The Hands On Children's Museum in Olympia has a travelling exhibit on the way celebrating "Japan and Nature: Spirits of the Season."  Opening Aug. 5, the exhibit features four interactive areas representing a different season and regional setting in Japan.  Celebrate spring in Fukuoka and practice your calligraphy, summer at Lake Biwa and go on a bug hunt, take in fall in Kyoto and visit a shrine, and during winter, visit Sapporo and enjoy a New Year's game.  The exhibit runs through Jan. 7, 2007.  The exhibit is part of the Freeman Foundation Asian Exhbit initiative sending three programs to the Northwest.  The Portland Children's Meseum will host "Five Friends from Japan" Oct. 6-Jan. 15, whilet he Children's Museum of Tacoma offers "Song of Korea, Jan.-May 2007. â€" Ken Swarner