The One School One Country program in the Nagano Olympics

Abstract

For this report, a staff of the Nagano City School Board was interviewed about the One School One Country program carried out during the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympic Games. It was learned that about ten schools have kept up this program to the present day. Among factors conducive to the continuation of the program, the establishment of a clear theme and of an organized framework for mutual exchanges may be cited. Further, in the course of the activities, students discovered many commonalities and differences between languages, and achieved a heightened awareness towards the language of the partner country.