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-　Maehara Project Group #１３　-

From the left, Tasu-kun, Jun, Ryo and Ko. Tasu-kun likes soccer. Jun likes soccer, too. Ryo likes baseball and Ko likes table tennis. Everybody loves sports. Everybody is very amusing, too. Osawa Shrine This shrine is near our home. Occasionally, bazaars or festivals are held at the shrine. There is a drum there. We can enjoy octopus dumpling or candy floss at the festival and we have a lot of fun. Alarm clocks, old toys, etc. are sold at the bazaar and they are very cheap. Everybody knows this shrine very well.                                 (Jun) Kujirayama Mountain Kujirayama Mountain is near the Nogawa River. Lots of children are playing on Kujirayama mountain including There is a vast riled around Kujirayaa mountain so we can enjoy many different kinds of play. For example, we play tag, frisbee, soccer, touch, badminton, etc. Kujirayama mountain is a fun place.                                  (Ryo) Nogawa River This river is called Nogawa. In the Nogawa River, there are many different Creature such as crawfish and medaka. Carps used to be living in this river. Nogawa is our good playground. Occasionally we find snakes or house lizards. Nogawa is symbol of nature of Koganei City. This river runs near our Maebara Elementary School so some children go and play after school.                                (Tasu-kun) School Lunch This is our school lunch. The lunch shown in the picture is tea rice (rice cooked with tea), oden (Japanese hotchpotch) and grapes. People who prepare this lunch for us choose good foodstuff every day and are always thinking about a balanced diet for us. So I like our school lunch.                                 (Ko) Dear Students, Guardians and Teachers of Koganei Maehara Elementary School, We at VFJ/ALIESC have embarked upon a rather ambitious second-phase 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, including satellite communication service for remote communities so that together 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 in 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? December 9,  2002 Yutaka Okamoto Chairman Organizing Committee Assocation for Lifelong International Education Starting from Childhood (ALIESC) For more information and questions, please contact  International Exchange Secretriat