Daiki YoshikuraDaiki Yoshikura on September 20th, 2010

Hi! long time no see Seattle! And also most of our UP members too. We should meet up some day soon! Now the long long summer vacation of Rikkyo has finished. This summer was the most amazing summer I ever had and I hope most of the members are thinking in the same way. After [...]

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Kenta HidakaKenta Hidaka on September 2nd, 2010

After looking at Daiki and Tomoe’s blog, it made me want to write too! Now, few days has passed since we left Seattle. And I am already missing the wonderful weather in Seattle. Japan is killing me every time I go outside. Anyways, thinking of “what should I do”, I thought to myself, I should [...]

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Tomoe TakashimaTomoe Takashima on August 31st, 2010

Hello,this is Tomoe. 3 days have passed since our special experience finished. Since I back to home, I feel like it was a dream, but it is not a dream. As Daiki said, I think so too. In Seattle,I got a confidence little by little. But now,in Japan,I’m losing faith again like before coming to [...]

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Daiki YoshikuraDaiki Yoshikura on August 29th, 2010

Hi, This is Daiki writing from Japan. The fantastic and marvelous four weeks in Seattle has finished. What I learned there is so precious to me and its something that I should keep in mind all the time. I knew it’s gonna be hard to remind all the things every time, because the environment is [...]

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Ryoichi Kondo (SIIS'09)Ryoichi Kondo (SIIS'09) on August 28th, 2010

Hi Rikkyo students I am Ryoichi Kondo, senior of RIkkyo University, and also one of the participants of the last year’s SIIS. Britt allowed me to give a “graduation message” to you. So I would like to tell you things I would you to know. First of all, I would like to say Congratulation for [...]

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Hitomi MatsuyamaHitomi Matsuyama on August 28th, 2010

One month has gone so quickly, I can’t believe I’m leaving tomorrow! There are so many impressive thins happened to me for the last few weeks and one of them was visiting Starbucks. My host mother, Emma works for Starbucks as a designer. Since I came here I heard a lot of storys about Starbucks [...]

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Daiki YoshikuraDaiki Yoshikura on August 26th, 2010

Yesterday was the last day of our internship. We finished our work and made a business plan to enter the Japanese market, which was a hard work for us to do. And at the last, I had a great chance to make a presentation to the two CEO’s and it was a great experience for [...]

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