Middle School - Otaki Elementary and Middle School - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
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The "Children's Diet" held its millennium session at the House of Councillors for two days in early August, with a total of 252 "members of parliament" chosen from elementary and junior high schools across Japan taking part to discuss a wide range of issues they will face in the 21st century.

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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.

Judo - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
Two Japanese judo kids, who both threw Russian President Vladimir Putin down to the mat during his visits to Japan in 2000, were invited to Russia to watch an international judo tournament and meet Russian kids.

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"Yes! I can go to the All-Japan Tournament!" exclaimed fifth-grader Toshitaka Hoshino when he found out he had been picked to participate in the 17th Annual All-Japan Wanpaku Sumo Tournament for kids. Toshitaka was one of about 450 kids from 149 teams, selected from among 60,000 wanpaku rikishi (young sumo wrestlers) in all of Japan, who competed in this tournament at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan's most famous sumo wrestling arena, on July 29.

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Kids are running a popular new radio station in the Suginami Ward of Tokyo that started in April of this year. At 88.0 Megahertz on the FM dial, it is affectionately called Radio Pachi-Pachi (pachi means eight, and pachi-pachi is also the sound of clapping hands). If you're anywhere near the Zenpukuji-Kita Children's Center, you can hear its regular two-hour broadcast from 10 a.m. to noon on the second Saturday of every month.

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A unique CD has come out that helps Japanese kids to learn kuku (multiplication tables) in English using a rap song. The song was written by Tadashi Tomomura, a teacher at Nakama Higashi Elementary School in Nakama City, Fukuoka Prefecture, and is performed by Q'z, a band made up of elementary school students, who are his current and former students. The title is none other than "Multiply."

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Peru is all the way on the other side of the world from Japan, but this summer 14 young Peruvian baseball players came to Japan. They came to Oshima, an island about 100 kilometers (62.5 miles) away from Tokyo that is home to about 9,000 people and an active volcano, to play a friendly game of baseball. This event was the idea of Michisuke Sato, the executive director of the Tokyo High School Baseball Federation. Sato has spent more than 10 years giving away baseball equipment in Peru, and he is the representative of a group that supports baseball in that country as well.

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Girls play with dolls and boys play with cars. Girls wear red and boys wear blue. Girls wear skirts and boys wear pants. In the past, when women and men stuck to clearly separate roles in society, these patterns were considered normal. But as more and more women work outside the home, stereotypes like these have begun to fade.

Monthly News: October 2004 - Braille Magazine Enables Children to See Pictures by Touch
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Terumi, an illustrated magazine that can be enjoyed by touching the raised shapes, recently celebrated its twenty-first anniversary. Published every two months by the Foundation for the Advancement of Juvenile Education in Japan, it has been cherished by generations of visually impaired children as a rare source of knowledge about the shapes of things. The pictures and Braille writing are raised from the surface of the paper by printing them with a special kind of ink that puffs up when heated.

Decoding the Blueprint of Life - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
This article reports on the achievements of Japanese high school students who succeeded in decoding the DNA of the giant salamander.

APCC - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
N early 400 young delegates from 44 countries and territories were invited to Japan for an annual three-week program of international exchange in Fukuoka Prefecture in July 1998. This year's gathering of the Asian-Pacific Children's Convention (APCC) was the tenth annual meeting, and it was devoted to the theme of promoting international unity and protecting the global environment.

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