KVZK- TV reporter and anchor, Christine Moetala Faiupu, was among six journalists from the Pacific and Caribbean who spent ten days in Japan to learn environmental protection initiatives by the Japanese that can be promoted and applied in their respective homelands.
The media team was in Japan under the Association for Promotion of International Cooperation and Foreign Press Center of Japan’s Pacific-Caribbean Journalists Program for 2017.
Hawaii-based photo journalists and media educator Floyd Takeuchi led the media group.
He was editor of Pacific Magazine, a trainer for the Pacific Island News Association, was editor of the Fiji Sun newspaper and published a book of photos from the 2008 Pacific Arts Festival held here.
Ms Moetala Faiupu said they covered various initiatives by the Japanese to deal with environmental challenges and issues.
The journalists wrote stories which were sent home to their newspapers, radio and television stations as well as online news services.
The KVZK-TV reporter said, “I was truly honored and overwhelmed to be in Japan, a nation of a-hundred-26-million people. I was truly a small fish in a huge pond.”
She said Japanese people love islanders and “I learned so much there as a reporter as I humbly paid my dues in being a new journalist. Things moved so fast it was hard to catch up sometimes. But, I accepted the challenge in learning hands-on so that I may share with our news team and our people upon my return.”
