MORAN — Some students spend their summers at camp or working. Payton Wilson spent his in Japan.
Wilson, a Marmaton Valley High School junior, spent six weeks with a Japanese host family in Tokyo as one of 14 members of the Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA), chosen for the Japanese Exchange Scholarship.
Kikkoman Corp., maker of a popular brand of soy sauce, underwrites the program and scholarship, valued at almost $10,000 per student.
For the first two weeks Wilson attended a school that regularly hosts exchange…
Wilson experiences Far East
