Off and on since 1985, the webmaster has facilitated group study visits of young Japanese students, usually accompanied by a professor, in Leyte. The study areas have expanded to Samar and Biliran Islands since the late 1990s.

In this site, we present end-of-visit reports written by the Japanese student participants themselves. The English slightly edited for clarity, these reports were composed in a matter of hours, overnight at most, before the participants left Tacloban for Manila. Being such, they are largely impressionistic. But a Filipino reading them could get fresh insights about his milieu from a different perspective.