Families with international backgrounds are invited to come together and chat freely about parenting and everyday life.
While parents connect and share experiences, children can enjoy playing with volunteers and reading picture books.
The event also includes a picture-book reading by library staff and a visit to a local parenting support salon.

The Origami Workshop is held at the Sapporo International Communication Plaza Foundation.
Citizen volunteers teach in English and easy Japanese. Children and beginners are welcome. No reservation is required. Please come directly to the Plaza on the day.

Inquiry:
Foreign Language Volunteer Network, Sightseeing and Japanese Culture Unit
Mail: sjcunit@gmail.com

The Pension Office staff will check your pension records and provide individual consultation. In-person interpretation is available in English. Telephone interpreting is available for other languages.

The Pension Office staff will explain Japan’s pension system & lump-sum withdrawal payments in an easy-to-understand way. English interpretation will be available.No online streaming.

We will hold an elementary school admission information session for foreign national families whose children will be entering elementary school in Sapporo next year or later.
We will talk about what elementary schools are like, the process of enrollment, what to prepare and so on.
After the explanation, there will be time for parents to exchange information with each other and for their children to have fun experience the school life.
*The guidance will be conducted in Japanese, English and Chinese basically.

You will learn basic Japanese, such as greeting words.

It is a place and time for children and their parents to spend time freely and make friends.
There are the tables called "Study Island (Shima)", "Game Island", "Chatty Island", "Island for Parents" etc. and you can spend time at any "shima".
University students volunteers and Japanese language teachers are there.
No reservation necessary. Please just come when you want to join us!