Volume II — Number 97
March 2017
Monthly Newsletter
Newsletter
Harry Pollit To Japan.
M. A. Carretero.
That's right, dear readers. I am planning for next year 2018 to visit this great country and, among other things, to enjoy the extraordinary collections of artistic glass that I treasure.
Forum to Japanese and Spanish companies and entities.
The main objective of the Spain-Japan Mayor Forum is to create a permanent communication platform with On February 22, the Spain- organizations of older people, cultural and Japan Mayor Forum, an educational institutions, and initiative of CEATE, the Japanese and Spanish Spanish Confederation of companies, to better Classrooms of the Third understand the culture and Age, of which I am a member, was inaugurated way of life of older people of at the National Museum of both Countries. Anthropology. So everything indicates that there are many possibilities This opening day was attended by the Minister of to travel to Japan, to know the customs of the elders of the Embassy of Japan in Spain, Kenji Irata, and Yuko this exotic country and, in my Morimoto, Director of Asian case, to be able to visit workshops and museums Studies, the Madrid whose main interest is the University Carlos III. elaboration and exhibition of In this act was made the pieces Of artistic glass. presentation of the agenda of activities to be developed Among the workshops of glass artists I can think of during this year. Keji Ito and the Toyama This agenda includes a Glass Art Museum, The round table called "The Glass Museum of NOTO in Elders of Japan and Spain", Ishikawa, The Glass a day to know Japanese Nuestra sede: Museum of Suwa in Nagano, cuisine and a debate to Castillo Grande de Hakone Venetian Glass know "The image of Japan Museum, Niijima S.J. de Valderas Avda. Los Castillos, s/n and Spain in each country." Contemporary Art Glass 28925 ALCORCÓN. In addition, documentation Museum and The Glass Museum of Ogonzaki in (MADRID) is being prepared for a Shizuoka, among others. info@amigosmava.org future research project on
Authorities estimate that by the year 2030 practically a third of the Japanese population will be old. But Japan is also one of the nations with the highest quality of life - after Sweden and Norway - according to a report published in 2013 by HelpAge International, an international network of organizations promoting the right of the elderly to Dignified, healthy and safe life. Among the curiosities that affect older people in Japan I can cite a measure introduced in Wajima, a city in western Japan, which has just introduced a new automated and free golf car service to help move its older residents. It will also be an opportunity to learn about the traditional Japanese crafts "Edo Kiriko". The Edo Kiriko (戸 切 子 子) is a traditional technique of glass engraving used in Tokyo from the Edo period (the Edo era is a period of Japanese history dating from 1603 to 1868).
In other places there are other techniques of engraving in glass, but they the elderly in Japan, a Japan is the country with the have different names, partly meeting with Japanese highest proportion of elderly by the materials used since Elders for the year 2018 in the world. More than 26% the technique of Tokyo also and the presentation of the of the population is 65 or is characterized by the color of the glasses that are used. older. A very interesting and In 2015 the number of attractive program that people over 80 reached for makes me very excited to the first time 10 million, know. according to the Japanese government announced.