Hello!
How are you? Here is a support post for any students who are interested in doing opinion writing for the final writing assignment (期末作文).
Ideas
You can take your ideas from the news - either from TV, or the internet, or newspapers or magazines - and you can base your topics on anything - politics (政治), society (社会), sports, movies, music, and so on.
Task
When writing your opinion, follow these guidelines:
First, show the issue or problem and where you first saw it or heard about it - on TV, the internet, radio, in the newspaper, and so on.
After that, show what impact the issue or problem has or is having in Japan - with a certain type of people (for example, older people, or university students, or workers, or children, and so on), or in a certain area (the Tohoku, Okinawa, the Kanto, and so forth), or in a certain field or industry (companies, shops, schools, universities or other things). Try to find out and show details (詳細) where you can.
Finally, bring in your opinion of the issue or problem - what do you think of it, and what solution (解答、答え) would you propose for it - if you feel you can propose a solution or answer to the problem or issue?
You do not have to do a big or heavy topic if you don't want to! Here are some ideas for you if you can't think of any on your own. Choose one (1) of these:
Take care! I look forward to reading your great writing on this task.
See you next week!
Ideas
You can take your ideas from the news - either from TV, or the internet, or newspapers or magazines - and you can base your topics on anything - politics (政治), society (社会), sports, movies, music, and so on.
Task
When writing your opinion, follow these guidelines:
First, show the issue or problem and where you first saw it or heard about it - on TV, the internet, radio, in the newspaper, and so on.
After that, show what impact the issue or problem has or is having in Japan - with a certain type of people (for example, older people, or university students, or workers, or children, and so on), or in a certain area (the Tohoku, Okinawa, the Kanto, and so forth), or in a certain field or industry (companies, shops, schools, universities or other things). Try to find out and show details (詳細) where you can.
Finally, bring in your opinion of the issue or problem - what do you think of it, and what solution (解答、答え) would you propose for it - if you feel you can propose a solution or answer to the problem or issue?
You do not have to do a big or heavy topic if you don't want to! Here are some ideas for you if you can't think of any on your own. Choose one (1) of these:
- Voting (投票権) age - in Japan, it is 20. Should it be lowered to 18 years of age, as it is in many countries?
- Tattoos - in Japan there is a big taboo (禁物) against them. But do you think they are really a big problem?
- Smartphone access and use among children - this has become a big issue lately. Is it okay for children to get access and use smartphones, or should there be an age restriction (制限)?
- Foreign immigration (移住) to Japan - this has also been a big question lately. Should Japan allow some numbers of immigrants (移民) to come in to help increase the numbers of workers?
Take care! I look forward to reading your great writing on this task.
See you next week!
Image: By Norman Rockwell - U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16925968
