Mitsuko Tashimata is a 21 year old Japanese woman who has recently finished college and deciding what she should next … whether to stay in her home area of Hokkaido [N Japan] or move elsewhere to use her education.

Students discuss her dilemma using known data, photographs and option cards to trigger ideas.

As part of a thinking skills exercise, the trigger cards are sorted into reasons for Mitsuko staying or moving. Then in small groups, students focus their thinking using Edward de Bono's Thinking Hats technique ...

The photographs accompanying this resource have been provided for educational use with the kind permission of the Japan Forum Photo Data Bank and Anita Dean at EIS, Maidstone

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