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How are you? Here is a first supporting post for the final writing assignment about Japan and the future. Today let's look at this theme from a unique angle - some ideas that were common in the U.S. after World War II about the future (未来).
Every culture has its own ideas about what the future looks like. The picture above comes from an American magazine called Popular Science. It has been published for a long time, and this picture is from 1947.
In one of their magazines from that year, Popular Science had a report about the future. It imagined many things about it. How many of these things do you think have become real?
These are very some American ideas, especially after World War II, about what the future would look like. But would any of these ideas be the same as some Japanese ideas at that time about the future?
Activity
Let's look at these other pictures from the 1947 Popular Science article. What do you think Americans might have imagined in them?
例えば：In the picture at the top, maybe they thought all our electricity (電気) would come from nuclear power plants (原子力発電所) in the future.
As one way to help you with ideas for writing about the future from a different viewpoint - let's try to imagine what they thought in these pictures!
If you want to see the where these pictures came from with a report about them, go to the Popular Science website here.
I hope these ideas can help you, or lead you to more or other ideas, for your final writing assignment about Japan and the future.
I hope these ideas can help you, or lead you to more or other ideas, for your final writing assignment about Japan and the future.
Have fun! See you next time!
Images: Screenshots of illustrations uploaded to Popular Science website.
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