Cultural Affairs Officer Sunshine Ison visited Gunma’s Takasaki City to share America250 with 110 junior high students and meet the inspiring team at Kurabuchi English Village, where educators including young Americans help connect local youth with the world while supporting a community tackling depopulation.

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【Portuguese Cultural Official: “Embroidery in My Hometown Was Learned From China”】 A delegation of cultural officials from nine Portuguese-speaking countries recently visited Guangzhou. During a hands-on Cantonese embroidery session at the city’s historic Yongqing Fang precinct, Luís Filipe Reis dos Santos, Director-General of the General Directorate of Books, Archives and Libraries under Portugal’s Ministry of Culture, noted that the same embroidery craft exists in his hometown — and it was originally introduced from China.