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Announcements & Services is at the same level as those Renewal of Special receiving Child Rearing Allowance Transportation Tickets Special Cash Payments by because of the effect of COVID-19. (1) Fukushi Tokubetsu Yokohama City Benefit Amount: 50,000 yen per Josha-ken Have you made an application for household, 30,000 yen per child By August 31, notification will be Special COVID-19 related Cash from the second child sent out by regular mail. Payments? The deadline is To Apply: Those who are currently (2) Fukushi Taxi tickets September 10 (Thu). receiving Child Rearing Allowance By August 31, taxi tickets will be Those who have your name on the will receive a notice. Those who sent out to those eligible by Basic Resident need to apply shall apply according registered mail. Resister in to guidance shown on the Please refer to the mail text for the Yokohama on Yokohama City’s Website. details of the draft. April 27, 2020 2. Additional Benefit Eligibility: Those who have a can receive Eligibility: Those under either (1) pass/taxi tickets valid till 100,000 yen. or (2) for the basic benefit whose September and are eligible to The application form is sent to the income has decreased because of renew it from October. householder. Please check the the effect of COVID-19. If you wish to apply for one of details written on the form, put Benefit Amount: 50,000 yen per (1)(2)(*you can’t apply for both) your seal or sign on it and write the household for the first time, please contact bank account you want the money To Apply: When you submit a Fukushi Hoken Center (Health and paid into. You also need a report of your present Welfare Center) of the ward you document that certifies your bank circumstances for continuous Child live in. account such as a copy of your Rearing Allowance which you need *Fukushi Tokubetsu Josha-ken is a bank book and a copy of a to submit by the end of August, pass for the municipal buses, document that shows your identity. apply by declaring your financial municipal subways, and for the Insert those documents in the situation. Kanazawa Seaside Line. return envelope and mail via a post *Apply according to guidance Inquiries: Call center office drop box. Please be careful shown on the Yokohama City’s 0120-891-706 (*J) Fax (03) that on the form in box(es) of Website. For more information, 6800-3578 person(s) eligible for the payment, contact Yokohama City Call Center. The call center is open from Aug. only check the box(es) if you do Inquiries: Yokohama City Call 28 to Sep. 30, including weekend NOT wish to receive payments. Center of Temporary Special and holiday between 8:30-19:00. Applications are not accepted at Benefit for single parent families Ward Administration Offices or City 0120-694-281 (Toll-Free) Five-Level Warning System Hall. Please submit your URL (City of Yokohama): for Heavy Rain Disasters application by mail. https://www.city.yokohama.lg.jp/ This five-stage warning system Inquiries: Special Cash Payments kurashi/kosodate-kyoiku/oyakoke based on information from the Call Center (Navi dial: nko/hitorioya/20200707h-kyufu.h Meteorological Agency and other 0570-045592) Monday-Friday, tml sources on heavy rain (flooding), 9:00-17:00 URL (the Ministry of Health, landslide risk as well as evacuation Labour and Welfare/English site): information issued by Temporary Special Benefit https://www.mhlw.go.jp/content/ Key for Low-Income 11920000/000641490.pdf RPP ( ): Single-Parent Families Send a Reply-Paid Postcard with the This is temporary special benefit Residential Tax Payment information listed in parentheses on the by national government as one of due August 31 sending half, and your name and COVID-19 related support The second term payments for address on the return half. measures. Residential Tax (Shimin Zei) and SP ( ): 1. Basic Benefit Prefectural Residents Tax (Kenmin Send a Standard Postcard with the Eligibility: (1) Those receiving Zei) are due Monday, August 31. information listed in parentheses. Child Rearing Allowance in June, Inquiries: Zeimu-ka (Financail 2020, (2) Those receiving public Affairs Division) of your local ward E: Event name; A: Your Address; N: pensions and not receiving any office or Zaisei-kyoku Zeimu-ka Your Name; T: Tel; G: Age; X: Sex Child Rearing Allowance in June, (045) 671-2253 (*J) (*J): In Japanese only 2020, or (3) Those whose income

1 よこはま yokohama August 2020 municipalities. Check the following companies or public people can URL: evacuation/Meteorological use the website. The registration https://www.meti.go.jp/policy/rec information and advised action fee is free so do not hesitate to ycle/plasticbag/plasticbag_top.ht depending on the warning level. participate. ml (*J) Warning level 1: Early advisory. URL: Inquiries: Ministry of Economy, Be in a state of readiness. https://www.city.yokohama.lg.jp/ Trade and industry 0570-080180 Warning level 2: Heavy business/kigyoshien/syogyo/covid rain/flooding advisory. Verify -19/takeout-delivery/takeout.html evacuation routes. Inquiries: Keizai-kyoku Shogyo Events & Activities Warning level 3: Evacuation Shinko-ka (045) 671-3488 (*J) Human Rights of Children preparation. Evacuate elderly and Throughout the Country other persons requiring COVID-19 Contact We will have telephone assistance. Confirming Application consultation as an intensifying Warning level 4: Evacuation COCOA is an app developed by the week for Human Rights of Children orders/advisories. Full evacuation. Ministry of Health, Labour and throughout the country. If you are Warning level 5: Disaster-level. Welfare, that informs you if you bullied at school and do not want Take optimal measures to save have been in close contact with an to go to school or abused by your lives. individual who has parents, please do not take it all on Check the Meteorological Agency tested positive for yourself but call us. The site for more details. COVID-19. consultation fee is free and the URL: Here is how this app details of consultation must be https://www.jma.go.jp/en/warn/i works: kept secret. ndex.html (English) 1 Download COCOA Eligibility: Children and also (App Store) adults can make calls. Beehive: Find and https://apps.apple.com/jp/app/id Period: August 28 (Fri) to Exterminate in Early Stage 1516764458 September 3 (Thu); Monday to Beehives are formed in spring and (Google Play) Friday: 8:30-19:00, Saturday and get big in a short period of time in https://play.google.com/store/ap Sunday: 10:00-17:00 summer. The number of bees ps/details?id=jp.go.mhlw.covid19 Fee: Free increase as it goes on. Take a radar Location: No location. Telephone measure before that time. Effort, 2 COCOA memorizes all others’ consultation only and the danger increase for getting smartphone information when you 0120-007-110 (toll free) it removed as the size increases. have close contact (individuals Inquiries: Yokohama Chiho Locations beehives tend to be whom you are close contact with homu-kyoku Jinken Yogo-ka (045) made: attic, in the wall, under the for more than 15 minutes and 641-7926 (*J) eaves, in the storage box for contact within approximately 1 URL: storm-shutters, bushes, and so on. meter) http://www.moj.go.jp/JINKEN/jin *Contact your local ward office in 3 Those who have tested “positive” ken112.html the following situation: will register on your COCOA that 1. Want to know how to get rid of you have been close to people Yokohama Central Career long-legged paper wasp’s hive infected with COVID-19. Training School 2. Want to rent protective clothing 4 COCOA notifies those who have For those who wish to find work or 3. Want to know bee been in close contact with this change careers to a exterminators. COVID-19 carrier in the past 14 Japanese-speaking environment, Please note that your local ward days. Yokohama Central Career Training office will NOT exterminate 5 COCOA will tell you if you should School offers classes starting beehives. go to a medical institution or not. October for (1) practical computer Inquiries: Your local ward office, *COCOA is via Bluetooth, and it skill, (2) CAD (Computer Aided Environmental Sanitation Section will NOT require people’s name and Design) telephone number. NO GPS. The Limit: 20 people for each course Take-out and Delivery government will NOT collect data. *Priority is given to parents of Yokohama URL (the Ministry of Health, single-parent families and those You can find some information Labour and Welfare): who are on welfare. *Chosen by about local restaurants that offer https://www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/seisa screening take-out and delivery menus. kunitsuite/bunya/cocoa_00138.ht Eligibility: Those who are The list of restaurants shows the ml currently unemployed chef’s recommendation and Training Period: (1) Oct. 12 to messages from the staff. You can Stores to Charge for Plastic Dec. 17 (2) Oct. 13 to Mar. 26, also get information about services Bags from July 1 2021 in each area and shopping mall This comes in line with the Application Period: Aug. 27 to offers, from the same website. government’s plan to oblige Sep. 11 Let’s find some information about retailers across to charge Briefing Date & Time: Aug. 26, local restaurants to make the most fees for plastic bags from July 1. It 10:00- and 14:00- of this situation while, you have is to reduce plastic waste through Location: Chuo Shokugyo some time at home. charging fees for their plastic bags Kunren-kou (Central career *We ask you to avoid shopping and to promote the use of reusable training school) (7 min walk from during peak hours and also wear shopping bags. Plastic bags JR Ishikawacho Stn North Exit or masks. containing at least 25% of biomass 11 min walk from Motomachi *The information of shops are materials are excluded from the Chukgai Stn, No.5 Exit on the open to the public, so that charging requirement. )

2 よこはま yokohama August 2020 Fee: Free *for textbooks and other admission, to wash/sanitize your We can also help you communicate materials: between 9,000 yen and hands regularly, and to keep with administrative offices. We will 14,000 yen physical distance with other protect your privacy. On certain To Apply: Please apply using an visitors. matters, we can also introduce you application form available from Exhibition dates and hours are to specific institutions. Training School, Ward Offices, subjected to change. Please check Now, we are available in 11 Administrative Service Corners, the website before your visit. languages. and Hello Work. URL: Date&Time: Monday through Inquiries: Chuo Shokugyo https://www.yokohamatriennale.j Friday: 10:00-16:30 *except Kunren-kou (045) 664-6825 (*J) p/english/2020/ (English site) holidays. 2nd and 4th Saturdays: URL:https://www.city.yokohama.l 10:00-12:30 g.jp/business/koyo-syugyo/shoku A One-Day Spanish Class Available Language: English, gyokunren/kunren9.html This is a one day Spanish class for Spanish, Chinese, Portuguese, 5th, 6th graders and Jr. HS students Thai, Indonesia, Vietnamese, Campsites at Doshi Village: who will learn Spanish for the first Tagalog, Korean, Nepalese, and Discount Service for Young time. Come try! It will be a fun! Japanese Yokohama Citizens Date&Time: August 15 (Sat): Location: YOKOHAMA Foreign The city of Yokohama will provide 9:30-10:30 for 5th and 6th graders Residents Information Center subsidies for Yokohama citizens in Elementary School (Reception within YOKE (5 min walk from under 18 years old, for part of the starts from 9:20) /11:00-12:00 for Minatomirai Stn) expenses to stay at campsites in Jr. High School students *Consultation by LINE is Doshi Village, (Reception starts from10:50) available Yamanashi. The Limit: 10 people for each class If you have questions or concern, amount is up to *First-come basis feel free to LINE us. 1,000 yen per Location: Konan International Available Language: English, person, for one Lounge (Yumeooka Office Tower Chinese, Spanish, and Japanese. overnight stay. 13F. 3 min walk from Kamiooka Period: Until Stn on the or Municipal Monday-Friday: 10:00-16:30 March 31, 2021 Subway, Blue Line) except holidays and Eligibility: People under 18 years Fee: Free Dec. 29 to Jan. 3 old who live, work, or go to school To Apply: Starting from July 12 To Apply: From in Yokohama. (Sun), please apply by calling the http://nav.cx/5wxMJ To Apply: First, check the lounge or by coming to the lounge nq camping grounds which are in person. Please inform your ID: @565xgbpz participating in this service name, your school name and the Inquiries: (045) 222-1209 program, at Doshi Village Tourism grade, and your contact number (Mon-Fri: 10:00-16:30, 2nd and 4th Association Website. When you Inquiries: (045) 848-0990 Sat: 10:00-12:30) make your camping reservation, Email: [email protected] tell the camp ground that you Let’s Learn Japanese Online URL: https://www.yokoinfo.jp/en/ would like to use this service. After Because of COVID-19, many that, you should download the Japanese classes are being Free Consultation by a VISA application form, fill it in, and cancelled. Here are some sites you Specialist submit it to the camp ground when can study Japanese online! And it’s Free Consultation regarding you visit them. free of charge! residency and immigration URL of Doshi Village Tourism NHK World Simple Japanese procedures by Gyoseishoshi Association: https://www.nhk.or.jp/lesson/ lawyer (administrative scrivener) https://www.city.yokohama.lg.jp/ Marugoto-plus is available every month. kurashi/kosodate-kyoiku/ikusei/k https://marugotoweb.jp/ja/index. Date&Time: Basically, the first enzenikusei/doushi.html php Thursday of each month; Inquiries: Doshi Village Tourism Erin’s challenge! I can speak 13:00-16:00 (45 min. per Association: (0554) 52-1414 (*J) Japanese! consultation) https://www.erin.ne.jp/jp/ *The date and time are subjected Yokohama Triennale 2020 *Reference: to change, please inquire before “Afterglow” https://www.yokeweb.com/single booking for an appointment. Yokohama Triennale is an -post/20200425 Languages: English, Spanish, international exhibition of modern Chinese, Portuguese, Thai, arts that is held once in every 3 YOKOHAMA Foreign Indonesia, Vietnamese, Tagalog, year. The ticket is time-slotted. Residents Information Korean, Nepalese, and Japanese Date&Time: until October 11 Center (an interpreter will assist as (Sun), 10:00-18:00 If you are having difficulties or needed) Location: Yokohama Museum of worries living in Japan, please Fee: Free (Interpretation is also Art / PLOT 48 (5 min from contact us at YOKOHAMA Foreign free of charge) Minatomirai Stn on the Minatomirai Residents Information Center. This To Apply: Please call in advance Line) is a free consultation service by for an appointment. Fee: 2,000 yen for adult (2,800 telephone, email, LINE, or in Location: YOKOHAMA Foreign yen for Triennale plus ticket) person. In order to prevent the Residents Information Center To Apply: Book a time-slot online transmission of the new within YOKE Please note: You will be asked to coronavirus, please call in advance Inquiries: (045) 222-1209 wear a mask, to have body if you prefer face to face (Mon-Fri: 10:00-16:30, 2nd and 4th temperature screening before consultation. Sat: 10:00-12:30)

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