Gist

The aim of the activity of Ask 10 Persons ("A10" hereafter) is to change teens' view about others with culturally different backgrounds to a much friendlier one by enriching the images they have toward foreign countries from a familiar perspective.

Aims

The aim of the activity of Ask 10 Persons:

• to create the opportunity of answering the simple doubt or question for the culture of the foreign country which the children of teens hold
• to create the opportunity of ascertaining that it connotes heavily layer and the various sides in the word, culture, such as culture which each area possesses, the culture which each individual holds, and the culture whose community is high worldwide in the word
• to create the opportunity of sharing the feeling by being able to know the existence of the persons who have the same interest of her/him in the world
• to create the opportunity of exchanging mutual information of personal-based regional culture that mass media cannot afford to convey
• to create the database with which children in the world try to be able to search similar questions and doubts easily

Link: Ask 10 Persons Project Home

Who we are

Terushige Kohama manages the a10 forum with the help of core members and friendly members from all over the world.

The Forum In Agusut 2006 (hintodepinto from California)

Last night we had a great meeting with the SAT students. We talked about the differences between Japanese and American high schools. A Japanese lady named Hitomi was present and she helped with English to Japanese translation. A local journalist, Mr. Yoshimoto, attended and took notes voraciously. The students were very cheerful and asked me lots of interesting questions. Hitomi talked about her experiences in Australia and showed us lots of photographs. I hope we have many more chances to do this again.

Rafal from Poland visited us in summer 2007

One of our core members, Rafal, visited us in summer 2007. He learned calligraphy from one of the students called Aya. He went to Kamishima with students and ate takomeshi. He also visited Nara, Osaka, Kyoto, and so on during his staying in Japan. He went to watch hanabi, firework, with teru and Toyoshi's family. He really enjoyed hanabi!

He is learning Japanese in Poland and he wishes to visit Japan again with Michal.

How to join the project

Please contact us. You just need to click 'CONTACT' on the screen and write down your self-introduction to us.