Sumo - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
"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.

Braille - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
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.

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'Poppets Town' 2 - What's Cool - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
The characters in this made-in-Japan picture book have been animated, and their story will be televised in over 100 countries

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Business 1997-1998 | Archives | Trends in Japan | Web Japan
Trends in Japan Archives Coupons for Consumers Young Business New Ways to Work Something for Everybody Trying to Keep Cool Bridge Banks Shibuya Goes Cashless Summer-Gift Blues Record Unemployment Dri

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Trends in Japan Archives Nikko, City of History and Nature Subtropical Japan Yufuin, the Ideal Place to Soak in a Spa Hakuba's Majestic Snowy Peaks Lake Towada and Oirase Stream Tourist-Friendly Hida

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Trends in Japan Archives A Winter's Yarn Goodbye To Pointy Toes Classy Coats Style Below the Knee Riding the Avant-Garde Wave Big Is Beautiful Girls Want Curls Showing Some Skin Straw Bags Go Upmarke

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Shingo Mama - What's Cool in Japan - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
Recently, Japanese children have been greeting one another in the morning using the word "oh-ha!" The Japanese phrase for "good morning" is "ohayo gozaimasu." Among friends, this is shortened to "ohayo." By shortening this still further to "oh-ha," even little kids can say their morning greetings clearly and energetically.

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Web Japan > Kids Web Japan > Archives > Life School: Kanagawa > Events The theme of the 1999 Camphor Festival, named after the large tree growing on the school grounds, was "The Egg"--breaking out o

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Web Japan > Kids Web Japan > Archives > Life > School: Otaki > Inside: Middle school Classes at Otaki Elementary School begin at 8:55 a.m., but once a week pupils come much earlier to weed the schoo

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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.

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.

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.

DJs - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
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.

Rap - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
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."