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About Japan and Japanese Schools

About Japan and Japanese Schools. By: Wen Xuan and Tiffany. Japan. Japan is an island nation in east Asia. Japan is an archipelago of 6,852 islands. The four largest islands are Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku, together comprising about ninety-seven per-cent of Japan's land area .

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About Japan and Japanese Schools

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  1. About Japan and Japanese Schools By: Wen Xuan and Tiffany

  2. Japan • Japan is an island nation in east Asia. • Japan is an archipelago of 6,852 islands. • The four largest islands are Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku, together comprising about ninety-seven per-cent of Japan's land area. • Japan has the world's tenth-largest population, with over 127 million people.

  3. History of Japan • The earliest-known pottery belongs to the Jomonperiod. • The main cultural and religious influences came from China. • The first permanent capital was founded at Nara in 710, which became a centre of Buddhist art, religion and culture. • Democracy was problematic, because Japan's powerful military was semi-independent and overruled—or assassinated—civilians in the 1920s and 1930s. 

  4. Food in Japan • Sushi -Sushi can be defined as a dish which contains sushi rice, cooked rice that is prepared with sushi vinegar. There are various kinds of sushi dishes. • Chazuke -Chazuke is a bowl of cooked rice with green tea and other ingredients, for example, salmon or tarako (cod roe) added to it. It is a suitable dish for using left over rice. • Soba -Soba noodles are native Japanese noodles made of buckwheat flour or a mixture of buckwheat and wheat flour. Soba are about as thick as spaghetti. They can be served cold or hot and with various toppings.

  5. Schools • The schools in Japan operate on a basic idea of elementary school. • In Japan education is quite compulsory till middle school. • The students of high school do not drive the cars. They either walk or travel by bus or train. • Every school has their unique uniform. • In the school all the students have small lockers where they keep their private positions and change their street shoes to school slippers. • In schools, all the classes have many small teams. These teams do many activities like cleaning the classroom, yards and halls.

  6. Resources • oonybg.hubpages.com/hub/Facts-of-Japan-School-Life • Japan-guide.com/e/e2035.html • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Japan

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