{"id":3147,"date":"2026-02-18T00:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T00:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hawaiiglobal.org\/?p=3147"},"modified":"2026-03-24T05:02:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T05:02:22","slug":"hiroshima-jogakuin-university-hawaii-study-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawaiiglobal.org\/en\/hiroshima-jogakuin-university-hawaii-study-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiroshima Jogakuin University Hawaii Study Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2\/18\/26<a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiglobal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/HJU-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3160\" src=\"https:\/\/hawaiiglobal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/HJU-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hawaiiglobal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/HJU-3.jpg 330w, https:\/\/hawaiiglobal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/HJU-3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hawaiiglobal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/HJU-3-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Four students and Prof. Tsuchiya from the Hiroshima Jogakuin University Department of Nutrition and Health, have joined us in Hawaii this year for their annual study tour.\u00a0 This year we visited Jefferson Elementary school, located next to the Honolulu Zoo in Waikiki.\u00a0 At the school, we had a taste of their lunch service, and toured the flower beds where each of the grades were growing different plants in.\u00a0 There were green onions, mini tomatoes, and notably, Manoa lettuce and taro plants being grown using aquaponics and hydroponics with professional assistance.<\/p>\n<p>Staff members of the Hawaii State Department of Education\u2019s School Food Services who accompanied us explained to us about the statewide \u201cFarm to School\u201d project, which promotes local production for local consumption.\u00a0 The school lunch regularly includes such Hawaii grown produce as part of its menu.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiglobal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/HJU-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3156\" src=\"https:\/\/hawaiiglobal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/HJU-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hawaiiglobal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/HJU-2.jpg 330w, https:\/\/hawaiiglobal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/HJU-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hawaiiglobal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/HJU-2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2\/18\/26 &nbsp; Four students and Prof. Tsuchiya from the Hiroshima Jogakuin University Department of Nutrition and Health, have joined us in Hawaii this year for their annual study tour.\u00a0 This year we visited Jefferson Elementary school, located next to the Honolulu Zoo in Waikiki.\u00a0 At the school, we had a taste of their lunch service, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiglobal.org\/en\/hiroshima-jogakuin-university-hawaii-study-tour\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hiroshima Jogakuin University Hawaii Study Tour&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiglobal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiglobal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiglobal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiglobal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiglobal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3147"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiglobal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3174,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiglobal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147\/revisions\/3174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiglobal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiglobal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiglobal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiglobal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}