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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.

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On one bright day in May, seven fifth-grade girls took the stage of Nezu Shrine in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward for their last mai dance performance to mark the end of their role as the Shinto shrine's official dancing girls.

Abacus - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
The Japanese Soroban Grand Prix (soroban is a Japanese abacus) for 2000 was held in Tokyo recently to determine who was the most accurate calculator on the abacus, and elementary schoolchildren ranked with adult participants in the annual championship.

HEADS - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
Hip-hop unit HEADS, made up of two fifth-grade and two sixth-grade boys from Osaka, are in the spotlight after two years of weekend performances on busy streets in Osaka's Kyobashi and Tokyo's Shibuya, shopping and amusement districts that draw many young people.

Volunteer - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
Recently, while the number of children in Japan has been steadily going down, the number of elderly people has been going up. Nowhere is this more keenly felt than in Shinagawa City, which lies on the east side of Tokyo. It has one of the fastest growing elderly populations in the world, and the city is having difficulty finding places for these seniors to live.

Ghibli - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
About 600 children and adults lined up in the rain in order to be the first to visit the Ghibli Museum, Mitaka, which was opened by Studio Ghibli on October 1 in Tokyo. The museum is the latest project by movie director Hayao Miyazaki, one of the leaders of Studio Ghibli. He is famous worldwide for his animated films like Kiki's Delivery Service (1989), Princess Mononoke (1997), and this summer's Spirited Away, which beat Titanic to become the best selling movie of all time in Japan.

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The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo is paying its newest employee, ASIMO, in volts instead of yen. That's because ASIMO, whose name stands for Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility, is a humanoid robot.

Robot - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
At the Emerging Technology Fair recently held in Tokyo as part of the Future Creation Fair, a small robot that flies like a helicopter was unveiled. Called �FR-II (pronounced "micro FR two"), the robot was developed by Seiko Epson Corp., a world leader in the production of microprecision instruments. According to Epson, the �FR-II is the world's lightest autonomous robot; an autonomous robot is a robot that decides its own movements without human commands. With a diameter of 136 millimeters, a height of 85 millimeters, and a weight of 12.3 grams, it's small enough to sit on the palm of your hand and weighs about the same as two pencils.

Drum - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
The largest wadaiko, or Japanese drum, ever to be built was completed in August for an exhibition at a museum in Takayama, Gifu Prefecture. The barrel-shaped drum has a head with a diameter of over 2 meters (6 1/2 feet), 6 centimeters (2 3/8 inches) bigger than the previous record holder, a drum kept at a Tokyo shrine.

Math Olympics - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
A 12-year-old boy living in Osaka took top honors at the fifth Math Olympics, held in Tokyo on August 25. The annual math contest this year attracted close to 4,000 elementary school children from Japan and other countries, including China and South Korea.

Nomo - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
Two Major League stars, pitcher Hideo Nomo and catcher Mike Piazza of the Los Angeles Dodgers, along with three leading Japanese professional baseball players provided a clinic for 225 Japanese children under 15 years old on November 3 at the Tokyo Dome.

Summer - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
For Ayako Shimizu, a fourth-grader in the city of Akikawa, Tokyo, summer vacation is a time for coming up with inventions.

Solar Car - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
A university research team completed a 10,000-kilometer (6,210-mile) run around Europe and the United States between July and September in a car powered by solar cells and rechargable batteries. The research team from Tokyo Denki University, led by Professor Masaharu Fujinaka, spent nearly two years developing the car by altering a commercially sold vehicle.

Tour - Monthly News - Archives - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
On August 25, with just a few days left before the end of summer vacation, a large group of elementary and middle school students gathered in Tokyo's Kasumigaseki, where central government office buildings are concentrated. They were taking part in a tour of government offices as part of an Education Ministry-sponsored project to increase dialogue with children.

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Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone - What's Cool - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone, a film based on the megahit TV series Neon Genesis Evangelion, was released in Japan in September 2007. The story unfolds in the city of Tokyo-3 after a catastrophe called the Second Impact. Humankind, which is on the road to recovery, is being attacked by terrifying beings known as Angels.

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