Mina Ishihara, 43, first visited Ireland in 1995 when she was a student at Tezukayama Gakuin University in Osaka, her hometown, where she studied English and linguistics. On that trip she visited Galway, a lively cultural city on the west coast of Ireland, partly because the professor who organized the trip had studied there many years before and was ¡°fond of the city.¡±
While it was only a two-week trip, her stay in the city left a lasting impression.
¡°I kept going back to Ireland,¡± she says, recounting how she returned a few more times while traveling in Europe during her student days.
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