The competition is open to anyone currently enrolled in a Level II, III or IV high school Japanese class. The Kakehashi Project selects the top-performing Level IV teams to visit Japan for a week in the summer following the Bowl. While in Japan, these students will participate in school visits, homestays with host families and a courtesy call to Princess Takamado and Akie Abe, the wife of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe."
Helena Lu Jiarui from Langley and Emily Zhai from Lake Braddock are going on the trip. As per Burke Connection, "Both students plan to continue studying Japanese in college, Zhai at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, where she plans to study abroad in Japan for a year, and Lu Jiarui at the University of Southern California. The latter attributes her choice to continue the language to her time at the competition. “I think largely because of Japan Bowl I realized I have a future in this,” she said. “I could study this.”Lu Jiarui said Japan Bowl is a “really, really good opportunity,” and would recommend it to anyone even “vaguely interested in Japanese,” she said. Similarly, Zhai called it a “priceless experience.”
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