Ketchikan, Alaska
​United States

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

Travel Groups 2015

Exchange Alumni

Kanayama • Gero City, Japan

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

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Exchange Groups

Ketchikan Students

William Biss, Gregory Bolshakoff, Chris Brown, Liam Kiffer, Jackson Leavitt, Ema Oshima, Maya Parker, Payton Simmons, Alex Trugon, Connor Wodehouse

Ketchikan Chaperones

David Kiffer, Alma Parker (head)

Kanayama Students

Mio Furta, Airi Hayakawa,  Norkika Kawaiiri, Kyoka Koike, Hitomi Nakashima, Asturo Nomura, Yuuki Nonaka, Kaho Masuta, Hitona Senda, Ryuya Shimizu, Yukiko Tashiro, Ayumu Tomida, Mashaito Yatab

Kanayama Chaperones

Tony Hatano-Worrell, Takehito Imai, Manami Kumazaki

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Teacher to Kanayama:
Shelly Hewitt
Chris Pillsbury

Teacher to Ketchikan:
​Kazunori Kusakabe 

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1987 • Hooked on Each Other • 2017