Comics and Cartoons - What's Cool in Japan - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
How many Japanese comic strips can you name? You may have heard of Doraemon, Dragon Ball, City Hunter, Dr. Slump, Sailor Moon, Cobra, Akira, or Ranma 1/2. Japanese comic strips (called "manga") are very popular in the United States, Europe, and Southeast Asia. Fans like them for their high-quality art interesting story lines. Taiwan, Hong Kong, other places Asia, there several magazines about Japanese comic strips.

Graduation Art - Kids in Action - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
March is when school students graduate in Japan. At many elementary schools, it's a custom for students to band together to create something as a memento of their time at the school. What kinds of projects are these 12-year-old artists working on this year?

Classes - Kanagawa University High School - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
Web Japan > Kids Web Japan > Archives > Life School: Kanagawa > Inside: Classes Most students commute by train, so the streets from the station to the school are a sea of navy and gray uniforms in t

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

Exchange Program - Otaki Elementary and Middle School - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
Web Japan > Kids Web Japan > Archives > Life > School: Otaki > Features > Exchange program The village of Otaki has a unique exchange program under which city kids attend the school for a year. They

Kenji Seto - Otaki Elementary and Middle School - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
Web Japan > Kids Web Japan > Archives > Life > School: Otaki > Features > Kenji The village of Otaki has a unique exchange program under which city kids attend the school for a year. They get to exp

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

Shirakawa - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on October 12 announced the awarding of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry to Hideki Shirakawa of Japan and two Americans for their "revolutionary discovery" that plastic can be made electrically conductive.

Trek - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
Hyoichi Kohno was the first Japanese to reach the North Pole alone on foot in 1997. Now the 42-year-old adventurer has begun a new record-setting journey of walking 15,000 kilometers (6,800 miles) from the North Pole to his hometown of Seto, Ehime Prefecture, via Canada, the United States, and Russia.

MLB - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
All of Japan watched pitcher Hideo Nomo when he joined the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1995. He quickly became a star, winning the Rookie of the Year Award in the National League that year. A number of other pitchers followed Nomo across the Pacific. This year, Japan is in a frenzy again as outfielders Ichiro Suzuki and Tsuyoshi Shinjo become the first position players (non-pitchers) from Japan to play in the Major Leagues.

Solar Bikes - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
This summer, fourth graders at Jozan Elementary School worked on a special project. They turned old, battered bicycles into bicycles driven by solar power - the power of the sun. 95 kids from three classes proved that even children can achieve something great if they work together.

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.

Voyage - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
This summer, 42 young people from seven Asian countries took part in a special program to learn about the environment. The participants came from India, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, and Vietnam, all countries facing different sorts of environmental problems. The 16-day program began on August 1, and the highlight was a 10-day voyage in which the participants traveled by ship from Okinawa to Yokohama, stopping at a number of places in Japan along the way. On this trip they learned about global environmental problems from famous people who gave them lessons on the ship and at the different stops, as well as by taking part in lots of hands-on activities.

Horie - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
Adventurer Ken'ichi Horie completed the first-ever solar-powered solo voyage across the Pacific Ocean on August 5, 1996, after 138 days at sea. The 57-year-old yachtsman arrived in Tokyo after sailing 16,000 kilometers (10,000 miles) from Ecuador in South America in a boat named Malt's Mermaid.

Parliament - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
A two-day "Children's Diet" was held on July 29 and 30 in the House of Councillors, the upper house of Japan's National Diet. The session featured discussions among 251 schoolchildren on a wide range of issues, from bullying at schools to international relations.

Love story - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
A love story written by a blind 14-year-old girl who died of cancer last year was published recently. Titled Tenji De Kaita Rabu Reta (Love Letters Written In Braille), the book is about a blind middle school girl who falls in love with a high school boy.

By Subject - Monthly News - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
Web Japan Kids Web Japan Archives > Monthly News > by subject MONTHLY NEWS News from October 1996 to March 2002 By subject Culture Favorite Anime Characters Gather at an International Fair (March 20

Hiraizumi : Japan Travelogue : NIPPONIA No. 45
Web Japan > NIPPONIA No. 45 > Japan Travelogue NIPPONIA NIPPONIA No. 45 June 15, 2008 TOP Japan Travelogue Hiraizumi Nanbu tekki ironware is another example of traditional loc

Hiraizumi : Voyager au Japon : NIPPONIA No. 45
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