Nihon Star – Japanese Talent Competition 2021
Introduction This talent show is an event in which participants perform any activities to showcase their skills and also will provide an excellent Japanese cultural platform for participants to identify their hidden talents. Objectives of the competition To showcase the rich Japanese culture through the performances of diverse talents from categories related to Japan. To build a strong community of Sri Lankan youth who appreciate Japanese language & culture. To create a platform for youth to showcase their diverse talents, related to Japan. About the Competition The Japanese talent competition is organized by LNBTI, the premier Japanese quality higher education provider, for the youth who are exposed to Japanese language and culture to showcase a variety of unique talents which are relevant to Japan. Following are the categories: Performing Arts Category Singing – Japanese song Dancing – Japanese style / dancing to a Japanese song Speech in Japanese (On any topic) Cosplay – With an introduction to the chosen character, followed by an act pertaining to that character. Rakugo – Comic story telling with facial expressions (Humor) Fine Arts Category Calligraphy – writing their favorite kanji character in calligraphy Making unique origami designs Ikebana – Art of Japanese flower arrangement (using only natural materials) Haiku poem writing – On Japanese seasons Kyara ben – making creative lunchboxes (using only edible material and displaying the character/s clearly) Creative writing in Japanese The Participants This competition will be open for youth between ages of 15 -25 years. Competition structure Please visit following links for more details about each competition : https://www.facebook.com/events/755592905077641/?active_tab=discussion Rules & regulations of the programme Winners are selected for the best presentation and the most popular presentation. Each winner will receive a valuable certificate. All competitors will also receive a valuable certificate of their participation. The first round Due to popular demand, the video submission deadline of performing arts category has been extended till 17th of April 2021 The candidates competing in the “Performing Arts” category set, should upload the first competitive performance videos onto their own google drive and share the link of video via LNBTI website by 17th April 2021. (access for the video should be given to “nihonstar@edu.lnbti.lk” email address) The candidates competing in the “Fine Arts” category set, should perform live from 19th April 2021 at the time allocated (event time and Zoom link will be shared via email and WhatsApp). Fine Arts Event Timetable Nihon Star 2021- Selected Students for the 2nd Round Fine Arts category Performing Arts category The second round Please note that, the submission deadline for second round will be on 5th of August. Rules & regulations of the programme The candidate/s can select any category from either performing arts or fine arts categories. The candidate/s who are competing in the “Performing Arts” category set, should video record the performance item clearly to show authenticity. The candidate/s who are competing in the “Fine Arts” Category set, should perform live at the allocated time. Application could be filled either as a solo item or as a group. The duration of the performance in the video of candidates competing in the “Performing Arts” category set should not exceed 5 mins. Candidates competing in the “Fine Arts” category Set, should not exceed more than 15 mins in their live performances. Theme of the performance – any performance should fit into specified categories and related to Japan. More Information : 077 336 0000 Candidates competing in the “Performing Arts” category set, should upload videos onto their own google drive and share the link of video via following form. (access for the video should be given to “nihonstar@edu.lnbti.lk” email address) Demonstration video: HTTPS://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?V=JZTAK6T08TE
නිහොන් ස්ටාර් – ජපන් කලා කුසලතා තරඟාවලිය 2021
ජපානය හා සම්බන්ධ විවිධ අංශ යටතේ විවිධ දක්ෂතා දැක්වීම තුළින් ආශ්චර්යමත් ජපන් සංස්කෘතිය විදහා දැක්වීමට ප්රථම වරට ශ්රී ලාංකික තරුණ ප්රජාව වෙනුවෙන් ඉදිවන වේදිකාවයි. තරඟාවලියේ අරමුණු : ජපාන සම්ප්රදායන් පදනම් කරගනිමින් ඉදිරිපත් කරනු ලබන විවිධ කුසලතා මගින් ආශ්චර්යමත් ජපන් සංස්කෘතිය විදහා දැක්වීම. ජපානය, භාෂාව සහ සංස්කෘතිය අගය කරන තරුණ ප්රජාවක් ගොඩනැගීම. ජපාන සංස්කෘතිකාංග සඳහා කුසලතා දක්වන තරුණ තරුණියන් හට වේදිකාවක් නිර්මාණය කිරීම. තරඟ කාණ්ඩ ලලිත කලා කාණ්ඩය (Fine Arts Category) ඉකෙබන – Ikebana ශොදෝ – Calligraphy ඔරිගමි මෝස්තර සෑදීම – Origami ක්යර බෙන් – Kyara ben නිර්මාණාත්මක රචනා – Creative writing හයිකු නිර්මාණය – Haiku creation ප්රාසාංගික කලා කාණ්ඩය (Performing Arts Category) නැටුම් – Dancing ගායනය – Singing රකුගො – Rakugo කථික තරඟ – Speech in Japanese කොස්ප්ලේ – Cosplay වයස් කාණ්ඩ : වයස අවු.15-25 අතර තරඟකරුවන්ට සහභාගී විය හැකිය. සියලු ම තරඟකරුවන් සදහා තරඟය පිළිබද සවිස්තරාත්මක විග්රහයක් : https://www.facebook.com/events/755592905077641/?active_tab=discussion තරඟයේ ආකෘතිය හා නීති රීති පිලිබඳ විස්තර ජයග්රාහකයන් තේරීම: දක්ෂතම ඉදිරිපත් කිරීම සඳහා ජයග්රාහකයන් තොරාගනු ලබයි. සෑම ජයග්රාහකයකු සදහා ම වටිනා සහතික පත්රයක් හිමි වේ. සියලු තරඟකරුවන්ට සහභාගිවීම වෙනුවෙන් ද වටිනා සහතික පත්රයක් හිමි වේ. තරඟ ආකෘතිය : පළමු වටය බොහෝ දෙනාගේ ඉල්ලීම පරිදි “ප්රාසාංගික කලා” අංශයේ වීඩියෝ උඩුගත කරන අවසාන දිනය අප්රේල් 17 රාත්රී 12.00 දක්වා කල් දමන ලදී. “ප්රාසාංගික කලා” අංශයට තරඟ කරන අපේක්ෂකයින් අප්රේල් 17 දින වන විට පළමු තරඟකාරී වටය සදහා ස්වකීය තරඟ අංශයට අදාළ වීඩියොව ඔවුන්ගේ Google Drive වෙත උඩුගත (upload) කර, LNBTI නිල වෙබ් අඩවිය වෙත එම සබැඳිය (Google Link) උඩුගත (upload) කළ යුතු ය. “ලලිත කලා” අංශයට තරඟ කරන අපේක්ෂකයින් අප්රේල් 19 දින සිට තරඟය සදහා වන තම ඉදිරිපත් කිරීම සජීවීව ඉදිරිපත් කළ යුතුය. (තරඟ කාලය හා Zoom link, විද්යුත් තැපෑල හා WhatsApp ඔස්සේ දැනුම් දෙනු ලැබේ). Fine Arts Event Timetable දෙවන වටය සඳහා සුදුසුකම් ලත් තරඟකරුවන්. Fine Arts category Performing Arts category දෙවන වටය දෙවන වටය සඳහා යෙදී තිබූ අවසාන දිනය අගෝස්තු 5 වන දින බව කරුණාවෙන් සලකන්න. තරඟ නීති රීති සහ කොන්දේසි තරඟකරුවන් හට ප්රාසාංගික කලා හෝ ලලිත කලා යන අංශවලින් ඕනෑම අංශයක් තෝරාගත හැක. “ප්රාසාංගික කලා” අංශයේ තරඟ කරන තරගකරුවන් තම ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමෙහි සත්යතාව තහවුරු කිරීම සඳහා ඉදිරිපත් කරනු ලබන වීඩියෝව පැහැදිලිව පටිගත කළ යුතුය. “ලලිත කලා” කාණ්ඩයට තරඟ කරන තරගකරුවන් නියමිත වේලාවට තම ඉදිරිපත් කිරීම සජීවී ව ඉදිරිපත් කළ යුතු ය. ඒක පුද්ගල හෝ කණ්ඩායම් වශයෙන් තරඟය සදහා අයදුම්පත් යොමු කළ හැක. “ප්රාසාංගික කලා” අංශයට තරඟ කරන තරඟකරුවන්ගේ වීඩියෝවෙහි කාලය මිනිත්තු 5 නොඉක්මවිය යුතුය. “ලලිත කලා” අංශයට තරඟ කරන තරඟකරුවන් ඔවුන්ගේ සජීවී ඉදිරිපත්කිරීමේ දී කාලය මිනිත්තු 15 කට නොඅඩු විය යුතුය. තේමාව – ඕනෑම ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමක් නිශ්චිත අංශ සදහා මෙන් ම ජපානයට ද අදාළ විය යුතු ය. වැඩි විස්තර සඳහා : 077 336 0000 “ප්රාසාංගික කලා” (“Performing Arts”) අංශයට තරඟ කරන අපේක්ෂකයින් ස්වකීය තරඟ අංශයට අදාළ වීඩියොව ඔවුන්ගේ Google Drive වෙත උඩුගත (upload) කර, පහත පෝරමය ඔස්සේ එම සබැඳිය (Google Link) අප වෙත එවිය යුතුය. එම වීඩියෝව බාගත කරගැනීමට nihonstar@edu.lnbti.lk යන e-mail ලිපිනයට අවසර ලබා දිය යුතුය. Demonstration video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZTaK6T08TE
Free Workshop on Embedded Systems
22nd & 23 March, 2021 Conducted by : Professor Tanaka Kazuaki, Kyushu Institute of Technology – Japan Participants can join physically or online for the session via Zoom All the required devises and the PCs are provided for the participants, who are attending physically Online participants are required to have a personal computer with windows 10 OS Topics Covered Day 1 – 22nd March 2021 (Monday) Outline of loT programming Simple Demonstration and Explanation Exercises to confirm the operations and LED Blinking Day 2 -23rd March 2021 (Tuesday) Exercises for loT programming (Day 1 Revision) Control Color LED Explanation about the handling of the sensor Programming exercises using sensors
Free Webinar on How to become a Japanese Quality Graduate from a World Class Japanese University and Work in a Prestigious Japanese Corporation.
The webinar on “Introduction to Japan and Opportunities for Sri Lankan Youth” will be conducted on 19th march from 3.30pm to 5.00pm by Japanese University Students and Experts for the 4th time. Don’t miss this great opportunity. • Become an IT Professional in Japan with the minimum time and investment.• Opportunities available for Sri Lankan students on higher studies and employment• Information about salaries when working as professionals• Accepting Foreign Employees to Japan You also can join with the LNBTI Japan Sri Lanka Students Community.
LNBTI Team Won the First Place in Port City Colombo Ideathon
Port City Colombo YouthSpeak Forum 2021 was organized by AIESEC in Sri Lanka with Port City Colombo. The main objective of this event was to give a place for Sri Lankan youth to express their ideas and educate themselves on Sustainable Development. As an internal event linked to the Port City Colombo YouthSpeak Forum the Port City Colombo Ideathon was held. Through the Ideathon the Sri Lankan youth aged 16 to 30 were given the opportunity to pitch their breakthrough ideas. The Ideathon was based on three main categories; Urban Development & Green Cities, Technological Advancements & Smart Cities, and Urban Livelihood & Social Well Being. Both individual and team applicants were encouraged to participate. From LNBTI, two teams of students participated in the event under the category Technological Advancements & Smart Cities. Through the participation, they gained considerable knowledge on Sustainable Development and different technological models related to the smart city concept. Further to that, they went through crash courses in technical writing, research, and presentation as part of the work they did for the Ideathon. Further to that they also got the chance to take part in knowledge sessions organized by AIESEC Sri Lanka. It is with great delight we announce that one of the LNBTI teams placed FIRST in the top three finalists at the Port City Colombo Ideathon! The teams consisted of Sadeeka Tharushi and Mishen Dilruk Perera from Batch 05. LNBTI would like to give them our heartiest congratulations!
The 1st Asia & Pacific Island-Culture Exchange Program for the Youth 2021
The 1st Asia & Pacific Island-Culture Exchange Program for the Youth is successfully held on 13th March 2021 via on zoom which is organized by Prof. Ananda Kumara, Meijo University & Prof. Uchida, Meisei University. The main objective of the program is to develop the island friendship among three nations and create mutual understanding among their cultures. The programme consists of an introduction to the islands and presentations of traditional music/dance performances with brief explanations in English & Japanese languages. This platform provided an excellent opportunity for Sri Lankan students to take part in this event to gain experience and confidence in working with other nations. This will no doubt strengthen the relationship among the three countries. At the forum Royal College & Gothami Balika Vidyalaya, Colombo, represented Sri Lanka, while Kikai Sr. Highschool, Wan Elementary School represented Japan and College of the Marshall Islands & Assumption school represented Marshal Island. Click here to watch the Rupavahini Lama Puwath telecasting යෞවනයන් සඳහා වන පළමු ආසියා සහ පැසිෆික් දූපත්-සංස්කෘතික හුවමාරු වැඩසටහන 2021 යෞවනයන් සඳහා වන පළමු ආසියා සහ පැසිෆික් දූපත්-සංස්කෘතික හුවමාරු වැඩසටහන 2021 මාර්තු 13 වන දින Zoom තාක්ෂණය ඔස්සේ සාර්ථකව පවත්වන ලදී. මෙය මෙයිජෝ විශ්ව විද්යාලයේ මහාචාර්ය ආනන්ද කුමාර සහ මීසෙයි විශ්ව විද්යාලයේ මහාචාර්ය උචිඩා විසින් සංවිධානය කරන ලදී. දූපත් ජාතීන් තුනක් අතර මිත්රත්වය වර්ධනය කිරීම සහ ඔවුන්ගේ සංස්කෘතීන් අතර අන්යෝන්ය අවබෝධය වර්ධනය කිරීම මෙම වැඩසටහනේ ප්රධාන අරමුණ විය. මෙම වැඩසටහන එම දූපත් පිළිබඳ හැඳින්වීමක් සහ ඉංග්රීසි සහ ජපන් භාෂාවලින් කෙටි පැහැදිලි කිරීම් සහිත සාම්ප්රදායික සංගීත, නර්තන ප්රසංග ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමකින් සමන්විත විය. මෙ මගින් ශ්රී ලාංකික සිසුන්හට විදේශීය සිසුන් සමඟ වැඩ කටයුතු කිරීමේ අත්දැකීම් සහ අවබොධය ලබා ගැනීම සඳහා අනගි අවස්ථාවක් උදා වූ අතර එමගින් රාජ්යයන් අතර මිත්ත්රත්වය ද ශක්තිමත් විය. සමුළුවේ දී කොළඹ රාජකීය විද්යාලය සහ ගෝතමි බාලිකා විද්යාලය ශ්රී ලංකාව නියෝජනය කළ අතර Kikai Sr. Highschool, Wan Elementary School සහ College of the Marshall Islands, Assumption school පිළිවෙලින් ජපානය සහ මාෂල් දූපත නියෝජනය කරන ලදී. මේ සම්බන්ධව රූපවහිනී ළමා පුවත් සදහා මෙතැනින් පිවිසෙන්න
University of Moratuwa BIT Final Awareness Workshop (FREE) 2021
The University of Moratuwa BIT FINAL Awareness Workshop (FREE) will be held on 10th of March at 7.00 pm via Zoom with Mr. B. H. Sudantha, the Dean of Faculty of Information Technology, University of Moratuwa. Registrations are now open! SMS your Name & Email 0778085134
LNBTI Japan Sri Lanka Student Community Facebook Group
A special Facebook group created by LNBTI and Meijo university students to welcome students of Sri Lanka and Japan in order to build a Japan Sri Lanka student community. This group will be a great platform for students of both countries to interact and learn from each other about different aspects of each country, culture, language, seasons, education systems, technologies, food, sports, tourist attractions and many more. The interactions between Sri Lankan and Japanese students will improve the goodwill and mutual relations of both countries We welcome all students who are interested in Japan to join this Facebook group! CLICK HERE TO JOIN THE GROUP
The (JAGCE) International Conference 2021
The (JAGCE) International Conference will be held on the 6th of March 2021, where ten (10) students and teachers from five schools will be making presentations & showcasing videos on important aspects of Sri Lanka such as culture, food, nature, tourist attractions, people, lifestyle, sports & education system The (JAGCE) International Conference was held on the 6th of March 2021, where ten (10) Sri Lankan students and teachers from five schools did presentations. This platform created an excellent opportunity for students who have enrolled to present their research in this international conference where they could showcase our own Sri Lankan identity, culture & beliefs and also to connect with the wider world. It promoted cultural awareness and respectful interactions in an increasingly diverse world. Students could meet fellow students from many participating countries and also could meet many leaders from diverse industries. Following were some areas, students presented: Ø About Sri Lanka (Climate, Natural beauty such as waterfalls, national parks, beaches etc., Tourists’ attraction and geographical Importance of Sri Lanka) Ø About Sri Lankan people and lifestyle (Greeting, Food varieties of Sri Lanka according to different provinces, religions, and due to multicultural and multi-national values, hospitality & attire Ø Education system in Sri Lankan (Educational structures, school uniforms, discipline & Scholarships Ø School Extra curricular activities(Bukathsu) & School Club activities Professor Ananda Kumara, (Founder Dean, Faculty of Foreign Studies) Meijo University, created this unique opportunity, to showcase the talented young minds of Sri-Lanka to the rest of the world. More details of the participants and the topics discussed are as follows: GROUP 01 – Holy Cross College, GampahaTopic – About Sri LankaTeacher: Ms. Movini Methma WijethungaStudents: Ms. Imasha Senarathne & Ms. Thushani Divyanjali GROUP 02 – Sirimavo Bandaranyake Vidyalaya – ColomboTopic – About Sri Lanka 02Teacher: Ms. Dilani RathnayakeStudents: Ms. Sanuki Kavinya & Ms. Surani Sajana Kumari Lokuliyana GROUP 03 – Visakha Vidyalaya -ColomboTopic – Education System in Sri LankaTeacher: Ms. Chamila WeerasiriwardeneStudents: Ms. Amandi Methma Mendries & Ms. Thinuri Wijesekara GROUP 04 – Royal College – ColomboTopic – School extra-curricular activities (Bukathsu) and School club activitiesTeacher: Ms. Nalika VitharanaStudents: Mr. Sahan Hiroshi & Mr. Sehan Sadeepa Basnayaka GROUP 05 – Ananda College – ColomboTopic – Highlight Special and unique club activities of Sri Lankan schools Eg. Scouting, Cricket and BaseballTeacher: Ms. Anju HewageStudents: Mr. Panthaka Mewan & Mr. W.A. Udan Chanthula Please download the PDF file for more information: Click to download Visit JAGCE, The Japan Association for Global Competence Education: Visit Site Announcement for JAGCE International Conference: Visit Site The (JAGCE) International conference was very successful as it created an excellent platform for both Sri Lankan and Japanese students to learn from each other about different aspects of both countries such as culture, food, nature, tourist attractions, people, lifestyle, sports & education system. Many students and teachers representing leading schools in Sri Lanka appreciated LNBTI and organizers of JAGCE for this rare opportunity by sharing their sentiments in writing. Compliments from Students and Teachers: Student: Ms Imasha Senaratne: Holy Cross College“Thank you so much for organizing and giving us a great opportunity. I was able to learn a lot of interesting things about Japan. Thank you so much to our professor Ananda and LNBTI for giving us this rare opportunity. Thank you to all our teachers and my friends for your support. Specially Thank you our teacher @Movini Sensei and Miss. Pavithra and Miss. Sameera” Sensei: Ms. Dilani Ratnayake: Sirimavo Bandaranike Vidyalaya“It’s a great opportunity for our school Sirimavo. Thank u very much LNBTI for linking us with Japan. we had a very ordinary life in this pandemic situation stuck in our home,but since a month and half, we started this program, with one aim in mind and student spent their time in a very useful activity. thank u very much to all the sons and daughters and my dear friends. hope to work again in the future.” Student: Ms. Thushani Diwyanjali: Holy Cross College“Thank you for giving us this great opportunity to take part in this international conference. I learned many things about japan.It was interesting to listen to speeches and presentations. Thank you, especially to our teacher Mrs. Methma for helping and guiding us during the preparation period. And thank you so much professor Ananda Kumara and LNBTI for giving us this great opportunity” Sensei: Ms. Chamila Weerasiriwardene: Visakha Vidyalaya“We would like to thank you for your continued support LNBTI for giving this rare opportunity for our school. And I am grateful to prof. Ananda Kumara.It means a lot to our students. A very big thank again for all who supported making this event a success” Sensei: Ms. Nalika Vitharana: Royal College“My heartfelt thanks for involving me and my school children in such a valuable conference. I hope that we will be able to hold such international conferences in the future as well and enhance the bilateral relationship between the two countries. Again, thank you very much LNBTI. Very proud of you” Student: Ms. Amandi Mendries: Visakha Vidyalaya“Thank You for giving us this great opportunity. We really enjoyed and learned a lot about Japan. Here’s Thank You Chamila Sensei & all other Senseis for your amazing support! It was really a nice experience working with y’all :)” Student: Mr. Sahan Hiroshi: Royal College“We are very grateful for giving us such a wonderful opportunity to exchange our culture with Japan and I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to Professor Ananda Kumara,I am grateful to our teacher Mrs. Nalika for guide us.Thank you again and,本当にありがとうございました。” Sensei: Ms. Movini Methma: Holy Cross College“Thank you for giving us the opportunity to take part in this precious conference .Excellent session, very systematic, organized, insightful and inspirational. Enjoyed sharing our country’s natural beauty and heritage with Japanese people. The Japanese people were so interested in our country. They had so many questions about our country. Japanese people had put so many positive comments about Sri Lanka. This little work of our students make a good impact on Sri Lanka. And also we got a chance to meet
New Facebook Group for Japanese Language Teachers: Nihongo KyÕshi No Koe
A facebook group was created for Sri Lankan Japanese language teachers by LNBTI in order to strengthen the bonds among them and improve themselves about Japanese language and culture. Any Japanese language teacher can join with it to share their ideas, experiences, hot news about Japan, interesting things about Japan etc. LNBTI believes that this forum would create a space for them to improve the interest on Japan among Sri Lankans effectively and invite all Japanese language teachers to join with “Nihongo KyÕshi No Koe” facebook group through following link: Nihongo KyÕshi No Koe facebook group
