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Nippon no Arashi Finally Gets Sold to the Public

Alafista — Thu, 19 May 2011 19:48:28 +0000

Back in Sep 2010, Arashi were featured in a book titled “Nippon no Arashi” meant to promote the culture and beauty of Japan, and the books were distributed to 40,000 elementary, junior high, and senior high schools in Japan.

Despite the book being highly sought after by fans, it wasn’t available for sale. But now authorities have decided to release a pocket-sized version of the book. The book is scheduled to be released on 30 Jun and will be retailing for 1,050 yen. All of the money made from sales will be given to charity to help those effected by the Tohoku disaster.

Source: Tokyohive

Apart from Arashi, the authorities should get AKB48 to be featured in their next publication. Someone start a petition! XD

Arashi will be your guide to Japan

Alafista — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:44:30 +0000

The popularity of Arashi is just unstoppable! Yesterday I shared with you folks on JAL launching the Arashi Jet, now we have news that Arashi has made their way into a book titled “Nippon no Arashi” that is meant to promote the culture and beauty of Japan.

Copies of the book will be distributed to every elementary, junior high, and senior high school in Japan. The book features Arashi introducing all the sights of different parts of Japan, and contains photos of the boy band spending time with the local folks.

Source: Tokyohive

I’m quite sure this book will become a collector’s item given that it is not sold in any bookstore. Most probably you’d start to hear news of these books being stolen from the school library by crazy fangirls just within a week ^^

Japanese Children Have Low Confidence

Alafista — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:31:49 +0000

Research by Japan Youth Research Institute in 2002 have revealed that Japanese school children are low in self-esteem. This sparked off worries from the Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education (BoE) and the board has decided on embark on their own research in the next academic year.

The 2002 research indicated that only 9.4 percent of Japanese junior high school students are generally happy with themselves, compared to 53.5 percent in the U.S. and 24.3 percent in China.

Further research from last year showed that 29.4 percent of sixth-year elementary and 39.6 percent of third-year junior high school students in the metropolitan area do not consider themselves to have good qualities.

In response to such worrying figures, the Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education (BoE) will be employing specialists in neuroscience and other fields to carry out the research and focus on how to foster self-confidence in children.

Source: Mainichi Japan

I always thought Japanese kids are happy with their pokemen and power rangers. Maybe they think that they are unable to “henshin” thats why they are unhappy.

Promoting Bushidō In School

Alafista — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 02:50:11 +0000

Soon junior high school kids in Japan will find themselves having to take up compulsory budō (training) in school and maybe enjoy the fun of beating up kids they didn’t like in class. =P

This is a new system that will be implemented by 2009 and its main aim is to promote and instill the honorable samurai spirit in these young kids.

So kids will soon be able to beat up one another with sticks or shoot arrows at their teaches.

Source: Mainichi JP

Does that mean soon all the kids will be having duels during recess time?