Christin Austin Explores Japan on the Technos Trip

2014 Jun 18

Christin Austin, a McKendree University political science major, is on a two-week adventure in Japan as a guest of Technos International College in Tokyo. So far the group has visited Mt. Fuji and Tokyo Disneyland, attended a baseball game and kabuki theatre, and learned to make sushi and soba noodles. Dr. Darryn Diuguid, assistant professor of education-language arts, is accompanying the students on the trip. Read their blog

Technos College partners with McKendree and several universities around the world to promote Japanese culture. Since 1992, McKendree University and the Tanaka Foundation have collaborated to send one or two underclassmen and a professor to Technos International Education Week every summer. Dr. Kenji Tanaka developed the program to strengthen American-Japanese ties. He is the founder of the Tanaka Ikueikai Educational Trust, past chairman of Technos International College, and an honorary McKendree University trustee.