This year, CCHS’s very own Sci-Fi Club traveled about as far as they could go while still remaining within Earth’s atmosphere – Japan. CCHS has a long-standing relationship with a school in Nanae, a town in Japan, and this year’s trip was not the first time CC students were a part of a cultural...
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Most of the students at CCHS have lived in the United States their whole life, so, two weeks ago on Friday, September 23, when Japanese students entered the CCHS doors, it was a very new and fun experience. These students were from the Nanae High school, a high school located in Hokkaidō, Japan. Most of these...
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Concord-Carlisle High School will be carrying on its annual tradition of hosting Japanese exchange students this autumn. Between September 23 and September 30, a sizable group of 75 Nanae students will be experiencing the Concord-Carlisle lifestyle firsthand. A major highlight of their visit will be a joint friendship concert with the CC band on...
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My recommended place in Hakodate By: Sae Tamura（English club) I recommend that you visit Goryokaku Park when you have a chance to visit Hakodate, Japan. Japanese cherry trees are in full bloom in Goryokaku Park around the beginning of May. A lot of people enjoy viewing the cherry blossoms and having parties...
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Driving away from the oncoming wave, I hit Route 5 and had to stop suddenly. No one else seemed to know that a second tsunami was coming. For what felt like an eternity, I sat at the intersection near Jujigai as citizens waited patiently for the light to turn green. After watching 10-meter waves...
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By Rina Takeda, a student of Nanae High School On March 11, a very big earthquake hit Japan. Nanae, where I live, did not have heavy damage, but the cities near the sea in the Tohoku district were hit by a very huge tsunami, and suffered frightful damage. More than 13,000 people died and...
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Photos taken by Ben Mirin, Concord the current Coordinator of International Relations (CIR) in Nanae, Japan.
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The sadness of the earthquake and Japan’s gratitude to countries overseas. A large-scale earthquake hit Japan directly in the afternoon on March 11, 2011. After, all parts of Japan fell into chaos because of the confusion situation of the tsunami that followed. Tohoku and Kanto districts, in Japan, were damaged severely. In the Tohoku...
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How far would you go to help friends overseas? In response to the ongoing disaster in Japan, Concord-Carlisle High School and Thoreau Elementary School students, faculty, and families pulled together and in just two weeks raised $14,857.05 (or over 1 million yen) for Japanese disaster victims through a variety of fundraising mechanisms. These events...
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This past Friday, a massive earthquake struck off the coast of Honshu, Northern Japan. Measuring an 8.9 on the Richter scale, the earthquake was the largest that Japan has ever seen, and the fifth largest in the world since 1900. Accordingly, the damage was devastating. Buildings in Tokyo, 373 kilometers away from the epicenter...
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