October 28, 2006
Unofficial Program: Getting to Know Japanese Culture
Supported by Yamano College of Aesthetics
On a beautiful autumn day, a cultural event volunteered by Yamano College of Aesthetics was held in the Annex Building of JICA Tokyo.
Seven participants and six Duskin Leadership trainees had an opportunity to wear traditional Japanese Kimono and enjoy tea ceremony.
Although the program was going to start at 13:00, at 10:30 fifteen staff from Yamano already arrived at JICA Tokyo and started to prepare. The room was divided into 3 spaces for different purposes i.e. tea ceremony, make-up and hair dressing, and putting on Kimono they set them up so quickly and the first floor of Annex Bldg was immediately changed into Yamano Beauty Salon.
Yamano College of Aesthetics offers three-year Biyo Fukushi (Beauty and Welfare) Course. This course prepares students for examination of both national hairstylist's license and national welfare worker's license. The aim is to train them to meet the needs of the elderly and/or the physically challenged and to help them live a happy life.
http://www.yamano.ac.jp/introduction/intro_e.html
Yamano has developed an original way of dressing people on a wheelchair in Kimono, so wheelchair users can get dressed in Kimono easily without feeling uncomfortable. Wearing beautiful Kimono cheers up people with or without disabilities. All the participants were very excited with this extraordinary experience of Kimono and Japanese tea ceremony. They fully enjoyed the day, getting know a little more about the Japanese culture.
