TY - BOOK AU - Bladon,Rachel TI - Japan: stage1: Bladon, Rachel SN - 9780194236690 (pbk.) AV - Graded Reader Stage 1 PY - 2013/// CY - United Kingdom PB - Oxford University Press KW - Readers (Adult) - Stage 1 KW - Readers for new literates KW - High interest-low vocabulary books KW - Reading comprehension N1 - Included in the reader: Activities (Before reading ; While reading ; After reading); Word count: 5,354 N2 - What is Japan? It is everything new and modern: the Tokyo Sky Tree, 634 metres high; amazing camera and phones; karaoke and manga; trains going past at 300 kilometres an hour. And it is everthing timeless too: beautiful palaces; high mountains and hot springs; cherry blossom; queit gardens with water and trees. Here the past meets the future all the time. From sumo wrestlers to robots, Japan has something amazing for everybody ER -