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Japanese Culture and

Careers in Publishing

Michiyo OdaNewcomers High School

Global Careers & Education

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What do you know about Japan?

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Who am I ?Erhu

Traveled to more than 15 countries

Coffee lover

Love Ramen & Curry

Michiyo Oda

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What color is my country?

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日本 (Japan)

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Festivals

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Anime / Comics

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Western Culture Japanese traditional Culture

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ChoresSchool Lunch

School Uniform My High School

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Club Activities

Cultural Festival Athletic Festival

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My Hometown

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Tokyo

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What is Publishing?

• Sharing information with the public through books, magazines, newspapers and digitally (on the internet)

• Kinds of jobs:– Researcher– Web developer – Writer– Editor

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Research Plan Rough sketch

Release

Collect dataDesigning Write article

Editing Developing

Different Roles in Website Publishing

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What skills are required ?

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Cooperation Polite

Empathy

Mutual understanding

CommunicationSkills

Strategic Coordination

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Customers Colleagues Bosses

Writers

PhotographersIllustratorsPrinting

Companies

Researchers

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Customers’ needs

Changing market

？Services/

Feature articles

Analyticalskills

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Activity: Plan a Website for Newcomers High School!

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Research Plan Rough sketch

Release

Planning a web site for Newcomers High School

Collect dataDesigning Write article

Editing Developing

This role

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Instructions

• Each group is one target audience• With your sheet of paper, write down ideas

that you would want to see on the website• Come up with 3 ideas• Decide how to arrange them on your page• Come up and tape your sheet onto the board• Each group explains the idea for their target

audience

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• Who:–Parents–Teachers–Current Students–Future Students–Past students

Target audience

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Q & A

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Thank you!