July 2024

Tsumami zaiku workshop for exchange students in University

Hello! I am Tomomi Yamashita, ITA Representative Director, and instructor. As I mentioned in last week's newsletter, we offered a Tsumami zaiku workshop to 36 international students from the university in Tokyo the other day. We were asked to hold a workshop for them to experience Japanese culture as part of their university class. The international students came from all over the world: Korea, Taiwan, China, Singapore, Indonesia, the United States, England, Spain, Russia, Mexico, and Australia. Since we had two hours, I first prepared materials to lecture them about tsumami zaiku. The classroom lecture took about 10 minutes with lots of visuals so that students won't get bored.After that, […]