New Horizon
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New Horizon is an English language textbook used by junior high school (中学校) students in Japan. It first came out for the 2002 school year. It is published by Tokyo Shoseki. There are three volumes, one for each of the three years of school.
[edit] Characters
There are several characters whose adventures centred around the fictional Wakaba Junior High School inspire the books's grammar and vocabulary lessons. These characters, as updated for the revised 2006 edition of the text, are as follows:
- Judy Brown - An African-American girl from New York.
- Emi Ito (伊藤 絵美 Itō Emi) - A young Japanese girl.
- Shin Tanaka (田中 慎 Tanaka Shin) - A young Japanese boy.
- Mike Davis - A young Australian.
- Lisa - Ms Green's sister who lives in Australia.
- Koji (浩司 Kōji) - Lisa's Japanese husband.
- Bill - Ms. Green's little brother.
- Bin - Koji's friend.
Their teachers are a Canadian ALT named Ann Green and Kazuko Sato (佐藤 和子 Satō Kazuko), a Japanese woman who is mostly ignored by the authors. Apart from minor changes such as T-shirts on sale instead of shoes, and the kids visiting Canada instead of Australia, little changed in the 2006 reprint.
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