TOK resources are now available at www.toktips.com. The link below has an in-depth look at an RLE for November 2020 Theory of Knowledge (TOK) Essay Prescribed Title #4 https://toktips.com/?p=850
“In a retrial held decades after his conviction, a court on Thursday acquitted an 85-year-old man of a 1985 murder in Kumamoto Prefecture. The Kumamoto District Court found Koki Miyata not guilty in the murder of his shogi partner Matao Okamura in Matsubase, Kumamoto Prefecture, more than 34 years ago.” Read more…
Headline: “NASA’s New Shape-Shifting Radiator Inspired by Origami” “Japan’s ancient art of paper folding has inspired the design of a potentially trailblazing “smart” radiator that a NASA technologist is now developing to remove or retain heat on small satellites. Vivek Dwivedi, a technologist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Read more…
“Before the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, the United States returned to Japan land for the Washington Heights military housing area in central Tokyo. For this year’s Olympic Games, Japanese officials have again sought U.S. cooperation, saying concessions would help improve the U.S. military’s public image, which has been marred by crimes Read more…
Japan’s rapidly declining population is well-documented. There are a number of different people and groups in Japan have different opinions as to the reasons for it. Some male conservative politicians have stated that Japanese women are not doing their duty to the country and need to have more children. Finance Read more…
“A Japanese monk is suing his temple, claiming he was forced to work non-stop catering to visiting tourists and that the heavy workload gave him depression, his lawyer said on Thursday. The monk in his forties is seeking 8.6 million yen ($78,000) from his temple on Mount Koya, a World Read more…
A TOK essay on Prescribed Title #6 is based on the question of whether or not present knowledge is completely dependent on past knowledge. The Japanese creation myth told in the Kojiki. There are parts of this myth that seem quite sexist by modern standards. A TOK essay on Prescribed Read more…
The Kojiki is a collection of ancient Japanese myths and other stories that dates back about 1500 years. There are aspects of the text that have connections to Japanese culture and society now. One male individual in the extract below states that “It is not proper that the woman speak Read more…
https://japantoday.com/category/national/woman-takes-helm-of-japanese-aegis-destroyer-for-1st-time?comment-order=popular One of the “personal circumstances” in this RLE is the gender of Miho Otani, the first female captain of an Aegis destroyer in Japan. Militaries (or in this case the Japanese Marine Self Defense Force) are viewed as quite conservative and have a reputation for not always acted in Read more…
May 2020 Theory of Knowledge (TOK) Essay Prescribed Title #5 is focused on the extent to which a single theory is enough to understand the world. The Japanese TV series Crayon Shinchan seems fairly superficial at first glance but there are a number of theories than can be used to Read more…