Ketchikan, Alaska
​United States

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

Travel Groups 2012 ~ 25 Years of Exchange

Exchange Alumni

Kanayama • Gero City, Japan

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

Exchange Groups

Ketchikan Students

Natasha Bolshakoff, Mackenzie “Mac” Hancock, Jessie Irish, Emma Jones, Amber Junker, Daniel Klose, Kaileigh Krosse, Alec Leighton, Mina Matsuura, Cheyenne Mathews, Kaia Michalsen, Rudy Pankow, Cassi Ragland, Clara Stanton, Lora Starr 

Ketchikan Chaperones

Clayton Jones, Jessica Mathews (Head), Alec Pankow, Loren Stanton

Kanayama Students

Kentaro Fujiwara, Ayane Furuta, Ryoko Hashimoto, Shiho Koike, Yuuka Koike,  Kosuke Kurimoto, Moe Nomura, Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Sachiko Ohmae,     Koya Shimazaki, Taisei Takagi, Fuyuko Taguchi

Kanayama Chaperones

​Yoshiho Furuta, Kazuki Hase (Head), Tony Hatano-Worrell

Teacher to Kanayama:
​Alex McDonald

Teacher to Ketchikan:
​Maiko Kumazaki

1987 • Hooked on Each Other • 2017