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A Turn of a Lifetime or: How I Learned to Stop Loafing and Listen to My Mom
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Rafu Shimpo
I revisit the city where my life and future were set onto a completely unexpected path.
Not bad for someone whose introduction to the language, culture and history of Japan and Japanese Americans came most unexpectedly.
“Look here,” she said cautiously, “They also have a sister city in Japan, and the deadline isn’t for another couple of weeks.”Japan?
I later learned that there had been some issues with students who had participated in the exchange in the two or three years prior.
A similar organization has branched off from the Mishima subcommittee – the Pasadena-Mishima Friendship Youth Exchange Program, headed by Pasadena native Bryan Takeda.