Message from kheukrodt

[Anonymous]

Post war Japan:

Very good job of explaining the “Economic Miracle” however I really enjoyed the discussion regarding the Trends of youth of the 1990’s… the concept of the Shut-ins was interesting to me, but hundreds of thousands, actually scared me…I know of a few students at my high school that have gotten into this lifestyle; Where they sleep in, then spend the entire day and all hours of the evening playing games, go to bed in the wee hours of the morning. Wake up and do it all over again. Some of these students have gone to independent study and it is getting harder for them to maintain relationships with their friends I personally blame the parents but I wonder what the correlation is between them and the young people in Japan.

For four years I have been the advisor for a Anime club at my school, each week the students came into my room and watched these cartoon films…I never paid attention to what was on the screen, I usually graded paper and made sure that what was in the screen was appropriate for a school setting…After today’s talk about the films and the message presented I think I missed out on an entire genre that I could use to teach about the environment…missed opportunities but a learning opportunity. Guess what I will incorporate into my Geography class when talking about Human Environmental interaction…yep Spirited Away! Thanks for an informative and interesting session.