The Student News Site of The American School in Japan Mon, 10 Jan 2022 10:06:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 /features/3-11-in-six-words/ /features/3-11-in-six-words/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2021 23:00:48 +0000 /?p=2909 Reading Time: 2 minutes Ten years ago, at 2:46 pm on March 11, disaster struck. Buildings swayed and hearts sank as a magnitude 9.1 earthquake hit from the shores of the Tohoku region. An hour later, 30-foot waves assailed Japan’s coasts, plowing into the lives of community after community. Three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station underwent...]]> /features/3-11-in-six-words/feed/ 2 /news/coming-of-age-in-pandemic-times/ /news/coming-of-age-in-pandemic-times/#respond Wed, 03 Feb 2021 10:31:24 +0000 /?p=2885 Reading Time: 2 minutes The second Monday of every January is a day of celebration in Japan. It is Seijin-no-Hi, or Coming of Age Day (seijin 成人 meaning adult, and hi 日 meaning day). This public holiday celebrates those who have turned 20 in the previous year or will soon be turning 20. It is a day of honoring...]]> /news/coming-of-age-in-pandemic-times/feed/ 0 /arts-entertainment/the-endurance-of-forrest-gump/ /arts-entertainment/the-endurance-of-forrest-gump/#respond Sun, 06 Dec 2020 23:42:19 +0000 /?p=2738 Reading Time: 2 minutes Forrest Gump, a 1986 novel by Winston Groom later adapted into a movie, is a story about a man with a low IQ finding himself in the center of many major historical events. To name a few of his feats, Forrest was a college football star, fought in the Vietnam War, and became the head...]]> /arts-entertainment/the-endurance-of-forrest-gump/feed/ 0 /campus-life/mutually-assured-construction/ /campus-life/mutually-assured-construction/#comments Fri, 30 Oct 2020 02:37:24 +0000 /?p=2603 Reading Time: 2 minutes Ever since I came to ASIJ in fourth grade, one of the things that I’ve always looked forward to in the fall was the High School play. Every year, a group of talented actors comes together to tell a wonderful story that no one can forget. Every show I’ve watched was memorable because I could...]]> /campus-life/mutually-assured-construction/feed/ 1 /campus-life/the-teacher-perspective-of-hybrid-learning/ /campus-life/the-teacher-perspective-of-hybrid-learning/#comments Tue, 06 Oct 2020 00:08:20 +0000 /?p=2527 Reading Time: 2 minutes Living in the middle of a worldwide pandemic, we began a school year that is quite different from the past. But we students aren’t the only ones facing new challenges: Teachers are also learning how to navigate hybrid learning. Ms. Tricia Apel, a teacher in the math department, said that distance learning made her realize...]]> /campus-life/the-teacher-perspective-of-hybrid-learning/feed/ 2