for helping me so much during my stay in Japan. After going back to China, I am willing to share my experience I had during the training program, as well as to tell about kindness and friendship expressed by Japanese people, to strengthen the ties between Japan and China.

2. Long term goals

By introducing the role of registered dietitian, I would like to strongly urge the government that dietitians are essential to sustain and to promote public health. I am willing to take actions to introduce registered dietitian system in public medical institutions and schools, as well as human resource development of registered dietitians. I also would like to introduce school lunch system and dietary education. Besides that, I hope to educate people about the role of smoking-cessation aid to help Chinas effort for smoking cessation.

In Japan, when the government formulates its systems and plans, assessment of the citizens needs and participation of local people are highly encouraged. I would like to introduce this idea to the government of China, to encourage them to understand general needs of citizens so that we can create systems and plans most appropriate for our society.

If given the chance, I would like to tell the government in my country about welfare services in Japan including nursing care insurance system and nursing care facilities, because referring to cases in Japan would help China to plan welfare systems and nursing care facilities best suited to our country. I am also interested in promotion of product development projects for the elderly and the disabled persons.

Life in Japan

I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to Kanagawa Prefecture International Division and Japan Overseas Cooperative Association for giving me an opportunity to participate in this technical training program. Thanks to all the help given by people at related institutions and volunteers through those past seven months, I am now finishing my training course and I am very grateful to them.

Even though seven months was a short time, I had chances to join many activities such as welcome party, drum festival, barbecue in Ebina, New Years party, exchange program for foreign students and farewell party. I will cherish all the memories of these precious experiences.

What was impressing to me in Japan was peoples behavior on commuting trains and buses. They are so considerate of others and spend their time quietly reading books, using cell phones, or simply resting. People wait for their turns in lines when waiting for trains, or even when buying Fukubukuro. When I asked for directions while traveling, people always kindly told me the way, or sometimes even took me to my destination. Japanese service is so good and clerks at banks or supermarkets always kindly helped me. In addition, people save energy. During lunch break they turn off lights and use stairways instead of elevator when going to one floor up or down, so that they can save energy and do some exercise at the same time.

Japan, as a developed country, is making effort to build a better social environment for its citizens while continuously conducting technical assistance for developing countries. Every year, Japan launches new projects and offers training courses in which foreign participants are taught not only advanced techniques but also given opportunities to join various events. For instance, I was given chances to communicate with my neighbors through activities such as home-stay and blueberry picking, and also to learn about Japanese traditional culture including tea ceremony, rice cake pounding, Japanese drum and chigiri-e (Japanese torn paper art). There were also opportunities to go sightseeing in major tourist sites like Kyoto, Kamakura, Enoshima, Tokyo and Zoorasia Yokohama Zoological Gardens. Aside from its technical aspects, this program serves as an excellent platform to express Japanese peoples kindness and their wish for global peace to the rest of the world. I hope that Japan will continue this technical training and cultural exchange program.

With support given by people at related institutions and fellow trainees over this long training period, I have completed my training course. This training strengthened my expertise and also improved my English and Japanese ability thanks to needing to talk with other trainees. It also helped me to understand more about different cultures and customs. I would like to extend my most sincere gratitude to all the relevant persons for the precious experiences and memories.

Name: Ismail Azrul AzwarEmployment: Kedah Social welfare service

Training Subject: Assistance For Self-Reliance Of Person With Disabilities, Including Employment SupportPlace of training: Kennou Fukushi-kai

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Before coming to Japan.

Before coming to japan for training, I worked at Social Welfare Department in Kedah State, Malaysia. Serving as a community development assistant at Bengkel Daya Sungai Petani (BDSP), a welfare institution of Persons with Disabilities (PWDs).

My job is handling agricultural training workshop for PWDs. There are several workshops at BDSP like agriculture, laundry services, cooking, food preparation, sewing, gallery of exhibition and sales goods, soap and cleaning services. I attended Job Coach basic course organized by PWDs Development Department (JPOKU) in 2013. After this course, I was determined to become a successful Job Coach someday. I started working as a Job Coach with volunteers of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). I also worked with the team Job Coach in the state of Kedah consists of supervisors and workers in Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) which are the institutions under the management of the Social Welfare Department. In 2014 Job Coach in Kedah has supported 15 PWDs to find suitable employment in the companies. In addition, I also worked as a supporter of Self Advocacy groups in Kedah and I attended several national self-advocacy program organized by the NGO United Voice.

I opted for a course in Japan because wanted to increase knowledge in the field of Job Coach , self - advocacy and related to the welfare of society . I think after the end of the course I want to help my employer, The Department of Social Welfare to improve services and help the target groups , namely Disabled to improve skills in the field of employment support.

I studied Japanese language for a month with the support of JICA volunteer in PWDs One Stop Service Centre (PKS) Bedong, Ms. Asei Hanamure. I was determined to study Job Coach and Self Advocacy in Japan in earnest to support the target group finding suitable employment and assist employers at Social Welfare Department and also for developing Job Coach in Malaysia. I want to use this opportunity for increasing my knowledge in this field and also learn about the cultures of Japanese live at the same time.

On specialized training.

After one month Japanese language course, I started a course in Ken-o Fukushi Kai, a social welfare organization that is well known in Kanagawa Prefecture. The main subjects that I learn are:

1. PWDs supported employment (Job Coach training)

2. Self Advocacy

3. PWDs Practical interview

4. Management and handling cases with PWDs in institutions (including job training in institution, N Clap, visiting other institutions of PWDs and group home)

5. Treatment and care of PWDs, children and senior citizens in institutions (visiting institutions).

It is not easy to be a successful Job Coach because I have to focus on my field particularly related supported employment and Self Advocacy. I have been working together with PWDs and staff of institution, N Clap in training workshops to learn and understand what are the duties and roles performed by staff to handle PWDs. In addition, I could assess the extent of their ability to work and see their daily progress in certain period. Job training in the workshops are the parts of process of Self Advocacy and it is important to help them independently without the help of others. These training programs are very good before PWDs getting the job in the company.

What the most interesting in this course is that I have the opportunity to visit several companies to discuss and do practical along with the Job Coach and PWDs. I gained practical new experience in the companies because previously I didnt have an opportunity to do practical in the company along with the Job Coach and PWDs in Malaysia because of different systems. In Malaysia we (Job Coach) just talk to the company related PWDs supported employment but did not get to do practical because it is difficult to get approval from the companies, especially related to food products.

Because of that, I have decided to come to Japan and learn techniques and skills used by the Job Coach here to control the situation in consultation with the company and families of PWDs and other parties involved. In addition, I would like to know how to cooperate Job Coach and organizations such as Hello Work, Special Education Schools, vocational training centers and other institutions to assist the PWDs for their employment.

The difference about Job Coach in Malaysia and in Japan:

1. Planning work system (strategic plan)

Job Coach in Malaysia does not have a strategic plan that is specific to design work system before because in every state there are no special officer who was appointed as coordinator of Job Coach, but each state has its Coordinating Unit for PWDs to move all related activities including Job Coach program and Self Advocacy. Job Coach getting help and cooperation from JICA volunteers stationed in PKS Bedong for PWDs, Kedah.

2. Practical training in companies

Job Coach in Malaysia, for example in the state of Kedah do not have the opportunity to do practical with PWDs, because it is difficult to get approval from the companies, especially companies related to food products involves strict hygiene procedures.

3. Job Coach Activity Center

Job Coach in Kedah previously there have been no special activity center for this program, until in 2014 the center of activities of Job Coach opened in PKS Bedong for PWDs in Kedah.

4. Job Coach Activities received less attention

Job Coach Activities especially in the state of Kedah received less attention because most Job Coach who was appointed from among the supervisors and workers in CBR, that is the PWDs welfare institutions. They do not have many opportunities to handle work related Job Coach because of busy with daily tasks in the CBR. And PWDs dont get information about Job Coach Activity and only register for looking for job at the Labor Department (JTK).

5. The problem of transportation

Job Coach in Japan more comfortable than Kedah for having a vehicle of office and a good train service to carry out daily activities outside. In Kedah Job Coach has to use their own vehicles and it is difficult to get the vehicles of department because carrying out for other activities.

After going back to home

After returning to Malaysia, I will make strategic plan to ensure the Job Coach and Self Advocacy activities could be more organized and effective. I will divide the strategic plan into two parts:

1. The short-term strategic planning

2. The long-term strategic planning

The short-term strategic planning

The main focus of making the briefing Job Coach and Self Advocacy in the area of the state.

Reasons:

a) PWDs

Most of PWDs do not know how to sign up for looking for job in the company, besides, they do not have clear information about the activities Job Coach.I

b) Parents / guardians of PWDs

Parents or guardians of PWDs do not have special knowledge about supported employment and they are not confident about their children's ability to work in a company or open market job. The main responsibility of Job Coach is giving a clear explanation to them to get confidence that PWDs are also able to compete on the open market and not too dependent on others.

c) The company or employer

Most of the companies or the employers do not have experience hiring PWDs as was done by many companies in Japan. Japanese government has a condition that large companies have to hire at least 2% of PWD workers in the company. The companies and employers do not have the confidence to employ PWDs. They assume that PWDs are unable to provide productivity and quality of their work is not satisfactory.

d) Job Coach and coordinator of PWDs Unit in area

Clear briefing also should be given to staff who are directly involved in the program Job Coach and Self Advocacy to ensure that all parties understand the plans and activities that will be implemented.

Cooperation with the company or the employer, the Labor Department (JTK), Special Education Schools, Community Colleges and NGOs related to the implementation of the Job Coach program.

Reasons:

a) Getting accurate information number of PWDs registered with the Labor Department, and make plans to support PWDs look for suitable job in the company (Job Matching).

b) Obtaining information from the school, the number of candidates of PWDs who will be graduating from school and be eligible to work in the company, while the PWDs are not eligible to work in the company for some reason will be assisted to receive training at the institution under the Social Welfare Department or in the community colleges.

c) Establish a good relationship with the company to facilitate the process of taking PWDs to work and gives a clear explanation of the benefits given by the government to companies employing PWDs such as annual tax breaks and training schemes for PWDs (borne by the government). Benefit for PWDs is if their salaries are under RM1,200.00, they are eligible to receive an allowance (EPC).

d) In cooperation with NGO registered under the Social Welfare Department to identify with PWDs who are eligible to work in the company and PWDs get the appropriate training at institutions. In addition, relevant NGOs can support their Self Advocacy activities.

Job Coach Program with more active

I am sure that after returning to Malaysia, Job Coach and Self Advocacy program can be implemented more effectively with the cooperation of all parties, particularly the Social Welfare Department of Kedah. Implementation of this program will be continually and progressively work to ensure the quality and sustainability of the program is not retarded.

Courses and seminars

Holding courses or seminars for PWDs, the Coordinating Unit in the area, supervisors and workers of CBR, families and companies, for example discrimination against PWDs and self-management courses for PWDs.

Long-term strategic planning

a ) Establish a central information technology ( ICT Center ) for people with disabilities to study IT . IT center like this can be implemented in OKU -Stop Service Centre , Bantry for starters .

b ) Apply the premises free from the Government to be the center of the collection, exhibition and sale of products with disabilities more effectively .

c ) Creating a Job Coach activity centers and advocacy groups in the Local Service Centre disabilities , Bantry .

d ) Establish conventions disabled state and national level , which was attended by government representatives , representatives of trade unions , representatives of self advocacy groups , representatives and other departments to discuss matters relating to people with disabilities.

e ) Establishing a group home model ( group home ) in Kedah to ease placement of the disabled.

f ) To collaborate with relevant parties to provide vocational training to people with disabilities.

g ) To help pupils in the state to implement the program 1 PDK 1 product with a more organized and effective .

Life in Japan

I have the ambition to come to Japan before because had many contacts here, especially colleagues from JICA volunteers. For more than six months in Japan, I have been through many life experiences abroad. Before this I learned a lot from the cultural life of the Japanese JICA volunteer friends, but experience is the most valuable experience for themselves the reality of life here.

I see a very significant difference between Malaysia and Japan in particular matters such as education, career, culture, cost of living, infrastructure, transport and so on. I conclude that Japan is much better than other countries in Asia as Japan is among the countries most advanced in the world.

However, I see communication system in Japan is slightly affected, for example, I have been through the experience of being on the train to commute to the course every day, I see many Japanese people in the same carriage with me more interested in surfing the internet on your mobile phone (smartphone), read comics or books. The situation then was quiet without the noise. This situation is very different from other countries. I also feel a new experience in Japan during the walk to return to the hostel, I met with a woman was walking with her small child, I was reprimanded young children with congratulations afternoon while I smiled at him, what is surprising is that women with soon have distanced her from me. I had asked a friend (the Japanese) about it. He told me that most Japanese people are concerned with their children's safety even more so with strangers . In contrast to the situation in Malaysia , we saw a nice greeting from the young to the elderly or otherwise is strongly encouraged in everyday communication .

In addition, I find that life in Japan is much better than other countries, Japanese people highly value cleanliness, punctuality, focus on working, honest, trustworthy and celebrated people from other countries. I believe that the Japanese people should maintain good culture and nature for the good of future generations, but need to make changes in things that can produce negative effects in the future.

I am thrilled at the opportunity to visit several places in Japan together with partners such as Kyoto, Nagoya, Hakone, Miyagi and Tokyo. We also have the opportunity to enjoy winter in Japan and share stories and insights about their respective countries because we come from a different country, culture and religion.

For more than six months for courses abroad, I really miss your family and friends in Malaysia but I was determined to work vigorously to achieve my ambition. Malaysia is longing to feel comfortable but I have to prioritize and focus on the course of endeavor to improve their skills and help the department to provide the best service to customers.

My suggestion to the Kanagawa Prefectural Government in order to foster better cooperation between Malaysia and Japan with more exchanges of trainers courses related to specific areas in the future. Programs such as this should be disseminated widely to provide opportunities for trainees from other countries to come here locally.

I would like to thank the Kanagawa Prefectural Government for accepting me as a coach and sponsor all the expenses of the course during my courses here. Thanks also to the JOCA who have helped to ensure the success of this program. Hence my gratitude to the Director General of Department of Social Welfare Malaysia (JKMM), the Public Service Department (JPA) and Director of the Department of Social Welfare State (JKMNK) has approved my application for a course abroad. Thanks to the management and staff of the keno Fukushikai, especially N Clap and Pome institution that has served for six months I was attending a course in Japan. Thanks to my friend, Mr. Masahiro Muto former JICA volunteers in 2013-2015 were responsible for introducing me to this course. Next to all involved in the success of this course I hope this cooperation will be continued in the future.

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Name:Lubis Siti ZainabEmploymentMedan Water Quality ExaminationTraining Subject: Testing and management of tap water qualityPlace of trainingTap Water Quality Center, Samukawa Water Purification Plant and Tanigahara Water Purification Plant

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Before coming to Japan

Before I came to Japan, I had been worked as a Technical Manager of Water Quality Examination in Laboratory of Tirtanadi Waterworks Regional Company for 5 years. Our company is a regional government owned waterworks company which belong to North Sumatera Provincial Government in Indonesia. My responsibilities had to made annual plan for intern water sampling of our water treatment plant and distributions system, to supervise the water quality examination results and also to observe the technical skills of our staffs. As for your information, our Laboratory had achieved ISO 17025 certification for water quality examination since 2010. We perform Total Coliform and Fecal Coliform for microbiology examination. And also we perform the Chemical-Physics examination which using UV Spectrometry and Atomic Absorption Spectrometry.

About six months before I came here, I had been transferred to another work division called Production Division as a Special Staff. This job gave me new responsibility to cooperate with the Manager of Laboratory, in order to advance the examination capabilities, and also to observe about drinking water quality management with other Chiefs.

The reasons why I had delightfully register for this Kanagawa Prefectural Government Program for Overseas Trainee, because of my desire to learn more and have a widely perspective about water purification system and water quality management which used in another country.

According to it, I had tried hard to get this opportunity, so that I can inspire and support my company to improve our laboratory and water purification plants (WPPs). Thankfully, on this program, Im so proud and felt fascinated that being the only one participant who got the opportunity to learn about water purification system and water quality examination. I have learn many things here.

On specialized training

Firstly, my first period of this Overseas Trainee Program placed in Tap Water Quality Management Center, Koza-gun, Samukawa Town. This Center had been certified as Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) Laboratory by Japan Water Works Association. There are 51 items of water quality examination standards issued by Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare of Japan and other 50 items of additional parameters. They teach me how to do water sampling at intake point of Samukawa WPP, and other small WPP such as Toya WPP, and Nagano WPP. Also got many lectures about Microbiology and Physics-Chemicals testing and about characteristics of Samukawa WPP and Tanigahara WPPs water sources.

On mid October 2015, I had attended the International Conference which held by Japan Waterworks Association in Super Arena Building, Saitama Prefecture. I had so delighted because my Director from Tirtanadi Waterworks Company also attended that conference. There were many presentation in Japanese. And the most interesting was Mr. Nakanosono Kenjis presentation which presented about JICAs project in Tirtanadi Waterworks Company with purpose to help us to decrease the water losses in distribution pipelines. On the last day, I had attend the another International Conference which held by International Water Association (IWA) and Japan National Young Water Professionals in Brillante Building, Saitama Prefecture. There were many presentations presented by each of their eligible person such as Malaysia, Thailand, Taiwan, Australia, United States of America, and also Indonesia.

Few days later, I had been transferred to Samukawa water purification plant which belong to Kanagawa Prefecture to study about rapid sand filtration, water source management system, control and monitoring system, and tap water distribution system. After 15 days passed, I had been transferred to another water purification plant which has the water production approximately half than Samukawa WPP, named by Tanigahara WPP that located in Sagamihara City. It was so far from my dormitory, and took around 2 hours to go there. During 15 days in Tanigahara WPP, I had been studied about rapid sand filtration, slow sand filtration system, and chlorine injection monitoring equipment.

Furthermore, both of these WPP using different types of raw water. Samukawa WPP uses Sagami River, and in the other hand, Tanigahara WPP uses Sagami Lake as its water intake. It means different treatment needed, because of the water source also contains different microorganisms. Also in those WPP, I had learn about sludge treatment facility that have been managed by private finance initiative (PFI) system. Compare to sludge treatment system in our Water Treatment Plants (WTPs) in North Sumatera, Indonesia, we use sludge lagoon only to collect all of the backwash processed in that plant and send the supernatant back to raw water tank as intake water. This Private Finance Initiative system is very convenient because of handling-over to other company.

During my training period in Tap Water Quality Management Center, I have also notice that all of staffs specifically care about contamination prevention of examination process and always maintain good laboratory practice (GLP) in every aspects. Deputy Director of Tap Water Quality Management Center had explain that the comparison between ISO 9001 and ISO/IEC 17025, GLP ceritification become more spesific and detail for Laboratory examination. I had observe the Surveillance Process of Good Laboratory Practice in Center that examine by Japan Water Works Associations examiners.

Previously, one of the reasons why I felt delightful and so elated to apply for Kanagawa Prefectural Government Program of Overseas Technical Trainee because of I want to know more about heavy metal examination, such as Selenium and Arsenic by using Atomic Absorption Spectrometer. According to that, Tap Water Quality Management Center had been provided me one day training in Kanagawa Prefectural Environmental Research Center, Hiratsuka City. In that Center, Ive knew that Selenium examination which using Atomic Absorption Spectrometer using hazardous chemical compounds such as fuming Sulfuric Acid and Perchloric Acid and it must be equipped with high-safety protection. It was not convenient because it can measure one parameter only in one time. But if use ICP-MS equipment is used for the measurement, it will be very convinient, more safety, and less energy needed. Because of ICP-MS did not use fuming Sulfuric Acid and Perchloric Acid, and also can detect many metals in one time.

As I had informed before that Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare of Japan had issued water quality examination standard for both Microbiology and Chemical-Physics Examination, there are only two kinds of microbiology examination, which are Escherichia coli (E. coli), and Standard Plate Count. Both of these examination become the water quality indicator for raw water and successful indicator of chlorine injection in water purification plant.

Furthermore, Tap Water Quality Management Center also declare additional microbiology examination which are Heterotrophic Bacteria, Fecal Enterococci, Aerobic Spore-Forming Bacteria, Anaerobic Spore-Forming Bacteria, Clostridium Perfringens and Total Coliform. To promote these examination, Microbiology Section Room in Tap Water Quality Management Center also equipped by Clean Room which is the first exist in Japan, and has a purpose to prevent the contamination. Afterwards, they also do the examination for Cryptosporidium, and Giardia. Both of these microorganisms known as highly resistance of chlorine injection. If these microorganisms contaminate the tap water distribution system, it could be harmful and dangerous cause for the human body.

Therefore, learn and doing all of these examinations made me understand that there are many microorganisms which can cause failure on water purification system, such as bad smell and foaming occurs, increasing turbidity, clogging in filtartion pond, and so on.

Based on Water Quality Standard issued by Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare, Kanagawa Prefecture Public Enterprise Agency also obligate all of its Water Purification Plants to :

Have to keep the maximum turbidity value on filtration water is 0.1 degree

Instead of using chlorine injection only, small WPP have to install new technology equipment such as Membrane Filtration or Ultraviolet Irradiation

Have to examine its raw water regularly.

In Tap Water Quality Management Center, I have learn also about chemical testing such as Heavy Metal testing using ICP-MS, Anion and Cation ion compounds testing using Ion Chromatograph, Geosmin and 2-MIB testing using Solid-Phase MicroExtraction Gas Chromatograph-MS, Alkyl-Benzyl Sulfonate (ABS) using Solid-Phase Extraction High Performance Liquid Chromatograph (HPLC), and Volatile Organic testing using Purge-Trap Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer (GC-MS).

Kanagawa Prefecture Public Enterprise Agency has also several small WPP which use various purification technology. As instance, several WPP in Hakone area uses membran filtration system or ultraviolet irradiation system. According to support the water supply system, Kanagawa Prefecture Public Enterprise Agency has approximately more than 9000 kms distribution pipelines and 136 points of water service reservoir. However, Kanagawa Prefecture Public Enterprise Agency also contribute to water resource utilization as electrical energy. This contribute made Kanagawa Prefecture Public Enterprise Agency become the one and only public company in Japan which adopted pump-storage system for hydroelectric power plant and use water energy from Shiroyama Dam. This plant is very huge and amazing, named by Shiroyama Hydroelectric Power Plant. I went there with Kanagawa Prefecture Government Waterworks Bureaus staffs.

Significantly, I ran several business trips with Kanagawa Prefecture Government Waterworks Bureaus staffs to observe management of other dams (Miho Dam and Kurokura Dam), observe the solar energy collecting using solar cells in Aikawa Photovoltaic Solar Power Plant, and observe WPP systems in other Waterworks Bureau such as Nishiya WPP and Kawai WPP which belong to Yokohama Waterworks Bureau, Kanagawa Water Supply Authority in Ebina City, Arima WPP in Yokosuka City, Nagasawa WPP in Kawasaki City, Asaka WPP in Saitama Prefecture, and Training and Development Center of Tokyo Metropolitan Waterworks Bureau. Also observe the spring water source which located in Oshino-Hakkai, Yamanashi Prefecture, and observe Kawaguchi Lake.

After going back Home

As a Special Staff of Production Division, I have many duties to encourage and to influence the water purification plant monitoring system and laboratory to be better. I have desires to share my knowledge that Ive got from Japan to my colleagues in our company. Firstly, with the permission of our Board of Director, I will organize a training program for good laboratory practice about the importance to work in detail and keep the prevention of contamination. Afterwards, I will cooperate with Chiefs of several water purification plants to apply my knowledge about sand filtration systems and its barriers. I hope that my knowledge could help them to solve the problem about filtration clogging and tap water qualitys failure.

In order to strengthen the relationship between Japan and my country, especially my hometown North Sumatera Provincial Government, I will continue to promote about the pleasant life in Japan. And also there are so many lessons and experience we can get. Especially in waterworks system, Japan is the best place to study about that. Until now, my company has water and wasterwater training system in Toyohashi Water Purification Plant, in Aichi Prefecture. Several of our staffs have the training there. It is very useful for improve our waterworks management. Nevertheless, I will continue to promoting about Overseas Trainee Program held by Kanagawa Prefectural Program to our staffs in North Sumatera. I hope many staffs could get the same opportunity too.

My life in Japan

Being here in Japan, also as my first time to stay and study abroad. I have a dream to live in Japan since I was a child. It was influenced by a serial movie which had been showed everyday in my country, Oshin. I was really in love with this movie and so encouraged by Oshins character, a strong and open-minded Japanese woman. Since that time, I have always imagine about living in Japan.

On 2013, I had been studied in Institute Technology of Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. I took Master Degree about Management of Water, Sanitation, and Infrastructure, which belong to Environmental Engineering. But, I could not accomplish that study because of personal reason. During that time, I had ever attended the general lecture that presented by Japanese researcher. They presented about water pollution prevention and river ecosystem protection in Japan. Those presentation had influenced me more to dream and live in Japan.

Living here in Japan, especially in Kanagawa Prefecture is an interesting life. Many activities and travelling I had done. For instance, the culture activities with Ebina International Society. They invited us to made chigiri-e artcraft, enjoy some Japanese foods such as Sushi, Tempura, Tamagoyaki, Onigiri and celebrate New Years Party with other foreigner who also live here in Kanagawa Prefecture.

On September 2015, I and other moslems participants visited a mosque in Azamino to celebrate Idul Adha, a second big celebration day for Moslems. I was so amazed that there is a mosque here in Yokohama City.

During my training period in Samukawa WPP, several staffs also guided me to visit several WPP in Hakone and had a nice sightseeing in Ashinoko. I had also doing some exciting trips with Kanagawa Prefecture Waterworks Bureaus staffs to Oshino-Hakkai, and other cities around Kanagawa Prefecture. With Tanigahara WPP staffs, they had bring me to enjoy the fascinating of British style in Sagamiko Illumillion, near by Sagami Lake. On December 24th 2015, I and few colleagues of Tap Water Quality Management Center enjoy our lunch time in an Indonesian Restaurant nearby Hiratsuka Station, and then visited Ooyama WPP which placed in Ooyama mount-hills. Afterwards, had use cable car to visit Ooyama Shrine on the top of Ooyama mountain.

Big thanks to Kanagawa Prefectural Government who had provided us to enjoy sightseeing in Kyoto for 3 nights. We visited several temples and shrines there. It was so excited. Kyotos atmosphere was like living in the Edos period.

I have also took one day trip to Asakusa Temple and Akihabara with our Japanese friends. On February 11th, I and my colleagues from Tap Water Quality Management Center had a nice trip to visit Meigetsuin Temple in Kamakura City, watch the Dolphin Show in Enoshima Aquarium, and also had an unique Japanese dining Shojin-ryouri. It was very fascinating.

Sometimes on the weekend, I have a short trip with other participants also. My relationship with them are going well. Every Sunday night on 8 pm, we always gathered together in our meeting room on 3rd floor to have a routine meeting. Usually we talk about our activity for a whole one week. And we shares some stories or any information about our program.

At first, it was so challenge for me to adapt with them because we came from different culture and country. Sometimes we have a debate, miscommunication, but after that makes us understand well about the other. Ive also realized that many things here had influenced me to be better now. I had been regarded as a leader of this group. Its really challenge, because we have to communicate deeply about some situations. However, this responsibility made me more confident to influence them to enjoy our time here. Sometimes, we cook together while singing, laughing or just small gossiping. Eventhough there were several bad debate happened, but we have also good moments. I am definitely sure that we will miss these moments as soon as we arrive in our country. We will also miss our coordinator, Miss Okamura Haruna who always encourage us to enjoy our time, and also to be confident using Japanese as our primary language.

On November 25th, I and other participants had a singing performance in Kanafans Event in Nihon-Odori, Yokohama City. It was the 2nd event of Kanafans Event. Kanafan is Kanagawa International Fans Club. We met with many foreigners who also study here in Kanagawa Prefecture. They come from Kazakhstan, Nepal,France, United States, China, Malaysia, and many others.

On February 14th, I and the other two participants also showed on Kanagawa TV Channel. Actually, I was really nervous and a little bit awkward. I have prepared my conversation in Japanese. But Kanagawa TVs crew asked me to use English. Because they had prepared us English translator. And also perhaps it was the first time I was interviewed by televisions crew.

Thanks to Mr. Nakanosono Kenji who had informed me about this program. Also big thanks to Water Quality Asian Cooperation Network (WaQuAC-Net), JECK and JICA who had recommended me to be able got this opportunity. Ive trying to do my best everyday in the training period, to enjoy my though days here, and also to improve my Japanese skill.

Thanks to all of my colleagues in Tap Water Quality Management Center who become my second family. All of them always willing to help me anytime, anywhere, and explain anything that I want to know so that I can understand it well, such as culture, food, or any other Japanese unique tradition. Especially help me to improve my Japanese skill. Also big thanks to all of my colleagues in Samukawa WPP and Tanigahara WPP who also tried hard to explain many utilities in English.

Last but not the least, thanks for Kanagawa Prefecture Government. I am very grateful being chosen as one of the lucky participants of this overseas training program. I feel very honoured and proud being the member of this project. This overseas training program was very good and so amazing. I hope this program could continue to educate other person to have a brand new vision of Japan and its working systems. I am highly recommended Japan as a convenient, safety, and education place for Moslems. I hope there will be another chance me to visit this Prefecture in the future.

Thank you so much for this opportunity,

AYINA /

Name: GonroudobouJulienneEmploymentAYINA Training Subject: Vegetable cultivation and soil diagnosis, etc.Place of trainingKanagawa Agricultural Technology Center

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Before coming to Japan

Benin is a developing country. In Benin As in many developing countries, agriculture is an important activity for population: in fact in almost all rural areas of Benin, famers practice agriculture mainly for their own alimentation and also for income to cover daily expenses and needs (childrens scholarship alimentation and so on). Also agricultural sector contribute about 30% of national GDP and employs almost 60% of Benin's population. Aware of the importance of agriculture in our country, Mr. Sourou Zomahoun created AYINA organization (All Youth Innovation Networld Association) in Benin in order to contribute to the development of our country. AYINA Benin is working mainly in four fields: Agriculture; Education; Innovation and Culture Exchange. Through the agricultural domain, AYINA Benin is willing to help rural areas famers to produce more food through agriculture innovation method. Im working at AYINA in agricultural domain as responsible of agricultural activities. Through Innovation methods, I manage to young fruit trees cultivation in nurseries through grafting technology in order to promote fruit trees and give technical support (on vegetables cultivation and fruits trees) to farmers in rural areas in order to help them to improve their cultivation technique and increase productivity of their fields. As Im young beginner technician in grounding, I aspirate get Innovation Technologies and Experiences to become big researcher and then teach further farmers and consequently contribute to agriculture development of my country; thats why I really wanted to participate to Kanagawa technical training and study especially about Vegetables Cultivation Management and research.

On specialized training

My training subjects are:

Basic knowledge on vegetables cultivation

Cultivation management and research of vegetables

Cultivation management and research of fruit trees, flowers and ornamental trees

Soil diagnosis technologies for crops and utilization of diagnosis data.

In general, my technical training had held on vegetables cultivation technologies at Kanagawa Agricultural Technology Center. I specially study about tomato, cabbage and carrot cultivation technology because those vegetables are among the most important vegetables in my country.

On tomato and cabbage cultivation:

I learned all the different steps of cultivation: nursery; transfer on the pot; planting on definitive field and harvesting. Nursery is the first important step for germination of seeds. During nursery, I learned about seedling; the required temperature of soil; watering and light for seed germination. During germination, the nurseries must be keep on light and warm until transfer on the pot (Potting step is only about tomato). During potting, I leaned about grafting; therefore I experimented for my first time how to make tomato grafting between different varieties of tomato. Also I learned about watering average and soil temperature until get young strong plant of cabbage and tomato which can be used for planting on the field. There is no grafting for cabbage plants.

After nursery and potting step, the young stronger plant can be transplanted on definitive field where they can continue to grow until harvesting. During this step, I learned about fertilizer calculation; how to calculate the quantity of fertilizer and compost; how to apply the basal dressing. Upon planting, I learned about the distance between bunches and line, how to manage the plant of tomato to get many branches in order to get more fruit on the same plant of tomato; its also the first time I experimented about this technology. Learned about the regular visit and, observe the records of growth and plants healthy until get harvesting.

About carrot, I got almost the same knowledge as cabbage and tomato. But for carrot, there is no nursery before planting; the seed can directly planted on the field. So before planting I also learned about soil preparation, soil temperature, and calculation of fertilizer quantity. I also experiment how to prepare the tunnel for carrot seed when the soil temperature is too low in order to get warm for germination of carrot seed.

In Japan here I saw some vegetables and fruits which are not in country such as leek, spinach, asparagus, broccolis, Chinese cabbage, radish strawberry, persimmon and so on. As there are not these vegetables and fruit in Benin, so I only experimented about their harvesting eating.

About Soil analysis

Before all seedling or planting, its recommended to know about soil contents (nutrition contented in the soil or others) therefore I experiment soil analysis, I learned how to collect and analyze soil, how to examine the value of soil fertilizer such as Nitrogen, Potassium, Phosphorus Calcium Ph. its very important to know those values of soil nutrition before to calculate the quantity of fertilizer that the plant need.

During the technical training, I also experiment about fruit trees: I realized how to make fruit trees grafting and jointed technique and manage the tree to get many branches in to get more fruit like for tomato.

After going back Home

I studied mainly about tomato cabbage and carrot for this training, because cabbage, tomatoes and carrots are the most consumed vegetables in my country, Benin. But cause of low level of cultivation techniques Benins farmers fail to provide sufficient quantity to the population during the year. Consequently It causes tomato is permanently imported from others countries to Benin. There is also some periods during the year, these vegetables become very expensive until some peoples are unable to get them. So after go back to my country: I will hold on conference with my colleges and farmers. Explain about my training and experiences in Japan, what I learned during my training. Introduce the cultivation of these vegetables especially tomatoes in my organization. Through my organization, I will create an agricultural cooperative with farmers of different rural areas of Benin. Within this cooperative there will have training and conferences in order to facilitate teaching and exchange of my experience in Japan. I will also organize business activities and exchange between farmers where they will be to share their experiences. Consequently I can provide further technical support to farmers and make acquired my training throughout my country (North, South, East and West). In future, I wish my organization will become agricultural technology center like my training center in Kanagawa when I will get enough experience and more knowledges. This training is really important for me; my organization and my country. For good relationship, I wish create lasting relationship between Japans and Benins actors and professionals in agriculture, recommend to my friends about this training.

Life in Japan

At first, my life in Japan was a little bit difficult for me because of language. When I arrive here, I could not quite understand Japanese language and also could not speak English. Therefor it is was difficult to communicate with others trainees. When we go out or meet some Japanese people, I could not exchange anything with them. If the others trainees discussed about something even interesting I could not participate to their conversation. When I need say something, I have to ask someone to translate for me and I every time stayed alone in my room. All that made me sad, lonely.

For Japanese course, I arrived one week after the others trainees came in Japan. They had already started the Japanese class before my arrival. During the course, the Japanese test was in English. As I could not understand neither English nor Japanese, it is was also difficult to understand Japanese. So at the same time, I had to study English in order to understand the Japanese course. Therefore I had to study very hard to understand more the Japanese class and also English. After one month, everything became more understandable for me. I continued to study and then I could understand, speak the both languages even it is a little bit. Thus I started to enjoy my life in Japan, I can communicate with everyone, go everywhere I want even alone.

Upon my arrival in Japan, the first thing that surprised me most was the cleanliness of places. It is impressive that your country is incredibly clean. Whole the country, on the way, town and station there is no paper, no garbage. It is always keep very clean and beautiful. I do not know in what ways or how long time it took to get this outcome. Also Japan population, (children, young and adults) know that they should not throw garbage everywhere. Honestly I envy your cleanliness, I wish that one day my country will become as clean as Japan. Also there is security, and mutual respect in Japan. Everyone respects her neighbor, younger people and the elderly people respect each other. Even in Japanese language the polite form is expected. The Japanese people always welcome foreigners warmly. There is also order on traffic, for train and so on. But for foreigner it is difficult to move from a place, to another at first. About Japanese food, the food is delicious and healthy, unfortunately for me there are some meals I cannot eat because of the pork. However, the cost of living is very expensive in Japan. Everything is very expensive. Staying together with the other trainees from different countries was good opportunity for me to exchange, learn about their culture and habits. We stayed like a family (one for all and all for one), enjoyed ourselves. In conclusion, my life in Japan was very interesting; I m going to my country with so many knowledges and experiences. THANK VERY MUCH to Kanagawa Prefectures member, my Training Center and Japan to offer me opportunity.

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Name:NguyenThiThuHangEmploymentCenter for Application of Science and Technology advances of Haiphong city.Training Subject: Soil, compost, vegetable cultivation, etc.Place of trainingKanagawa Agricultural Technology Center

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Before coming to Japan

My name is Nguyen Thi Thu Hang. I come from Vietnam. I work as a researcher in the Center for Application of Science and Technology advances of Haiphong city. In my country, my work is implementate task of career services, scientific and technological services and high-tech services in the field of biotechnology for agriculture and rural development, health, technology and processing, environmental remediation, publish service. I have experiences about composting and organic material, organic vegetable, water treatment, microbiology and tissue culture plant cells technique. Before coming Japan, I knew that Japanese Agriculture is one of advanced and modern Agriculture. Many research results from Japanese scientists were applied successfully for agriculture. Vietnam is an Agricultural country where labour-intensive wet-rice is grown, the life of the majority of people is closely linked with the land.

When I knew about Kanagawa Overseas Technical Training Program, I decided applying this program. I really want to study more about agriculture technique. I hoped that I could approach modern techniques from Japanese researchers and apply the techniques acquired in the research and manufacturing in my country and my city.

On specialized training

I came to Japan in August, 2015. After coming here, I found out that Japanese culture is very familiar to me. I became adapted very quickly and I started enjoying Kanagawa Prefecture. I can say that living in Japan is very safe and comfortable even for those, who cannot speak Japanese.

This was my first time studying Japanese in Japan and it was great. At first it felt strange to study in the same class together with people from so many different countries, but since everyone is so kind, we all soon became good friends. The lessons are very convenient as you study grammar, vocabulary in a friendly environment as you conversate a lot as well about everyday life related topics.

After I had finished Japanese class, I started my technical training course in Kanagawa Agricultural Technology in October, 2015. In the Training center, I studied Soil sampling, Soil survey, Chemical analysis for soil, Composting, Vegetable cultivation and Soil born disease subject.

- Soil sampling subject: I studided Method collected soil samples at depth of 0 to 15 centimeters, 0 to 30 centimeters at Komatsuna and Cabbage area in Hiratstuka city and soil samples at depth of 0 to 1 meter at vegetable areas in Fujisawa city and Hiratsuka city.

It was my first time I took soil sample at depth of 0 to 1 meter. That was very interesting, I could see what difference between soil layers about colour, hardness, ...

- Soil survey subject: I studied method of soil colour, texture, horizon, monolith.

- Chemical analysis for soil subject: I studied chemical analysis for soil, such as: pH, EC, NH4-N, NO3-N, P2O5, MgO, CaO, K2O, CEC.

I also attended a training course for Soil survey subject in Tokyo Metropolitan Agriculture and Forestry Research center.

Chemical analysis methods are various and interesting. In Vietnam, I had knowledge and experience about biological analysis. This course gave me new knowledge about chemical analysis. It was very useful for me to complete my research in the future.

- Composting subject: I studied composting method for mixtures of tofu lees and coffee lees with 4 experiments with difference of tofu lees and coffee lees volume. This composting process started in October 2015 and finished in December 2015.During this process, we cotrolled the air and moisture content. At 0 , 1, 2, 4 and 8 weeks, the samples were taken for testing pH, EC, moisture. After 8 weeks, we finished composting. The 8-week- samples (from No2 to No3) were uesd for decomposition reaction, CN elementary analysis and MgO, P2O5, CaO, K2O analysis. After analysis step, I designed the experimental pot for application of compost. The 8-week compost , cow manure and chemical fertilizer were applied to Brassica chinensis var. Komatsuna. In February, I havested my Komatsuna sample and used for measuring chlorophyl content in Komatsuna's leaf and fresh weight. During this time, I did the germination of Komatsuna's seed testing. After that, all the samples were put in drying oven at 60 degrees celsius. I measured dried weight and used dried samples for total Nitrogen analysis. The result revealed that 1:1 ratio mixture (No2) is good composting with little odor emission. The study showed a method for the production of good quality compost by combining two kinds of food waste to take avantage of characteristics and their utilization method.

In Vietnam, I usually use microorganism for composting. In Japan, I realized they only control the air, moisture content to make good composting. It provided for me new and easily composting method that I will use in my city in near future.

- Vegetable cultivation subject: I studied method of cultivation for Radish, tomato, komatsuna, cabbage. I also studied some tests for comparing the advantage of chemical fetilizer and compost.

I came to Kurokawa Field Science Center Meji University for studying melon and tomato cultivation, Nebukawa Agricultural technology center for studying mandarin havesting technique and Asahi Rootst