FISJ

[geminigirl]

Ohayou gozaimasu! I have read much about the FISJ or the plan for a Filipino International School In Japan. Much has been said about the plan at natutuwa ako sa ganitong klaseng plano for the Japanese-Filipino kids in Japan. This dream could soon be a reality if we could disseminate this plan to fellow Filipinos here too in the Philippines. We all need to support this plan for the benefit of the kids there. Sa humigit kumulang na limang taon ko sa Japan, napansin ko ang pagiging mas matatas ng mga bata sa wikang Hapon kesa sa Tagalog at Ingles. Kung maisasakatuparan ang planong ito ng Filipino Community sa Japan, makakatulong ito ng malaki sa pagmulat at pagturo sa mga bata ng kultura at wikang Pilipino. In line with this, I would like to express my support to the organization and to the people behind through Timog Forum. Rest assured that I would help in disseminating the plan to our fellow filipinos here. Mabuhay!:)

*Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten....

[Tonyang]

Sis Gemini, maraming salamat sa suporta. Narito ang ating BLOG at online survey para sa mga interesadong tumulong...

BLOG - http://www.fil-school-japan.net
SURVEY - http://www.tpmovers.org/filschool_japan.htm

Sis, isang OFW cooperative puwede nating mabuo para sa isang definite source ng pagpondo nito. Tuloy lang natin... may suporta na tayo na naghihintay mula sa Commission of Filipinos Overseas at FilAm community at siyempre, ilan sa mga kasama natin sa Timog Forum ay sumagot na rin. Let's spread the word at ang ating target ay One Filipino School sa bawat prefecture dahil ang mga batang JFC ang pinakamarami sa buong Japan pero nauna nga lang sa atin ang mga Bombay, Taiwanese, Koreano, Indonesian, German, French atbp.

Kung di pa natin ito uumpisahan, kailan pa tayo magkakaroon ng mga mekanismo para sa ikauunlad nating lahat? Kulang sa formula natin ay tiwala, sipag, tiyaga at pagkakataon para maisakatuparan ito.

[geminigirl]

My Pleasure Sis Tonyang!:) Asahan mo support ko sa organization. This will be sort of an accomplishment ng mga OFW diyan sa Japan. I have started spreading the good news already sa mga friends ko dito. For the first time after so many years it will only be this time that this plan hopefully will be realized. Let's keep our fingers crossed! Likewise am calling on all TF users and other OFWs for their support too. Arigatou gozaimashita!

[Tonyang]

Hi, Geminigirl! I have found a research that will support the idea of our project.

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FISJ project focuses on Japanese-Filipino children and migrant children with Filipino parents who are living and working in Japan.

From Yukari Himeno's research entitled "The Education of Foreign Children in Japan", we have several proofs why internationalization in Japanese schools is not fitted to foreign children in Japan. Under this category, migrant children with Filipino parents are included.

1. The aim of this paper is to describe how Japan’s education system treats children from other countries, especially in regard to junior high schools and the high school entrance examinations.

2. The 2003 report of Nyûkoku kanri kyoku (Japanese Immigration Bureau) showed that the number of registered foreign residents and their ratio to the total population in Japan are increasing. There were 1,851,758 foreign residents at the end of 2002, an increase of 4.1 percent from 2001 and 44.5 percent from 1993. The ratio of registered foreign residents to the total population of Japan (127,435,650) is 1.45 percent. Although Japan’s total population growth rate since 1993 is 2.3 percent, the growth rate of registered foreign residents was 44.5 percent at the end of 2002 (Nyûkoku kanri kyoku, 2003).

3. The number of newcomer children is increasing annually. (The newcomer group includes foreign residents who came to Japan with their families after the middle of the 1980s). However, sufficient statistical data about their number and circumstances does not exist, and so I have estimated the situation of newcomer children from two sets of data. First, from the 2003 statistics of registered foreigners who are from five to fifteen years of age, we can estimate that more than 74,000 newcomer children were studying in compulsory education in Japan in 2002, twice as many as in 1995.[5] Of these about 23,000 are Brazilian, 21,000 Chinese, 6,900 Filipino, and 5,600 Peruvian (Nyûkoku kanri kyoku, 2003). Although the total number of foreign students has not changed dramatically recently, the number of newcomer children is increasing.

4. A MEXT (Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Science, Sports and Technology) 2003 report shows that 43.6 percent of the newcomer children who need to study Japanese have been in school for more than two years (MEXT, 2003a). Miyajima Akira, a professor at the Faculty of Sociology at Rikkyo University, points out that many newcomer children do not have adequate Japanese ability, and the number of newcomer children who have a problem with Japanese in junior high schools is increasing. Thus, studying in junior high schools and continuing their academic work after graduation will be a significant problem for them (Miyajima, 2001)

5. MEXT tries to teach Japanese students kokusaika (internationalizatio n), but no programs exist in which Japanese students can exchange their culture and customs with newcomer children. The Central Educational Council of MEXT submitted a proposal for revision of the Fundamentals of Education Act on March 20, 2003 (2003b), but the purpose of the revision is to encourage Japanese to acquire an “international way of thinking” by cultivating “love for Japanese culture, tradition and patriotism” (MEXT, 2003b).

6. The Japanese educational policy of kokusai-sei is a peculiar system, a proposal for an international way of thinking made without consideration for the newcomer children who live within Japanese society.

7. The fundamental idea at MEXT is that “newcomer children do not have an obligation to study in Japan,”[7] and that if “they want to enter Japanese schools, we will accept them and treat as equally as Japanese” (2003d).

8. The Japanese education system does not provide newcomer children with enough chances to “study” in Japanese.

9. To summarize my research, there are mainly three problems for newcomer children: they cannot receive adequate instruction in Japanese, the international education system does not correspond to their needs, and the system of kokusai kyôshitsu does not fit their reality. Therefore, it is obvious that the Japanese education system cannot give newcomer children a proper opportunity to study in Japan.

Full text of report at:
The Education of Foreign Children in Japan
http://themargins.net/fps/student/himeno.html

[midnight]

how about pain in the arse ?

is it the same as pain in the a$$ ?

[Tonyang]

Mareng midnight, bakit may pain patungkol sa FISJ? Pls explain if your time permits. Thanks.