The twentieth Abiko International Open-Air Art Exhibition (AIOE) 2017 is coming soon. Domestic and foreign invitation artists have arrived in Abiko and made a courtesy visit to Mayor of Abiko. As usual AIRA sent volunteer interpreters for supporting the courtesy visit and Lake Teganuma cruise. (No.17-13)

The 19th Abiko International Speech Contest was held co-hosted by Abiko City and AIRA and 15 participants made their speeches. Also, with the Tokyo Olympics coming up in three years, a lecture under the title of “The Olympics and Jigoro Kano” was given by Professor Masaki Fujiwara. (No.17-11)

Students and teachers of Evening Class deepened friendship through cooking and eating Vietnamese food together.　　 (No. 17-10)

The AIRA Tuesday Japanese Class had a special class before summer holiday.  Usually the students study in small groups according to their Japanese levels, but on this day all the students learned Japanese through playing games together.　　 (No. 17-8)

A lecture for volunteer teachers was held under the theme of “How to teach Japanese language to non-Japanese”, organized by the Japanese Class of AIRA Volunteer Section. 　(No. 17-9)