Welcome to the Group Research Projects page for our English and Crosscultural Understanding course. On this page you'll find links to the various "Internet reports" for students' projects.

 Monday, 5th period 

World Traditional Sweets (Watanabe & Takaishi)
History of Mt. Tsukuba (Yamagiwa & Yamaguchi)
World Cuisines (Nakamura & Umehara)
World Folklore (Shirakawa & Nushiyama)
Burial Traditions (Sakaguchi et al.)
World Marriage Customs (Isobe et al.)
History of Tea (Murakami & Kawahata)
Starbucks (Amita et al.)
World School Lunches (Ota et al.)
World Food Culture (Muto et al)
Smart phones (Kishimoto & Nishiyama)

 Tuesday, 3rd period 

World Food (Genka et al.)
World Sports (Kunishige et al.)
Eating Habits (Ikenaga et al.)
Education in Japan and Britain (Myoga et al.)
McDonald's (Ishikawa et al.)
Disney Resorts (Miyagi et al.)
McDonald's in Other Countries (Tobe, et al.)
Gestures (Fujita et al.)
World Festivals (Shiroma et al.)
World Food (Aoki et al.)

 Wednesday, 1st period 

Sweets of the World (Takehara et al.)
Personality Differences (Abe et al.)
Influence of Religion on Medicine (Sakai et al.)
World fairy tales (Ishibashi et al.)
Staple Foods (Sasaki et al.)
Body Language (Imaizumi et al.)
Religions and Death (Arai et al.)
Musicians (Ishihara, et al.)
Tradational Foods in Tsukuba (Imoto et al.)
Masai (Saruta et al.)
Topic (Sato et al.)

 Wednesday, 2nd period 

World Dairy Goods (Hiramatsu et al.)
Ethnic music and instruments (Sonoda et al.)
How is the body treated? (Tatemichi et al.)
World Sweets (Hirose et al.)
Beef in Various Societies (Otsuka et al.)
Children's Stories (Takahashi et al.)
Food Culture (Hidano et al.)
Odd Sports (Hiraishi et al.)
Food and Culture (Mori et al.)

 Thursday, 2nd period 

World Festivals (Mori et al.)
Cellphones (Kawahara et al.)
World Transportation (Okamoto et al.)
World Food (Hirama et al.)
Sense of Time (Setoi et al.)
World Laws (Onoda et al.)
Unfamiliar Sports (Katsuki et al.)
World Heroes (Iwasawa et al.)
Movies (Wakabayashi et al.)

 Projects from 2011-2012 

International Marriage
MacDonald & Globalization
Comedy in Different Countries
Chinese Cuisine
World Foods
Fast Food blog
World fast food
Crosscultural Understanding within Our Country
TX and more trains
University cafeterias
Tsukuba Express
World Sports

URL: www.jimelwood.net/students/crosscultural/group_research_projects.html

Date last updated: January 27, 2013 * Copyright 2013 by Midas, Cyrus, and all the other lunatics.