The house renovation section has implemented so-called as “Watchdog operation” on house renovation projects, for checking from their contract to completion, by our members who are registered for 1st grade architect. We have had 5 – 6 seminars a year since 3 years ago at many places in Yokosuka with support by Yokosuka city office.
However, being confused with seminars held by construction firms because of our insufficient advertisement, our activities are not fruitful enough so far.

Therefore, we asked a favor of support to the Combined neighborhood association last year. And we would like to deepen the relationship with the association up to almost forming a joint sponsorship.
Also as the citizens’ interests on big earthquake is becoming bigger since the enormous Tohoku Earthquake, we decided to add countermeasures to earthquake in our seminar as far as possible.

In accordance with such a planning, our first seminar for this year was taken place on Sept. 20, 2011 at “Take” neighborhood association hall. The first subject was “Anxiety and fear of earthquake found in olden diaries” by Mr. Zenya Tsujii, a local history researcher.
Then Mr. Ohi, our corporate member, made a plain lecture on the Governmental Subsidy system for Earthquake proof diagnosis and Reinforcing work. And at the last of the seminar, Mr. Furukawa, a member, made an introduction of the Supervisory work on house renovation projects and made an invitation for registering to our “Comfortable place for OBs” club.
Next seminar will be held on Nov. 26 at Kurita neighborhood association hall.

(Hiroyasu Furukawa, Chief of section)

Scene of training

Training in “Business manner and communication techniques” for new employees was provided at “Seishinkai” of a social welfare corporation (Nagase, Yokosuka) for two days on August 11 and 18 by an instructor of Ms. Rieko Chiba who is a career consultant and senior managing director of TMC Co., Ltd. It was co-hosted by Yokosuka Industrial Promotion Foundation Corporation and our institute. The chairman of “Seishinkai” is Mr. Tohru Hamada who is also the chairman of Shonan Safety Glass Co., Ltd. of our corporate member.

40 people of child-supervising-instructors and nursery teachers from both “Shirakaba kodomono ie” of a foster home which opened on April 1 of this year as the second one in Yokosuka and “Shirakaba Beibi Homu” of an infant home being the first one in the city received the training. The participants were divided into two groups and given the training for 5hours in total. They were all young and aggressively but with enjoyment working on various role-plays instructed by Ms. Chiba with her good narrative skill of drawing belly laughs sometimes. Her style is characterized in a way of letting trainee learn by role-playing in addition to by listening to lectures.

Scene just before role-playing

This was the second one of the training for new employees co-hosted by Yokosuka Industrial Promotion Foundation and our institute. The chairman Hamada said “The training was favorably received by those young trainees, mostly because of demonstrating and role-playing included. We wish to provide the same training for employees hired next year, too. Our Institute would like to also recommend the same training to the other small- and medium-companies in Miura Peninsula area.