The Student News Site of The American School in Japan Fri, 12 Mar 2021 02:06:02 +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鈥檚 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 /features/interviews/our-bus-drivers-who-are-they/ /features/interviews/our-bus-drivers-who-are-they/#respond Tue, 01 Dec 2020 02:59:34 +0000 /?p=2633 Reading Time: < 1 minute We see them every day. They鈥檙e an integral part of the ASIJ community, making sure we get to school and return home safely. We know them as our bus drivers, but they are so much more. In honor of staff appreciation month, the Hanabi team interviewed ASIJ鈥檚 34 bus drivers to find out more about...]]> /features/interviews/our-bus-drivers-who-are-they/feed/ 0 /features/diving-into-social-and-emotional-learning-with-dr-augustine/ /features/diving-into-social-and-emotional-learning-with-dr-augustine/#respond Tue, 13 Oct 2020 04:36:33 +0000 /?p=2551 Reading Time: 4 minutes It鈥檚 the end of the day, students streaming out of the entryway towards the buses that will take them home. Near the roundabout is Dr. Augustine, our new associate principal. Seeing him ahead, I wave. 鈥淗ow was your day?鈥� he asks. 鈥淕reat!鈥� I respond. This is normally the point at which such exchanges of traditional...]]> /features/diving-into-social-and-emotional-learning-with-dr-augustine/feed/ 0 /news/the-strangeness-of-ap-2020/ /news/the-strangeness-of-ap-2020/#comments Thu, 21 May 2020 04:04:03 +0000 /?p=2444 Reading Time: 3 minutes In these last few months, the coronavirus has impacted every facet of our lives. As high-school students finish up AP testing, the extent of this impact is felt with a new intensity. While a majority of exam programs worldwide鈥攕uch as the worldwide IB exams, the English A levels, the French Baccalaur茅at鈥攁nnounced that they would cancel...]]> /news/the-strangeness-of-ap-2020/feed/ 1 /news/distance-learning-a-look-back-and-a-step-forward/ /news/distance-learning-a-look-back-and-a-step-forward/#comments Tue, 21 Apr 2020 00:01:48 +0000 /?p=2371 Reading Time: 4 minutes 鈥淚n the beginning, I thought this was a minor nuisance with not much potential to cause any large-scale problems. But after seeing the stock market experience its worst few weeks since the financial crisis in 2008, hundreds of thousands dying, countries declaring national emergencies and halting travel, I鈥檝e begun to think this may be one...]]> /news/distance-learning-a-look-back-and-a-step-forward/feed/ 1 /news/distance-learning-a-look-back-and-a-step-forward/attachment/screen-shot-2020-04-17-at-7-52-38-marine-savoure/ /news/distance-learning-a-look-back-and-a-step-forward/attachment/screen-shot-2020-04-17-at-7-52-38-marine-savoure/#respond Mon, 20 Apr 2020 23:56:16 +0000 /wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-17-at-7.52.38-Marine-Savoure.png /news/distance-learning-a-look-back-and-a-step-forward/attachment/screen-shot-2020-04-17-at-7-52-38-marine-savoure/feed/ 0 /news/distance-learning-a-look-back-and-a-step-forward/attachment/screen-shot-2020-03-30-at-21-01-16-marine-savoure/ /news/distance-learning-a-look-back-and-a-step-forward/attachment/screen-shot-2020-03-30-at-21-01-16-marine-savoure/#respond Mon, 20 Apr 2020 23:56:14 +0000 /wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-03-30-at-21.01.16-Marine-Savoure.png /news/distance-learning-a-look-back-and-a-step-forward/attachment/screen-shot-2020-03-30-at-21-01-16-marine-savoure/feed/ 0 /news/distance-learning-a-look-back-and-a-step-forward/attachment/screen-shot-2020-03-30-at-20-58-58-marine-savoure/ /news/distance-learning-a-look-back-and-a-step-forward/attachment/screen-shot-2020-03-30-at-20-58-58-marine-savoure/#respond Mon, 20 Apr 2020 23:56:13 +0000 /wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-03-30-at-20.58.58-Marine-Savoure.png /news/distance-learning-a-look-back-and-a-step-forward/attachment/screen-shot-2020-03-30-at-20-58-58-marine-savoure/feed/ 0 /news/distance-learning-a-look-back-and-a-step-forward/attachment/turned-on-laptop-computer-beside-glass-window-2029163-marine-savoure/ /news/distance-learning-a-look-back-and-a-step-forward/attachment/turned-on-laptop-computer-beside-glass-window-2029163-marine-savoure/#respond Mon, 20 Apr 2020 23:55:49 +0000 /wp-content/uploads/2020/04/turned-on-laptop-computer-beside-glass-window-2029163-Marine-Savoure.jpeg /news/distance-learning-a-look-back-and-a-step-forward/attachment/turned-on-laptop-computer-beside-glass-window-2029163-marine-savoure/feed/ 0 /campus-life/humans-of-asij-sean-mcguire-20/ /campus-life/humans-of-asij-sean-mcguire-20/#respond Thu, 19 Mar 2020 02:22:51 +0000 /?p=2307 Reading Time: 2 minutes “Whenever I鈥檓 playing guitar, whenever I feel inspired, it鈥檚 like I鈥檓 in a trance. I鈥檝e never really owned a video game console, so this has been my means of passing time forever. Guitar is a way for me to express myself or communicate my emotions. It鈥檚 fun to play. As with anything you do, once...]]> /campus-life/humans-of-asij-sean-mcguire-20/feed/ 0