Recipient of Japanese Government Scholarship Pays Courtesy Call on Ambassador Suzuki

Ms. Kimberly Yamaguchi, the 2013 recipient of the Monbukagakusho Scholarship paid a courtesy call on Ambassador Suzuki on February 18th, 2013. She is the first FSM student to be accepted into the Research Program. Ms. Yamaguchi will be studying Intercultural Communication at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies for a period of two years.

During the courtesy call, Ambassador Suzuki congratulated Ms. Yamaguchi for this opportunity to study in Japan. Ms. Yamaguchi conveyed her thanks, and told Ambassador Suzuki that she hopes to learn as much as possible so she can return and contribute back to people of the FSM. Ambassador Suzuki mentioned that she might “at first be confused by the Japanese way of communication”, but he encouraged her to take it as a learning opportunity to experience intercultural communication.

Ms. Yamaguchi is scheduled to depart on the first week of April, and she is very excited for her first trip to Japan.