All posing in front of the camera holding a banner for KIZUNA Project
The government-sponsored Youth-Exchange Project with Asia-Oceania and North America, known as KIZUNA Project brought a group of 46 high school and university students from Kingdom of Tonga and Independent State of Samoa to Sophia University on December 5, 2012.
Our students kicked off this on-campus event by introducing Sophia University and then led a campus tour in which all the participants enjoyed friendly talk and exchange. The students sat in the class of International Relations in the Graduate School of Global Studies where they spent some time exchanging opinions with seminar students in the class of Professor Nomiya. At the end of their visit, both Tonga and Samoan groups performed their native dance and songs as a token of friendship and thanked us for our hospitality. Our students were very much impressed with their wonderful performances.
A representative student gave us the following farewell message, “This was our very first visit to Japanese university and we thank you for welcoming us so warmly. We will always cherish this memorable moments we have experienced on your campus. If anyone from our group should enter Sophia University in the near future, do take us in again for what we are. And we too would like you to visit Tonga and Samoa someday.”
