The Kyoto Tachibana Senior High School Green Band rehearses for the upcoming Rose Parade in the parking lot at Angel Stadium in Anaheim recently. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times) The ebullient ...

Longmont High School band director David Merrill has revived a high school band that he founded in 2016 to perform in Japan as part of the sister cities connection between Longmont and Chino. Silver ...

For 35 years, Elk Grove High School (EGHS) has been providing students with a “once-in-a-lifetime experience.” The Japanese Exchange Program has been a cornerstone of EGHS’s language program for a ...

A correction to an earlier version of this article has been appended to the end of the article. Until the moment she stepped on the stage, Maya Swaminathan felt nauseous. The 17-year-old had been ...

James Engel Thursday, March 20, 2025 6:14 p.m. | Thursday, March 20, 2025 6:14 p.m. Hailing from Niigata High School on Japan’s western coast, 10 Japanese students attended three days of classes at ...

This story has been corrected. YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — More than 100 high school students — the children of Navy parents and Defense Department employees — staged a half-hour walkout Friday ...

Shaler Area High School’s Japanese National Honor Society decided to fight world hunger in a unique way. Table for Two, a global initiative that works to increase school lunch nutritional value by ...

LIHU‘E — Peace and shaka signs blossomed in the cold winds that blanketed Kaua‘i High School on Thursday, when a group of 14 students from Japanese high schools met 20 students from the Kaua‘i High ...

The Penn Japanese Language Program invited students from Penn, the Community College of Philadelphia, and Lower Merion High School to tour the Shofuso Japanese Cultural Center on Friday. Penn ...

Seven students and two teachers from the Chalmette High School have recently returned from a weeklong trip to Japan. The seven are in the Japanese Cultural Arts Club and Japanese language classes ...