Kanagawa University High School - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
The Kanagawa University High School lies in a quiet neighborhood near one of Japan's biggest ports. It's a relatively new school with a large yard and a full array of athletic facilities. Even though it's called a "high school," students attend from grades 7 to 12.

About Us - Kanagawa University High School - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
Web Japan > Kids Web Japan > Archives > Life School: Kanagawa > About us The Kanagawa University High School lies in a quiet neighborhood near one of Japan's biggest ports. It's a relatively new sch

Activities - Kojimachi Middle School - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
Web Japan > Kids Web Japan > Archives > Life School: Kojimachi > Activities Extracurricular Activities Kojimachi Middle School has about 30 different clubs devoted to physical and cultural activitie

About Us - Meikei High School - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
Web Japan > Kids Web Japan > Archives > Life > School: Meikei > About us Meikei High School is one of over 40 academic institutions in Tsukuba Science City, northeast of Tokyo. A "fieldwork" program

Meikei High School - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
Meikei High School is one of over 40 academic institutions in Tsukuba Science City, northeast of Tokyo. A "fieldwork" program for each grade allows students to learn from firsthand experience. During the six years at Meikei, students thus not only accumulate facts but also learn to think for themselves.

About Us - Otaki Elementary and Middle School - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
Web Japan > Kids Web Japan > Archives > Life > School: Otaki > About us The Otaki School is located in Nagano Prefecture at the foot of a large mountain. There's a pleasant smell of wood in the buil

Otaki Elementary and Middle School - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
The Otaki School is located in Nagano Prefecture at the foot of a large mountain. There's a pleasant smell of wood in the building, recently rebuilt using abundant lumber, and around it are fields of vegetables. There's only one class per grade, so the 129 students all know each like brothers and sisters.

Ai-chan - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
Known as a table tennis genius since she was just three years old, Ai Fukuhara, now a sixth grader at Taisho Kita Elementary School in Yao, Osaka Prefecture, has become the youngest girl ever to be a member of the all-Japan table tennis squad.

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.

What Is Poetry Boxing?
Web Japan Kids Web Japan Archives > Monthly News > Poetry > Explanation What Is Poetry Boxing? Similar to boxing, poetry boxing is done in a ring. Two poetry boxers read their original poems in a ba

Anime - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
What happens when Pikachu, Sailor Moon, Doraemon, and Gundam all gather in one place? You generate so much excitement that the temperature rises!

Skating - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
Young Japanese skaters are raising the global standards for women's figure skating techniques, and at the same time raising Japan's hopes of winning a gold medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics to be held in Torino, Italy.

Weather - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
On October 3, 14-year-old Demoto Satoru, a middle school student in Yokohama, did something that is very difficult even for adults: He passed the exam to become a certified weather forecaster, becoming the youngest person in Japan ever to achieve this feat.

Jazz - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
Two of Japan's youngest professional jazz musicians, both teenagers, are quickly making their way up the ladder of fame.

Rally - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
Japanese driver Kenjiro Shinozuka won the nineteenth Dakar Rally when he and his co-driver Henri Magne crossed the finish line in first place on January 19. The race began in Dakar, Senegal, took drivers through sub-Saharan Niger, Mali, and Mauritania, and finished back in the West African state's capital.

Olympics - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
With the 1998 Olympic Winter Games in Nagano coming up in February next year, many Olympic-related events are being held in the prefecture.

Kyoto - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
Nearly 300 participants from around the world will gather in Kyoto from November 30 to December 5, 1998, to discuss ways to protect and preserve the common cultural and natural heritage of our planet.

Astronomers - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
Nearly 40 percent of all reported sightings of comets last year were made by Japanese amateur astronomers, according to a report by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), which also credited Japanese space buffs with finding more new asteroids than a leading observatory in the United States. The IAU is the internationally recognized authority for assigning names to newly discovered bodies in space.

Pen Pals - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
Over 140 letters have been received from children in the civil-war-devastated country of Bosnia and Herzegovina by sixth graders at Miyagaya Elementary School in Yokohama in response to letters written by Japanese children last year.

Under-20 - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
Japan's national team of soccer players under 20 years old turned in a surprisingly strong performance in April by capturing the silver medal in the World Youth Championship soccer tournament held in Lagos, Nigeria. This was the highest finish ever for Japan in any international-level soccer tournament.