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 /campus-life/humans-of-asij-connor-corrigan/ /campus-life/humans-of-asij-connor-corrigan/#respond Tue, 01 Feb 2022 00:02:08 +0000 /?p=3533 Reading Time: 3 minutes What’s something you can鈥檛 live without? I think my friends, to be honest. They keep me motivated because a lot of them are ambitious. Whenever I鈥檓 feeling lazy, I think to myself, 鈥淗ow am I ever going to catch up to them if I鈥檓 sitting around playing Minecraft all day?鈥� Then I go out and...]]> /campus-life/humans-of-asij-connor-corrigan/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 /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 /campus-life/humans-of-asij-ronan-takizawa-22/ /campus-life/humans-of-asij-ronan-takizawa-22/#respond Tue, 29 Sep 2020 11:45:56 +0000 /?p=2504 Reading Time: 3 minutes How and why did you get into meditation?聽 鈥淚 used to live in India, and at my school [the American Embassy School in New Delhi], they practiced meditation quite often. Being in India, meditation is very much a part of the culture. Everyone practices yoga in the morning and meditates. When I came back to...]]> /campus-life/humans-of-asij-ronan-takizawa-22/feed/ 0 /features/what-is-life-like-on-an-aircraft-carrier/ /features/what-is-life-like-on-an-aircraft-carrier/#comments Wed, 13 May 2020 00:33:18 +0000 /?p=2424 Reading Time: 5 minutes What weighs 100,000 tons, is 333 meters long, and floats on the water? Not a whale, not a glacier, but a Nimitz class aircraft carrier. The reigning champion in military ship size, the deck on a Nimitz is so large that more than three full-sized football fields could fit on it. Football, however, is not...]]> /features/what-is-life-like-on-an-aircraft-carrier/feed/ 1 /features/flying-on-vapors-those-new-nikes/ /features/flying-on-vapors-those-new-nikes/#comments Tue, 17 Mar 2020 21:40:12 +0000 /?p=2291 Reading Time: 3 minutes What is one thing that all runners dream of? A shoe that makes them faster. Wouldn鈥檛 that be nice? Well, dream no more because one actually exists now.聽 The Nike Vaporfly Next % burst into the running world as a revolutionary shoe. Said to make runners 4% more energy-efficient (faster), the shoes are something straight...]]> /features/flying-on-vapors-those-new-nikes/feed/ 2 /features/technology-learns-from-nature/ /features/technology-learns-from-nature/#comments Tue, 28 Jan 2020 12:00:54 +0000 /?p=2151 Reading Time: 4 minutes Although you may not know what biomimicry is, you definitely have encountered it. The term itself is somewhat self-explanatory: it is a method for the design of materials that draw upon biological processes and beings for inspiration. Hearing this definition may bring images of something preposterous to mind like a horse-shaped vehicle; however, that seemingly...]]> /features/technology-learns-from-nature/feed/ 2