Japan@SLNgeog

7-11 Chris Durbin's weblinks on Japan

Japan is one of the most studied countries in the UK.

1. JFET www.jfet.org.uk puts on conferences around the country. Their newsletter has many teaching ideas. On the website, there is a range of learning activities for KS3 on Farming and Tourism and you can also arrange a school link.

You can also find out how schools used the Japan 2001 festival www.japan2001.org.uk to give pupils a richer understanding of Japanese culture and geography.

2. JIN http://jin.jcic.or.jp/ is an excellent gateway to new sites, including a superb atlas and regional tour. This includes Kids Web Japan http://jin.jcic.or.jp/kidsweb/ A clickable Map of Japan http://jin.jcic.or.jp/kidsweb/japan/map/j_regi.html

3. Images of Japan www.ppsimages.com/spj/frame_spj.html has a whole range of images to illustrate landscapes, industry, people etc. Enjoy!

4. Government sites on Japan include the Embassy of Japan in the UK www.embjapan.org.uk has links to possibilities of a school visits and other projects as well as some well described japanese geography. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs www.mofa.go.jp has information on Interdependence.

5. The Japan Weather Association www.jwa.or.jp/english/index.html has weather satellite images and other weather information, (Watch out for Typhoons!

6. Japanese tectonic activity is well described on the web. Some notable sites are:

Earthquake Research Institute http://www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp/
Geological Survey of Japan www.gsj.jp/HomePage.html

7.Current Eruptions in Japan http://hakone.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp/vrc/erup/erup.html

Mount Unzen home page http://hakone.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp/unzen/

8.Kobe Earthquake

Eyewitness Reports www.sln.org.uk/geography/wl1a.htm
Kobe City Home Page http://www.city.kobe.jp/index-e.html
The Great Hanshin Earthquake - 5 years on http://www.city.kobe.jp/cityoffice/15/020/quake/saiken/#english
Glyn Burroughs has created an assessment on this site of the quake http://www.sln.org.uk/geography/enquiry/we39.htm

9.Interdependence - Tesco in Japan could be used to look at overseas investment and interconnections between the UK and Japan. www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,5-709979,00.html www.mapinfo.co.uk/download/customer/Tesco.pdf (This is about Tesco using MapInfo to help with expansion into Asia) www.thisismoney.com/20021227/nm57280.html http://japan.internet.com/ecnews/20001004/9.html
http://japan.internet.com/ecnews/20000720/8.html
www.siamfuture.com/AsianNews/AsianNewsTxt.asp?aid=2410

10.Can you name one

11.Can you name one?

The web addresses were correct at the time of going to press! If you have problems finding a site, type in the name of the site in a search engine.

This page last updated 29 April 2004

This page was last updated 29/04/04