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Art & Life in Rural Japan
Cyrus Rolbin, known to some of us in Tasmania for his cultural mnemonic system...ABCs of Japanese has also edited a book entitled Art & Life in Rural Japan: Toho village through the eyes of its youth.
Game Show Links:
Takeshi's Castle - the original favourite:
Just ten days before the Great East Japan Earthquake devastated the northeast coast of Japan, children in a remote village in southwestern Japan published a book to open the eyes of the world. In stunning photographs and simple first-person narratives, they offered a vivid portrait of “depopulating” Japan. Their village was disappearing, these youth worried.
A mountainous community of rice fields, stoneware potters, dense forests, and deep traditions, Toho (population 2,749) was becoming invisible in today’s hyper-urban Japan. Its elementary school was closing. A single yellow train chugged daily across three “eyeglass bridges” linking the village with the outside world. It was the last village in Japan reached by the Internet. And as Toho’s youth left to find work elsewhere, unrelated families increasingly formed close bonds to eat and play together.
You can visit the Toho Village web site, or else purchase a copy from the Intext Book Company which has kindly donated copies of this interesting cultural study as prizes in the JATNET speech competitions.
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Here are also a number of other links sent in by Tasmanian teachers:
Kim Rowlands has been kind enough to share the following links which provide both resources and
some reading practice on important daily Kanji for the Sensei!
NHK for Schools [may require installation of a plugin]
NHK Occupations Clips [may require installation of a plugin]
Japanese Teaching Ideas This has some really good stuff!
Endurance - for those with more staying power than sense!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEOz7gaFfmU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0TN3soge9o
Matrix - one of the clever shows that takes a lot of teamwork:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=069dKcdHWvc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iScwzYJo_a0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQB8rbhfdsw&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PL80E255F6DFAFE65D
For Alternate Culture
Bosozoku Bikers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1flOoJYxo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-pih3_tOio&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDlftjh7xWo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfdyt6OIF7w&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzPajfgSrtQ&feature=related
And.....don't forget to check out their cool cars:
More Serious Links
If your students would like to keep tabs on the amount of earthquake activity or the progress of typhoons in the storm season, then why not set a bookmark for the Japan Meteorological Agency in English.
For news, there is:
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