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Arigatou Gozaimasu
I barely knew anyone at the beginning of this trip with the UM to Fukushima group from the University of Montana. Sure, I’d spent the...
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Montana's sister school Tohoku University
Montana Journalism Abroad made Tohoku University’s library our work site during our last week in Japan. The campus couldn’t be any more...
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Hope and a Hello Kitty pen
The dark room felt cold and unwelcoming until it was filled with voices and people. In my head I had pictured small, neatly handwritten...