Information

Daily Life in Aizu

Children

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Information
Advice & Counselling
Newspapers
Publications
Radio & Music

Transportation

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There are several useful sources of information in English in Aizu:

Advice & Counselling

Feel free to talk to the International Association about anything on your mind. Anything said within these walls is confidential. We can also put you in touch with professional organizations and services.

The following list of services might be of interest to you.

Fukushima International Association
General Information Service with phone interpreter - 024-524-1316
International Family Services (Tokyo) 03-5377 1347 & 03 3312 9515

AMDA: International Medical Information Centre - Osaka 06-4395-0555
http://homepage3.nifty.com/amdack/english/E-index.html

Tokyo English Life Line (Tokyo) 03-5774-0992 Daily 9:00AM - 11:00PM www.telljp.com/

Newspapers

There are four English daily newspapers available for home delivery.

Japan Times (03-3453-4350) www.japantimes.co.jp
Daily Yomiuri (0120-43-1159) www.yomiuri.co.jp/index-e.htm
Mainichi Daily News (03-3212-3269) mdn.mainichi.co.jp
Asahi Evening News (03-3453-0131) www.asahi.com/english/index.html

Publications

The City Hall produces an English version of the city infomation, Shisei Dayori. If you would like to receive this, please call Ms. Watanabe at the International Relations Section. Her number is 0242-39-1202.

"Gyro" is published once every two months and is available free from the Fukushima International Association (0245-24-1315).

"FIND" is the prefectural English language newsletter and is published 4 times a year. It is available free from the International Affairs Division of the prefectural government (0245-21-7193).

Radio & Music

English Broadcast

Listen to News and Comments every week with the AWIA's own Kris Gravender on FM Aizu. The program is broadcast every Tuesday from 6:30pm on FM Aizu (72.6MHz). The show includes information on events in the Aizu area and features on society. All in English!

AM Stations with English broadcasts
NHK 1 AM 1161 khz
NHK 2 AM 1539 khz
Radio Fukushima (Koriyama) 1395 khz

Other FM Stations with English broadcasts
NHK FM 85.9 mhz
Fukushima FM 82.7 mhz
FM Aizu 76.2 mhz

The English newspapers print the NHK radio schedule daily.