Tokushima Public High School Entrance Examination - Social Studies study plan

Read a blank outline map of Japan and label all 47 prefectures and their capitals from memory, then correct errors against an atlas.

Classify Japan's major plains, mountain ranges, and rivers on a sketch map and state one economic or settlement consequence of each.

Explain the difference between latitude/longitude grids and map scale, converting between 1:25,000 and 1:50,000 scales in five practice items.

Identify Japan's climate zones (Hokuriku, Setouchi, Pacific side, inland) and match each to seasonal precipitation and wind patterns.

Compare population pyramids and density maps for Tokyo, Tokushima, and a depopulating rural area, and write three conclusions about aging and migration.

Trace the flow of a major Japanese industry (automobiles or electronics) from raw material import through port, factory, and export using a labeled diagram.

Interpret a choropleth and an isoline map of the same region and state which better shows the data and why.

Locate Japan's five largest trading partners and describe one export and one import for each.

Build a timeline of Japanese history from the Jomon period to the Meiji Restoration with at least 15 dated events in correct order.

Explain the political structure of the Kamakura and Muromachi shogunates and one reason each declined.

Describe the Edo period's social order and its policy of national seclusion, and state two internal changes that weakened it.

Match key figures (Prince Shotoku, Taira no Kiyomori, Oda Nobunaga, Tokugawa Ieyasu) to their era and main achievement.

Explain the causes and outcomes of the Meiji Restoration and list three reforms that modernized Japan's economy and military.

Connect Japan's wars with China and Russia to the broader imperial expansion happening in Asia and Europe at the same time.

Summarize how the Silk Road and Mongol invasions linked East Asia and Europe, citing two concrete exchanges of goods or ideas.

Distinguish primary from secondary sources in two short excerpts and state one limitation of each.

Sequence the events from the 1920s through 1945 in Japan and explain how economic depression and militarism connected.

Describe the postwar occupation reforms and identify which changes came from the new constitution versus other policies.

Relate the two World Wars to shifts in the global balance of power and Japan's position in each.

Answer five short-answer questions on modern world history under timed conditions and self-score with a rubric.

Outline the three branches of Japan's government and state the main check each branch holds over the others.

Explain the difference between the constitution's guarantee of rights and the limits placed on those rights, with two examples.

Compare Japan's parliamentary system with a presidential system on two structural points.

Describe how a bill becomes law in the Diet, from introduction through promulgation.

Explain how the Bank of Japan, fiscal policy, and taxation each influence prices and employment, using one current example each.

Define GDP, inflation, and the business cycle, and interpret a simple supply-and-demand graph shift.

Describe the roles of the UN, WTO, and IMF and give one recent issue each addresses.

Summarize Japan's demographic and fiscal challenges and one policy response to each.

Interpret three unfamiliar data sets (table, graph, map) and answer questions in under 10 minutes each.

Order a mixed set of 20 events from Japanese and world history into a single correct chronology.

Take one full-length mock exam under timed conditions and record the score by domain.

Review every missed item and write a corrected explanation citing the specific fact or skill involved.