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The Wisdom of Mr. Miyagi

(via www.asianweek.com) 1 day ago

The Wisdom of Mr. Miyagi

To assume that true learning only takes place in a classroom is a fallacy. One of my generation's greatest teachers never stepped in front of a class full of students, but his wisdom cannot be denied. He is Mr. Miyagi...

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Ma Ying-jeou in Time Magazine

(via michaelturton.blogspot.c...) 2 days ago

Ma Ying-jeou in Time Magazine

BLOG ADMIN NOTE: Blogger's comment function is very screwed up: it does not show comments when I in fact have them, and it also invariably shows fewer comments than I actually have.It was a gorgeous day today...

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Beijing 2008 = Berlin 1936?

(via ampontan.wordpress.com) 3 days ago

NOVELIST AND AUTHOR Mark Mordue has some discouraging words about the Beijing Olympics in an op-ed piece appearing in The Age (of Australia) titled Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon:n(T)hese Games are about symbolically ...

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Louisiana School Board Considers English-Only Grad Speeches

(via www.asianweek.com) 6 days ago

Louisiana School Board Considers English-Only Grad Speeches

Vietnamese students provoke potential policy nIn Louisiana's Terrebonne Parish, Ellender Memorial High School co-valedictorians and cousins Hue and Cindy Vo delivered graduation speeches on May 19, unaware that...

Tags: japanese, new, people, american, english, school, asia, foreign, director, united states, culture, indian, language, students, rights, parents, high school, education, vietnamese, youth


English teacher makes Japanese kids pose for "shocker" photo

(via www.japanprobe.com) 8 days ago

English teacher makes Japanese kids pose for

It's stupid and immature for a teacher to trick a group of Japanese students into making sexual hand gestures for a photograph, and even worse for that person to then send it to their friends for laughs.

Tags: japanese, group, english, students, photo, teacher, flickr


Sue Lee Tells Supes To 'Play Nice'

(via www.asianweek.com) 16 days ago

It wasn't choreographed. Sue Lee would not kickoff the campaign at the Richmond District Neighborhood Center without mom, Belva. When it started, Lee emphasized foremost her parenting qualifications for S.F. district....

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Japanese For Japanese Language

(via japanvisitor.blogspot.co...) 16 days ago

It's useful when learning any language to know the words that describe the grammar and make-up of the target language. Teachers of other languages to Japanese students may benefit from knowing certain linguistic....

Tags: japan, japanese, chinese, world, tokyo, war, language, students, child, mother, modern, koreans


Money can't buy Tibetan love

(via search.japantimes.co.jp) 16 days ago

By all measures Tibet's economy is booming. In the past 30 years its growth rate has outstripped the rest of China's, 10.4 percent to 9.8 percent year on year. The result is that the vast majority of Tibetans have been...

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Students Rap as Positive Artistic Outlet for Personal Frustrations

(via www.asianweek.com) 16 days ago

Students Rap as Positive Artistic Outlet for Personal Frustrations

SAN FRANCISCO - "As an Asian, I was raised to keep quiet," said sixteen-year-old Ajay.nBut the Chinese American received the loudest applause out of all twelve spoken-word performers on July 18 at Mama Calizo's Voice Factory.

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Old books and the Olympics

(via www.danwei.org) 16 days ago

Old books and the Olympics

Book collector Yuan Shang enjoys accumulating foreign language dictionaries. "By reading dictionaries," he says, "we can see how western ideas were accepted by the Chinese people."

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The nascent Japanese eco-skepticism

(via ampontan.wordpress.com) 20 days ago

The nascent Japanese eco-skepticism

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

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Japanese and South Korean editorials on Takeshima: A comparison

(via ampontan.wordpress.com) 21 days ago

Japanese and South Korean editorials on Takeshima: A comparison

ONE POINT I often try to make here is that the Japanese media is not as biased in a nationalistic sense as some people claim. Bias, as with beauty, is in the (biased) eye of the beholder, but I think the tone of the ...

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Sports students in Beijing dream of becoming Olympic stars

(via www.channelnewsasia.com) 21 days ago

BEIJING: In the run-up to the Beijing Olympics, anticipation is running high over how many medals China can garner in the Games and the sense of excitement is felt strongly in sports schools across the country.

Tags: china, beijing, games, olympic, olympics, students


Help: Benefit Concert for Burma and Sichuan

(via www.asianweek.com) 21 days ago

Help: Benefit Concert for Burma and Sichuan

As busy and crazy as our lives are here in the U.S., and with high gas prices today, there are millions of people in a much worse situation than we are," said entrepreneur Curtis Chin. "This is a great chance...

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Nintendo DS used to teach English

(via www.nt2099.com) 22 days ago

Nintendo DS used to teach English

In a recent article by Matsuzawa Midori for the Daily Yomiuri, Matsuzawa wrote, "There was nothing particularly unusual about an English lesson for about 30 first-year students late last month at Tokyo Joshi Gakuen...

Tags: japan, tokyo, english, school, students


Fashion, Singing and Dancing

(via www.asianweek.com) 23 days ago

"Fashion with the Stars will showcase a bevy of models at a fashion show and luncheon featuring the fall collection of Betsey Johnson, men's wear by Brooks Brothers and children's fashions by Dottie Doolittle on August...

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Asian Erasmus

(via search.japantimes.co.jp) 23 days ago

The Japanese government revealed plans last week to set up a network of academic exchange programs throughout Asia. Based on the European ERASMUS program, which helps students transfer and accumulate credits between...

Tags: japanese, government, asian, asia, minister, prime minister, students, education


Students offer reward for Rice arrest

(via www.msnbc.msn.com) 24 days ago

Students offer reward for Rice arrest

New Zealand students protesting the Iraq war offered a reward to anyone who carries out a citizen's arrest of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during her visit to the country Friday.

Tags: new, visit, war, students, rice, arrest, iraq


Army students' mercy mission

(via www.theasiannews.co.uk) 27 days ago

A TEAM of student soldiers is going to India to help 450 disabled children.

Tags: india, children, students, student, army, soldiers