1. Agenda 1-25 & 26-12 *Guided Reading due next block day Focus 1-25 & 26-12 Use pgs. 192- 198 1.Japan IMPORTS more of which product than any other nation? Answer: Fish! 2.Japan is a world leader in EXPORTING what product? Answer: automobiles Group Activity: Talk with your group and List on paper as many products (Brand name only!) that are made in Japan….Yes, you can use the internet! Example: Mazda cars

2. Toyota Play Station Yu Gi Oh Dreamcast Sega Pokemon Honda Nissan Citizen Watches Fuji Photo film Hitachi Kawasaki Kubota (tractors) Mazda Mitsubishi Nintendo Wii  Toshiba  TDK Corp.  Yamaha  Suzuki  Sony  Sharp Corp.  Seiko Watches  Sanyo  Pentax ●Hello Kitty ●Canon ●Uniden ●JVC products Pilot pens Manga (Anime) books Click to view Japanese technology

3. What are Japanese houses like? In a traditional Japanese house, you don't sit on chairs or sleep on beds. You sit and sleep on the floor using cushions and futon bedding. The way the Japanese room is designed makes this possible; it evolved over time as an extension of the way people live and as an expression of the native culture. Even today, when Western-style rooms with chairs and beds are common, most houses have at least one room in the traditional style. The biggest feature of the Japanese room is that the floor is made of tatami (straw mats). The mats are rectangular and measure around 1.7 square meters (about 18 square feet); the number of tatami mats is usually the way the size of rooms is measured. Before Western-style houses became common, the Japanese room had no windows. It was partitioned with sliding, paper-screen doors called shoji or fusuma. During the daytime the room serves as a living and dining room, and at night, it can be used as a bedroom by laying out the futon. The futon is folded up in the morning and stored in the oshi-ire (closet).

4. Katsushika Hokusai (September 23, 1760-April 18, 1849) was a Japanese painter and printmaker from the Edo Period. He is most famous for his series of prints called "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji" (produced during the period 1826-1833). One of these views, "The Great Wave Off Kanagawa," has become a modern-day icon. Hokusai's seemingly timeless images are almost 200 years old. HokusaiHokusai and online paintingonline painting