Ketchikan, Alaska
​United States

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

Travel Groups 2009

Exchange Alumni

Kanayama • Gero City, Japan

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

Exchange Groups

Ketchikan Students

Mikayla Brown-Harrison, Lizzi Carson, Joseph Chadwell, Jens Christianson, Craig DeBoer, Wilbur Fischer, Brindalyn Greaves, Cindy Griffin,  Charlie Klein, Jackson Landis, Kable Lervick, Isaac Lontz, Torin Oaksmith, Cassidy Patton, Britta Pihl, Emma Scott, Brittni Tully, Alyson Walker

Ketchikan Chaperones

Pam Christianson, Penny Lontz, Diane Walker, Jen Walton (Head)

Kanayama Students

Mako Abe, Yumi Fujiwara, Naho Futamura, Yota Futamura, Saki Hayakawa, Yuuto Hashimoto, Kana Hoshiya, Kazuhike Imai, Eri Kameyama, Mika Kato, Misaki Murase, Ibuki Nakamura, Tomoka Okumra, Mayuko Saito, Koki Taguchi, Sachi Taguchi, Sayo Takagi, Kai Takano, Airi Toyama, Rika Yamada

Kanayama Chaperones

Tony Hatano-Worrell, Mari Hosoe, Tatsuya Mishina (Head), Masamizu Ohmae ​

Teacher to Kanayama:
​Amy Russell

Teacher to Ketchikan:
​Kazuki Hosoe

1987 • Hooked on Each Other • 2017