After much preparation and hard work, the 2016 students are finally in Japan to extend and strengthen the grassroots relationships between St. Louis and Ishinomaki!

So far during their program, our St. Louis students have participated in Japanese tea ceremony in traditional Japanese clothing...

Learned how to perform Ishinomaki's traditional Tairyo Dance...

and participated in a cultural exchange with students from Minato Middle School!

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