[Date & Time] Sunday, April 25, at 10:00～15:30
[Spots] Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine, Hasedera Temple, and Kotokuin Temple (Great Buddha)
[Visitors] 31 AOTS trainees from 4 countries, with 15 from China, 7 from Indonesia, 5 from Vietnam, and 4 from Thailand
[Occupations] Automotive electronic parts engineers, Computer programmers, etc.
[non-AOTS Trainees] 4 from the Philippines
[Languages] English, Chinese, Japanese, and Thai
[Attendants] 22 KSGG members and 3 observers
It was a beautiful day fragrant with flowers and fresh green. A wedding ceremony was going on at Hachimangu’s Maiden, which is the only place in Japan where newly-weds are celebrated with visitors and tourists. The bride wore a kimono made of gold brocade on black substance, and did not have any garment on. One of the trainees said, “Every temple is beautiful and, to me, the sea I saw from the heights of Hasedera Temple was most impressive.” At the Treasure Museum of Hachimangu Shrine a special exhibition had been held for “The 1700th Anniversary of Enshrined Emperor Ojin” and at Hasedera Temple another special exhibition of its selected 30 precious utensils for the 30th Anniversary of its Treasure Museum.
Chinese Trainees Full of Curiosity !
I guided a group of Chinese trainees with some male KSGG members. Fortunately, a wedding ceremony had been held at Hachimangu’s Maiden. They said, “Can everybody hold a wedding ceremony here?” “How much does it cost?” I could feel their pleasure of seeing a foreign culture with their own eyes and their unaffected curiosity. Then, unexpectedly, they showed their interest in sake casks dedicated to gods, and asked repeatedly, “What are those?” Sake casks were popular among them, and they took a lot of pictures of those casks close to and away from them.
The trainees of our group were all born in the 1980s. They said, “The people blame and tease us, saying, ‘As China has become rich, they have a sense of value different from their elders’ and, as they were spoiled by their parents, they were called little emperors.’” However, young Chinese people who came to Japan as trainees were all polite and knowledgeable, and had a new sense of value and a viewpoint of their own. We do believe that these young people will surely be a bridge between Japan and China to establish our new constructive relationship in the future. I hope their experiences in Japan will be memorable ones.
How Sincere Vietnamese Trainees are !
This time I guided 5 trainees from Vietnam. All of them were polite, shy, and attentive to their act as group members. Also, they followed our instructions with sincerity. Almost all of them bought fortune slips and looked happy or sad depending on the contents of them, which we explained to them seriously. As we said to those who got a bad luck that they would get a good one next time, they seemed relieved, smiling back. Since they were all young, they had taken interest in their marriage and future as a matter of course.
At Hasedera Temple, we entered its Benten-kutsu Cave, in which they showed keen interest. At Kotokuin, they took a lot of pictures of the Great Buddha. I hoped that it was a very enjoyable day to them, for I also could spend a pleasant day with them feeling their pure emotions. Thank you so much.
[Spots] Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine, Hasedera Temple, and Kotokuin Temple (Great Buddha)
[Visitors] 31 AOTS trainees from 4 countries, with 15 from China, 7 from Indonesia, 5 from Vietnam, and 4 from Thailand
[Occupations] Automotive electronic parts engineers, Computer programmers, etc.
[non-AOTS Trainees] 4 from the Philippines
[Languages] English, Chinese, Japanese, and Thai
[Attendants] 22 KSGG members and 3 observers
It was a beautiful day fragrant with flowers and fresh green. A wedding ceremony was going on at Hachimangu’s Maiden, which is the only place in Japan where newly-weds are celebrated with visitors and tourists. The bride wore a kimono made of gold brocade on black substance, and did not have any garment on. One of the trainees said, “Every temple is beautiful and, to me, the sea I saw from the heights of Hasedera Temple was most impressive.” At the Treasure Museum of Hachimangu Shrine a special exhibition had been held for “The 1700th Anniversary of Enshrined Emperor Ojin” and at Hasedera Temple another special exhibition of its selected 30 precious utensils for the 30th Anniversary of its Treasure Museum.
Chinese Trainees Full of Curiosity !
I guided a group of Chinese trainees with some male KSGG members. Fortunately, a wedding ceremony had been held at Hachimangu’s Maiden. They said, “Can everybody hold a wedding ceremony here?” “How much does it cost?” I could feel their pleasure of seeing a foreign culture with their own eyes and their unaffected curiosity. Then, unexpectedly, they showed their interest in sake casks dedicated to gods, and asked repeatedly, “What are those?” Sake casks were popular among them, and they took a lot of pictures of those casks close to and away from them.
The trainees of our group were all born in the 1980s. They said, “The people blame and tease us, saying, ‘As China has become rich, they have a sense of value different from their elders’ and, as they were spoiled by their parents, they were called little emperors.’” However, young Chinese people who came to Japan as trainees were all polite and knowledgeable, and had a new sense of value and a viewpoint of their own. We do believe that these young people will surely be a bridge between Japan and China to establish our new constructive relationship in the future. I hope their experiences in Japan will be memorable ones.
How Sincere Vietnamese Trainees are !
This time I guided 5 trainees from Vietnam. All of them were polite, shy, and attentive to their act as group members. Also, they followed our instructions with sincerity. Almost all of them bought fortune slips and looked happy or sad depending on the contents of them, which we explained to them seriously. As we said to those who got a bad luck that they would get a good one next time, they seemed relieved, smiling back. Since they were all young, they had taken interest in their marriage and future as a matter of course.
At Hasedera Temple, we entered its Benten-kutsu Cave, in which they showed keen interest. At Kotokuin, they took a lot of pictures of the Great Buddha. I hoped that it was a very enjoyable day to them, for I also could spend a pleasant day with them feeling their pure emotions. Thank you so much.