The Student News Site of The American School in Japan Mon, 22 Apr 2024 11:11:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 /campus-life/student-body-president-elections-what-you-need-to-know/ /campus-life/student-body-president-elections-what-you-need-to-know/#respond Tue, 09 Apr 2024 01:57:30 +0000 /?p=4991 Reading Time: < 1 minute Every spring, the ASIJ student body gathers to vote for who they think should be their next Student Body President. Weeks of campaigning in hallways, classrooms, and across social media lead up to a day in the theater where each candidate lays out their vision for the upcoming school year. Each of the three candidates...]]> /campus-life/student-body-president-elections-what-you-need-to-know/feed/ 0 /uncategorized/emma-savarese-emma4prez/ /uncategorized/emma-savarese-emma4prez/#respond Tue, 09 Apr 2024 01:22:23 +0000 /?p=4979 Reading Time: 3 minutes               Emma Savarese (‘25) has been at ASIJ since fourth grade, so she is among the crop of students who considers ASIJ their “home.” Yet before becoming a member of the ASIJ community, Emma lived in four different countries across three different continents, growing up around a variety of...]]> /uncategorized/emma-savarese-emma4prez/feed/ 0 /uncategorized/suri-choi-your-best-choice/ /uncategorized/suri-choi-your-best-choice/#respond Tue, 09 Apr 2024 01:13:18 +0000 /?p=4952 Reading Time: 2 minutes             When she was in ninth grade, Suri Choi (‘25) observed that the student body was quite disconnected from the people they chose as their elected representatives. It seemed that most students were unaware of what happened during StuCo meetings, what initiatives StuCo was working on, or even who the...]]> /uncategorized/suri-choi-your-best-choice/feed/ 0 /uncategorized/arnab-karmokar-vote-arnab-hes-on-the-job/ /uncategorized/arnab-karmokar-vote-arnab-hes-on-the-job/#respond Tue, 09 Apr 2024 00:55:07 +0000 /?p=4949 Reading Time: 3 minutes             One of the first words Arnab Karmokar (‘25) used to describe the role of student government was “fun.” A three year StuCo veteran, Arnab knows the ins and outs of emceeing at class competitions and organizing Selfie Knockout—things the student body sees on the “outside.” But Arnab says there...]]> /uncategorized/arnab-karmokar-vote-arnab-hes-on-the-job/feed/ 0 /campus-life/asijmun-iv-x-hanabi-exclusive-report/ /campus-life/asijmun-iv-x-hanabi-exclusive-report/#respond Sat, 06 Apr 2024 08:01:50 +0000 /?p=4924 Reading Time: < 1 minute ]]> /campus-life/asijmun-iv-x-hanabi-exclusive-report/feed/ 0 /features/narges-mohammadi-a-life-of-activism/ /features/narges-mohammadi-a-life-of-activism/#respond Mon, 30 Oct 2023 05:41:00 +0000 /?p=4501 Reading Time: 2 minutes Women in Iran have long suffered from misogynistic and discriminatory laws aimed at limiting their freedoms within society. For instance, according to Time Magazine, lack of bodily autonomy is demonstrated in the laws allowing girls as young as nine years old to be married as long as their families are in accordance.  However, likely the...]]> /features/narges-mohammadi-a-life-of-activism/feed/ 0 /features/spanish-a-global-language/ /features/spanish-a-global-language/#respond Wed, 27 Sep 2023 00:35:44 +0000 /?p=4378 Reading Time: 2 minutes Of the thousands of languages that exist worldwide, ASIJ students are given a choice of three to pursue throughout their high school years: Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, and Spanish.  Looking at the options, it is evident why Japanese would be offered at ASIJ as it is a school located in Tokyo, and, according to this year’s...]]> /features/spanish-a-global-language/feed/ 0 /opinion/how-china-will-change-the-future-of-space-exploration/ /opinion/how-china-will-change-the-future-of-space-exploration/#respond Sat, 04 Feb 2023 02:48:57 +0000 /?p=4074 Reading Time: 3 minutes Over the past few decades, China’s space program, created in the late 1950s, has seen vast and exponential growth accompanied by notable technological and structural advancements. In late November, China launched the Shenzhou-15 rocket, which sent a team to reside in the newly completed Tiangong space station, impressively built in under two years and able...]]> /opinion/how-china-will-change-the-future-of-space-exploration/feed/ 0