First Lady Michelle Obama to Travel to Japan and Cambodia March 18-22

Whitehouse.gov ^ | March 17, 2015 | Office of the First Lady

[TexasCajun]

On the heels of the President and First Lady’s launch of the Let Girls Learn international girls education initiative, Mrs. Obama will travel to Japan and Cambodia from March 18-22, 2015. She will visit Tokyo on March 18-20, Kyoto on March 20, and Siem Reap on March 20-22. She will be joined by Peace Corps Director Carrie Hessler-Radelet.

While in Tokyo, the First Lady will meet with Mrs. Akie Abe, the Spouse of the Prime Minister of Japan, and deliver remarks on the importance both countries place on international girls education. The First Lady will also announce plans to deepen our partnership on this issue, including through a collaboration between the Peace Corps and Japan’s Overseas Cooperation Volunteers. Following their remarks, Mrs. Obama and Mrs. Abe will meet with Japanese university students and share stories from their own educational backgrounds.

* Also in Tokyo, the First Lady will meet with the Emperor and Empress of Japan and will participate in a meet and greet with embassy employees.

The First Lady will travel to Kyoto on March 20 and visit the Kiyomizu-Dera Buddhist Temple and the Fushimi Inari Shinto Shrine. She will also greet staff from the U.S. Consulate in Osaka.

On the evening of March 20, the First Lady will travel to Cambodia, one of the first 11 countries to be included in the Let Girls Learn Peace Corps initiative. In Cambodia, Mrs. Obama and Peace Corps Director Hessler-Radelet will see up close how community-driven solutions – which are key components of the Let Girls Learn Peace Corps program – are changing girls’ lives.

[TexasCajun]

In both Japan and Cambodia, the First Lady will share her trip with students through daily online diary entries and a collaboration with PBS LearningMedia. PBS LearningMedia will offer opportunities for young people to connect to, and learn from, Mrs. Obama’s trip, and will provide resources for U.S. classrooms that explore the culture, geography and current events in Japan and Cambodia.

[PROCON]

Will she apologize for Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

[rfreedom4u]

Why can’t she just go to Miami for black Spring Break like others do? I’m sure it is safe because black lives matter.

[TexasCajun]

Some would suggest it's just Spring Break.

I would declare it's just another Barack Break.

The release doesn't mention if the girls and mom are also vacationing with mom.

[napscoordinator]

Not a long trip. 5 days for two countries. I hardly think it is worth it. Travel will take two of those days.....so she is in Japan one day....travel to Cambodia the next and spend the day in Cambodia and then travel home. Hardly worthwhile.

[Amagi]

Yet another mega-million dollar vaca for The Mooch, on the backs of the down-right mean American taxpayers.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Is Moochelle taking the girls? Are they each flying in their separate planes?

[PLD]

The Freeloader is at it again.spending our money for her vacation..

[UCANSEE2]

Hardly worthwhile.

That depends on what you are actually trying to accomplish.

[MeshugeMikey]

just the run up to the MICHELLE 2016 campaign...

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Korombo at large...

[Slyfox]

Business trip, right?

Means they will be able to write the entire thing off.

Wish we could, write them off.

[LadyBuck]

Just what I want my kids to see - the Wookies stuffing their yap-holes with ice-cream while visiting the Killing Fields.

[b4its2late]

Free vacation again!

[kenmcg]

“First Lady Michelle Obama to Travel to Japan and Cambodia March 18-22”

Dig deep taxpayers, we’ll be on the hook for $25M, for this fiasco. Counting the days till their gone.

[TexasCajun]

"After I win, There will be a position in Housekeeping for you."

[tflabo]

Let Girls Learn international girls education initiative, Mrs. Obama will travel to Japan and Cambodia

Wrong nations.... try Iran, Afghanistan or Saudi Arabia. Then again, who wants to vacation there right Moosch?

[TexasCajun]

She will not be traveling with her daughters. An earlier version of this story quoted Japanese news reports from the Foreign Ministry saying Sasha and Malia were accompanying her mother during their spring break.

If mom is going, they're trying to keep it quiet.

[molson209]

Business or Pleasure ? LOL