Article by JonJon Wang
April 12, 2021 • No Comments
A year since the pandemic began, the U.S. is suffering from the worst recession since the Great Depression. Over 14 million citizens have been left unemployed, with at least 100,000 businesses shut down. Food insecurity and...
Article by Aryaman Singh
April 12, 2021 • No Comments
On February 26, 2021 the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a four-page document assessing the role of the Saudi Government in the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The 2018 killing,...
Article by Ren Topping
March 2, 2021 • No Comments
The screen fades from black as the heat shield that protects the payload from the friction of the atmosphere is separated from the rocket and drops away. For a moment, the reflection from the inner belly of the heat shield...
Article by Ryne Hisada
February 16, 2021 • No Comments
Protests are demonstrations of opposition. They empower the voiceless, and exist as a basic human right. Protests exist when there is conflict — where there is a protest, there is a problem. In 2020 there was a large...
Article by Marine Savoure, Take Zoot, Ryne Hisada, JonJon Wang, Momo Horii, Sena Chang, Tei Kim, Anna Armstrong, and Ren Topping
March 11, 2021 • No Comments
Ten years ago, at 2:46 pm on March 11, disaster struck. Buildings swayed and hearts sank as a magnitude 9.1 earthquake hit from the shores of the Tohoku region. An hour later, 30-foot waves assailed Japan’s coasts, plowing...
Article by Kokoro Igawa, Writer
February 13, 2021 • No Comments
JoJo Siwa is a 17-year-old dancer and singer from Nebraska who rose to fame through the once-popular reality TV show Dance Moms. She is known for her upbeat persona, child-like exuberance, and most notably, her sparkly bows. Siwa...
Article by Espi Littlefield, Writer
January 17, 2021 • No Comments
The excitement of the first lockdown is gone. As Japan and its citizens struggle to settle into the repetitive flow of our second lockdown, a perpetual state of boredom has encompassed the minds of hundreds of ASIJ students....
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Article by Ren Topping
February 1, 2021
When I clicked through my Edsby page from the 2019-2020 school year, I was surprised at how foreign it seemed to me. Links to lists of assignments, videos explaining instructions...
January 13, 2021
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Article by Ryne Hisada
March 31, 2021 • No Comments
For the first time ever in the 2020-2021 academic year, both Middle School and High School ASIJ students are now on campus at the same time. Previously, the Hybrid model necessitated by the coronavirus...
Article by JonJon Wang
March 14, 2021 • No Comments
Recently, my father told me a story. When my grandfather was in his 30s, he was asked to buy a new mattress. To my grandmother, it seemed like a simple job: a one-hour drive to the local department...
Article by Kei Yamashita
January 29, 2021 • No Comments
A heated riot and a besieged US Capitol leave no ambiguity that we indeed live in a new era—or more accurately, a return to older times. Where Girardian scapegoating and provincialism run amok,...
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Article by Momo Horii
March 2, 2021 • No Comments
Cigarette in hand, buttoned-up navy blazer, teashades pushed way up on the bridge of her nose, with no phone at her side, Fran Lebowitz is a picture of New York literati....
Article by Momo Horii
January 22, 2021 • No Comments
There are those few people in this world who can articulate emotions and a situation so well it’s frightening. Louise Glück—whose name rhymes with “click” and not...
December 7, 2020
Forrest Gump, a 1986 novel by Winston Groom...
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With a short pass from an indirect free kick,...
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December 1, 2020
1Q84, author Haruki Murakami’s hefty dystopian...
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Ryne Hisada contemplates the rise of protest movements throughout the globe.. #asij #asijHighSchool #花火 #hanabi #studentpublication https://hanabi.asij.ac.jp/news/protest-is-in-the-air/
Kokoro reports on the impact of Jojo Siwa’s coming out. #asij #asijHighSchool #花火 #hanabi #studentpublication https://hanabi.asij.ac.jp/features/why-jojo-siwas-coming-out-is-so-significant/
Of the many Japanese traditions affected by the pandemic was January’s Coming of Age Day. Anna tells us how people adapted in 2021. #asij #asijHighSchool #花火 #hanabi #studentpublication https://hanabi.asij.ac.jp/news/coming-of-age-in-pandemic-times/
Say a hearty farewell to the SAT essay and Subject Tests! Tei explains the College Board’s recent decision. #asij #asijHighSchool #花火 #hanabi #studentpublication https://hanabi.asij.ac.jp/news/college-board-ending-sat-essay-and-subject-tests/
Is it “Distance Learning,” or “Off-Campus Learning”? Ren explains. #asij #asijHighSchool #花火 #hanabi #studentpublication https://hanabi.asij.ac.jp/features/distance-versus-off-campus-asijs-evolving-online-learning/