Globalize DC

Remembering March 11, the date of the Great East Japan Earthquake, now 15 years later. Remembering all those lives lost and communities devastated. At the same time, the tragedy of that day set in motion a series of events and decisions that led to the creation of new opportunities for cultural exchange and collaboration between the United States and Japan. We are so lucky to have been included in six years of TOMODACHI US-Japan Youth Exchange Programs between DC public high school students and their peers from Japan. The hospitality, generosity, and resilience of the Japanese people we met along the way, even those in the most challenged circumstances, will stay with all of us forever.