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By Shiina Adachi Myanmar Week grand show, Dec. 22, brought the end of 2017 multi-cultural weeks."The story is a myth based on a truth, showing the strong bond between a brother and sister during kings were in Myanmar, " Nandar Pyaesone, one of the core leaders in Myanmar Week, started the story. Long ago, in a kingdom far away, there lived a cruel king and his queen. They did not treat their people well and did not care if people had enough food or not so that nobody liked them.In the story, there also lived a brother and sister whom the villagers really loved because of their kindness. One day, one of the king’s wife told the king about them and the king started to get curious about them and decided to visit the village. The villagers did not listen to the king, but they listen to the blacksmith so the king got angry. The sister got caught by the guards. The king asked the sister to tell where her brother is, but she did not answer. Then the king decided to or getti...

Myanmar week, dancing by Ayaka Okamoto(The Fountain staff) Zaw Myo Win, 2nd year APS student  chose music for the dance of APU  Myanmar Week Grand Show. The show  was held on Dec.22 at the millennium hall. In the show, there were four dances (Kayin  dance, Bagan dance, Thanakha dance and  Rakhine Candle dance) with traditional music  Win chose. The song with Kayin dance and Thanakha  dance are the cheerful song and the song  made the scene peaceful and the dance is  for citizen so the song is good to show how  their life is. The song with Bagan dance is  slowly ending elegant so it goes with the  gorgeous costumes. The song win chose  for the last dance (Candle dance) was sung  by two students. The students usually use  music player in the week they don’t usually  sing a song with dance so this is the most  interesting part of music.  The director of the grand ...

Yummy Myanmar Foods I’m going to introduce you to yummy Myanmar food loved by Myanmar Burmese people. As for this topic, Thant Thant Thu, APS student from Myanmar, cooperated in this interview. Lat Phat Salad What is the most popular food? One of the most popular food in Myanmar is  Lat Phat Salad  which can be directly translated to  Green Tea Leaf Salad  in English, according to her. This is eaten anytime, anywhere including when guests come at home and also in a wedding. Generally, this is made of tomatoes, shrimps, cherry spicy, fried beans, white sesame and garlic. In addition to these ingredients, you can pour some oil and put whatever spices or vegetables and so on you want. What food should visitor eat in Myanmar “I often want to eat  Shan Ramen  and  Lat Phat Salad .” She described two dishes. The reason the first one,  Shan Ramen,  is picked out is that you may feel full more than any other food when you ...

Suguru Yoshimizu Profile Suguru Yoshimizu written by Michel Kurihara “I always want a record which almost people cannot achieve, not only related to my work but also various domains”. Suguru Yoshimizu works at Fujitsu Kyu-shu System Service asa system engineer was a GCEP student at APU. GCEP is a program abbreviated from Global Competency Enhancement Program which targets adults working in society to improve abilities of multicultural communication, adoption, and negotiation. Yoshimizu is positive and has extraordinary ambition. He always aims at being a tremendous all-rounder, especially in things ordinary people cannot do. That’s why he has tried and overcome some challenges such as he fulfilling running 42.195km within 3 hours, and getting a license of a system engineer. Suguru Yoshimizu at Yokohama Marathon He now strives to study English to get TOEIC 900 points, only 3% people can fulfill in all examinees. His challenging characteristics made him not...

The performers and the visitors surrounding them Hiroko Fujimori (The Fountain staff) The course commemorating the tenth anniversary of Oita Fragrance Museum was held on Nov. 25 at Oita Fragrance Museum. It was opened as a multicultural museum which acknowledges wide needs from tourism to utilization of fragrance's research. The course has two parts of a lecture and a concert. The first lecture was by Kiyoshi Toko who is a professor in Kyusyu graduate school majoring in system information science. In the lecture, Toko mainly explained about the sense of taste and smell which can be said the sensitivity of human being. He said that we could not know them if we analyzed the chemical substances especially smell because there wasn't basic smell. Furthermore, the nose has far many receptors of glomerulus than tongue according to him. He said, “The world of smell is severe which needs enormous sensitiveness.” The second part was concert whose theme was ‘Coacting o...

by Makiko Akita Japan Business Case Challenge (JBCC) 2017 was held in APU from Nov. 6 to Dec. 3, and eleven teams participated in it from various universities. JBCC is a Case Competition carried out by foreign business schools as part of education for Japanese undergraduate students.  In Case Competition, participants suggest and present solutions to the management issues by using sponsor's case study, and superiority and inferiority of the quality is decided. The first day, participants checked in AP house2 and joined orientation, workshop, and dinner party. The second day, after opening ceremony was held, they received the case and started to make presentations. The third day, qualification was carried out and finalists were decided. The final day, three finalist teams presented over two hours. The examination results were "Peace Okamura" from Aoyama Gakuin University, Keio Gijuku University and so on took third place, "RASTY" from Ritsumeikan Universit...

By Shiina Adachi During August 2017, security office decided to charge students for laundry, and now students have to pay 100 yen per 30 minutes. Many Spring semester students are outraged about this change. If students decide to wash their clothes every day, the expenses will add up to about 3,000 yen per month. APU students are already living with a lack of money. Spring semester students have been living for half a year without paying for laundry. This sudden change made by the office will highly impact with their daily lives. The security office still hasn't explained why they made this change to the residents of AP House. One victim of this change named Ryo H. stated that “The dryers don't even dry. I have to put 500 yen to dry my clothes yet my clothes are still wet and smelly. This is a scam. I can buy 5 onigiris at coop with 500 yen. This is truly unacceptable.” On the other hand, a Fall semester student, Jeong Tae Hwan mentioned “I thought this...

mashed potatoes     turkey fruit salad stuffing by Ayaka Okamoto(The Fountain staff) Three  American students Lorna Marie Probasco, Isabela Contreras and Ashley Neira had a party for Thanksgiving on Nov.23. They explained that Thanksgiving is American holiday that make dinner for families . This year they don't live with their families, so they held this party to make some foods to people who took care of you like their floor mate of AP house and their friends. They made stuffing, mashed potatoes, fruit salad, egg salad, vegetable salad, popcorn and green beans. They bought turkey and gave their friends all of dishes. Ten people came to AP House 2 and enjoyed eating foods. They got ingredients at A-price and got turkey at restaurant in Beppu. She spent a lot of money because buying food in Japan  . Mashed potatoes are made of potato and topping is green onion. They ...

written by Michel A lot of smartphones in Beppu city were ringed as it was an air-raid warning and a siren was also sounded from eight speakers. "Tsunami disaster day drill day", a practice to evacuate from tsunami when an earthquake occurs, was held on Nov. 5 in Beppu city. Beppu city assumes that if Tsunami as big as Tohoku hit this city, the downtown area would be swallowed easily. The day was constituted as "Tsunami disaster drill day" not to forget the memory when Tohoku district was hit by Tsunami and has been treated as since 2011, so this practice was held on the day. Therefore after 2011, not only Beppu city but also various city have straightened a practice. In downtown, citizens did walk for a mountain to evacuate from a tsunami, and there was an individual way to practice in a hot spring area. Every day a lot of foreigners as tourists come to this area, but they are not used to a natural disaster--how to evacuate, protect themselve...

A Deaf Woman Model Hiroko Fujimori (The Fountain staff)     Universal Fashion in Beppu, an event encouraging people with disabilities to participate in society through fashion was held at B-Con Plaza on September 17. 24 people from children to the elders including people with disabilities participated in this fashion show. Especially, the hall became full of laugh when Beppu mayor, Yasuhiro Nagano (nicknamed "Akko" for the evening) dressed up in woman's clothes and stood under the spotlight. In the show, one of the models said like this “When do you become fashionable without doing now?” This fashion show has been held twice and it was suggested to start by Yoko Fukuyama, one of the model of the show. "I didn't think this event would continue for a long time like this." Fukuyama said. Other model also said, "I want to be lively by fashion and clothes that have the possibility to make us lively like this are wonderful." ...

by Makiko Akita The decoration in front of the founrain Kyoto Week was held on APU campus for five days from Nov. 6-10. It was the first time Kyoto Week since the APU established. The first day of Kyoto Week was a parade.  Participants of parade performed Japanese drum session and Japanese calligraphy in front of the fountain. Also, during the five days students were able to wear kimono in the cafeteria and enjoy traditional Japanese play, and on Wednesday they were able to experience the tea ceremony in a Japanese-style room on the second floor of the cafeteria. On Thursday, performance show called Gion Festival took place on the campus wave stage. The campus was lit up with 2,000 bamboo lanterns, Japanese music and dance were shown.1st-year-APU student, Maya Osakada, performed dancing in kimono. She said that she had participated in Vietnamese week and Indonesian week so far, but this time she wanted to spread Japanese culture by participating in Kyoto "Tayu...

The section of  the tree witch stood at Watatsumi shrine Hiroko Fujimori (The Fountain staff) An art event for telling the present and future of Fukushima was held in November for 16 days. Hama Naka Aizu Culture Cooperation Project operated by Fukushima prefectural museum and other organizations such as NPO sponsored this event.  In Beppu, many art projects have been held for a long time taking hold the region. This art event has a purpose to learn what art can tell and what meaning art can leave to people from Beppu and to make this event the opportunity that people talk together about the future of Fukushima and Japan through art. This event has four venues near Beppu station and one of them is platform 05 where four artists exhibited. Many works were there like picture, image, and frottage. Some of them were made by Masao Okabe. Masao Okabe is an artist using frottage. By using this technique, Okabe copies various things directly on them. He copied th...

 Entrance of event place By Kinya Uchida Shokuno-daiennkai, the food festival, was held at 4th and 5th November in Beppu-park and a lot of local people gathered in. This event focused on "local food" of Kyushu area, so people could enjoy many traditional food, such as Ramen in Hakata and Toriten In Oita. The booth divided Kyushu and Oita. At Oita booth, Pudding shop "You", which provided their pudding to CO-OP shop during Beppu week, opened their booth, and Puru Nima, which is indian restaurant, and used as party place by APU student, also opened  food booth. Although We could enjoy this event without any care, this event was built up by certain people, Planning Oita. the people line up  Planning Oita is one of an advertising agency in Oita prefecture. Takayuki Toshimitsu, the vice director of the business department, came to this event. “We could have gathered about 30000 people at only first day. So, I was relieved since th...