2024/9/26

The Kisyu Simbun and Hidaka Shimpo ran articles on Saturday, September 21 and Wednesday, September 25, respectively, introducing a project carried out by the Department of Global Tourism, Faculty of Global Engagement, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies (KUFS).

This project entailed a visit on Thursday, September 19 to Shoyo Elementary School in the Town of Mihama-cho by two fourth-year students in KUFS Professor Sachiko Kawakami's seminar. This activity was conducted as part of the local Furusato Gakushu (learning about one’s hometown) program, and the KUFS visitors talked about emigrants from Mihama-cho to Canada. Addressing 33 students in the 3rd grade, the explained the history of forced internments and seizures of assets experienced by Japanese-Canadians during World War Two.

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