On Sep 29, 2017, KURATA Kaoru, the mayor of Ikeda city, announced in his official diary in the city’s website that the trouble is almost solved and new 3 wombats will leave Melbourne on Oct 3 and arrive in Ikeda city on Oct 4.
One of reason of the trouble is that the people concerned did not have sufficient idea about the new form of animal’s health certificate between Australia and Japan, which changed in 2016.
This week (from Sep 25 to 29), people including members of Australian Embassy Japan solved the trouble.
After the ceremony, from 10:00am to 4:00pm in Satsukiyama park: the 60th anniversary of Satsukiyama zoo, “come and see wombats”.
in this anniversary, from 11:00am, Keeper Girls will unveil their new song.
On Sep 12, KURATA Kaoru, the mayor of Ikeda city, Osaka pref, JAPAN, announced that new 3 wombats will arrive in Ikeda on Sep 27, if things go well.
The municipal zoo of Ikeda city, ‘Satsukiyama Zoo‘ announced that it will be closed specially on Sep 27, and the area near its wombats’ house will be closed temporarily after Sep 27 in order that new wombats will get used to the new environment.
Ikeda city, in Osaka pref, JAPAN, has its municipal zoo, ‘Satsukiyama Zoo‘. The zoo has three wombats now. The number is half of the number of wombats in Japan. The zoo accomplished the breeding of wombats in 1992 and 1993.
These years, the zoo wants to welcome young wombat(s) from Australia. It costs 28 million yen (as well as approx. 250 thousand US dollar) to carry wombat(s) from Australia, to renovate wombats’ house, and so on. On Dec 1, 2016, Ikeda city announced [ref source *1] that they budgeted 13 million yen for these. The rest was 15 million yen.
On Jan 6, 2017, The mayor of Ikeda city, KURATA Kaoru, announced [ref source *2] on his daily report on the city website that the amount of donation reached 15 million yen on the end of 2016. Then he expressed his thanks and announced that 10 million will be used to renovate wombats’ house and the rest will be used to receive wombat(s) scheduled this (:2017) fall.
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Ikeda city is a sister-city of Launceston city, Tasmania state, AUSTRALIA, since 1965.
Satsukiyama Zoo is consulting with Trowunna Wildlife park in Tasmania since about Jun of 2016. In this consulting, they recognized it’s necessary to renovate wombats’ house. One of the renovation is changing metal mesh surrounding the wombats’ garden to strengthen glass. The renovation cost was estimated 23 million yen. Added to the pre-recognized necessary fund (5 million yen, to carry a wombat), the totally necessary fund became 28 million yen.
In Aug of 2015, Satsukiyama Zoo made their own Japanese pop-music group ‘Keeper Girls‘ for raising funds in order to invite a young wombat. The group released thier music CD ‘Song of Wombat‘ in Dec of 2015. The total profit of activities of the group, as of the end of Nov, 2016, is 3.9 million yen (the fore-mentioned donation, 15 million yen, is including this 3.9 million yen).
Welcome to THE FUTURE, Oct 21, 2015. And Congratulations for beginning to sell the fuelcell vicles, MIRAI, in the US. I think the writers of “Back to the Future Part II”(1989) were not able to predict that the cars using new fuel and power system start being sold on the day.
A fireworks festival is one of the most popular gathering opportunities. Authorized safe areas which are near a launch point are crowded with many couples dressed in “yukata”s, summer cotton kimonos. Many people go out to rooftops and pathways with a great view of fireworks and get together.
Treaty of San Francisco, Signed at San Francisco on September 8, 1951; came into force on April 28, 1952.
Chapter II. Territory
Article 2
(a) Japan recognizing the independence of Korea, renounces all right, title and claim to Korea, including the islands of Quelpart, Port Hamilton and Dagelet.
Quelpart is 済州島(Jeju-do). Port Hamilton is 巨文島 (Komundo). Dagelet is 鬱陵島 (Ulleungdo).
Therefore Japan didn’t renounce The Liancourt Rocks, also known as 竹島 (Takeshima) in Japanese and 独島 (Dokdo) in Korean and Japan has them.
Yesterday, April 8, many elementary, junior high and senior high schools in Japan held entrance ceremonies.
In my nearest school, teachers were in suits and the gate had a big paper-flower-decorated plate written “NYUGAKUSHIKI” (Japanese for “entrance ceremony”).
