. >> it is my pleasure to welcome and dana lewis, the executive director of the japan society and the project coordinator of the japan project your your -- of the japan project. the nonprofits has really stepped up to support our japanese language curriculum. japanese language curriculum started 39 years ago. my parents were among the founders of the program that really made japanese language of valuable -- available from kindergarten to high school, but it has 19 and without challenges, and i am in discussion with the japan society. now they wanted to know how they could help and would like to talk a little bit about the support they are giving to our district schools. >> thank you for all your support, and thank you for giving me a couple minutes to speak about this program. our manager is here with me today. the society was started in 1905, but we have not been in the educational arena for very long. we are trying to think what we can do to address the continuation of japanese language programs that are under financial pressure under the current situation, and last year we started