
Asking us how old the school was? About their school song, what was their school emblem? (a cherry blossom) and what car manufacturers they’d done an excursion to recently? Not Nissan, not Toyota but Honda! Their English was great!

Suhashini has a great country guessing perfomance involving a dance, fans and hand movements. She is a hard act to follow.

We then visited Wakaba Nursery. The young children treated our team with a wonderful marching and musical performance. Playing their own instruments and making some great formations. The children have been practicing for many weeks.

Playing their own instruments and making some great formations. The band leader was great as was the key board player who kept them all in rhythm.

We met Masako, a friend of (Addwitiya) Roberta Flack who helped organize all the ceremonies for today. She also kindly treated the team to lunch.

This flower is called Spider Lilly. Some runners, who were part of the Korean Peace Run, recognized it from their time in Korea.

Kindergartens are a new Peace Run place of attendance for many of us but the children of Japan are more than receptive to the peace message and teach us many things even at this early age.

The children welcomed us then performed a dance they had been practicing for a long time and the runners got to dance along with them. Pushpendra our Indian runner with his Bollywood skills was by far the best. The rest of us mortal runners and dancers just did our best!