Japan

The Kansas/Asia Scholars study tour to Japan emphasizes changing lifestyles in today's Japan. The enrichment activities prior to the trip and the study tour offer the students opportunities to experience both traditional and contemporary Japanese culture. The Japan group has traveled each yer in in late May and early June to Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima, Hiratsuka, and Tokyo. The students kept a group journal of the trip and took many wonderful photos for a digital scrapbooks 2003 and 2004. digital scrapbook.

Kansas Asia Scholars visit Ambassador Howard H. Baker and Mrs. Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker, former U.S. Senator from Kansas, at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, May 2004.