The Student News Site of The American School in Japan Tue, 18 Apr 2023 23:41:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 /campus-life/a-tale-of-two-schools/ /campus-life/a-tale-of-two-schools/#comments Tue, 18 Apr 2023 22:58:40 +0000 /?p=4211 Reading Time: 7 minutes The writer was a student at ASIJ until 2022, when he transferred to a large American public high school for his senior year. The American School in Japan (ASIJ): a private international school located in Tokyo, Japan. McLean High School (MHS): a public high school in Fairfax County, Virginia. ASIJ has a high school population...]]> /campus-life/a-tale-of-two-schools/feed/ 1 /arts-entertainment/film/the-morality-of-the-dark-knight/ /arts-entertainment/film/the-morality-of-the-dark-knight/#respond Wed, 08 Jun 2022 03:13:02 +0000 /?p=3876 Reading Time: 3 minutes Disclaimer: The following article contains spoilers for the movie The Dark Knight Directed by Christopher Nolan, the second installment of his Batman series was released on August 2, 2008. In The Dark Knight, 聽Batman faces a new villain, the Joker, whose one purpose is to bring Batman and society to their knees.聽 Throughout the film,...]]> /arts-entertainment/film/the-morality-of-the-dark-knight/feed/ 0 /features/astronomy-into-the-past/ /features/astronomy-into-the-past/#respond Wed, 08 Jun 2022 02:10:07 +0000 /?p=3865 Reading Time: 4 minutes Many of you may recognize this revolutionary image taken by the Hubble telescope in 1995. Titled the 鈥淧illars of Creation,鈥� it became Hubble鈥檚 most famous image and a testament to scientific advancement. The Hubble space telescope has given the world a glimpse into the universe. But now it has a successor: the James Webb Space...]]> /features/astronomy-into-the-past/feed/ 0 /features/powering-the-world-and-your-life/ /features/powering-the-world-and-your-life/#respond Sun, 23 Jan 2022 12:08:17 +0000 /?p=3489 Reading Time: 4 minutes Electricity production is one of the biggest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions. While the public view of emitters contributing to climate change is overwhelmingly negative, electricity production has mostly been protected from criticism, given that it is the backbone of modern society, powering everything from machines, to entire households, to the internet. This resource has...]]> /features/powering-the-world-and-your-life/feed/ 0 /features/your-guide-to-classroom-etiquette/ /features/your-guide-to-classroom-etiquette/#respond Tue, 30 Nov 2021 10:45:19 +0000 /?p=3381 Reading Time: 11 minutes Have you ever forgotten an assignment was due? Been a bit too late to class? Despite the relative frequency of these situations, there are no clear-cut answer sheets to help high school students navigate the inevitable awkwardness. Are apologies expected? Should you act like nothing happened?聽 To answer these questions, we asked teachers from every...]]> /features/your-guide-to-classroom-etiquette/feed/ 0 /features/digging-deep-for-cryptocurrency/ /features/digging-deep-for-cryptocurrency/#respond Sun, 10 Oct 2021 05:49:06 +0000 /?p=3146 Reading Time: 4 minutes Throughout history, people have used a system of bartering to trade with others to satisfy their needs. As civilization evolved, this rudimentary bartering evolved into currency, which is essentially the use of money to trade for goods and services. Starting in 2009, currency took a big step towards the future: it became digital. These digital...]]> /features/digging-deep-for-cryptocurrency/feed/ 0