On July 15, our students had a great opportunity to interact with twenty-six students from PII program, in order to discuss the global food issues directly with them.
PII (Princeton in Ishikawa) is the exchange program that provides experiences of residing in Ishikawa prefecture for 2 months, which is offered to the students who major in the language and culture of Japan at Princeton University or other Ivy-league schools in the United States.
As our second-grade students have been working for a quasi international conference on global food security, as part of an ongoing “global proposal” project, this exchange program with PII had conducted within the same context of the project.
Contents of the discussion are listed in the following table.

Agenda Ways and Means
Dietary culture of the world (14 countries) Quiz (mainly in Japanese)
Dietary culture of Japan and Kanazawa Discussion (mainly in Japanese)
Global food issues
(Ex. Genetically-modified food products) Discussion (mainly in English)

Through their interactive discussions, our students had fully gained appreciation and understanding of the issues from a global perspective.