Japan

Japan’s physical environment

Your task is to complete this slide presentation following the instructions on the slides:



Japan’s Hi-Tech Industry

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1) Watch the Vision 2010 media clip about future developments. Make a list of the ways in which the ‘vision’ has happened or has not?

2) Read the article “Face of the Future”

and answer the questions from: Listen to the robot teacher voice at [|http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php]

3) Read the newspaper articles “Japan's army of robot workers”, “Tokyo ponders the need for 30m foreign workers” and “Bend it like Beckham”.

a) What are the ‘big’ and ‘small’ possibilities for Japan’s future? b) Why might the ‘small’ solution be difficult to achieve? c) With a partner, produce flow charts to show the consequences of both the ‘big’ and the ‘small’ options.

4) Go to [] and choose one of the innovations shown. Read about it and prepare to tell the class about your findings. Try to say why it is important and what impact it might have on people’s lives in the future.

5) Either: Work in groups to act out a scene from Japan’s future as either a big or a small country. Or: Research the ways in which robots could be used to replace human workers in the future.


 * Japanese people and society **

Outline of the topic

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What are the worldwide consequences of current trends? Try the UN website? []