with work assignments and cooperation among residents.

and her sister Mary Katsumi in 2001.Furumoto went to her fathers familys place in Hiroshima.

but Furumoto and her older sister wanted to go to Japan.Pictured in the summer of 1975 at Yoshida High School in Shizuoka Prefecture are 10 students from Gardena High School.Kyoko Lillian Furumoto and Marvin Follett.

all Japanese Americans; their group leader.Her sister Katsumi had moved to Seattle a year earlier.

During the decade-long program.

GHS had an exchange program with Yoshida High School in Shizuoka Prefecture.and an understanding of international and U.

JACL developed the Japanese American Young Adult Invitation program as an international leadership development program.the Kakehashi Project was established to facilitate cross-cultural understanding between Japanese Americans and Japanese.

and business executives to learn about different aspects of U.?Between the ages of 18 and 27 years old?Japanese American by heritage or adoption.