Date : 2018 July 12th - July 26th for 2 weeks

Places : Fukuoka, Hiroshima 

Activities :

   Stay in host family house

   Camp at Miyajima island in Hiroshima

   Learn how to wear Yukata

   See traditional summer festival "Yamakasa"

   Get to know what happened "Atomic Bomb" in Hiroshima

   Interact with locals through performance

   Enjoy Japanese food!! Okonomiyaki, Soba, Onigiri(of course!), Maki Sushi, School lunch......

    ........

※It is an example of one day(schedule of 2018 program)

*DC ... Dress Cord 

*TT ... Take a Train

*HDO ... Host Drop Off

*HPU ... Host Pick Up

*MM ... Morning Meeting

Comments from the Cast Members

・ I remember someone saying to me in the UWP, "Places become people" (or maybe faces I don't remember). But

that's what happened to me in Japan. All the host families and people I met through ONIGIRI project are now the

things I will remember when I think of Japan! Not the touristic places. I will think of how to welcome everyone is

to us. I will think of how host families were so excited about showing us their favorite places or their favorite

meals. Thanks for letting us meet Japan through their people!　(Sofia, Mexico)

・ Interact with the kid musical team and watch their performance. Very interesting to see how the kids behave and

interact between them and with the adults.　(Joana, Portugal)

・(Any comments on the Peace Day?-Atomic Bomb Museum, Survivors testimony) Absolutely heartbreaking and

incredibly sobering. I feel I grew as a person from just this one experience. Glad I could go.　(Erinn, Scotland)

・ It was very emotional and I learned a lot. I really liked that we could hear the testimony of a survivor. It reminded

me a lot of why I joined UWP and the Onigiri Project. (Jas, Germany)

Date : 2017 July 21st - August 3rd  for 2 weeks 

Places : Tokyo and Miyagi prefecture in Japan

Activities : 

      Interact with locals and kids musical team

      Perform in front of Common Beat Tokyo casts

      Learn Japanese and Japanese dance

      See what happened after big earthquake in east Japan

      Stay at 2 or 3 host families house   ................ 

Report :  World ONIGIRI Friends Project 2017

Participants : 

 Ale          Mexico　           Cast B 14

 Ellen       Belgium             Cast A B 16 

 Giulia      Germany            Cast B 14

 Jennifer  Sweden             Cast A 16 

 Jime        Mexico             Cast B 14 A 15

 Jialu       China                Cast A 16

 Julia       Germany            Cast Friend

 Norma     Mexico              Host Family

 Melanie   US                    Cast A 16

 Sam        US                    Cast A 16

 Tess       The Netherland   Cast A 16

Staff  : 

Yuka  Cast A B 16

 Ai       Cast B 14

 Mika  Cast A 13

 Momo Cast B 14 A 15

 Irene Commonbeat Tohoku Cast 

 Dera  Commonbeat Tohoku Cast