society & culture, including school uniforms

wiki-books for language/society of Japan

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Japanese_History

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Living_in_Japan

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Japanese

Drag and drop the prefectures in Japan, www.mapmsg.com/games/statetris/japan/

School uniforms [sent by Rie Tsuboi]

...these sites are fun and useful when you talk about school uniforms in Japan.

Recent history, http://ozaki.jp/archives/wear.html?r=l

and http://www.tombow.gr.jp/school/05_knowledge/01_style.html

Articles, http://www.excite.co.jp/News/bit/00091138470971.html

and http://www.sankei.co.jp/seikatsu/seikatsu/070207/skt070207000.htm

as well as http://event.kids.yahoo.co.jp/fashion2007/game/index.html

Students can learn colors, body parts, clothes items, etc.

[sent by Fumiko Tachibana]

video clip for "kemari" at http://takraw.hp.infoseek.co.jp/kemari/kemari.MPG

[from Shunko Muroya]