The Saipan Mayor’s Office is looking for local families who are willing to host Japanese students visiting this year for cultural exchange programs. This summer, two groups of Japanese students will be visiting Saipan: one from the Sanpo-en School and the other, the Itoda School....

Over 200 students from Seisa High School in Japan are currently on island for their annual cultural exchange program with the Public School System’s Marianas High School. The first batch, composed of 84 students, arrived Monday night while 111 additional members were scheduled to...

After nearly 10 months of battling cancer, 44-year-old Kazunori Ikeda, better known as “Kazu,” passed away at the Commonwealth Health Center on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014. Ikeda was diagnosed in May with squamous cell carcinoma, a type of non-melanoma skin cancer, at CHC and sought...

February 14, 2006 Japan arrivals continue decline Tourist arrivals from Japan plunged by 29 percent during the first month of the year, showing a consistent sharp decline since the departure of Japan Airlines in October 2005. Data from the Marianas Visitors Authority released...