Fuji Maru
MANILA, Philippines—The goodwill ship M/S Fuji Maru will arrive at Pier 13 of the Manila South Harbor on November 12, 2009 for a four-day port-of-call visit as part of the 36th Ship for Southeast Asia Youth Program (SSEAYP), the Japanese embassy said in a statement.
From Yokohama, Japan, where the brand new cruise ship will set sail on November 6, it will visit the Philippines as its first port-of-call in its two-month friendship cruise of Southeast Asia.
The M/S Fuji Maru, which will have on board 350 youth ambassadors, program officials, national leaders, and ship staff including 30 representatives from the Philippines, will then steam toward ports in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Brunei Darussalam before returning to Japan to culminate the 36th SSEAYP.
In each port of call in Southeast Asia, the youth ambassadors will participate in country programs which include home stay and various exchange programs with local people. While cruising, solidarity group activities, club activities, introduction of each country by songs, dances, and videos, as well as lifeboat drills, will keep the participants busy.
The SSEAYP was launched as the joint program among Japan and Asean countries in January 1974. It is sponsored and carried out annually by the government of Japan with the active participation of the Southeast Asian countries of Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. The country program in the Philippines is arranged and organized by the Philippine National Youth Commission.
This program seeks to promote friendship and mutual understanding among youths of Japan and Southeast Asian countries, to broaden their perspectives on the world, as well as to strengthen their motivations and abilities in international cooperation by participating in discussions, introductions of each country, and various exchange activities both onboard the ship and in the countries which they visit.
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