Three years earlier than the Olympics started in 2021, Tokyo was already growing the nationwide picture it could show because the world regarded on.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education issued a handout to town’s public colleges in 2018 highlighting “the outstanding achievements of our predecessors” that have been meant to “raise [students’] self-awareness and pride as Japanese.”
Occupying a majority of the four-page handout was the story of diplomat Chiune Sugihara, who wrote 1000’s of life-saving visas for Jews fleeing Europe in 1940. The pamphlet recreates a dramatized model of Sugihara’s life and actions, bolstered by quotes from anonymous descendants of the Jewish refugees he saved.
Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat to Lithuania from 1939 to 1940, helped 1000’s of Jewish refugees flee wartime Europe by issuing transit visas that allowed them to journey throughout the Soviet Union to Japan. Today, his identify and story could be discovered everywhere in the nation, from his supposed hometown in Yaotsu to a museum on the northern Tsuruga port the place Jewish refugees landed.
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Japanese junior excessive youngsters common 12 p.c in English oral take a look at
Japan Times – Aug 01
Third-year junior excessive college students in Japan have been on common solely capable of reply 12.4% of questions accurately in an English-speaking take a look at for nationwide assessments carried out in April, the schooling ministry mentioned Monday, marking an 18.4 share factors fall from once they have been beforehand assessed in 2019.
The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki – Animated
The Operations Room – Jul 25
Hoping to stop the necessity for the invasion of mainland Japan, often called Operation Downfall, President Truman orders using a brand new, fearsome weapon that may change warfare perpetually. The cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are in grave hazard.
What Teaching English in Japan is REALLY like
TAKASHii from Japan – Jul 22
Takashi from Japan interviews English academics in Japan, together with somebody who’s working in a public faculty, an eikaiwa faculty, and somebody who has their very own English instructing firm.
The Complete Japanese Verb Conjugation Video
Game Gengo – Jul 20
Every single Japanese verb conjugation defined in a single definitive video textbook that appears at over 250 totally different examples of verb conjugation utilization, masking numerous video video games from all through online game historical past.
Japan’s paradoxical trainer scarcity
East Asia Forum – Jul 19
Despite its low beginning charges, Japan is combating a scarcity of academics. In Japan, a ‘trainer scarcity’ is a state of affairs wherein the variety of academics assigned to varsities doesn’t meet native quotas. Vacancies happen as a result of it isn’t doable to safe academics, even quickly assigned academics.
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