After demonstrating how to write her full name in Japanese characters, Reiko writes students names on the blackboard. Reiko teaches the roots of some Japanese characters through a series of drawings.
Ninth graders learn the meaning of Japanese characters by playing a guessing game.
Reiko teaches students Japanese characters representing nature, such as tree . In the end, students learned history of Japanese calligraphy while also learning specific characters representing body parts and nature. Japanese uses three types of character, Kanji, Hiragana and Katakana. Kanji originally came from China. The above picture shows how one of the high school students wrote some characters.