Free Japanese film showing – June 2017

FREE Japanese film showing in June 2017 Date: Thursday 22 June 2017 Time: 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM Location: L3 Contact: athena.chambers@waikato.ac.nz Website: http://www.waikato.ac.nz/fass/about/school-of-arts/languages/japanese-film-showings Free Admission! No booking required! English Subtitles! ALL WELCOME. “BAKUMAN。” © 2015 “BAKUMAN。” Film Partners Director: Hitoshi Ohne Cast: Takeru Sato, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Shota Sometani 2014 | 120min. | PG What […]

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ニュージーランドの新聞の中の日本、続き Japan that appears in a New Zealand newspaper continued

動物園[どうぶつえん](= zoo)に行かなくても、ニュージーランドではハリネズミが見られます。下の写真は、先週[せんしゅう]家[いえ]に帰[かえ]る途中[とちゅう]で(= on the way home)撮[と]りました。 You do not have to go to a zoo to see hedgehogs in New Zealand! I took the following photo last week on the way home…

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ねこと一緒に働く Work with a cat

日本人はねこが大好き。なんと、ねこと一緒[いっしょ]に働[はたら]ける会社[かいしゃ]が日本にあります。今日、朝日[あさひ]新聞[しんぶん]で読みました。記事[きじ]はここで読めます。 As you might know, Japanese people love cats. I read an article on Asahi Shimbun Newspaper today reporting a company allowing its employees to bring their cats to the office! You can read the article here (it is written in Japanese, but please have a look at the page as there are some photos […]

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カンタベリー博物館 Canterbury Museum

今、カンタベリー博物館[はくぶつかん](= museum)で、日本のタトゥーに関[かん]する展覧会[てんらんかい](= exhibition)が催[もよお]されて(= to be held)います。外国でこのような展覧会[てんらんかい]が見られるのは興味[きょうみ]深[ふか]い(= interesting)ことです。カンタベリー博物館の公式[こうしき](= official)ホームページはこちら。  A exhibition entitled Perseverance: Japanese Tattoo Tradition in a Modern World is now held at Canterbury Museum, located in Christchurch, New Zealand. It is interesting to see Japanese tattoo in such a context. Here is the official website of the museum.

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Open Day at Waikato

We had Open Day on our Hamilton campus last Friday. Thank you people, for coming to our campus. We hope you had a great time. We will have another Open day this week on our Tauranga campus. Please come along if you have a chance (you can find the details here). If you could not […]

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Waikato OE

ワイカト大学の学生は交換[こうかん]留学[りゅうがく](= exchange programme)に参加[さんか]する(= to participate)チャンスがあります。先日、キャンパスで交換留学写真[しゃしん]コンペがありました。そこの写真と写真につけられた短[みじか]い説明[せつめい]を読むと、留学した人たちがとてもすばらしい経験[けいけん](= experience)をしたことがわかります。 いい写真を見せてもらいました! Any Waikato students can apply for exchange programmes. We had the OE photo competition on campus the other day. All photos with a bit of captions clearly showed that the exhange programme participants had a great time wherever they went and studied. I am glad that I saw […]

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