會考世界歷史 (鍾慧晶老師)
Learning and Teaching Strategies for the S.4-5 History
Section: Theme A-Change and development of Japan
Q.1 Study the national anthem of Japan ‘君之代’ in different translated versions
below and then answer the following questions.
The national anthem of Japan ‘君之代’
Japanese version
Phonetic transcription
(日本語)
(音譯)
君が代は
千代に八千代に
細石の
巌となりて
苔の生すまで
kimi ga yo wa
chiyo ni yachiyo ni
sazareishi no
iwao to narite
koke no musu made
Modern Chinese version
(現代漢語翻譯)
我皇御統傳千代
一直傳到八千代
直到卵石變岩石
直到岩石長青苔
a. What was the main message of the natinal anthem of Japan?
b. In what ways did the national anthem of Japan help promote militarism in Japan
in the first half of the 20th century?
c. How useful was the national anthem of Japan in reflecting relation between the
emperor of Japan and the Japanese?
會考世界歷史 (鍾慧晶老師)
Learning and Teaching Strategies for the S.4-5 History
Section: Theme A-Change and development of Japan
Q.2 The following is a diary written by a Japanese pupil in primary 5 in 1941.
I was so hungry to eat the bread which was as precious as gold and gem. The bread
had already been moldy,I ate it after weeding the mold out. Now I just want to
take a look at rice but fail to see… ‘Think about the soliders in the battlefields, they
are eating grass dirt.’
餓著肚子的我啃著寶貝般的麵包, 麵包已經發了霉, 便把霉除掉吃下去．現在
想看大米也看不到了．．．‘想想戰場上的士兵吧, 他們吃著帶有泥水的草’.
a. Identify the characteristic of militarism as reflected in the diary.
b. In what ways/How useful does the source reflect the rise of militarism affect the
life of Japanese?
會考世界歷史 (鍾慧晶老師)
1. Early 20th century: time span-the first half of the 20th century
2. Overview:
-problem: how to deal with the complicity of the conditions and the Meiji
legacy
-Pedagogy: a video about the domestic conditions
3. Rise of militarism
-relative importance of the various factors
-features;
-Pedagogy: national anthem & the rise of militarism [song + worksheet]
4. impact on Japan & impact on Asia
-Problem: less examination of impact on Japan, esp. in the economic and the
social aspects
-Pedagogy: social life [worksheet]
-far-reaching impact on the relations between Japan and other Asian
countries
5. Post-war economic growth:
-Problem:
>Democractization? Demilitarization? New Constitution?
>remind of the irrelevancy of political, social or even ideological conditions in
Japan
>Difficulties in explaining the growth in each period?
-focus on economy—how (with stages? Trace and explain) & why (common &
specific factors)
-Pedagogy: 百年物語 about the economic difficulties and social life after
WWII
6. Relations with other Asian countries: change and continuity
-From chronologicial approach to thematic approach: Politcal, economic and
cultural relations
7. Overall:
會考世界歷史 (鍾慧晶老師)
-change and continuity of economic conditions in the whole 20th century; 20th
century: up to 2000 (e.g. economic situation; relations with other countries)
-economic problems in the first half and seond half of the 20th century and
the ways to deal with them
-foreign relations in the first and second half of the 20th century
-Problems:[out of syllabus]
-comparison of the Meiji Constitution and the Showa Constitution in the 20th
century and examine the democratic development
-characteristics of political, social, economic and cultural conditions in the
first half of the 20th century Japan & how far were they preserved in the
seond half of the 20th century
會考世界歷史 (鍾慧晶老師)