Ten Malaysian university students, who were invited to visit Chiba Prefecture on a monitoring tour from Jan. 5 to 9, 2015, paid a courtesy call on Governor Kensaku Morita while visiting a number of sightseeing spots and engaging in exchange programs with their local counterparts.

The Malaysian students will post what they experienced in Chiba Prefecture on Facebook and other social networking sites.

1. How it happened

Governor Morita, who visited Malaysia in January 2014 for the purpose of promoting  Chiba Prefecture in person, agreed at a meeting with Malaysian Minister of Tourism and Culture Nazri Aziz to undertake a youth exchange program between the two parties.

Following the agreement, Chiba Prefecture sent its high school students to Malaysia in August 2014. To further step up the exchange program, Chiba Prefecture for the first time invited Malaysian students who are learning Japanese to the prefecture to let them tour Chiba and communicate the prefecture's allures to the people back home, further raising their interest in touring Chiba.

2. Where they went

- Inubosaki Lighthouse and a soy sauce plant in Choshi

- Mother Farm

- Country Farm Tokyo German Village

- Sawara

- Strawberry picking, a flower garden, hands-on experience in making paper fans in Minamiboso

- Naritasan Shinshoji Temple

- Shopping at outlet malls in Kisarazu and Shisui

Chiba, Japan Travel Guide (Malay version: http://japan-chiba-guide.com/ms/index.html)

3. Example of SNS * Facebook: Japan Tourism-Chiba (https://www.facebook.com/Japan.Tourism.Chiba)