JAPANESE GIRL AT WV HIGH
Mayo Sato of Hokkaido, Japan, is attending Williams Valley High School for a learning experience, to further her knowledge of English and analyze the American family.
Miss Sato, now residing at the Mark C. Schaffer residence in Wiconisco, comes from a town of 300,000 people. She stated that the countryside of central Pennsylvania reminds her of her native land.
According to Miss Sato, our school systems and requirements are different in many ways. In Japan there are three separate schools for the curriculum offered in American high school. The Japanese school is more regimented in that studies, discipline and respect is taken more seriously. In her opinion, the American school is more colorful and carefree because uniforms are not mandatory and students do not take their subjects as seriously.
The political life in Japan is much the same as in the United States. There are five political parties in Japan, of which the Liberal Democratic Party is the largest.
Japanese social life is much the same with the family as the center of society. However, family ties in Japan are not as strong as they used to be which is a problem familiar to both countries.
Miss Sato has majored in business at the Yokohamo Academy and is visiting in the United States on a visitor’s visa. She has three brothers and three sisters.
She is looking forward to returning to Japan, getting married and raising a family in the true Japanese tradition. She is perceptive, intelligent and moderate in her thinking and appears to have a promising future.
Williams Valley students are enjoying sharing their learning experience with Miss Sato.
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Article and photo from the West Schuylkill Herald, November 9, 1972, via Newspapers.com.
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