Award ceremony for the “Lunchbox Recipe Contest” aimed at junior and senior high school students in Sapporo was held on the 9th in the city. The work “Gut Health Lunchbox for Adolescent Skin Concerns” by a first-year student at Fuji Girls’ High School, Nao Kamitaki (15), was selected for the top prize, the Sapporo Mayor’s Award.
Sapporo
Sapporo is the capital city of Hokkaido, Japan, founded officially in 1868 during the Meiji period as a planned modern settlement. It is now internationally famous for hosting the 1972 Winter Olympics and its annual Sapporo Snow Festival, which began in 1950. The city’s history is closely tied to its development as the political and economic center of Hokkaido, with its iconic grid layout and landmarks like the Sapporo Clock Tower symbolizing its early Western-influenced planning.
Fuji Girls’ High School
Fuji Girls’ High School (富士女学校) was a private Christian missionary school for girls, founded in 1872 in Tokyo by American Methodist Episcopal missionary Julius Soper. It was one of the earliest institutions for female higher education in Japan, established during the Meiji period to promote Western learning and Christian values. The school later evolved through mergers and name changes, eventually becoming part of today’s Aoyama Gakuin University.
