youth

    Top: Regional: Asia: Japan: Society_and_Culture: Youth:

• - Cute Japanese girls fashions; ganguro, uniforms, parapara, and print club.
  
• - Japanese pop music, slang Japanese, high school life, Harajuku fashion and Q&A.
  
• - Japan Times article on rising numbers of sexually transmitted diseases in the Roppongi district of Tokyo.
  
• - Describes the difficulty in addressing the topic of enjo kosai as well as various reactions to it.
  
• - Examines the changing traditional family paradigm and growing up in modern Japan today.
  
• - Shows a day in the life of a typical elementary student, photos, language classes in Japan and China, and students at school and in after school activities.
  
• - Web page "of kids, by kids and for kids", bringing out the creativity in kids of all ages around the world. Available both in English and Japanese
  
• - Place to find pen pals of Japanese kids and correspond with them in English, as well as learn about Japan.
  
• - A quiz game and introduction to Japanese basic information.
  
• - nature and climate, region, tradition and culture, economy and industry, school life, and language.
  
• - Article on how some hallucinogenic plants are legal and for sale in Japan.
  
• - Discussion forum for socio-political and economic issues concerning the U.S., Japan, and China.
  
• - A survey says far fewer girls engage in accepting money from middle-aged men for dates than the media hype suggests.
  
• - Gives history and activities of errant Japanese youth joining motorcycle gangs and violence.
  
• - Shows the growing popularity of costumes and costume parties among the young.
  
• - Gives several theories on youth living with their parents longer than the past, as well as challenges and subject resources.
  
• - Living traditions, survival information, and young Tokyo.
  
• - A theoretical discussion of popular American based theories of social capital in the context of Japanese children.
  
• - An article on teen prostitution in Japan, interviewing the girls who did it and why.
  
• - A collection of essays by Kanagawa Prefectural Senior High School of Foreign Studies students and Walkersville High School students from Maryland.
  
• - Examines how the Japanese intense commitment to children mirrors the nation's conception of its past, present, and future.