Kobe City: The 49th National High School Comprehensive Culture Festival (Kagawa Sohbun Festival 2025) Photo

July 28, 2025 Press Release

Public Relations Strategy Department, Planning and Coordination Bureau, Kobe City

Kobe City and Kobe International University Senior High School have concluded a collaboration agreement to use photographs taken by students of the school’s photography club in public relations media, and have posted their works on the city’s website, SNS, and public relations papers.

Motoshira Kanayama, a third-year student in the school’s photography club, recently won the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award (Grand Prize) in the photography category at the 49th National High School Comprehensive Culture Festival (Kagawa So-bun Festival 2025). To commemorate the award, a courtesy visit will be made to the Mayor of Kobe City to report the award.

Date and time of the courtesy visit

• Date: Friday, August 1, 2025, 11:00 – 11:30
• Venue: Reception Room 2, 15th floor, Kobe City Hall Building No. 1
• Visitor:
  • Mr. Kiju Kanayama, 3rd year student at Kobe International University Senior High School
  • Principal of the school
  • Advisor of the school’s photography club, etc.

Summary of the Award

The Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award (Grand Prize), Photography Division, 49th National High School Comprehensive Culture Festival (Kagawa So-bun Festival 2025)

Award-winning work

Title: “I want to be

About the press coverage

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