No. 237 February 1, 2017
http://www.city.urayasu.lg.jp Published by the City of Urayasu
1-1-1 Nekozane, Urayasu-shi, Chiba 279-8501 047-351-1111
Population: 166,551 Male: 82,089 Female: 84,462 Households: 77,362 Foreign Residents: 3,570 (As of December 31, 2016)
Population and No. of Households in Urayasu
Date and time: February 5 (Sun.), 7:40 a.m. to 12 noon
Area Regulation Hours
① Road around the hotel Two lanes on one side will be closed to vehicle traic. 7:40 a.m. to 12 noon
② Sports Park to Clean Center Completely closed to vehicle traic. 7:40 to 11 a.m.
③ Sports Park to Tomioka Koban (police box) Two lanes on one side will be closed to vehicle traic. 8:30 to 11 a.m.
④ Tomioka Koban (police box) to Takasu Taiyo-no Oka Park Two lanes on one side will be closed to vehicle traic. 8:45 to 10:30 a.m.
⑤ City Planning Street No. 3.1.7 Completely closed to vehicle traic. 8:45 to 10 a.m.
⑥ Takasu Taiyo-no Oka Park to Urayasu Sogo Park Completely closed to vehicle traic. 8:45 to 10:30 a.m. Notes: • Please refrain from driving near the marathon course on the day of the event.
• Please do not park on the streets along the marathon course on the day of the event.
• City buses that pass through the course areas and the Osanpo Bus Maihama Line will run on irregular schedules while the race is being held. During the Tokyo Bay Urayasu City Marathon, traffic will be regulated near the marathon course.
Your cooperation is appreciated.
Announcement concerning
Kakutei Shinkoku
(Income Tax Returns)
Please file your 2016 income tax return no later than March 15 (Wed.).
Inquiries:
Ichikawa Tax Office,
Tel:
047-335-4101 (Residential Tax Section)
• Income Tax Return Completion Corner
You do not need to apply in advance. If you input the required information, you r t a x a mou nt w i l l be calcu lat e d automatically. You can print the completed report and submit it by mail. For more information, please visit the National Tax Agency website (http://www.nta.go.jp).
Completing Your Income Tax
Return via the Internet
Income Tax Report Deductions for
Latter-Term Elderly Medical Insurance Premiums
and National Health Insurance Premiums
W hen repor ting Lat ter-Ter m Elderly Medical Insurance premiums and National Health Insurance premiums as a social insurance deduction, you do not need to attach or show a certificate. Simply add the total amount you paid from January 1 through December 31, and report the amount.
If you do not know the amount, please ask the National Health Insurance Section. When you do, please have your health insurance card with you.
Inquiries: National Health Insurance Section
Completing Your Income Tax Returns
at Urayasu City Shugo Office
▽ Free Consultation Service by Licensed Tax Accountants
Dates and times: February 3 (Fri.) through 9 (Thu.) (excluding Saturdays and Sundays), 9:30 a.m. to 12 noon and 1 to 3:30 p.m.
Note: Those completing a report for small-scale taxpayers. Consultation services for consumption tax are also available.
▽ Income Tax Return Consultation Services Sponsored by Urayasu City
Dates and times: February 16 (Thu.) through March 15 (Wed.) (excluding Saturdays and Sundays), 9:30 a.m. to 12 noon and 1 to 3:30 p.m.
▼ For the abovementioned services:
Eligibility:
• Those whose income was solely from wages (those who received a salary from two or more locations, t hose who have not completed yea r- end t a x adjustments, those who have retired, etc.)
Note: Limited to those who received an annual salary of ¥20 million or less.
• Those whose income was solely from their pension • Those who receive an individual pension from life
insurance or the post office
• Those who received a full-term insurance benefit or a refund for a closed account
What to bring
Your tax withholding slip, your personal seal (an unregistered seal is acceptable), various tax exemption certificates and receipts, documentation that indicates your financial account numbers, a calculator, writing instruments, and a copy of your income tax report from the previous year
Note: If you plan to take a deduction for medical expenses, please calculate the total in advance.
Inquiries:
Sports Section
Commemorating the 35th Anniversary of Urayasu City
Traffic Will Be Regulated during
the 26th Tokyo Bay Urayasu City Marathon
The hotel area The hotel area
Sports Park Sports Park
Tomioka Koban (police box) Tomioka Koban (police box)
City Planning Street No. 3.1.7 City Planning Street No. 3.1.7 Takasu
Taiyo-no Oka Park Takasu Taiyo-no Oka Park
Sogo Park Sogo Park
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④ ⑤
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Completely closed to vehicle traffic. Completely closed to vehicle traffic. Two lanes on one side will be closed to vehicle traffic. Two lanes on one side will be closed to vehicle traffic.
Maihama Sta.
Shin Urayasu Sta.
Please Note!
At the Urayasu City site, since consultation is for simple income tax returns, consultation for returns not handled at each consultation site, and consultation for first-time mortgage deduction are not available. If you would like consultation on t hese issues, plea se pa r t icipate i n t he consultation services sponsored by the Ichikawa Tax Office (see below). In addition, please note that the reception desk may close earlier than the scheduled hours if it becomes too crowded.
▽ Submission of Urayasu City Income Tax Returns
Date and time: February 16 (Thu.) through March 15 (Wed.), 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. (excluding Saturdays)
Location: Shugo Office 4F
Note: If you would like to submit your report before February 15 (Wed.), you can submit it in person or by mail to the Ichikawa Tax Office (1-11-10 Kitakata, Ichikawa City 272-8573).
Income Tax Return Consultation
Services Sponsored by the Ichikawa
Tax Office
Dates and times: February 10 (Fri.) through March 15 (Wed.), 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (reception is available from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.)
Note: Closed on Saturdays, Sundays and national holidays, except for Sundays, February 19 and 26.
Location: Colton Hall, Nikke Colton Plaza 2F (1-1-1 Onitaka, Ichikawa City)
Note: Free parking is not available.
Eligibility: Those who are filing a return for income tax, special recovery tax, gift tax, or individual consumption tax (such as those who would like advice on earthquake-related reports; would like to make a home-loan deduction; made capital gains from land, building, stock, futures trading, or FX; had retirement income; had income from real estate with the Blue Return; had carry-over of loss; or would like advice on gift tax)
Note: Since the required documents depend on the content of the tax return, please check with the Ichikawa Tax Office (Tel: 047-335-4101) in advance.
Those who do not have a My Number Card
A document that can conirm your individual number (such as a notiication card) and one to conirm that the individual number belongs to you (such as a driver’s license) is required
Important!
Your individual number (My Number) must be written on applications and tax reports.
Please bring the following documents.
Those who have a My Number Card
Hello to all!
Hideki Matsuzaki, Mayor of Urayasu■
Urayasu Scholarship Loan
Program
Eligibility: Those who live in Urayasu and who have been accepted to a high school or university but who are having difficulty continuing with school due to financial reasons, and who do not receive other scholarship financial assistance (excluding
Urayasu beneits) or loans (those who live in
a dormitory outside of Urayasu are eligible if
their parents live in Urayasu).
Loan amount: Please check the Urayasu
website or call the number below.
Loan period: An entrance preparation fee will be paid upon entrance only, plus tuition
for one year.
Note: If you would like to continue receiving a loan, you must file an application form
every year. When applying for a loan, a co-signer is required.
Returning the loan: Within 10 years after six months after the standard period for the
completion of schooling (interest-free)
Application: An entrance preparation fee
loan application should be iled no later than March 15 (Wed.). File a scholarship loan
application form (available at the Education Administration Section [Urayasu City Hall
7F] or downloadable from the Urayasu website) with the Education Administration Section in person.
Note: Tuition loan applications are accepted
on an ongoing basis.
Inquiries: Education Administration Section, Tel: 712-6712
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Urayasu Scholarship
Support Program
Urayasu offers a scholarship suppor t
beneit, which does not need to be returned, to those who fulill the conditions below.
Eligibility: Students whose parent/guardian lives in Urayasu, who have been registered in the basic resident registrar for one year or longer, who are in high school or university,
and who are having dificulty going to school due to inancial reasons
Scholastic achievement standard: The latest
grade point average must be 3.0 or greater in a ive-level evaluation system.
Income standard: The income for the year
before application must be 1.3 times the standard amount or lower for public inancial
assistance for everyday living (amounts vary
depending on the constitution of the family).
Benefit amount: High school: ¥5,000 per
month; university: ¥15,000 per month
Application: File an application form (available at the Education Administration Section
[Urayasu City Hall 7F] or downloadable from the Urayasu website) with the Education Administration Section (Urayasu City Hall 7F) in person from 8:30 a.m. on April 4 (Tue.).
Note: For more information, please visit the
Urayasu website or call the number below.
Inquiries: Education Administration Section, Tel: 712-6712
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The 37th Urayasu
Children’s Kite-Flying Contest
Date and time: February 11 (Sat.), 10 a.m. to12 noon
Location: Sogo Park
Program: Prizes will be awarded to those
who succeed in lying their kites. Participation prizes will also be awarded. Consommé
soup and hot cocoa will be available free of
charge.
Note: Prizes are for handmade kites only. What to bring: Kite (Bowls, chopsticks, or
On Thursday, November 24, sleet began to fall in Urayasu from before dawn, and by around 8 a.m., it turned to genuine snow. It was reported that this was the first time since 1962 that the first snowfall came in November.
It sends chills up my spine when thinking that the snow could have come one day earlier, as the day before we held our “Marriage Partner Hunting in Urayasu Resort 2016.” Urayasu is playing a role in being a leader among local governments across Japan in sponsoring “marriage matchmaking activities.”
Since February 2011, this was the 11th time that this event has been held. The recent event drew 90 males and 92 females from Chiba Prefecture and the Tokyo metropolitan area, and it began with a nervous air. Thanks to the ef-forts of the staff, which made elaborate plans, 37 matches were made as a re-sult.
The success rate was extremely high again, with 40.7% of participants be-coming a couple. We thus received a lot of positive feedback from the par-ticipants saying, “As the city was the sponsor, I was able to participate with peace of mind.”
Although we started this event with some doubts in our mind, 267 matches have been made to date.
Newlyweds that had their wedding last spring and that will move to To-mioka soon sent me a letter in mid-No-vember saying that they were expecting a baby this April. The letter also stated that “Although we are a little worried, as this is our first baby, we feel re-lieved that the city offers support from pregnancy to childbirth.” Those words made me feel that all the efforts we had poured into child-raising support were really worth it.
At the end of their letter, they said, “When the baby is born, we hope that you will hold the little one in your
arms.” Those words moved me to tears. I am happy that our city fulfilled its role as Cupid, and hearing this report that a new life was being born made me even happier. I hope that we can continue to be able to watch over such young lives through child-raising sup-port programs.
In Japan, November 22 and 23 are known as “Good Married Couples Day.” On these days, there were 35 couples and 13 couples respectively that filed marriage notifications at Urayasu City Hall.
November 23 is also Labor Thanks-giving Day, a national holiday. I went to Urayasu City Hall before noon and happened to meet two couples filing their respective marriage notifications at the Custodian’s Office. I offered my congratulations, and one couple said, “It’s thanks to you.” As I was in a hur-ry, I did not check, but I later thought that perhaps they met through our mar-riage matchmaking event. That thought made me doubly happy.
Good things seem to happen contin-uously. Nikkei DUAL and Nikkei con-ducted a survey on the “Child-raising Support Programs of Local Govern-ments,” and the results for the “National Ranking of Towns Comfortable for Working Parents” were announced. For the Tokyo edition, the grand prize went to Shinjuku, and for cities other than Tokyo across Japan, the grand prize went to Urayasu.
I attended the 2016 “Companies and Towns Comfortable for Working Couples Ceremony”—also attended by Minister of Health, Labour and Wel-fare Yasuhisa Shiozaki—held at Tokyo Midtown on December 2. Afterward, I appeared as a symposium panelist. I am honored and pleased that these events seem to prove that Urayasu is a model local government in terms of supporting the raising of children.
Aiming to Be a Town That Makes Things Easier:
From Meeting New People to Raising a Child
No. 237 February 1, 2017
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Recyclable Waste Disposal Schedule for February
Collection Area
PET plastic bottlesBottles/Cans/ Newspapers/MagazinesNekozane, Kitazakae, Todaijima Every Tue. Every Mon.
Horie, Higashino, Fujimi, Maihama Every Wed. Every Sat.
Kairaku, Mihama, Irifune, Hinode, Akemi Every Thu. Every Mon.
Tomioka, Imagawa, Benten, Tekkodori, Takasu, Minato, Chidori Every Fri. Every Sat.
* Please put out your garbage between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. It is against the rules to put it out earlier or later than this designated time as it could become a nuisance in your neighborhood.
* Bulky items will be collected separately on request by phone. Call the Bulky Items Reception Center, 305-4000. For inquiries, contact the Garbage-Free Section.
(ext. 14108)
cups are not necessary.)
Application: No application is necessary; simply come to the site on the day of the
event.
Caution: Will be cancelled in the case of rain or snow, or if the ground conditions are not good; parking is available for a restricted
number of cars.
Inquiries: Urayasu City Children’s Kite-Flying Event Executive Committee Office (within
Youth Section), Tel: 712-6450
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UFRA Spring Festival
Celebration
Date and time: February 12 (Sun.), 5:30 to 8
p.m.
Location: International Center
Eligibility: 60 persons, on a come, irst-served basis
No babysitting services are available.
Program: Celebrate lunar New Year—which is celebrated in Asian countries such as China and South Korea—while enjoying Taiwanese songs and listening to an explanation on the
origin of the vernal equinox.
Fee: As this event is a potluck dinner, each
person should bring one dish. If you cannot prepare a dish, the fee is ¥1,000 (¥500 for junior high schoolers and younger).
Applications: Apply to UFRA Office by telephone, Tel: 712-6247
Inquiries: UFRA (Urayasu Foreign Residents
Association) Office (within the Local Network Section)
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Asian and Russian Café
Date and time: February 12 (Sun.), 10 a.m.to 12 noon (you may enter and exit freely during the event)
Location: International Center
Program: An introduction to the six lectures conducted by the Urayasu International
Friendship Association (UIFA) on the language and culture of Russia and four
countries in Asia (Vietnam, South Korea,
China, and Indonesia); enjoy teas produced
in each country while experiencing their respective languages and culture with native
lecturers and students.
Application: No application is necessary; simply come to the site on the day of the
event.
Inquiries: Urayasu International Friendship
Association (UIFA), Tel: 381-5931
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Hina Matsuri
Doll Festival
Date and time: February 26 (Sun.), 2 to 2:30
p.m.
Location: Folk Museum
Capacity: 100 people, on a come, irst-served basis
Program: Explanation of this traditional event, a performance by gonin bayashi (ive musicians)
and the distribution of arare confection Note: Arare will be distributed after the
performance.
Inquiries: Folk Museum, Tel: 305-4300
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Temporary Childcare
Starting Up at Poppins
Nursery School Urayasu
Starting from April 3 (Mon.), Poppins
Nursery School Urayasu will offer temporary
childcare services.
Childcare hours:
One-day use: Monday to Saturday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; half-day use: Monday to Saturday, 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 1 to 5 p.m.
Note: 8:30 a.m. to 12 noon on Saturdays for
either use.
Location: Poppins Nursery School Urayasu Eligibility: Preschool children four months of age and older
Fee:
Under three years of age: ¥2,200 per day; three years of age and older: ¥1,000 per day (Half-day use is half-price. If you would like to use the meal service, the price is ¥200 per meal.)
Application: Apply by telephone with Poppins Nursery School Urayasu (Tel:
711-4229) between the irst day of the previous
month before the desired date of use (if the
1st falls on a Saturday, then from the next day the nursery school is open) and the
actual day of desired use (as a rule, no later than the day before the desired day of use
for irst-time users).
Inquiries: Poppins Nursery School Urayasu
(Nursery Schools and Kindergartens Affairs
Section)
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Ukrainian Instrument
Bandura Performance
Date and time: February 18 (Sat.), 2 to 4 p.m. Location: International Center
Capacity: 50 people, on a come, irst-served basis
Performed by: Ms. Kateryna (Bandura
performer)
Fee: ¥500 (includes refreshments)
Application: Apply with the International Center (Tel: 306-5181; e-mail: uketsuke@
urayasu-ic.jp) in person or by telephone or e-mail (giving the event name, your name, and telephone number).
Inquiries: International Center (Local
