10-yr-old succeeds spinning top performing arts

10-yr-old succeeds spinning top performing arts

FUKUOKA, Japan - Photo taken Sept. 29, 2013, shows Kazuma Yoshitomi, a successor of the traditional performing arts of spinning tops called Chikuzen Hakata Koma. Only a fourth grader, he assumed the name of Chikushi Juraku as the successor to a line of artists.

Chinese poison gas victim describes suffering

Chinese poison gas victim describes suffering

TOKYO, Japan - Feng Jiayuan, fourth grader at an elementary school in Qiqihar, Heilongjiang Province, wipes her tears at a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 20. The 11-year-old Chinese girl described the suffering she has endured since poison gas leaked from chemical weapons abandoned by the former Imperial Japanese Army in northeastern China at the end of World War II. Her mother called on the Japanese government for an apology.

Colorful activities enrich children's lives at Chinese schools

STORY: Colorful activities enrich children's lives at Chinese schools DATELINE: Nov. 20, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:43 LOCATION: TIANJIN, China CATEGORY: EDUCATION/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of aerial views of the primary school 2. STANDUP 1 (English): LIU RUNZHI, Xinhua correspondent 3. various of pupils in a farming experiencing activity 4. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): Student 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): FENG YUHAO, Sixth-grader 6. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): WANG YUYUAN, Sixth-grader 7. SOUNDBITE 4 (Chinese): ZHANG YUCHEN, Sixth-grader 8. various of the sewing class 9. STANDUP 2 (English): LIU RUNZHI, Xinhua correspondent 10. SOUNDBITE 5 (Chinese): JIANG RUOYIN, Fifth-grader 11. SOUNDBITE 6 (Chinese): LIU MUFAN, Fourth-grader 12. SOUNDBITE 7 (Chinese): CHEN JIAN, Teacher of the sewing class 13. SOUNDBITE 8 (Chinese): LI JIMENG, School principal STORYLINE: STANDUP 1 (English): LIU RUNZHI, Xinhua correspondent "After China launched a 'double reduction' policy to ease students' burden, positive changes have taken place. Chil

10-year-old girl becomes star chef in China

STORY: 10-year-old girl becomes star chef in China DATELINE: May 26, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:06 LOCATION: NANJING, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Sun Jiarui cooking 2. various of school teachings STORYLINE: Rotating a 2-kg wok over a burning flame while swinging a ladle to the beat of pop music, 10-year-old Sun Jiarui makes her way around the kitchen like a veteran chef. Sun is a fourth-grader at a primary school in the city of Wuxi, east China's Jiangsu Province. She can cook more than 50 types of delicacies, which is no easy feat even for an adult. Short videos of the young cooking star have gone viral, as netizens marvel at her jaw-dropping cooking skills. She has garnered more than 830,000 followers and 9 million likes on her TikTok-like Douyin account, with her video clips boasting up to 40 million views. She has also become a teacher of her school's cooking class. The Ministry of Education (MOE) has recently issued a document saying that education on practical labor skills will be i

Former pupil recounts cooperation in Japan's war effort

Former pupil recounts cooperation in Japan's war effort

Fumiko Maruoka, 90, recounts at her home in a Kyoto suburb, western Japan, on April 30, 2015, her experience of making bullet bags as a fourth grader in 1944. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Taipei's foot-washing ritual

Taipei's foot-washing ritual

Ko Guan-yu, a fourth-grader, washes the feet of his mother at a mass foot-washing ceremony in front of the Presidential Office on Oct. 15, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Chinese poison gas victim describes suffering

Chinese poison gas victim describes suffering

TOKYO, Japan - Feng Jiayuan, fourth grader at an elementary school in Qiqihar, Heilongjiang Province, wipes her tears at a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 20. The 11-year-old Chinese girl described the suffering she has endured since poison gas leaked from chemical weapons abandoned by the former Imperial Japanese Army in northeastern China at the end of World War II. Her mother called on the Japanese government for an apology. (Kyodo)

Boy after disaster

Boy after disaster

KESENNUMA, Japan - Issei Ono, a fourth-grader, holds a soccer ball as he walks amid the rubble in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture. He said a fishing boat (back) crashed into his home in the March 11 quake and tsunami on March 29, 2011. (Kyodo)

People moving into three-story temporary housing complex

People moving into three-story temporary housing complex

ONAGAWA, Japan - Serina Hamada, a fourth grader at an elementary school, enjoys the view from a newly built three-story temporary housing complex for people affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami located in the town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, on Nov. 6, 2011, after moving into the building from an evacuation shelter. She was talking with a classmate who moved into a housing unit nearby. (Kyodo)

Reopening of school in Japan

Reopening of school in Japan

Photo taken on May 31, 2020, shows Akari Osawa, a fourth grader of an elementary school in Higashimatsuyama, Saitama Prefecture, eastern Japan, ahead of the school's scheduled reopening on June 2, following the May 25 lifting of Japan's coronavirus state of emergency. Her school has been closed since the end of February due to the virus pandemic. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo