A few days ago we were visited by children from a Junior High School in Setagaya-ku, Tokyo. They came to Tome City to participate in a farm stay, during which they would live and work on a farm.

Four enthusiastic and polite female students were assigned to stay at my family home. As soon as they arrived they got changed and started helping with the rice planting.

I hope that the students from Tokyo, a huge metropolis, will have much to take away from this experience. I also think that the students living in the countryside should, in the same way, have the chance to experience a culture different from their own.