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Glimpses of Japan Through Comics
Content:	Other
Available From:	Not Commercially Available
Media Type:	Curriculum Unit
Release Date:	1985
Audience:	Elementary Education Middle/Junior High School
Running Time:	Not Applicable
Physical Description:	softcover, spiral bound book, 75 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Language:	English
Author:	by Caron Allen; with comics by Ryohei Saigan; University of Illlinois at Urbana-Champaign, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies
Resource Library Number:	EAJCU 30
Subject:	Description and Travel Language and Literature
Subheading:	Folklore Local customs
Region:	East Asia
Country:	Japan

Contains lesson units titled: The New Year in Japan; Education; Coffee Shops, Discos, and Bars; Martial Arts and Kendo; Housing; Girl's Day; One Japanese Homemaker; Pachinko; and Japanese Ghosts and Cats. Each lesson unit includes an introductory essay, a multi-page comic strip, and frame-by-frame explanations of the cultural background of comic strip elements. Appropriate for grades 4-9.

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