Aomori Entrance Social Studies study guide
Aomori Entrance Social Studies · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The Aomori Prefecture High School Entrance Examination in Social Studies (青森県立高等学校入学者選抜 社会) is the social studies component of the unified entrance selection used by Aomori's prefectural high schools. It is taken by students completing compulsory education who are applying to prefectural high schools, including those aiming at academic, comprehensive, and specialized courses; results are combined with other subjects and with school-specific selection materials. The Aomori Entrance Social Studies study guide has 8 sections and about 2,322 words.
01Geography - Japan and the World: Regions, Climate, Industry, and Maps
Aomori's geography questions ask you to place Japan's 47 prefectures into eight regions, match places to climate types, and explain why farms, factories, and fishing ports sit where they do - then read that same logic off a map or a climate table. 太平洋側: wet 梅雨 and 台風 summers, dry, sunny winters.
365 words, about 2 min02History - Japan: Prehistory through Modern Era
旧石器 → 縄文 (hunting and gathering, 竪穴住居, 貝塚, 三内丸山遺跡 in Aomori) → 弥生 (wet-rice farming, metal tools, 邪馬台国 and 卑弥呼, the 漢委奴国王 gold seal) → 古墳 → 飛鳥 (十七条憲法, 冠位十二階, 遣隋使, 大化の改新 645, 大宝律令 701) → 奈良 (平城京, 東大寺, 万葉集) → 平安 (平安京 794, 摂関政治, 院政, warrior bands) → 鎌倉 → 室町 → 安土桃山 → 江戸 → 明治 and beyond. The 享保の改革 of 徳川吉宗 (目安箱, 公事方御定書) is not the 天保の改革 of 水野忠邦 (株仲間解散, 上知令).
275 words, about 1 min03History - World: Ancient through Modern Era
The paper moves from the four river civilisations through classical and medieval worlds to early modern exploration, revolutions, industrialisation, and the two world wars. Dates matter less than the causal chain that links them.
286 words, about 1 min04Civics - Constitution and Fundamental Human Rights
The 日本国憲法 and its three principles - 国民主権, 基本的人権の尊重, 平和主義 - plus the ability to classify a concrete situation under the right article. 天皇 is the 象徴 of the state (Article 1); sovereignty rests with the people.
275 words, about 1 min05Civics - Politics, Elections, and Public Administration
How the 国会, 内閣, and 地方自治 bodies are composed and controlled, and whether you can apply the rules of elections and 衆議院の優越 to a specific story. 衆議院 465 members (289 小選挙区 plus 176 比例), term four years, dissolvable; 参議院 248 members (148 選挙区 plus 100 比例), six years with half elected every three years.
301 words, about 2 min06Civics - Economy, Public Finance, and International Economy
Households, firms, and government circulate money; the 日本銀行 steers it; the government taxes and spends; and exchange rates translate all of it into trade with the world. 日本銀行 has three roles: 発券銀行, 政府の銀行, 銀行の銀行.
244 words, about 1 min07Civics - International Society, Environment, and Contemporary Issues
The question set covers the United Nations and its agencies, human-rights treaties, environmental agreements, and global gaps in wealth, food, and population. The 国際連合 was founded in 1945.
257 words, about 1 min08Skills - Data Interpretation, Charts, Maps, and Source Analysis
Whether you can read a statistic honestly: identify units and year, spot a broken axis, convert a scale bar into kilometres, calculate a time difference, and judge what a historical source can and cannot prove. Every graph answer needs three checks: unit (万人 vs 人, %, 億円), year, and whether the vertical axis starts at zero.
319 words, about 2 min