Students embrace cultural exchange

By Allison Schaefers

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Jan 20, 2013

~~<p>Alexa Climaldi, a 17-year-old Kaiser High School junior, went to Japan last year and was hosted by a Japanese family as part of the Kizuna Project, a youth exchange program launched by the Japanese government to promote awareness of its recovery from the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami.</p>
<p>This week she was glad to return the favor to 16-year-old Kentaro Fujikura, a freshman from Kozukata High School in the Iwate Prefecture in northern Japan. Fujikura, who hopes to visit the USS Arizona Memorial while he is here, is among the first crop of Japanese students to visit Hawaii through the Kizuna Project.</p>
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Alexa Climaldi, a 17-year-old Kaiser High School junior, went to Japan last year and was hosted by a Japanese family as part of the Kizuna Project, a youth exchange program launched by the Japanese government to promote awareness of its recovery from the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami.

This week she was glad to return the favor to 16-year-old Kentaro Fujikura, a freshman from Kozukata High School in the Iwate Prefecture in northern Japan. Fujikura, who hopes to visit the USS Arizona Memorial while he is here, is among the first crop of Japanese students to visit Hawaii through the Kizuna Project. Login for more...