Kyoto Entrance Social Studies case studies
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The Kyoto Prefectural Senior High School Entrance Examination in Social Studies is the social studies component of the academic entrance examination used by Kyoto prefectural public senior high schools to select entering students. It is written for students completing compulsory education in Japan - typically third-year junior high school students in Kyoto Prefecture and qualified applicants from outside the prefecture - and it tests the full breadth of the junior high social studies curriculum rather than a single specialty. The Kyoto Entrance Social Studies case studies are 5 cases and about 2,349 words.
1Snow Country at the Fork
Tokura is a fictional town of 7,800 on the Sea of Japan coast, down from 12,400 in 1985. Forty-one percent of residents are 65 or older; the only hospital lost its obstetrics ward in 2019.
574 words, about 3 min2The Headman's Ledger
Fictional village headman Sato Kiyoshi kept a ledger from 1889 to 1907 in a silk-growing village in what is now Gunma Prefecture. Entries include: 1889-34 of 101 school-age children enrolled; 1894-village sends 17 conscripts, 3 families quietly send sons to Hokkaido; 1898-railway reaches the next town, cocoon prices rise 22% in two years; 1900-elementary school fees abolished, enrollment 71%; 1902-first village meeting in the new village hall after the 1889 municipal merger; 1904-soldiers depart for Manchuria; 1905-celebrations, then a rice price spike; 1907-enrollment 91%, but 14 households leave for Hokkaido.
458 words, about 2 min3The 5-Billion-Yen Referendum
The city of Nishikawa (population 210,000) adopted a 'Public Works Referendum Ordinance' by citizen initiative. Under the Local Autonomy Act, 1/50 of registered voters (4,200) signed; the assembly passed it.
496 words, about 2 min4The 0.42 Fiscal Strength Index
Kitano Prefecture (population 1.1 million) has a fiscal strength index of 0.42, down from 0.51 in 2010. Tax revenue is ¥180 billion; local allocation tax is ¥90 billion; debt service is 19% of general revenue; social welfare is 38% of the budget and rising 3% a year.
455 words, about 2 min5Three Sources, One Wrong Claim
A student is given three sources. Source 1: a line graph showing foreign visitors to Japan rising from 8.4 million in 2012 to 31.9 million in 2019, falling to 0.4 million in 2021, and recovering to 25.1 million in 2023.
366 words, about 2 min