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Japanese (9JA0)
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Free Japanese (9JA0) revision notes for Pearson Edexcel A Level students. Each chapter covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take straight into the thinka app.
Theme 1: 変わっていく若者の生活 (The changing lives of young people)
教育 (Education): the education system and its reforms since ゆとり教育
教育 (Education): exams and 塾; MEXT (文部科学省) control of the curriculum
若者の健康 (Young people's health): pressures on young people and their effect on health and diet
若者の健康 (Young people's health): いじめ (bullying)
Research subject – 家族関係や人間関係 (Family and human relationships): traditional family structure, the nuclear family, relationships within the home
Theme 2: 変わっていく文化 (Changing culture)
変わるポピュラー・カルチャー (Changing popular culture): anime and manga
変わるポピュラー・カルチャー (Changing popular culture): music; 武道・武術 (martial arts)
テクノロジーの影響 (The impact of technology): technological progress
テクノロジーの影響 (The impact of technology): robots and automation
Research subject – 変わっていく行事 (Changing events): traditional festivals and modern events, their impact on tourism, the inflow of Western events
Theme 3: 変わっていく人生観 (Changing outlooks on life)
変化する労働 (Changing work): the collapse of lifetime employment and changing attitudes to work
変化する労働 (Changing work): relocating for work
長引く不景気 (The prolonged recession): effects on daily life and the government's response
長引く不景気 (The prolonged recession): internationalisation of the economy and accepting migrant foreign workers
Research subject – 高齢化社会 (The ageing society): isolation of the elderly, support from family, social support
Theme 4: 東日本大震災後の日本 (Japan after the Great East Japan Earthquake)
3月11日とその直後 (11 March and its immediate aftermath): earthquake and tsunami damage; life in evacuation
3月11日とその直後 (11 March and its immediate aftermath): rescue and aid; overseas reactions
復興への政策 (Policies for recovery): rebuilding the disaster areas; volunteers and national solidarity
復興への政策 (Policies for recovery): the strength to overcome hardship; 心のケア (mental health care)
Research subject – 福島原発事故後の省エネ生活 (Energy-saving life after the Fukushima nuclear accident): energy saving in daily life, the energy-supply debate, traditional wisdom on saving energy
Literary texts and films (Paper 2)
どんどん読めるいろいろな話 (秋元美晴・糸川優, 1991) – short-story collection
キッチン (吉本ばなな, 1998) – novel, Part 1
窓際のトットちゃん (黒柳徹子, 1991) – autobiography
千と千尋の神隠し (宮崎駿, 2001) – film
ディア・ドクター (西川美和, 2009) – film
誰も知らない (是枝裕和, 2004) – film
Grammar
Comparatives and superlatives (より, ほど, 倍, 一番)
Nouns and adjectives: 的 to form adjectives, さ to form nouns
ます-stem endings: やすい, にくい, かた, すぎる
て-form endings: みる, しまう, おく, ほしい, くる/いく, あげる/もらう/くれる
ない-form and た-form endings: ないで, なくてもいい, なければならない, ないほうがいい, たほうがいい, たまま
Volitional form (よう/おう, ようと思う, ようとする) and nominalising with こと/の
Potential, causative and passive forms (including the suffering passive and によって)
Transitive and intransitive verbs, てある and ている; 見える and 聞こえる
Relative clauses and defining with という
Possibility and probability: でしょう, かもしれません, はずです, だろう
Temporal and conditional clauses: たら, なら, ば, と, 場合, とき
する versus なる; ことになる/ことにする; ようになる/ようにする; the uses of ところ; がる for third person
Purpose (ために, ように) and explanatory sentence endings (んです, わけです)
Linking sentences (ので, のに, ても) and conjecture and hearsay (そうです, ようです)
Embedded questions (か, かどうか), こう/そう/ああ/どう, and particles など, も, ずつ, ばかり, までに
Kanji
A level kanji list: 2–8 strokes
A level kanji list: 9–12 strokes
A level kanji list: 13–20 strokes
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