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Spirited Away - What's Cool in Japan - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
A movie about a 10-year-old girl has overtaken Titanic as the best-selling movie in Japanese history. Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi (English title: Spirited Away), a full-length animated film, opened in the summer and has become a massive hit.

Summer Fashion: Yukata - What's Cool in Japan - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
Summer in Japan is a time for fun events like fireworks displays, Bon festival dancing, and street fairs. More and more people who attend these events are doing so dressed in a yukata, a light summer kimono made from cotton. It feels great to dress up in clothes that are so different from everyday wear.

Pokemon - What's Cool in Japan - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
Japanese elementary and middle school kids are going wild over video-game characters called Pocket Monsters ("Pokemon" for short, pronounced "PO-KAY-MON"). Pokemon is a simple role-playing video game played on a Nintendo GameBoy machine. There are 151 kinds of monsters hidden in various places, and your job is to hunt for them, using a map that guides you on an adventurous journey through towns and forests and over oceans.

Yukiko Ebina - Meikei High School - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
Web Japan > Kids Web Japan > Archives > Life School: Meikei > Features Yukiko All eleventh graders undertake an individual research project. Each student chooses an area of interest, takes a year to

Capsule - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
A time capsule buried nearly 30 years ago to commemorate the World Exposition in Osaka in 1970 was unearthed in mid-March. The cylindrical container measuring 1.3-meters high and 1.0 meter in diameter was buried nine meters under the ground near Osaka Castle in January 1971. The 2,098 items placed in the capsule were chosen to show how people lived at the time of EXPO 70, which drew 64 million visitors from all over Japan and the world.

Everest - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
A Japanese alpinist-adventurer who became the youngest in the world to stand atop the highest peaks in the seven continents by scaling Mount Everest at the age of 25 in May 1999 returned to the world's tallest mountain a year later to clean up garbage left by his peers over the years.

Survey - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
If you were a Japanese kid, what would you have done last weekend? Well, you probably would have spent some time playing games on your Sony PlayStation or Nintendo Game Boy. Maybe you would have watched some television, too. You might also have called your friends on your cell phone to get together and have some fun.

Hayanari - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
Formula One, or F1, is the top motor racing series in the world. It's very popular in Japan, as are all the levels of Formula racing below it. Hayanari Shimoda, a 16-year-old high school student from Tokyo, took a big step up the racing ladder when he made his Formula Renault debut at Vallelunga Race Track in Italy (about 30 kilometers north of Rome) on Sunday, April 22. Juggling academics with a racing career isn't easy, but Hayanari is doing his best to keep up with his school work--even while he competes in races around the world.

World Cup - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
Kids in Japan got their hands on one of the most famous trophies in the world, the soccer World Cup, during the trophy's tour of the 10 Japanese World Cup host cities in March.

Hometown - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
How would you respond if you were asked to describe your hometown in just one word? Between late June and mid-July, Sumitomo Life Insurance Co. conducted a survey of 6,000 people across Japan in which they asked respondents to give a single kanji (Sino-Japanese character) that best describes their image of their native region.

Seal - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
In August 2002 an unusual visitor swam up the Tama River that flows between Tokyo and Kanagawa Prefectures: a seal. The seal was seen swimming in the river and sunbathing on the concrete banks. Named after the river, "Tama-chan" became a national celebrity, attracting large crowds to the river. Experts said Tama-chan probably got lost, since he is of a type that usually lives in the Arctic Ocean.

Yagira - Monthly News - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
Nobody Knows, a film starring Yagira Yuya, a third-year Japanese middle school student, went on general release in Japan in August. At the Cannes Film Festival in May this year, Yuya won the Best Actor Prize. It is the first time that the award has been won by a Japanese actor, and also the first time that it has been given to someone as young as 14.

O-toshidama - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
Japanese kids receive special envelopes containing money at New Year. This article explains the custom of o-toshidama.

Yacht - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
A 69-year-old yachtsman living in Osaka Prefecture embarked on a nonstop solo voyage around the world on September 15, 1998--which was Respect-for-the-Aged Day in Japan.

Space - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
Nearly 6,000 elementary and middle school students across Japan duplicated two scientific experiments that Japanese astronaut Chiaki Mukai conducted aboard the U.S. space shuttle Discovery on her voyage in late October and early November 1998.

What's Cool - Kids Web Japan - Archives - What's Cool
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Prin : Bon Appetit! : NIPPONIA No. 45
Web Japan > NIPPONIA No. 45 > Bon Appetit! NIPPONIA NIPPONIA No. 45 June 15, 2008 TOP Bon Appetit! Japanese Culture in the Kitchen New types of purin are gaining a faithful foll

Purin : Bon Appetit! : NIPPONIA No. 45
Purin Web Japan > NIPPONIA No. 45 > Bon Appetit! NIPPONIA NIPPONIA No. 45 June 15, 2008 TOP Bon Appetit! Japanese Culture in the Kitchen A Dessert for Just About Everyone Written