Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-11-08 | Page 14 | Japanese on a Tour of America Make Brief Stop in City

JAPANESE PARTY V1SJOT LAKE Educators on a Tour of America Make Brief Stop in City. Sent out by the Japanese government at the solicitation of the municipal authorities au-thorities of Tokio and the Japanese Educational Edu-cational association, a party of eight leading Japanese educators, headed by T. Moriya, superintendent of the Tokio public schools, arrived in Salt Eake yesterday. yes-terday. In addition to Professor Moriya, who is also a member of the faculty of the Imperial university at Tokio with the degree of master of arts, the party is composed of N. Vuzawa, T. Sasano s Matsushita, K. Kosuge, T. Saito ' s Kugioka and It. Terashima, principals' respectively, of the Tokio high school and the Kyohoshi, Hongo, Honvoko Vot-suya, Vot-suya, Hayashicho and Xishimaehi primary pri-mary schools. Referring to the purposes or their visit to this and other American cities Professor Pro-fessor Moriya, spokesman Tor the 'narrv said: 1 3 Hollowing the war Japan expects to make great strides In the matter of nub he educalion, and we were sent to ihu country to gather ideas for Improvements and extensions. For instance we imva some vocational training In our schools but on a considerably smaller scale th-Vi', you nave here. It Is now proposed th'il Japan s public school system, IncludlnB vocational schools, be placed on a par vyith the best we can find in tho United States, both in size and quality This afternoon we visited the Bast hi.-h school, and Salt Lake is certainly to h,' congratulate.! on the equipment 'of thai Institution. We gained manv ideas there which we have filed away for future rcf-ernece. rcf-ernece. The classes were not in session of course, because of the influenza mi u ' antine, and we did not. therefore ,io-rive ,io-rive as much benefit from our visit aa we otherwise would, but, Just the same we gained much valuable knowledge as to what constitutes modern educational equipment, and this is largely what wo need in our schools at home "We expect to remain In (hia COun. try lour months. Arriving nl San Fri Cisco on October sn, we Inspected 'ihe schools there and at Los Angeles prior to coming lo Salt Lake. From ner we go to Denver. Al Washington we hop,, lo gather much valuable information from the federal vocational training bokrli Which we are lo meet." The party; escorted by Professors George Thomas and Maud M liah .ock of the University of Utah, toured the city and visited Hie temple and other points of interest lute yesterday afternoon after-noon prior to leaving for the cnsl"