RESEARCH: Twitter main social media choice of Japanese youth, says survey (JAPAN)

A poll of young Japanese Internet users showed Twitter is by far their most popular social network, with many saying they want to try Facebook in the future.


The survey shows that 42.5 percent of those around 20 years of age use Twitter more than any other networking site. Only 13 percent of respondents said Facebook was their favorite. The survey was jointly conducted by Nifty, a Japanese search engine, comnico, an online marketing firm, and Lifemedia, a service that pays users to take online polls.

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PROJECTS: Fukushima, Afghan high school students swap stories online

High school students from Japan and Afghanistan might not be expected to have much in common, but Peter Crowley, UNICEF's representative in Afghanistan, learned otherwise during his first trip to Fukushima Prefecture.

After visiting the prefecture Thursday to attend a Web conference between Yumoto High School in Iwaki and Tajwar Saltana Girls High School in Kabul, Crowley told The Japan Times that the students showed solidarity in their determination to make a better future for themselves.

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EXHIBITIONS / PHOTO: Children's Photography Exhibition from Earthquake- and Tsunami-Damaged Region of Japan Opens at UNICEF House in New York

Powerful Images a Result of "EYE SEE" Photography Workshops Conducted by UNICEF in Partnership with Sony Corporation--

NEW YORK, March 7, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Sony Corporation and UNICEF today announced the opening of a special public exhibition of children's photography from the Tohoku region of Japan - specifically, the Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures most directly impacted by the Great East Japan Earthquake nearly one year ago - at UNICEF House, located on East 44th Street between First and Second Avenues in Manhattan.

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NEWS / AWARDS: Japanese documentary wins 2011 Child Rights Award

Thursday 03 Nov 2011- A documentary about the lives of two disabled children in Japan has won the 2011 Asia-Pacific Child Rights Award for broadcasting.

Iori and Ibuki - Why We Were Born by Shizuoka Telecasting of Japan was named the winner of the award on 2 November in Hong Kong during the CASBAA Convention.

The Asia-Pacific Child Rights Award, created by CASBAA, ABU and UNICEF in 2001, is given annually to the best television programme produced in the Asia-Pacific region with a focus on children's rights.

Mariko Hashimoto, the producer of Iori and Ibuki - Why We Were Born, spent 11 years of filming and interviewing Iori and her family. Iori and her younger brother were each born with disabilities. Their story is a compelling tale of resilience and optimism.

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AWARDS: Japan Prize winners announced

Japan Prize winners announced

Wednesday 27 Oct 2010

Winners for the 37th Japan Prize, an international contest for educational media, were announced today by NHK. The Grand Prix went to Cosmic Code Breakers: The Secrets of Prime Numbers (NHK) and the awards ceremony was held at the NHK Broadcaster Centre, Tokyo.

The other winners included:

Pre-School Category: The Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications Prize

The Show with the Elephant 131
By: Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), Germany
Medium: TV programme

Primary Category: The Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Prize

Discover Science: Let's see the speed of sound
By: NHK, NHK Educational Corporation and Al-Jazeera Children’s Channel, Japan and Qatar
Medium: TV programme

Youth Category: The Minister of Foreign Affairs Prize

Syrian School
By: Open University Worldwide, United Kingdom
Medium: TV programme

Continuing Education Category: The Governor of Tokyo Prize

Cosmic Code Breakers: The Secrets of Prime Numbers
By: Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK), Japan
Medium: TV programme

Welfare Education Category: The President of NHK Prize

Tying Your Own Shoes
By: National Film Board of Canada (NFB), Canada
Medium: Linear

UNICEF Prize
Involve me by Whiz Kids Workshop (WKW)
Ethiopia

The Japan Prize, established in 1965 as an international education programme contest, has been contributing to the development of educational broadcasting around the world and includes a variety of educational media using sound and images such as TV programmes, videos, websites, games and other interactive materials.

This year, the contest collected 409 entries from 64 countries and regions of which 88 entries were of digital content. Fourteen jury members from 11 countries screened the entries.

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Japan Prize website