Ketchikan, Alaska
​United States

A part of hundreds of lives in both Ketchikan and Kanayama • Gero since the first exchange in 1987

Travel Groups 2005

Exchange Alumni

Kanayama • Gero City, Japan

Lasting friendships built across the ocean ... Hooked on Each Other!

Exchange Groups

Ketchikan Students

Jordan Alguire, Monique Atkinson, Kris Blasingame, Blake Bousley, Morrisa Clark, Emily Fitzgerald, Desirae Inkster, Mary Key, Kate Klein, Naomi McCarthy, Chelsea Nusbaum, Lindy Parsons, Collette Peters, Jolene Pflaum, Peter Stanton, Katherine Sweetman, Anna Tollfeldt, Maya Weinstein, Estella Zellmer, Kassandra Zwick

Ketchikan Chaperones

Carol Stanton (Head), Vickie Inkster, Priscilla Schulte, Hanah Zellmer

Kanayama Students

Atsuko Fujiwara, Saki Imai, Nao Kumazaki, Chisa Nagao, Kozue Nakashima, Miki Nakashima, Rena Nakashima, Mio Ozaki, Mai Takagi, Mayu Takagi, Risa Takagi, Ayumi Ueno, Emi Uajima, Yasuku Fujiwara, Yoshiki Kato, Takayoshi Koide, Kohei Mori, Akira Yajima, Toshiki Yamada, Atsuki Yamuchi, Naoya Yoshida ​

Kanayama Chaperones

Norkio Mishima, Mari Sunahata, Shogo Hosoe, Kimihiro Amano

Teacher to Kanayama:
​Dan Patton

Teacher to Ketchikan:
​Tomoka Kato

1987 • Hooked on Each Other • 2017