The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 75

IHF HFRAI ei iKinAv ffrri iAnYiJQQ7 SbefOuntuSIc Lessons Metro code vs cock-a-doodle-doo Officers issue warning over noisy Westchester roosters 3 VILLAGE GREEN the assessment of Key Bis-cayne finances 9 SELLING COCOVIEW Grove building for sale with unfinished second floor 16 5-YEAR PLAN Star seventh-grader buoys hopes for Brito Miami Panthers 31 INDEX BUSINESS 22 COMMUNITY HAPPENINGS 27 EDUCATION 24 MILITARY 34 OPINION 26 POLICE REPORT 20 REAL ESTATE 23 SCHOOL LUNCHES 24 SPORTS 31 VOLUNTEERS 30 The Coral Park High School Alumni Association will meet at 7:30 pm Thursday in the school library 8865 SW 16th St The board will meet at 6:30 pm Call 226-6565 ext 209 i i i to bridge cultural differences One day a week Japanese children learn their roots By CRISTINA ORTEGA Herald Writer They speak Japanese at home English at school They dine on hamburgers And rice cakes They learn about George Washington during the week Japanese folk characters on weekends Every Saturday 80 Japanese youngsters whose parents have been moved to Miami by Japanese corporations such as Sharp Electronics Corporation the Fuji Bank and the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi flock to the palm-lined island of Virginia Key to learn more about their culture and language Backdropped by water bikes and windsurfers the youths kindergarten to ninth grade learn how to correctly pronounce Japanese words tell age-old Japanese folk stories and practice geometry and trigonometry drills have to keep and learn all about Japanese said Yuko Terai as she waited for her two kids Katsuya 10 and Yuriko 8 on a recent Saturday The classes sponsored by the nonprofit Miami Hoshuko Inc are held from 9 am to 3 pm at the University of Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science on Virginia Key The organization has several similar schools around the country In Florida the group also has a smaller program in Boca Raton Miami Hoshuko rents the library cafeteria and 10 classrooms for $500 a week Parents help defray the cost by contributing about $80 a month for PLEASESEE JAPAN 18 junigr CANDACE BARDOT HwakJ Staff HEW CLASSMATE: A tentative 7-year-old Akane Terada greets her fellow first-grade students as her teacher Yoko Shimizu introduces her on her first day at Miami Hoshuko School The school for Japanese children In the area is held on Saturdays at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School.