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Japanese Speech Contest to be held at the Cupertino Cherry Blossom Festival

The Cupertino-Toyokawa Sister Cities Committee welcomes a new addition to its annual Cherry Blossom Festival.   The festival will host a Japanese speech contest, conducted by NSG (Niigata Scholastic Group) Colleges USA. 

NSG is a 30 year old organization that has recently opened an office in Menlo Park.  It is an organization of 26 two-year multi-disciplinary colleges.  For the past ten years, they have held a Japanese speech contest for non-native speakers in Niigata, Japan.  A contest is being added to Northern California, with the winner receiving a four night trip to Niigata, Japan to compete in the final International-level speech competition to be held on July 1st 2014.  The contest is open to students ages 14 years and older, who are not native Japanese speakers.

Applications must be received for pre-screening by March 15, 2014.  Semi-finalists will be notified to attend the final speech completion to be held during the 31st annual Cupertino Cherry Blossom Festival.  The speech contest will be conducted on Saturday April 26th, 2014 from 10:00AM – 11:30AM in the Quinlan Center, with the winners announced at 1:20PM.

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For more information about the NSG and to download an application for the speech contest, visit: www.NSGcolleges.com

For more information about the Cupertino Cherry Blossom Festival, visit: www.CupertinoToyokawa.org

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