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Japanese Links
  • USA Links
  • Homestay Links

    Japan Japanese sites or things related to the cultural presentations.
    Saga
    Home
    Page
    http://www.pref.saga.jp/eibun/esagaken.html

    Saga, Japan: The prefecture (state) in Japan in which Hizen-Cho, where the students come from, is located.

    Fat
    Crane
    http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~aquigley/Homestay/files/crane.html

    Making an Origami fat paper crane, a step by step guide Or you can download a Word Document containing the same information

    SUMO
    http://www.sumo.or.jp/index_e.html

    This site has daily updates, photos, historical and future schedules for Sumo in and outside of Japan.

    Karate
    http://www.lucifer.com/~sasha/karate.html

    The sport of Karate, moves, styles, places to see it and historical information. Not regularly updated but still a good read.

    Origami
    http://www.cytex.com/go/jasper/origami/

    The Art of Paper folding, paper designs, descriptions and links to other resources can be found here.

    Paper
    Sculpture
    http://www.sgi.com/grafica/fold/page001.html

    Quite a cool site that has a series of pictures which you can follow to create a paper sculpture which you can play with and mold as you wish

    USA Sites related to the students actual visit to Virginia in the USA.
    Parry
    McCluer

    The High School in Buena Vista which hosted the students from Japan.

    VMI
    http://www.vmi.edu/

    Virginia Millitary Institute , some of the staff and students gave the Hizen cho students a tour of the VMI Museum during the homestay.

    Rockbridge
    Weekly
    http://www.rockbridgeweekly.com/

    Rockbridge Weekly Newspaper which came to photograph and interview the student from Hizen while in Buena Vista.

    Adams
    Inn
    http://www.adamsinn.com/

    Washington, DC A very fine guest house where the students and chaperones stayed. Breakfast included and it was walking distance to the National Zoo and metro station.

    Alison
    Hotel

    A great hotel in the heart of San Francisco city. Wonderful service and very helpful staff. With two quad rooms and a double it was very cheap to stay at the heart of city.

    Org Links related to the organization of the homestay
    All
    Hotels
    http://www.all-hotels.com/

    'All' the hotels on the Web. A great resource when looking for resonably priced hotels in various cities across America.

    Hotel
    Discount
    http://www.hoteldiscount.com/

    Listing of cheap hotels across North America. You can search by city, price range and room size if you wish.

    San
    Fran
    Hotel
    Guide
    http://www.cdiguide.com

    Guest houses and hotels in San Franciso, links to homepages with photos, maps, offer and facilities. Some even offer special on-line deals.

    Places
    to stay
    http://www.placestostay.com/

    Another hotel listing service. No direct hotel feedback but on-line booking is available. You can book and cancel on-line without a charge!

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    Created: Wednesday, April 30th, 1997
    Last updated: Saturday, April 25th, 1998