Hello!
How are you? Here is another post on the future - this time, Japan and the future.
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 or so, 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?
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 or so, 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 contemporary fashions in Japan, late 1960s
Some contemporary fashions in Japan, 2017
Now let's take a look at this video about the Tsukuba Expo in 1985. This was almost 20 years later, but already things had changed since the 1960s:
Other questions to think about:
I have just two questions:
What was the theme of the Tsukuba Expo?
What kinds of achievements did the expo want to show?
Other questions to think about:
So what kinds of changes can you
imagine happening in society or culture in the future from now? 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 in
the future that people 50 years ago would never have imagined!
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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