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Japanese school text books

Undated photo shows textbooks for use by Japanese high schools from the 2021 academic year, including entertainment contents that are popular among young people. The textbook seen in the center carries a music score of hit song "Lemon" by Kenshi Yonezu.

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Nanjing Massacre memorial ceremony

NANJING, China, Dec. 13 Kyodo - A state memorial ceremony is held in Nanjing, China, on Dec. 13, 2024, to mourn the victims of the 1937 massacre committed by the Imperial Japanese Army in the eastern Chinese city. (Kyodo)

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Free story classes for rural children in NW China

STORY: Free story classes for rural children in NW China SHOOTING TIME: recent footage DATELINE: June 1, 2024 LENGTH: 00:00:48 LOCATION: XI'AN, China CATEGORY: EDUCATION SHOTLIST: 1. various of free story classes for rural children by Jiao Meining 2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): JIAO MEINING, Storyteller 3. various of free story classes for rural children by Jiao Meining STORYLINE: In 2015, under the influence of Japanese painter Miyoshi Tatsuya, a woman named Jiao Meining began to offer free story classes to children in rural China. Over the past 9 years, Jiao has taught at least 4 classes a week, covering over 400 schools. Nearly 100,000 rural children have enjoyed her story classes. Born in rural area of Shaanxi, NW China, Jiao has always enjoyed reading since her childhood. She knows that compared to children in big cities, rural students lack high-quality reading resources. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): JIAO MEINING, Storyteller "When I was telling a story, I can see the glow from children's eyes. I can also feel

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Tomy's lunar robot toy replica

Photo taken in Tokyo on May 29, 2024, shows a toy replica of Sora-Q, a palm-sized moon exploration robot developed by Japanese toymaker Tomy Co. and others. Tomy announced the same day that it will give 390 of them to schools, museums and other places for educational purposes.

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100-year-old ex-Urasenke master

One hundred-year-old Sen Genshitsu, a former grand master of Urasenke, one of the leading Japanese tea ceremony schools, delivers a speech at a meeting hosted by the Kansai Press Club in Osaka on April 28, 2023.

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100-year-old ex-Urasenke master

One hundred-year-old Sen Genshitsu, a former grand master of Urasenke, one of the leading Japanese tea ceremony schools, delivers a speech at a meeting hosted by the Kansai Press Club in Osaka on April 28, 2023.

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100-year-old ex-Urasenke master

One hundred-year-old Sen Genshitsu, a former grand master of Urasenke, one of the leading Japanese tea ceremony schools, delivers a speech at a meeting hosted by the Kansai Press Club in Osaka on April 28, 2023.

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100-year-old ex-Urasenke master

One hundred-year-old Sen Genshitsu, a former grand master of Urasenke, one of the leading Japanese tea ceremony schools, delivers a speech at a meeting hosted by the Kansai Press Club in Osaka on April 28, 2023.

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100-year-old ex-Urasenke master

One hundred-year-old Sen Genshitsu, a former grand master of Urasenke, one of the leading Japanese tea ceremony schools, delivers a speech at a meeting hosted by the Kansai Press Club in Osaka on April 28, 2023.

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Baseball: Ohtani donates gloves to Japanese schools

OSHU, Japan Kyodo - Video taken on Dec. 22, 2023, shows a baseball glove that Shohei Ohtani donated to his alma mater Anetai Elementary School in Oshu in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Iwate, with a message reading "Let's play baseball!." The two-way baseball star is donating three gloves to each of Japan's 20,000 elementary schools and deliveries are expected to be completed by next March. (Kyodo)

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Baseball: Ohtani donates gloves to Japanese schools

Photo taken on Dec. 22, 2023, shows a baseball glove that Shohei Ohtani donated to his alma mater Anetai Elementary School in Oshu in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Iwate, with a message reading "Let's play baseball!." The two-way baseball star is donating three gloves to each of Japan's 20,000 elementary schools and deliveries are expected to be completed by next March.

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Former Japanese tea ceremony school head at U.N. HQ

Photo taken from UN Web TV footage shows 100-year-old Sen Genshitsu, a former grand master of Urasenke, one of the leading Japanese tea ceremony schools, and a UNESCO goodwill ambassador, presenting ceremonial tea offering for peace at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Sept. 13, 2023.

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Former Japanese tea ceremony school head in Sydney

One-hundred-year-old Sen Genshitu, a former grand master of Urasenke, one of the leading Japanese tea ceremony schools, serves tea at a ceremony in Sydney on June 9, 2023.

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Former Japanese tea ceremony school head in Sydney

One-hundred-year-old Sen Genshitu, a former grand master of Urasenke, one of the leading Japanese tea ceremony schools, delivers a speech in Sydney on June 9, 2023.

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100-year-old ex-Urasenke master

One hundred-year-old Sen Genshitsu, a former grand master of Urasenke, one of the leading Japanese tea ceremony schools, delivers a speech at a meeting hosted by the Kansai Press Club in Osaka on April 28, 2023.

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100-year-old ex-Urasenke master

One hundred-year-old Sen Genshitsu, a former grand master of Urasenke, one of the leading Japanese tea ceremony schools, delivers a speech at a meeting hosted by the Kansai Press Club in Osaka on April 28, 2023.

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100-year-old ex-Urasenke master

One hundred-year-old Sen Genshitsu, a former grand master of Urasenke, one of the leading Japanese tea ceremony schools, delivers a speech at a meeting hosted by the Kansai Press Club in Osaka on April 28, 2023.

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100-year-old ex-Urasenke master

One hundred-year-old Sen Genshitsu, a former grand master of Urasenke, one of the leading Japanese tea ceremony schools, delivers a speech at a meeting hosted by the Kansai Press Club in Osaka on April 28, 2023.

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100-year-old ex-Urasenke master

One hundred-year-old Sen Genshitsu, a former grand master of Urasenke, one of the leading Japanese tea ceremony schools, delivers a speech at a meeting hosted by the Kansai Press Club in Osaka on April 28, 2023.

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Japan crown prince at award ceremony

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito and Princess Kiko chat with an awardee (L) after attending an award ceremony for 18 promising young researchers, including those studying at graduate schools, at the Japan Academy headquarters building in Tokyo on March 2, 2023. (Pool photo)

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Japan crown prince at award ceremony

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito and Princess Kiko attend an award ceremony for 18 promising young researchers, including those studying at graduate schools, at the Japan Academy headquarters building in Tokyo on March 2, 2023. (Pool photo)

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Nara temples to host tea ceremonies in Feb. 2015

NARA, Japan - Representatives of seven major Buddhist temples in Nara, western Japan, attend a press conference on Dec. 18, 2014, at the city office to promote a series of grand tea ceremonies by five schools of the traditional Japanese art at the temples set for Feb. 9-15, 2015.

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Japan varsity reps visit Yangon to lure students

YANGON, Myanmar - Seminar participants (L) listen to officials from six Japanese national universities brief them on studying in Japan in Myanmar's largest city Yangon on Dec, 17, 2014. One of the schools, Okayama University, is scheduled to establish a stronghold in Yangon in 2015 to facilitate the acceptance of students from Myanmar.

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Charismatic Japanese-language teacher in China

BEIJING, China - Koji Oikawa, a popular Japanese-language teacher in China, relaxes with a massage machine aboard a plane in April 2014. Oikawa, a former comedian, is visiting 555 universities and high schools nationwide to teach Japanese to Chinese students.

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Charismatic Japanese-language teacher in China

BEIJING, China - Koji Oikawa (C), a popular Japanese-language teacher in China, gives a speech to students at a university in Beijing in January 2014. Oikawa, a former comedian, is visiting 555 universities and high schools nationwide to teach Japanese to Chinese students.

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'Gagaku' music collaboration between Earth, space

TENRI, Japan - Students of Tenri University in Tenri, Nara Prefecture, western Japan, play "gagaku," traditional Japanese court music simultaneously with Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata at the International Space Station (on screen) on May 3, 2014. The event was part of NASA's education program for schools.

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Nagasaki mayor asks students in N.Y. to think whether nukes needed

NEW YORK, the United States - Tomihisa Taue, mayor of the atomic-bombed city of Nagasaki, gives a speech to high school students at the Japan Society in New York on April 29, 2014. He urged about 200 students from schools in the city and elsewhere including Japanese students in the United States to "think with your heart if the world really needs nuclear weapons."

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Atomic bomb survivors speaks about experiences in N.Y.

NEW YORK, the United States - Reiko Yamada (standing), an 80-year-old survivor from the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, speaks about her experiences to high school students at the Japan Society in New York on April 29, 2014, with Michio Hakariya (R), a 76-year-old survivor from the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, sitting by her side. About 200 students from schools in the city and elsewhere including Japanese students in the United States listened to their speeches.

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PM Abe greets young ASEAN, East Timor footballers

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L, standing) greets a group of young soccer players from elementary and middle schools from East Timor and members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations at his office in Tokyo on April 8, 2014.

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Japanese high school students sing in NY concert

NEW YORK, United State - Some 90 students of Japanese high schools in Fukushima, Iwate and Saitama prefectures sing with college students from the state of New Jersey during a concert in New York on March 26, 2014, to express gratitude for support for the area damaged by the March 2011 disaster, as well as their own support for the area.

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Ski jump star Takanashi donates schoolbags to children

OSAKA, Japan - Japanese teenage ski jumper Sara Takanashi poses for photos with children during a ceremony at the Osaka prefectural government building on March 26, 2014. Takanashi, who won the World Cup women's overall title for the second year in a row, used a portion of her 2013-14 season's prize money to donate "randsel" schoolbags to 149 children of single-parent families who will enter elementary schools in April.

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Nagoya, Adelaide, Freiburg universities agree on joint program

NAGOYA, Japan - Michinari Hamaguchi (3rd from L), president of Nagoya University, poses for photos in Nagoya on March 19, 2014, after concluding a memorandum of cooperation between the Japanese university, the University of Adelaide in Australia and the University of Freiburg in Germany. Under the educational program, graduate students of medicine at any one of these universities can complete their studies at one of the two other schools and receive medical degrees from both institutions if their thesis is approved in joint screening by the schools concerned.

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Japanese tea ceremony master at ceremony in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, China - Daisosho Sen Genshitsu of Urasenke, one of the three main schools of Japanese tea ceremony, conducts a tea ceremony at a hotel in Shanghai on March 15, 2014, as part of a cultural exchange event to deepen understanding of the Japanese tea tradition among Chinese youth and promote Sino-Japanese ties.

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Large tea ceremony held in Japan's ancient capital Nara

NARA, Japan - The "Juko" tea ceremony, involving four schools of the Japanese art and seven temples and shrines in Nara, western Japan, is held at Kasuga Taisha shrine on Feb. 12, 2014. The five-day event, organized in the spirit of 15th-century tea master Murata Juko who is said to have founded a simple-style ceremony, runs for five days in the ancient Japanese capital.

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Large tea ceremony held in Japan's ancient capital Nara

NARA, Japan - People participate in the "Juko" tea ceremony involving four schools of the Japanese art and seven temples and shrines in Nara, western Japan, held at Kasuga Taisha shrine on Feb. 12, 2014. The five-day event, organized in the spirit of 15th-century tea master Murata Juko who is said to have founded a simple-style ceremony, runs for five days in the ancient Japanese capital.

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Japan to aid Pakistan expand girls' education

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Japanese Ambassador to Pakistan Hiroshi Inomata (R) shakes hands with a Pakistani official after the two sides signed an agreement on Feb. 11, 2014, in Islamabad. Japan decided to provide some 800 million yen in grant aid to help build new classrooms for girls at around 30 schools in the rural areas in southern Sindh Province.

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Japan teaching manuals

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's education minister Hakubun Shimomura holds a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 28, 2014. He announced that the education ministry has revised its teaching manuals for junior and senior high schools to describe the disputed Senkaku Islands and Takeshima islets as "integral parts of Japanese territory."

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Japan teaching manuals

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's education minister Hakubun Shimomura holds a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 28, 2014. He announced that the education ministry has revised its teaching manuals for junior and senior high schools to describe the disputed Senkaku Islands and Takeshima islets as "integral parts of Japanese territory."

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Japan teaching manuals

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's education minister Hakubun Shimomura holds a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 28, 2014. He announced that the education ministry has revised its teaching manuals for junior and senior high schools to describe the disputed Senkaku Islands and Takeshima islets as "integral parts of Japanese territory."

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Japan teaching manuals

TOKYO, Japan - A September 2012 photo shows (from front) Minamikojima, Kitakojima and Uotsuri islands of the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea. Japan's education minister Hakubun Shimomura announced on Jan. 28, 2014, that the education ministry has revised its teaching manuals for junior and senior high schools to describe the disputed Senkaku Islands and Takeshima islets as "integral parts of Japanese territory."

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Controversy over A-bomb comic

MATSUE, Japan - The Matsue city education board meets at Matsue city hall in Shimane Prefecture on Aug. 22, 2013. The board held discussion on its controversial request to local elementary and junior high schools to restrict students' access to "Hadashi no Gen" (Barefoot Gen), an iconic Japanese comic series about the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, due to some of the comic's graphics deemed violent. The meeting failed to reach a conclusion.

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Controversy over A-bomb comic

MATSUE, Japan - File photo shows copies of "Hadashi no Gen" (Barefoot Gen), an iconic Japanese comic serial about the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, authored by the late Keiji Nakazawa. The Matsue city education board in Shimane Prefecture asked local elementary and junior high schools in December 2012 to restrict students' access to the cartoon books over some of the comic's graphics deemed violent. The request has sparked controversy.

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New textbooks describe Takeshima, Senkakus as Japan's

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows pages of newly approved Japanese high school textbooks on which the disputed Senkaku Islands and Takeshima islets are described as Japanese territories. Most of the textbooks newly approved for use at high schools from April 2014 describe the disputed islands as Japanese territories, the education ministry said March 26, 2013, in announcing the results of recent textbook screenings.

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New textbooks describe Takeshima, Senkakus as Japan's

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows textbooks newly approved for use at high schools in Japan from April 2014. Most of the new textbooks describe the disputed Senkaku Islands and Takeshima islets as Japanese territories, the education ministry said March 26, 2013, in announcing the results of recent textbook screenings.

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Japan, U.S. high school students

NEW YORK, United States - Students from Itami High School in Japan and Baruch College Campus High School in the United States meet Dec. 13, 2012, at the Japanese Consulate General in New York. The two schools are planning to start an exchange program.

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Japan, U.S. high school students

NEW YORK, United States - Students from Itami High School in Japan and Baruch College Campus High School in the United States pose for a photo session on Dec. 13, 2012, at the Japanese Consulate General in New York. The two schools are planning to start an exchange program.

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Japanese, S. Korean children develop friendship

KARATSU, Japan - Pupils of an elementary school in Karatsu, Saga Prefecture, dance to the Japanese folk song "Soranbushi" at the school, to welcome primary school pupils from South Korea (front). The two schools have held exchange events since 2000.

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Japanese, S. Korean children develop friendship

KARATSU, Japan - Pupils of an elementary school in Karatsu, Saga Prefecture, dance to the Japanese folk song "Soranbushi" at the school, to welcome primary school pupils from South Korea (R side). The two schools have held exchange events since 2000.

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Japanese students in U.N. session simulation contest

NEW YORK, United States - Yuki Hayashi (C) and Yukina Sekine (to the left of Hayashi), students of Shibuya Kyouiku Gakuen Makuhari Senior High School in Chiba Prefecture, participate in the Global Classrooms International Model U.N. Conference for 2012 in New York on May 18, 2012. Teams from four Japanese high schools won prizes for their performances at the event.

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U.S. children make drawings for kids in quake-hit areas

WASHINGTON, United States - Fifth-grade students from Thomson Elementary School draw pictures at the Japanese Information and Culture Center in Washington on Feb. 16, 2012, for elementary school students in the earthquake-hit areas of Japan. The drawings will be sent to elementary schools in Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures through the Japanese Foreign Ministry.