Hello!
How are you? Here is one more supporting post for your final writing assignment about Japan and the future.
Some of you might have gotten the feeling that writing about the future only means writing about science and technology - and if I gave you that feeling, I'm very sorry! I did not mean only to focus on science and technology. I made my Part 1 and Part 2 posts about science and technology only because so much of what a lot of people imagine about the future involves things like computers, robots, rockets, space travel, and things like that.
But this is not all there is about the future - there is also society and culture too. You do not have to focus on science and technology in your thinking about the future - there are also things such as fashion and music, and the looks of cars and buildings, and the way people live in their day-to-day lives.
Look at the picture above. It shows an average Japanese family having dinner, and it comes from a Japanese magazine article from 1954 about home life. Is there anything different about family dinner time now than from then?
Activity
What kinds of social or cultural changes can you see happening in Japan in the future? Japanese society and culture has already been through many changes since World War II.
Take a look at these next group of pictures. They show some changes that have happened in around the last 50 years, up to now. What do you notice about the buildings, or the cars, or the way people dress? How do you feel that things have changed?
Some of you might have gotten the feeling that writing about the future only means writing about science and technology - and if I gave you that feeling, I'm very sorry! I did not mean only to focus on science and technology. I made my Part 1 and Part 2 posts about science and technology only because so much of what a lot of people imagine about the future involves things like computers, robots, rockets, space travel, and things like that.
But this is not all there is about the future - there is also society and culture too. You do not have to focus on science and technology in your thinking about the future - there are also things such as fashion and music, and the looks of cars and buildings, and the way people live in their day-to-day lives.
Look at the picture above. It shows an average Japanese family having dinner, and it comes from a Japanese magazine article from 1954 about home life. Is there anything different about family dinner time now than from then?
Activity
What kinds of social or cultural changes can you see happening in Japan in the future? Japanese society and culture has already been through many changes since World War II.
Take a look at these next group of pictures. They show some changes that have happened in around the last 50 years, up to now. What do you notice about the buildings, or the cars, or the way people dress? How do you feel that things have changed?
Chuo-dori, Ginza, Tokyo, 1967
Chuo-dori, Ginza, Tokyo, 2017
Japanese young people, 1964
Japanese young people, 2017
Some street fashions in Japan, late 1960s
Some street fashions in Japan, 2017
So what kinds of changes can you imagine happening in society or culture in the future? What sorts of fashions might people be wearing? For example, would long hair come back into fashion among men? Would women wear mini-skirts again? Or - would men wear skirts and women wear suits? How about music? What would it sound like in the future?
What designs in cars could you see in the future? Would we see a return to some older designs in cars? How about buildings? How might they be different? Perhaps would we see something that people 50 years ago would never have imagined?
Good luck with this! I hope this can give you more ideas on how you can write on Japan and the future.
See you next week!
Images: Top
- by Unknown - Japanese magazine "Photograph Gazette, May 1954 issue"
published by Government of Japan., Public Domain,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17850644/Ginza in 1967 - By
Roger W from Sarasota, Florida, U.S.A. - Tokyo - Chuo-Dori, CC BY-SA 2.0,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=60804070/Ginza in 2017 - By
Gary - DSC08269 - Chuo-dori Ginza, CC BY-SA 2.0,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=40961932/Japanese young people in 1964 - screenshot taken from Japanese+youth,+Tokyo,+1964+(11).jpg/Japanese young people in 2017 - screenshot taken from https://www.google.co.jp/search?biw=1199&bih=746&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=w2dXWpWxAcr08QXcjLHAAg&q=japanese+young+people&oq=japanese+young+people&gs_l=psy-ab.12...0.0.0.37755.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0....0...1c..64.psy-ab..0.0.0....0.ZsHKi1iiTEI#imgrc=VXhxXXgo1PeJ-M:/Fashions in the 1960s
- screenshot taken from http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uz4R-wZIivs/UO6nZB9w72I/AAAAAAACO5E/Ge5n6MmxZxM/s1600/Street fashion in 2017 – screenshot taken from https://medium.com/@TokyoFashion/japanese-street-fashion-2017-15-things-you-need-to-know-ab06eabfca39
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