Happy Birthday to Qatar!

Interviewed & written by Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: itokuhashi@myeyestokyo.com   Elok Halimah (Indonesia) Vice Chairperson of foreign representatives assembly (She’s been in Japan since 2002) Today we introduce you to Elok Halimah from Indonesia. She is a person whom My Eyes Tokyo has waited for because we felt the goal of her activities is close to our goal. She is working on creating a comfortable environment for foreigners in Kawasaki, a part of Greater Tokyo. Her activities are not at the grass-root level. They involve the government of Kawasaki, a city where 1.4 million people reside. Her goal is to create a

Interviewed by Hisa Written by Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: itokuhashi@myeyestokyo.com   Fu Chen (China) Marketing Manager of the Advertising agency (He’s been in Japan since September ’99) This is the first interview in 2008 and the first interview with Chinese national since we started this website. Fu Chen is from Shanghai and he can speak Japanese really, really well. If he didn’t say he was Chinese, you would think he might be Japanese. He talks in a gentle tone. He made a favorable impression on us. He is very polite. He is like the way Japanese people used to be.

Bogotá, the capital and largest city of Colombia. *Photo from Wikipedia July 20 is Independence Day, celebrates the independence declaration of Colombia from Spain in 1810. The Spanish set foot on Colombian soil for the first time in 1499 and in the first half of the 16th century initiated a period of conquest and colonization, ultimately creating the New Kingdom of Granada, with as capital Santafé de Bogotá. Independence from Spain was acquired in 1819, but by 1830 the “Gran Colombia” Federation was dissolved. What is now Colombia and Panama emerged as the Republic of New Granada. The new nation