Fujisawa

On the 6th of Dojaus, at the National's event held the day before yesterday, we held the opening ceremony.

Yamamoto Yoshinobu visited the Dojaus Stadium with seven children from the miso children's home in Fujisawa City, Kanagawa Prefecture, who visited in February this year.

Yamamoto made a promise that he would visit again in Japan.

The kids performed at Yamamoto's Bubble Head Day, and Yamamoto himself was in charge of the catcher role.

Today, we go to the water itself, to the island that sits just off the Shonan shore and has been receiving visitors, pilgrims, generals, lovers and tourists for over a thousand years.

Enoshima Enoshima is a small island in Sagami Bay, 6.3 meters in circumference, connected to the mainland at Fujisawa City by a 600-meter bridge.

From the Shonan coast, it is always visible.

A low, rounded shape on the water that has been part of this horizon for so long that it appears in the oldest landscape paintings of the region.

The founding myth of Enoshima is one of the great love stories in Japanese religious tradition, and it involves a sea monster, a goddess, and a bargain that changed the fate of a coastal community.

The legend recorded in the Enoshima Enki, a document compiled in the 12th century, tells the following story.

For centuries, the people living on the shore near what is now Fujisawa were terrorized by a five-headed dragon who lived in the lake behind the coastline and periodically descended on the villages to destroy crops, take children and generally behave as dragons do in every tradition that has invented them.

The community had lived with this threat apparently without recourse for a very long time.

The silhouette of the Enoshima sits in the middle distance.

Kugenuma Beach in Fujisawa is one of the top surfing beaches on the coast with a long consistent break and a strong surf community that has been here since the 1960s If you want to understand what Japanese surf culture actually looks like Kugenuma on a summer weekend morning is where you go Chigasaki Chigasaki's southern beach is where everything we have talked about today began The beach is long, the sun exposure is excellent and the atmosphere has a particular ease that comes from a place that has been doing this for 60 years and is entirely comfortable with what it is.

There is a reef formation offshore called Eboshi Rock, a dark volcanic outcrop that appears in the water about a kilometer from the beach.

It appears on postcards.

Getting to Shonan from Tokyo is straightforward.

For Kamakura and the eastern beaches, the JR Yokosuka line runs directly from Tokyo Station to Kamakura in approximately 55 minutes.

From Kamakura, the Enoden follows the coast all the way to Fujisawa, stopping at Yuigahama, Hase, Shichirigahama and Enoshima along the way.

The Enoden is itself one of the pleasures of the visit.

[short musical chime] Kanagawa NPO offers one hundred yen lunches for children.

Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture.

For a woman in her fifties who lost her job at a company at the end of July, a boxed lunch program for children costing only one hundred yen, sixty-three cents, seemed like manna from heaven.

A nonprofit organization based in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, has teamed with volunteer restaurants and other food service outlets to offer a children's bento program, which assists families with small children who are struggling financially.

The bento are offered for children during the summer holidays when no school lunches are served.

The program was started in twenty twenty during the COVID-19 pandemic by Shonan Mizukos Keikaku, which has been working on, among other things, operating a hangout space for children.

Mizukos Keikaku roughly translates as mishmash program.

Shonan is the name of the geographical area that Fujisawa is part of.

Kanagawa NPO offers 100 yen lunches for children.

Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, for a woman in her fifties who lost her job at a company at the end of July, a box lunch program for children costing only 100 yen, 63 cents, seemed like manna from heaven.

A non-profit organization based in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, has teamed with volunteer restaurants and other food service outlets to offer a children's bento program, which assists families with small children who are struggling financially.

The bento are offered for children during the summer holidays when no school lunches are served.

The program was started in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic by Shonan Mizikoz Keikaku, which has been working on, among other things, operating a hangout space for children.

Mizikoz Keikaku roughly translates as mishmash program.

Shonan is the name of the geographical area that Fujisawa is part of.

Through its lunch program, the unemployed woman said she requested box lunches for her twin children, who are elementary school pupils.

Uh, but in terms of the, the number of, uh, Muslim population and, you know, you were reporting about, uh, some backlash about building a mosque in certain cities, uh, can you tell us more about what their concerns are?

are?Yeah, so I went to Fujisawa City.

Uh, that's about a couple hours' drive south of Tokyo.

It's towards the beach area.

Hoy es un campo cubierto de césped, pero pronto será el lugar donde se construirá la primera mezquita de la ciudad japonesa de Fujisawa.

Today it is a field covered with césped, but soon to be the place where the first mosque in the Japanese city of Fujisawa will be built.

Hoy es un campo cubierto de césped, pero pronto será el lugar donde se construirá la primera mezquita de la ciudad japonesa de Fujisawa.

Me preocupa cómo puede llegar a cambiar nuestra comunidad, dice Noriko Izumisawa, una residente de toda la vida de la ciudad.

"I'm worried about how it might change our community", says Noriko Izumisawa, a lifelong resident of the city.

Me preocupa cómo puede llegar a cambiar nuestra comunidad, dice Noriko Izumisawa, una residente de toda la vida de la ciudad.

Los planes para construir un centro religioso ismico en Fujisawa, una tranquila ciudad costera situada a una hora en coche al sur de Tokio, han despertado una amplia gama de emociones.

Plans to build an island religious center in Fujisawa, a sleepy seaside town about an hour's drive south of Tokyo, have stirred up a wide range of emotions.

So check this out.

So this is chaos in Japan as thousands of Japanese gather to protest the construction of the first mosque in Fujisawa.

The proposed mosque would be larger than the Shinto shrine.

And they also want to install loudspeakers for prayer five times a day.