The Student News Site of The American School in Japan Mon, 11 Apr 2022 00:02:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 /features/womens-history-month-female-faculty/ /features/womens-history-month-female-faculty/#respond Sun, 10 Apr 2022 12:51:19 +0000 /?p=3716 Reading Time: < 1 minute In the United States, March was recognized as Women’s History Month, a month to commemorate the outstanding contributions of women to society and in history. In the past century, the world has slowly but surely taken steps in the right direction to achieve gender equality. Yet, many women鈥攅specially those with intersecting marginalized identities鈥攁re still not...]]> /features/womens-history-month-female-faculty/feed/ 0 /features/connecting-asij-alumni/ /features/connecting-asij-alumni/#respond Sat, 02 Apr 2022 06:51:03 +0000 /?p=3690 Reading Time: 6 minutes Hanabi recently had the opportunity to sit down with Ms. Liu, the Alumni Coordinator, and Mr. Wilce, the Director of Communications, to learn more about ASIJ鈥檚 Alumni Office. They told us all about their work, from the purpose and history of the Alumni Office to the many great things we have to look forward to...]]> /features/connecting-asij-alumni/feed/ 0 /news/a-hidden-epidemic-the-murders-of-black-transgender-women/ /news/a-hidden-epidemic-the-murders-of-black-transgender-women/#comments Thu, 17 Mar 2022 02:57:04 +0000 /?p=3669 Reading Time: 3 minutes In 2021, record-breaking numbers of transgender and gender non-conforming individuals were violently killed. The Human Rights Campaign reports that the number is at least 56鈥攁 27% increase from the year before. The vast majority of these victims were people of color, with Black and Latina trans women disproportionately at risk. These individuals were killed by...]]> /news/a-hidden-epidemic-the-murders-of-black-transgender-women/feed/ 1 /opinion/hostile-architecture-marginalization-by-design/ /opinion/hostile-architecture-marginalization-by-design/#respond Fri, 14 Jan 2022 06:27:25 +0000 /?p=3475 Reading Time: 3 minutes The Covid-19 pandemic has slowly but surely begun to ease its tight grip on the world. Although still below pre-pandemic levels, employment is back on the rise, and economic hardship has fallen from its peak in 2020. However, those that have been hit especially hard by the pandemic are still experiencing the effects of those...]]> /opinion/hostile-architecture-marginalization-by-design/feed/ 0 /news/school-shootings-the-american-back-to-school-norm/ /news/school-shootings-the-american-back-to-school-norm/#respond Thu, 04 Nov 2021 13:04:29 +0000 /?p=3325 Reading Time: 4 minutes After a grueling year of distance learning, many schools across the United States have happily re-opened their campuses to students for the new school year. Along with this, though, comes an all-too-familiar consequence: a rise in school shootings.聽 Although 2020 and the former half of 2021 saw surges in firearm sales and a record number...]]> /news/school-shootings-the-american-back-to-school-norm/feed/ 0 /features/a-chat-with-ms-zm/ /features/a-chat-with-ms-zm/#respond Wed, 06 Oct 2021 07:34:19 +0000 /?p=3129 Reading Time: 6 minutes Hanabi recently had the opportunity to sit down and speak with our new high school principal, Ms. Zuber-Meehan. She joins us at ASIJ after 16 years at the Singapore American School, where she served as an English teacher and as the high school deputy principal. We spoke to Ms. Zuber-Meehan about her goals, important life...]]> /features/a-chat-with-ms-zm/feed/ 0 /campus-life/darumas-50th-anniversary-reflecting-on-our-past/ /campus-life/darumas-50th-anniversary-reflecting-on-our-past/#respond Sat, 12 Jun 2021 12:33:15 +0000 /?p=3095 Reading Time: 6 minutes As the American School in Japan鈥檚 student-led literary and art magazine, Daruma, celebrates its 50th anniversary, we are naturally inclined to reflect on how, since the birth of the magazine, our world has reshaped itself.聽 In the past few decades, the world has seen dramatic transformations. The way we share information with others has changed...]]> /campus-life/darumas-50th-anniversary-reflecting-on-our-past/feed/ 0 /news/anti-asian-hate-crimes-one-more-disease-plaguing-america/ /news/anti-asian-hate-crimes-one-more-disease-plaguing-america/#comments Wed, 28 Apr 2021 00:26:52 +0000 /?p=2949 Reading Time: 3 minutes On April 14, 2020, a man in Texas was charged for the stabbing of an Asian-American family鈥攊ncluding two children ages two and six. The attacker claimed he did it because he thought they were 鈥淐hinese and infecting people with the coronavirus.鈥� On January 28, 2021, 84-year-old Thai man Vicha Ratanapakdee was brutally attacked on the...]]> /news/anti-asian-hate-crimes-one-more-disease-plaguing-america/feed/ 5 /features/why-jojo-siwas-coming-out-is-so-significant/ /features/why-jojo-siwas-coming-out-is-so-significant/#comments Sat, 13 Feb 2021 04:06:21 +0000 /?p=2889 Reading Time: 2 minutes JoJo Siwa is a 17-year-old dancer and singer from Nebraska who rose to fame through the once-popular reality TV show Dance Moms. She is known for her upbeat persona, child-like exuberance, and most notably, her sparkly bows.聽 Siwa recently took to the popular social media platforms TikTok and Twitter to come out as a part...]]> /features/why-jojo-siwas-coming-out-is-so-significant/feed/ 1 /news/diversity-grows-in-the-us-congress/ /news/diversity-grows-in-the-us-congress/#respond Tue, 15 Dec 2020 01:24:49 +0000 /?p=2763 Reading Time: 3 minutes In the past few election cycles, the United States government as a whole has become increasingly diverse. While it does continue to be disproportionately dominated by white and male politicians, things are slowly changing. The 2020 American election was record-breaking in many important ways. Senator Kamala Harris made history as the first female, first woman...]]> /news/diversity-grows-in-the-us-congress/feed/ 0