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Nippon Foundation Selects 100 Manga as Learning Tools
posted on by Carlos Cadorniga
The non-profit Nippon Foundation is starting up a new project to use manga as learning tools for young children known as "This is Also a Learning Manga ~World Discovery Project~." This project aims to collect over 100% manga for encouraging education within students and enhancing their learning experience. This will be done through special educational events as well as through special textbooks.
The project will be run by seven individuals, including josei manga artist Machiko Satonaka and Keio University professor Ichiya Nakamura.
"There is a vast array of manga that can stimulate reactions," Satonaka said of the selection process. "All of it can be used educationally. We wanted to choose works that truly portrayed different aspects of life."
The official website for the project lists all of the 100 selected works. Selections are organized by topic like literature, life and world, the arts, and society. Each individual title also includes information on the appropriate grade level.
Literature
- Naoko Matsuda
- Yuki Isoya
- Yochi Yochi Bungeibu by Banko Kuze
- Tsuki ni Hoeran nee by Yukiko Seike
- Jiro Taniguchi
- Hanamote Katare by Yukiwo Katayama
- Waki Yamato
Life and World
- Hiromu Arakawa
- Baku Yumemakura
- Osamu Tezuka
- Yuki Urushibara
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Ranjō Miyake
- Reiko Shimizu
- Hitoshi Iwaaki
The Arts
- Tomoko Ninomiya
- Fujihiko Hosono
- Takeshi Obata
- Chika Umino
- Yuki Suetsugu
- Haruko Kumota
- Akira Saso
- Swan by Kyōko Ariyoshi
- Minako Narita
Society
- Takao Saitō
- Hidekaz Himaruya
- Ichiefu - Fukushima Daiichi Genshiryoku Hatsudensho Annaiki by Kazuto Takita
- Kotobuki Shiriagari
- Yonaoshigen-san by Yoshiie Gōda
- Tosa no Ipponzuri by Yūsuke Aoyagi
- Ryōichi Ikegami
- Kaiji Kawaguchi
- Kenshi Hirokane
- Naniwa Kinyūdou by Yūji Aoki
- Haruko Kashiwagi
Occupations
- Shuho Sato
- Motoka Murakami
- Tokyo Toybox by Ume
- Black Jack by Osamu Tezuka
- Masahito Soda
- Kazuko Yumeno
- HOTEL by Shōtarō Ishinomori
- Osamu Uoto
- Seiki Tsuchida
- Akira Oze
- Tadashi Agi
- Manga Michi by Fujiko Fujio
- Kentarō Okamoto
History
- Yasuhisa Hara
- Mari Yamazaki
- Sengoku by Hideki Miyashita
- Riyoko Ikeda
- Makoto Yukimura
- Fumi Yoshinaga
- Oi! Ryōma by Tetsuya Takeda & Yū Koyama
- Ankoku Shinwa by Daijirō Morohoshi
- Tenjō no Niji by Machiko Satonaka
- Ryōko Yamagishi
- Fuyumi Sōryō
- Yukinobu Hoshino
- Shiki by Mitsuteru Yokoyama
- Hideki Mori
- Fūnjitachi by Taro Minamoto
War
- Keiji Nakazawa
- Fumiyo Kōno
- Shigeru Mizuki
- Message to Adolf by Osamu Tezuka
- Ichigo Sensō by Machiko Kyō
- Kōri no Tenohira Siberia Yokuryūki by Yuki Ozawa
- Nijiiro no Trotsky by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
Living
- Moto Hagio
- Jun Mihara
- Omoide Nachi
- Tochi Ueyama
Science and Research
- Masayuki Ishikawa
- Chūya Koyama
- Planetes by Makoto Yukimura
- Norifusa Mita
- Masami Tsuda
- Jirō Okazaki
- Kazumi Yamashita
- Haru Rock by Mochi nishi
Sports
- Football Nation by Yuki Otake
- Akio Chiba
- Sumika Yamamoto
- Taiyo Matsumoto
- Real by Takehiko Inoue
- Tetsuya Chiba
- Tsuyoshi Nakaima
- Shinichi Ishizuka
Diversity
- Takako Shimura
- Yoshitoki Ōima
- Keiko Tobe
- Bakka Okita
- Happy! by Nobuko Hama
- Osamu Yamamoto
- Marimo Ragawa
- Ami Sugimoto
- Keiko Takemiya
- Sumire Fanfare by Matsushima
Special introductory events will also be held at Tachikawa Manga Park, Meiji University and Kitakyushu Manga Museum.
[Via Sankei News]
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