A local primary school student will represent Australia at an international convention this month in what's touted as a major coup for Euroa.

Cooper Harper from St John's Primary has been selected from a very large statewide field of applicants to be a peace ambassador and will travel to the 37th Asian-Pacific Children's Convention in Japan.

The selection was organised by the Australia Japan Business Council of Victoria after Cooper was nominated by his Japanese teacher.

St John's principal Therese Stewart said the selection was a real honour for the school as Cooper is one of just four representatives with the other three coming from Melbourne.

Cooper found time to sit down with The Euroa Gazette on Friday to discuss his upcoming diplomatic mission and amid the excitement that sees little Euroa on the world stage, this SRC representative takes it all in his stride.

"It'll be really exciting to rub shoulders with so many people from other countries and seeing how they live,” Cooper said.

“All the different cultures that are coming together will be great and I'll be staying with a host family, so the Japanese culture will be an exciting experience as well."

Cooper’s host family lives at Kokurakita, which is outside Fukuoka on the Island of Kyushu, in an apartment-style house block in the city, a far cry from his family's one-and-a-half acres in Euroa.

In addition to looking forward to meeting his host brother Andy, there is something else that will be a highlight.

“I'm looking forward to the food because it's so different to Australian food,” he said.

Cooper said he was not daunted by there being 200 other children there from over 40 countries; in fact, he said he was looking forward to making as many new friends as he can.

“And on the last day of staying there, we will have a concert, where every country does a play.

“We’ve been practicing ours down at the meetings.”

Cooper has no secret to getting selected, which is testament to his diplomatic and engaging manner, however it involved answering a long questionnaire.

"They wanted to know 'what do you think the culture will be like over there? do you think you'll handle it well?'

"I was just honest about everything."

Adding to the excitement and as testimony to his confidence is the fact that Cooper has ‘absolutely’ no experience of Japanese culture.

Does he have any fears or apprehension?

“None at all.”

St John’s principal Therese Stewart said Cooper had been nominated for the trip by his Japanese teacher Ayako Mizushima.

“We study Japanese here at St John's and that's how the process started,” Ms Stewart said.

“Ayako nominated Cooper and another student Chloe out of the students here, who she thought would be a good chance and suitable in those roles."

Although Chloe did not make the final cut, Ms Stewart said she still would also have been ‘fantastic’.

“Chloe got right to the end and was just pipped at the post."

Ms Stewart praised Cooper's parents who have spent time ferrying him down to Melbourne for the many meetings.

“And they've now gone and got a passport, his mum and dad, just in case they need it – I don't think they will.

“So we're all very proud of Cooper, and he should be very proud of himself and will be a fine ambassador for our school, for Euroa, and for Australia too.

“It's a big deal.”

Cooper’s aspiration as he gets older is to travel, with an Australia-wide trip with his parents that reached Exmouth in WA already under his belt.

“We liked Exmouth, and we made lots of friends who we still know now, so we went back there.”

What more could go hand-in-hand with trips to Exmouth?

“I want to start a fishing business.”

The final word went to Cooper's principal: “Cooper could be whatever he wants; he's a hard worker and a great role model.

Cooper agreed to take a few copies of this masthead with him to Japan.