A topic exhibition will be held which is entitled: “Let’s think about the ancient tools” トピック展「昔の道具を考える」を開催します Share!FacebookEmailTwitterWhatsApp 2021/12/21 Tuesday Announcements, Culture and Leisure There will be an exhibition of tools used in daily life that changed after the entry of culture and materials brought from Europe to Japan at the beginning of the Meiji Era in 1868. Period: January 4, 2022 (Tuesday) until February 13 (Sunday), closed every Monday. If Monday is a public holiday, the museum will close the next day. Opening hours: 9 am to 5 pm (entry will be allowed until 30 minutes before closing time) Location: Mie General Museum (MieMu) 3F Special Exhibition Hall (Kikaku Tenji-shitsu) Entrance fee: Adults: ¥520, Students: ¥310, High school students and younger: Free Related events: Entry to events 1 and 2 below will be free. Mini-lecture and presentation on how to use the tools Content: Museum curators will explain the main points of the exhibition and how to use tools that are now considered as rare. Date: January 10 (Monday) to February 11, 2022 (Friday), from 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm Location Classroom (lecture room) on the third floor Maximum capacity: 54 people daily (booking on site will be in order of arrival) Let’s make clear soaps to get rid of the coronavirus! (pre-registration required) Contents: Learn the secrets of how to make soap effective in fighting infections. Date: February 13, 2022 (Sunday), from 10 am, 11 am, 1 pm and 2 pm (each session will last approximately 1 hour) Location: Experiment room (jisshu-shitsu) on the second floor Maximum capacity: 24 people each session How to register: Complete the online application or send a letter by January 23, 2022 (Sunday) *Fill out the online form using the following link: https://www.bunka.pref.mie.lg.jp/MieMu/84927046739.htm * Register by letter (Oufuku Hagaki – 往復はがき) 〒514-0061 Mie-ken Tsu-shi Isshinden Kozubeta 3060 Mie Prefectural Museum “Soap Workshop” Section (Mie General Museum – MieMu) Sekken Workshop-gakari (三重県総合博物館「せっけんワークショップ」係) * Please note that if there are a large number of applicants, a lottery of participants will be held. Contact (in Japanese only). Mieken Sougo Hakubutsukan (三重県総合博物館) – MieMu Tsu-shi Isshinden Kozubeta 3060 TEL: 059-228-2283 Share!FacebookEmailTwitterWhatsApp « For people who are having difficulty renewing their driver’s license due to the coronavirus (January/2022) Application Period for Prefectural Housing Tenants » ↑↑ Next Information ↑↑ For people who are having difficulty renewing their driver’s license due to the coronavirus 2021/12/21 Tuesday Announcements, Culture and Leisure 運転免許証の更新期間の延長手続は、令和３年１２月２８日で終了します。 Share!FacebookEmailTwitterWhatsApp The validity period of the driver’s license can be extended by up to 3 months for people who are having difficulty renewing their driver’s license due to coronavirus. The renewal period of the driver’s license extension procedures ends on December 28, 2021. Measures to extend the renewal period Target persons Special measures to extend the period of renewal of the driver’s license are valid for people whose driver’s license expires on December 28, 2021. Request for extension procedures If you are having difficulty renewing your driver’s license due to coronavirus and fits into the target audience mentioned above, you can request for extension at the Unten Menkyo Center, police stations or the “kanbu kouban” (幹部交番), or do the request by mail or by another person. It is possible to extend the renewal or steering period up to 3 months after the last day of the renewal period even without completing the renewal procedures such as taking courses and aptitude tests. However, you must place this request before your driver’s license period expires. ◆It is possible for another person to request an extension on your behalf (representative – dairinin). ●It is possible to request for extension by mail. ◆You will need to submit the following items in order to have another person to request on your behalf. Applicant’s driver’s license Power of Attorney (Inin-jo 委任状) Representative’s identification card (driver’s license, health insurance card, etc) Please write the application document for the renewal procedures (start and continuation) at the time of application Send the following items to Unten Menkyo Center for request by mail. Application document for renewal procedures (start and continuation) Copy of driver’s license (front and back) Return envelope (with ¥84 stamp, postal code, address and applicant’s name) Insert the above documents in an envelope and send to the Unten Menkyo Center (see the “Contact and Place of request by Mail ” section below for the address). Request for extension procedures for the second time Also valid for people who have already received the special procedures since the last day of the period for renewal and management after the extension will end on December 28, 2021. Special request for repurchasing the license for people whose driver’s license has expired remain valid even after December 29, 2021. If you were not able to go through the renewal procedures normally or were unable to apply for the renewal period extension request and had your driver’s license inevitably expired due to the coronavirus pandemic, you can repurchase through the same renewal procedures (no need of taking the practical and academic tests) if you have not passed 3 years since expiration and 1 month from the day your unavoidable circumstances ended. However, you will not be able to drive during the repurchase period, so be careful. Office hours and required documents, among other details, are different from the normal renewal procedure. Contact and Place of request by mail 〒514-8518 Tsu-shi Tarumi 2566 – Unten Menkyo Center Unten Menkyo Kanrigakari TEL: 059-229-1212 (in Japanese only) Share!FacebookEmailTwitterWhatsApp