Almost one year ago, I, along with 30 other students, began a journey to the Land of the Rising Sun. I alone however, to use my aunt’s words, was ‘returning to the homeland’. Nearly 60 years before...

MTHS sophomore and writer for The Hawkeye Stephen  Cuplin has began a one year program as a exchange student in Japan. Cuplin is living in Sapporo, on Japan's northern island. He is taking us along...