It is Saturday morning in Tokyo and I leave today. I have had an outstanding trip and I have learned a great deal about Japan. However, I am anxious to see my family. I want to highlight a few trips that we made at the end of this week. First, we visited the Panasonic Center on Thursday. We observed some...

It's been a few days since my last blog entry, and its simply been because we have been very busy on this trip. Since my last blog, we have had a home stay with a Japanese family and we have traveled to Hiroshima to sightsee and visit another high school. I will blog about my home stay at another time on the Ning site, so I will concentrate this entry on Hiroshima...

We had a very fun and interesting visit to Tokyo Metropolitan Nishi High School. We had a chance to speak with students, observe classrooms, hear from the principal, speak with teachers, and observe the after school club activities. Here are a few items I noted that make a Japanese High...

Our first full day was full of interesting information about Japan. Our first session was on some basic knowledge of Japan. We picked up a few basic greetings too. To say "good morning" in Japan is the same as pronouncing the state of Ohio (O - hi - o)...

I have arrived safely to Japan. The flight from Minneapolis was nice, but long. You can talk about 11 hours being nothing (I was), but its a long time on a plane! We landed at the Narita airport which is about 60km east of Tokyo. Narita is a huge international airport, but kind of in the country. ...