Topics of interest to elementary and secondary school students overseas from two different points of view (culture and people).
Go-Tochi Boom: We Love Local
The term go-tochi ご当地-“this place” with the honorific prefix go—seems to be everywhere lately.
Why such a boom? What sorts of things are the most popular? Let's look at the go-tochi boom and the backdrop that has shaped it.
Promoting Our Hometown Through NPO Activities
Fuyuki and Natsuki
Coming Soon!
“Class Ideas for Japanese Language Study” introduces class ideas that use articles from “Culture and People of Japan” as resources. These ideas are contributed by Japanese-language teachers and experts on Japanese-language education from various parts of the world, and are available in Japanese, English, and Chinese.
Cell Phone Use
The activity highlights the pros and cons of cell phone use and introduces students to
the use of emoticons with Japanese text messages.
| 2010.01 | Culture and People of Japan: "Go-Tochi Boom: We Love Local," “Fuyuki and Natsuki”are now available. |
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| 2009.11 | Class Ideas: "Cell Phone Use" is now available. |
| 2009.10 | Class Ideas: "Let's reuse our toys!" is now available. |
| 2009.10 | Culture and People of Japan: "Cell Phones for Communication and Enjoyment," “Akane, Izuho, and Lisa”are now available. |
| 2009.07 | Culture and People of Japan: "Living with the Environment in Mind," “Keita, Asuka”are now available. |
| 2009.06 | Culture and People of Japan: "Let's Express Your Future Plans", "What does this katakana word mean?", "Let's find katakana words!" are now available. |
| 2009.06 | Class Ideas: "Things You Can Do Using Japanese" is now available. |
| 2009.06 | Culture and People of Japan: "Developing Robots for Daily Life", "Toshihide, Hiroshi, Ryosuke, and Yusuke" are now available. |
| 2009.06 | Class Ideas: "Thinking about what animals give us" is now available. |
| 2009.06 | Culture and People of Japan: "Gifts from Animals to People", "Saki" are now available. |
| 2009.05 | Class Ideas: "Popular Digital Games" is now available. |
| 2009.05 | Culture and People of Japan: "Games for Cross-Generational Enjoyment", "Hiroshi, Atsushi, Isami, and Kita" are now available. |
| 2009.04 | Culture and People of Japan: "Dreams and Career Planning", "Shiori" are now available. |
| 2009.02 | Class Ideas: "Kendama, a game you can play using your entire body" is now available. |
| 2009.02 | Culture and People of Japan: "Traditional Games", "Tario"are now available. |
| 2009.01.22 | "Click Japan" Open |
