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of the kids in my family. My younger sister is 6 years old, and she just started
going to elementary school. We have a baby brother who was born last year.
there are only 12 kids in my grade. And we have all been in school together ever since
kindergarten, so we all know each other really well. (More about my school on !)
especially the giant samurai beetles. I like drawing the different kinds of bugs Ive found.
I have created my own manga (comic strip) character, a samurai beetle who saves the
world from destruction. (More about manga on !)
with my parents in Tokyo, but we travel a lot, too. (Check out my favorite places, on
!) This year I turned 12 years old. My grandma calls me a very active
girl. My favorite sport is skiing, which my whole family does in the winter, and
in the summer, I love to swim.
to juku (cram school) after school, to prepare for the entrance exams for junior high
school. I guess my grandma is right: I have quite a busy life! (Learn more about a typical
day in my life on !)
on !) My dad is a salaryman. He works for a big advertising company. My mom is
a professor at Sophia University. (More about my family on !)
3,000 islands stretching for 3,000 kilometers
(1,864 miles) from north to south. The four main
islands are Hokkaido , Honshu , Shikoku , and
Kyushu . The total area of the country is about the
same as the country of Germany, or the U.S. state
of California.
the Ring of Fire, so there are many hot springs,
earthquakes, and volcanoes. 80% of the land is
covered by mountains. Mt. Fuji is Japans tallest
mountain. It is 3,776 meters (12,388 feet) tall.
school that Japan is
shaped like a seahorse.
Can you see that by
looking at this
map?
standing in the area where the first atomic bomb exploded
on August 6, 1945.
(shrine gateway) appears to rise out of the sea at high tide.
protect villagers from the heavy snow in this region.
Matsuri, the Japanese Igloo Festival!
world, connects Honshu and Hokkaido.
Japan its a symbol for long life.
for children. Companies start the new business year. And throughout
most of Japan, the cherry blossoms bloom!
are in full bloom, people make special visits to parks and other spots
with many cherry trees. They enjoy picnicking under the beautiful
blossoms, and sometimes sing their favorite songs with a portable
karaoke machine!
played on a koto , a traditional Japanese stringed instrument.
is a 17-syllable poem that references the season. There are a few basic rules for
writing a proper haiku :
season you are writing about. For example: cherry blossoms
indicate spring, cicadas mean summer, maple leaves mean fall,
snow means winter.
feelings about it? Here is an example to inspire you, by the Japanese poet Issa
places in Japan
are
the large park area where many historic buildings are.
On your way to visit the temples, you can pet the
deer and feed them special rice crackers.
Buddha Hall of Todai-ji Temple. The Buddha is 15 meters
(49.2 feet) tall and it weighs about 300 tons! One fun
thing for kids is to crawl through a hole at the base of a
pillar behind the statue. They say the hole is exactly the
same size as the Great Buddhas nostril, and that if you
crawl through it, you will be healthy and happy in life.
and parade in Aomori. Everyone can participate! That is,
as long as you wear the proper costume, called haneto .
from it, and special shoes. The festivals main attraction is the
nighttime parade of floats that are actually gigantic paper lanterns
shaped like famous samurai warriors. They are made of bamboo
or wood frames covered with paper. They are lit from inside with
hundreds of light bulbs. Its an amazing sight to see!
different monuments. There is the A-bomb Dome, which I had seen
pictures of, but is huge and scary to see with your own eyes. Then
there is the Childrens Peace Monument, which displays thousands
of origami cranes , sent from children all over the world!
that were frozen in time , at exactly 8:15 AM on August 6, 1945,
the moment when the bomb was dropped. Its kind of spooky,
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