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How do you do?  My name is Hisako. I am an English teacher at Ichikawa Second Municipal Middle School.
This is a picture of me in the childhood. I loved this stuffed doll and took it everywhere with me. I have a brother who is ten years older than me, a sister who is nine years older and a sister who is seven years older. I am the youngest and have many nephews and nieces.
 


This is a picture taken when I was in the third grade of junior high school. I am holding the bowl in the rear of the picture. I took this when I went on school trip to Kiso in Nagano Prefecture. The winter Olympic games was held in Nagano Prefecture. Nagano is famous for its heavy snowfall.















This is a cat called Chatran living with my family. She is a 15 year- old “grandma”, but still very active. You can see a cross-like sign on her chest. Doesn’t it look like Ninja’s knife, shuriken? I love her.






I got married in June. This is the picture taken at the wedding ceremony. I am wearing Uchikake, a Japanese traditional wedding dress. It took me so long to put white make up on my face, neck and hands, and then to put on layers of kimonos. My husband is standing next to me. He is wearing Haori and Hakama that are also traditional clothes. 
















This is a typical scene of Japanese traditional wedding ceremony. It is called “sansankudo”(the three-three-three exchange of nuptial cups). We drink sake in turn with small, medium and big cups. When you drink, you are supposed to slant each cup gradually. I was very nervous then. I am weak for alcohol so I pretended to be drinking.




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Dear Participating Students and Teachers,

We at VFJ/ALIESC have embarked upon a rather ambitious second project this fall involving schools from Russian Far East and China's Inner Mongolia in addition to the United States, Japan and Nepal which have schools already participating in on-going programs,

We would like you to know that this is the beginning of our plan of building a network that covers the entire Asia-Pacific region with an aim to bringing the children and youth of all countries of this region into direct and interactive contact at our web site called "Bridges Among Cultures."

The primary purpose of all this is to provide the participants with an ever-expanding possibility of getting to know each other in an intimate and personal way using the best of the IT technologies so that they can share the rich diversity of Asia-Pacific national and regional cultures as their common heritage.

Perhaps the most important among the various advantages of this program lies in the fact that such an interactive exchange started in early ages is bound to give birth to new types of lifelong friendship as a personal learning process bound to continue for one's  lifetime.

First begining with digital and graphic participation, the children and youth of Asia-Pacific region will, as they become young adults, find ways and means of visiting each other’s countries, on business or ecotours perhaps, to meet each other and confirm their long-standing “digital” friendship for real. What else will be more effective for nurturing a lasting international understanding and a new spirit of cooperation based upon mutual trust among the youth during the first decades of the 21st century?

November 15,  2002

Yutaka Okamoto
Chairman
Organizing Committee
Assocation for Lifelong International Education Starting from Childhood (ALIESC)

For more information and questions, please contact International Exchange Secretariat