Philippines: “I wanted to try new things” NP’s ninth term ends

Yasuo Hosomi of Nihongo Partners, who is dispatched to Florentino Torres High School, is seen in Manila, the metropolitan area, around noon on Nov. 14. (Mainichi/Kaoru Okada)The ninth six-month term of the Japan Foundation’s Nihongo Partners (NP), which is working to spread the Japanese language, will come to an end at the end of this month. The capital city, which will be the fourth NP dispatch destination in this term…