This is a non-profit tennis club in Kyoto for non-japanese.
There are many non-japanese tennis players who have hard time looking for courts and friends in Kyoto.
Our ad is following.

MINT tennis club in Kyoto. Non-profit tennis group. 2 in a month, Sunday morning. All nationalities welcome. Congenial atomosphere. Fee, approx, 1,000-1,500yen each time only for balls and courts. More imformation.
http://www.geocities.jp/minttennisclub123/

we are looking for a female babysitter for 2 year-old twins.

In return for it, we help your Japanese in various situation for free(homework, procedures,etc)

you will be able to improve your japanese conversation skill with the kids and their mother.

student; ok
age;20-45
place;kyoto

contact : / buddy1532000@yahoo.co.jp

Australian band called Gigantic is coming to Osaka
to play gig.Japanese band called Riot Dance Party's gonna
support the band.
Please come to the show and drink a lot!

Gigantic Japan Tour
9/26(fri)
Vi-code(Osaka Nakatsu) 6:30 start
Ticket adv.1500 door 2000
Map http://www.vi-code.com/frame/access.html
near Hankyu Nakatsu Station(next to Umeda station)
myspace ->
http://www.myspace.com/giganticau
http://www.myspace.com/riotdp

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"SOULKISS" R&B/SOUL BAND: 3 GIRL vocals who can sing & dance w/6 band members will be performing in Kobe/Osaka bars!! NO CHARGE so come & have great fun!

From updated R&B to SOUL music!! Covering Top Billboard chart songs: Alicia Keys/Leona Lewis/Rihanna/Shakira/No Doubt/Joss Stone/Shakira/Santana//Kool&The Gang & more!!

YOU WON'T REGRET IT!!

[BLARNEY STONE (OSAKA)]
- Sep. 12(Fri) 9:30-11:30pm
- Oct. 18th(Sat) 9:30-11:30pm
(http://www.the-blarney-stone.com)

[BLUE FOX IRISH PUB(KOBE)]
- Sep. 13(Sat) 9:30-11:30pm
(http://www.sumason.com/bluefox)

"1st Stage"
Few ballads & dance music.

"2nd Stage"
ALL dance music

hi im rob ,i dj electronic music, im new to osaka ,i need a dj partner to help me get gigs in clubs, i dj house and techno.
if interseted please reply

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KOBE's local culture SHITAMACHI-RETRO discovering excursion

"How to enjoy traditional shopping arcades in SHITAMACHI?!"

■date : 24th, August, 2008 Sunday 10:00 a.m. 〜15:30 p.m.　
■meeting : @ Kobe Kosoku Tetsudo Line "SHINKAICHI"station west exit
■participation fee : \3,000（foods,drinks,lesson's fee all included)

SHITAMACHI is a hinterland with “traditional and human atmosphere”
an aspect, which unfortunately has been disappearing in Japan.
SHITAMACHI consists of a number of close-knit communities
with heartiness and human scale atmosphere.
In SHITAMACHI in Kobe, many heritages of good old days
still remain despite the severe earthquake hit in 1995.

We would like you to join this excursion of SHITAMACHI to discover an
alternative image of Kobe, more “human” and “popular”.
In this excursion, we eat local popular foods, enjoy shopping at small
traditional sweets’ shop, have a small cultural lesson from local
inhabitants, self-introduce during tea-time at an old style café etc…

The guides of this excursion speak English during the excursion.
So please do not hesitate to join un though you are non-Japanese
speaker ! Japanese and foreign participants walk together during the
excursion. So please enjoy not only a discovery of SHITAMACHI but also
an international communication.

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Firstly, we visit Shinkaichi area where used to be the capital of amenity
in the west part of Japan and now we can taste a little bit "hot"
atmosphere in several ways: teatime at retro popular cafe.

Then move toward Minatogawa area where we find the biggest markets
in kobe: eat local foods in markets like Japanese traditional cake
(Omanjyu), fried BBQ (Kushikatsu), sweet potato (Yakiimo), Tofu donuts,
fruits smoothie in Japanese style(so called mix-juice) etc...

Then, we visit Nagata Shrine, an old shinto shrine in Nagata ward.
And have a short lesson of camera by Mr. Ito, KOBE meister,the selected
honourable photographer of Kobe at Miyamae Photo studio.
Then we take a group photo together !

We also try there traditional iced candy, Shitamachi style flied potato,
etc…
more info and reservation : citamatiretro@yahoo.co.jp
tel(fax)078-220-4337 or please contact through our web site
http://situationniste.com/citamatiretro.html

association Crazy about SHITAMACHI-RETRO
3-5-17 Shioya-cho, Tarumi-ku, KOBE, 655-0872, Japan
tel and fax : 078-220-4337

8/23(sat.) Nobu Rock Night

@elevate(Tsukamoto,Osaka)
near JR Tsukamoto station(JR kobe line)

6pm start adv.\1000
bands:Riot Dance Party,and many more

rock,electolo,anything goes!
come to the party and drink a lot!

myspace http://www.myspace.com/riotdp
map&info http://www.elevate.jp/

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For those of you still baking/boiling/roasting (don't forget to baste yourselves!) in Japan on Sunday, Aug.31, 12-8pm,

there's a free outdoor music festival (3rd year?) called Rockfan at Ogimachi park near Umeda in Osaka.....please spread the word even if you can't make it.

Sponsored by Covent Garden, Captain Kangaroo, and Bar B-Trip. Rain or shine. Food booths.

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Enjoy the summer soul session at Rug Time, Osaka when soul singer-songwriter, ALICIA SALDENHA, takes the stage with her band on August 3rd (Sunday).

The band features Mariko Endo (sax), Yohei Arai (bass), Fumihiko Nakamura (guitar), Larry Marshall (drums) and special guest, Kureha Ryuichi (keys).

Rug Time, Osaka
Across Bldg. 4F
Shinsaibashi Suji 2-6-14
Osaka

大阪市心斎橋筋２−６−１４アクロスビル４F
☎: 06-6214-5306

7:30 p.m. 9:00 p.m. & 10:30 p.m.
\3, 000.

http://alicia.kansaiblogger.com
http://www.myspace.com/aliciasaldenha