Thank you for supporting our quest to better understand Japan and Japanese culture. After defining the culture through the current pictures on the site, we have now asked the students to complete another task.
Students have been asked to take pictures of adaptations and modifications people make in Japan living near the 'Ring of Fire'. As a grade level, we started this project by building the strongest structures possible and then simulating earthquakes. Now, we want to see real examples.
Add comments or questions in English or Japanese in order to help us really understand the adaptations or modifications people have made to survive near the 'Ring of Fire'.
Here is a picture Sarah took of a protective window shutter called an ama
do. It protects against window breakage from typhoons/hurricanes.
Hello there, I just took a quick tour with my daughter Jennifer around my apartment and
we just found there was a very interesting fire escape. It is a spiral
stairs. People must have went thru a lot of actual experiences before they reached
to this kind of design.
Please find the attached pictures.
Thanks
Chungbi Lin and Jennifer
4B
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The windows are shatter proof so that it won't shatter into a million
pieces during an earthquake.
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Dear Miss.Green
I'm going to send a picture about, a stair getting built stronger so, when
the earthquakes happen it will not fall down.
sincerely Hanjoon
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This is a picture of Tokyo Tower. It is earthquake-proof, because it is
wide at the bottom and skinny at the top.
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Very sorry with many tries. I do hope that this will reach you well. Kazuki
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