Marginalization of Contemporary Japanese Youth

Contemporary Chinese Youth and the State

HAVING PUT A VERY successful Olympics in the rearview mirror, China entered 2009 with a set of new challenges, brought on in part by the worldwide economic crisis and the resulting demands to ensure necessary employment levels and in part by the familiar issue ofmaintaining social stability.While the hope, presumably, was to move reasonably smoothly from the Olympics of August 2008 to the celeb...

Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese

Construction of 100 million words balanced corpus of contemporary written Japanese is underway at the National Institute for Japanese Language. The unique property of the corpus consists in that the majority of its sample texts are selected randomly from well-defined statistical populations covering wide range of written texts.

Body Weight among Japanese Youth

In the last 20 years the average change in BMI among Japanese youth is minimal, but significant changes appear when the categories of overweight/obesity and underweight are investigated within gender. Now intervention programs for Japanese youth on weight management need to be developed. To address the issue, there are a series of steps that could be undertaken utilizing theory of behavior chan...

English Acquisition and Japanese Language Maintenance among Japanese - American Youth

Video games: A significant cognitive artifact of contemporary youth culture

Video games are not just an important cultural artifact of youth culture but have considerable cognitive worth. Centered within an information processing theory and mediating processes’ framework, the empirical qualitative study investigated, via stimulated recall methods, the thinking skills and strategies of five teenagers while playing an action-adventure video game. Sixteen types and 600 in...