Kasugaoka High School (our sister school)

Our sister school, Kasugaoka High School visited Southwest in March, 2025 and we made the local news! 

Twelve students from the Southwest High School sister school, Kasugaoka High School, in Japan stayed with 12 students from SWHS from Feb. 28 to March 6 2025. They spent the weekend with their host family doing things like snow tubing, shopping at the Mall of America, visiting museums including the MIA and the Walker, and playing board games at home.

See the full story here at the SW Connector:

https://www.swconnector.com/stories/sister-schools,102199

Our sister school, Kasugaoka High School visited Southwest in March, 2025 and we made the local news! 

Twelve students from the Southwest High School sister school, Kasugaoka High School, in Japan stayed with 12 students from SWHS from Feb. 28 to March 6 2025. They spent the weekend with their host family doing things like snow tubing, shopping at the Mall of America, visiting museums including the MIA and the Walker, and playing board games at home.

See the full story here at the SW Connector:

https://www.swconnector.com/stories/sister-schools,102199

Our sister school, Kasugaoka High School visited Southwest in March, 2024! 

12 students and two teachers from our Sister School, Kasugaoka High School, from Osaka, Japan came to Minneapolis on Friday, March 1st.  They spent the weekend with their host families from Southwest visiting places like the Mall of America, the Minnesota History Center, and Lake Harriet. On Wednesday they met the Mayor of Minneapolis and later taught 200 students at Anthony Middle School how to play acchi muite hoi.

Our sister school, Kasugaoka High School came! 

12 students and two teachers from our Sister School, Kasugaoka High School, from Osaka, Japan came to Minneapolis on Friday, February 28th.  About 400 hundred students will watch their presentation on Monday March 2nd.  

Host a student from Japan for five nights?

The Japanese Program is looking for host families for Kasugaoka High School’s visit. Kasugaoka High School is our sister school in Japan and will be in Minneapolis from Friday, February 28th to Thursday, March 5th. We would like to be able to host 12 students, five males and seven females. They will stay five nights with families and spend their last night in a hotel, prior to departure.

Optimally, the hosts would be able to offer their prospective guests a private room and bed. Because of transportation concerns for group meetings and events, families should also be in close proximity to Southwest High School. We are now building a list of potential families who could host. If you are in a situation to be able to offer such hospitality, please contact Mrs French by email at: kyoko.french@mpls.k12.mn.us. Parents/or an adult in the family must respond to this email.