NAHA, Nov 22 (News On Japan) –
Okinawa’s Board of Education has cancelled this yr’s program to ship highschool college students to China after officers acquired discover from the host establishment that it might now not settle for the group.
The program, launched within the 2012 fiscal yr, sends Okinawa highschool college students to China for language research and cultural trade. This yr’s dispatch was scheduled to run from November twenty ninth to December eleventh, with 20 college students planning to spend almost two weeks in Shanghai.
However, on November 18th, the prefecture was knowledgeable by the companion college that it could be unable to obtain the scholars, with no particular motive supplied. The cancellation comes as relations between Japan and China proceed to deteriorate following remarks within the Diet by Prime Minister Takaichi concerning a possible contingency involving Taiwan, a improvement that native officers imagine could have influenced the choice in China.
The prefectural training bureau says it can not enable college students to lose helpful studying alternatives and is now working to organise another coaching program inside Okinawa.
Source: 沖縄ニュースOTV