EVERETT — Students in this Japanese class gain more than a new language. They also learn a lost art. What’s up with that? The Mariner High School students are pen pals with Itoshima High School in ...
Watching YouTube and playing with the dog. A trip to Universal Studios with family. Listening to “I Want It That Way” by the Backstreet Boys. The teenagers describing some of their favorite pastimes ...
A package from Japan recently arrived at Bloomington High School North after a three-month journey. The box, sent via boat because air mail was halted due to COVID-19, was filled with items picked ...
Lisa Dorato started sending letters back and forth with Junko Ota, who lives in Mejiro, Japan, when they were both 13 years old. Now, 63 years later, they finally met each other in person. GRAND ...
Lauren Shields, left, and Jodi Spencer, eighth-graders at Shippensburg Area Middle School, are coordinating a pen pal program between their classmates and students in Japan. The program was organized ...