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Shibata, Masako – Comparative Education, 2022
This article examines how and why the US reconstructed Okinawa in Japan, with a focus on the theme of 'self' and 'others' in educational interaction. I argue that during the occupation of Okinawa, the US tried to detach Okinawa from Japan socio-culturally, using the historically based racial tensions between them by promoting the local 'Ryukyuan'…
Descriptors: Self Concept, History, Foreign Policy, Racial Differences
Contested Memory of Okinawa's Colonial and War Past: History Teaching in and beyond Formal Education
Shibata, Masako – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2022
This paper investigates the different ways in which the Battle of Okinawa in World War II is presented in and beyond formal education, using narratives and photos in Japan's state-authorized history textbooks and at a local museum. Specifically, this study examines 15 upper secondary school textbooks issued by six publishing companies from across…
Descriptors: Museums, History Instruction, Teaching Methods, Peace
Taira, Kazufumi – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2023
The study aims to investigate Okinawan identity development among individuals who grew up in Okinawa and came to Hawai'i to study at a university or community college. The grounded theory approach was used for the qualitative inquiry. Nineteen participants were interviewed about their self-descriptions, spaces where their Okinawan consciousness…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Individual Development, College Students
Taira, Kazufumi – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2019
This research examines some modes of Japanization through education in Okinawa where Japanese influences on education have permeated after Japan's annexation. I investigate how a book excerpt entitled "Mizu no Tozai," included in high school textbooks in Okinawa, constructs Japanese identity. "Mizu no Tozai" functions as…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Textbooks, Foreign Countries, High School Students
Taira, Kazufumi; Yamauchi, Lois A. – Journal of International Students, 2018
After Japan's annexation in 1879, Okinawa came under the unprecedented influence of Japanization. This research examined how learning in Hawai'i influenced the Okinawan sense of identity of 11 Okinawan students. Grounded theory analysis of interview transcripts indicated that students became more conscious as Okinawan through encounters and…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Foreign Students, Asians, Hawaiians
Higa, Yoshikazu; Shimojima, Ken – Asian Journal of Education and Training, 2018
This report describes a workshop on the Dynamics of Machinery based on the fabrication of a gyro- bicycle in a summer school program for junior high school students. The workshop was conducted by engineering students who had completed "Creative Research", an engineering design course at the National Institute of Technology, Okinawa…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Junior High School Students, Summer Schools, Summer Programs
Howe, Sondra Wieland – Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, 2021
Commodore Perry and his "Black Ships" opened Japanese harbors for foreign shipping in 1853 and 1854. Music was important for this Japan Expedition that obtained a treaty between the United States and Japan. Bands and singers performed music for parades, impressive ceremonies, religious services, and entertainment for the sailors and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, World History, Western Civilization
Ide, Kanako – Ethics and Education, 2015
This article is an attempt to develop the idea of peace education for adults through the assumption that, compared to peace education for children, educational approaches for adults are as yet undeveloped. This article also assumes that the progress of educational approaches for adults is necessary to the further development of peace education for…
Descriptors: Peace, Adult Education, Educational Practices, Educational Strategies
Nielson, Hailey E.; Reel, Justine J.; Galli, Nick A.; Crookston, Benjamin T.; Miyairi, Maya – Health Educator, 2013
Background and Aims: The purpose of this project was to examine body dissatisfaction and the degree of acculturation to Western media body ideals among Japanese adolescents. Furthermore, sex differences in body esteem were examined between male and female participants. Methods: Male and
female participants (N=158) aged 15 to 18 years in Okinawa,…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Human Body, Body Composition, Foreign Countries
Toyama, Noriko – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
This study, comprising three sub-studies, aims to examine how child-rearing practices vary according to different social circumstances in Japan. By comparing teacher-child interaction at mealtimes in day care centres both on an isolated small island located in Okinawa prefecture, Tarama, and in a large industrialised city, Tokyo, the following was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Care, Teacher Student Relationship, Comparative Analysis
Amaki, Yuki – ProQuest LLC, 2010
In correspondence to an overall decline in the Japanese population, the number of young students in Japan has been dramatically decreasing to the extent that the Japanese government has predicted a situation in which as of 2009 admissions places in Japanese universities will be equal to the number of applicants. Currently, approximately fifty…
Descriptors: Vocational Schools, High School Seniors, Questionnaires, Foreign Countries
Takara, Nobutaka – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Itoman, one of the varieties spoken in the southern part of Okinawa Island, exhibits several tone patterns. Although the tone patterns of Itoman were examined in previous studies (Nakasone ms., Hattori 1959, Oshiro 1963, and Hirayama et al. 1966), they ended at the descriptive level, and no phonological accounts for the surface tone patterns were…
Descriptors: Phonology, Intonation, Language Patterns, Language Variation
Takizawa, Tohru; Kondo, Tsuyoshi; Tanaka, Osamu; Wake, Norie; Naka, Kuoichi; Todoriki, Hidemi; Ishizu, Hiroshi – Early Child Development and Care, 2009
Grasping both the extent and the actual situation of psychosomatic disorders, neurotic habits and developmental disorders of infancy and childhood is vital for their prevention and for taking appropriate measures to deal with the current situation. The purpose of this study is to explore the current situation of infant mental health in Japanese…
Descriptors: Child Care Centers, Mental Health, Infants, Developmental Disabilities
Israel, Kawana N. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this research study was to explore how parents whose child was enrolled in an elementary school or middle school on Okinawa, Japan compared the referral processes leading to their child's placement in special education. In order for the parent to be eligible for the study, their child received special education services at their…
Descriptors: Military Personnel, Parent Attitudes, Special Education, Public Schools
Petrucci, Peter R.; Miyahira, Katsuyuki – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2009
This article uses Jernudd and Neustupny's (1987) theory of language management to address the planning, management and distribution of linguistic resources at the 4th Worldwide Uchinaanchu Festival (WUF), a diaspora festival held in Okinawa, Japan. WUF organizers--from Okinawa and diaspora communities abroad--were concerned with both international…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Linguistics, Multilingualism, Cooperation