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Published March 01, 2012, 12:00 AM

PHOTO GALLERY: Japanese college students in Hudson


The Japanese university students staying with Wisconsin families flash the peace sign for a photographer. In the front row, from left, are Chika Ikeda, Kaho Fujiyama, Kie Nagai, Yuri Kudo and Aki Huguchi; back row, Ayana Iwasaki, Ayaka Sato, Misa Fujita, Mayumi Sano, Saeko Honbo, Bethel University program director Lisa Bekemeyer, Ryuichi Takahashi and Shohei Yokoyama. Submitted photos

  • The Japanese university students staying with Wisconsin families flash the peace sign for a photographer. In the front row, from left, are Chika Ikeda, Kaho Fujiyama, Kie Nagai, Yuri Kudo and Aki Huguchi; back row, Ayana Iwasaki, Ayaka Sato, Misa Fujita, Mayumi Sano, Saeko Honbo, Bethel University program director Lisa Bekemeyer, Ryuichi Takahashi and Shohei Yokoyama. Submitted photos
  • University of Niigata Prefecture students Chika Ikeda, back left, and Yuri Kudo, second from right in the back, pose with members of their host families. In the front are Haley and Megan Prince. Host mother Mary Prince is holding her daughter Leah in the back row. Terri Marquardt, back right, is also a host mother.
  • Host fathers Joel Posthuma, left, and Peter Eisch are photographed with their house guests, Aki Higuchi, left, and Saeko Honbo.
  • Mayumi Sano makes doughnuts with her host father, retired Lutheran minister Paul Martinson of Hudson.