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For a few months last year, Genki students helped Fukuoka university students to fold origami cranes, as part of an effort to make the world’s longest origami lei. They were successful, and the new world record was certified in September last year! Just recently we received our certificate from Guinness, so we post it here out of an abnormally large sense of pride:
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Of course, GenkiJACS’ name doesn’t actually go in the Guinness Book of Records. At least not yet – we’re still pushing them to implement the Most Fun Japanese School in the World category…<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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