Reception for KIZUNA Project Participants

On Wednesday March 21, Consul General Okada hosted a reception at his official residence to welcome participants of the “Kizuna” (Bond of Friendship) Project*, a youth exchange program for Japan’s recovery after the Great East Japan Earthquake.

After greetings by Consul General Okada and speeches by one representative from each school, all the project participants sang “Hana wa saku”, a symbolic theme song for Japan’s recovery from the Earthquake.

*  As part of the program, a group of 27 students and teachers from West Vancouver Secondary School visited Japan while 25 students and teachers from Ryugasaki Daiichi High School, Ibaraki visited British Columbia.

For more information on the Kizuna Project, please visit:
http://www.mofa.go.jp/j_info/visit/incidents/kizuna_project.html