AFS Japan announced this April that they will host the “Kakehashi program in Japan,” a new program that aims to invite high school students learning Japanese in Asia to Japan. This program had its start in Prime Minister Abe’s June 2017 speech at the International Conference on the Future of Asia, in which he stated, “We will provide opportunities for Asian high school students studying Japanese to live in Japan for ten months. This will be at a scale of 1,000 students over t