About

What is HJCS?

It’s an acronym for the Japanese Cultural Society of HELP University College.

I thought it was just JCS.

For the sake of WordPress.com, they needed a four-letter word to register a blog.

Objectives

• provide the japanese experience to students
• encourage understanding of the japanese culture
• to gather students with a common interest in japanese culture

DRAFT: List of activities

• Weekly
  - Swapmeets: anime/manga, J-dorama, ongaku, obento, etc
  - Origami
  - Sing-along
  - Japanese’s traditional games: http://www.japaneseculturalcentre.com/games.htm
  - Language lessons (tentatively: weekends)
  - Japanese martial art (tentatively: Karate? etc)
• Workshops
  - Calligraphy
  - Sushi
  - Origami
  - Tea Ceremony
  - Kimono workshop
  - Handicraft workshop
• Events
  - Japanese movie/anime screening
  - Japanese traditional dance
  - Taiko contest (at Jusco XD!)
• Trips…
  - watch Japanese show in theater (Saturdays by Japan Foundation)
  - Bon Odori
  - Cosplay groups
• Culture Exchange Programmes
  - Pen pal program with Japanese college/university students
  - Homestay