Tanuki excites Japanese exchange students

Tanuki excites Japanese exchange students

LIHUE — Moriyama Japan exchange student Yuriko Hatayama became excited on Friday when she learned about the 50-year-old bigger-than-life tanuki that found a new home at the Kauai Museum. “I have one,” the 16-year-old student said. “I got mine — it’s small — several years ago when I was in middle school.” Adding to the excitement, the three exchange students—Sara Funahashi, Konami Fukutome, and Hatayama — and their chaperone, Sachiko Tsuda— inter…