How has Japan Changed?

‘A guide to Traditional and Modern Japanese life in the 21st Century’

Your guide:• Would include at least 3 contrasts between traditional and

modern living in Japan. You could present information about, for example, customs, family life, housing, food, holidays, sport, clothes and industry. Writing a description for each of the changes.

• Should include pictures/drawings or sketches to illustrate the contrasts between traditional and modern lifestyles.

• Could included explanation about your opinion on the changes in lifestyle: – Do you think the changes benefit Japan? – Who do you think likes or dislikes the changes?

Use A4 Paper, available in class, can be landscape, portrait, folded in 2, 3, 4 etcWill be cross assessed in class against the above Would, Should, Could (D,E,F)

Before you pack up – TEST YOUR PARTNER

a) Can you explain why Japan developed its own traditions?

b) Why was change slow before the ‘economic miracle’?

c) Can you name and describe three changes that have changed a lot in the past 60 years?