{"id":1595,"date":"2007-07-10T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2007\/07\/10\/ask-john-do-japanese-teachers-really-attend-private-student-trips\/"},"modified":"2007-07-10T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-10T14:00:00","slug":"ask-john-do-japanese-teachers-really-attend-private-student-trips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/ask-john-do-japanese-teachers-really-attend-private-student-trips\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask John: Do Japanese Teachers Really Attend Private Student Trips?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question:<\/strong><br \/>\nIn Lucky Star and Azumanga Daioh I noticed when the teenage cast goes on a non-scholastic trip, their homeroom teacher acts as a chaperone for the group.  Does this normally happen in Japan, and do Japanese students have a close relationship with their homeroom teacher?  Or is this a situation added to the story to provide funny student-teacher interactions?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>Answer:<\/strong><br \/>\nThis is an interesting question, but initially I didn&#8217;t know the answer. I have some knowledge of Japanese culture, and some first-hand experience, but I&#8217;ll admit that my familiarity with Japanese society is very limited. I posed this question to a native Japanese resident to get an answer. While many events and circumstances in anime do reflect real day to day Japanese society, I&#8217;m told that teachers accompanying students on private, non-school organized trips or vacations is not a common occurrence. This situation seems to be one that&#8217;s far more common in anime than in real life.<\/p>\n<p>On a similar note, I was also a bit surprised myself to learn that in real life Japanese students are rarely allowed access onto school rooftops. Countless anime &#8211; Manabi Straight, Risky Safety, Tenjho Tenge, Kamichu, Seto no Hanayome, Fuujin Monogatari, and Hitohira among them &#8211; depict students eating lunch or spending time on their school rooftop. But apparently this is also a stereotypical anime event that occurs much more frequently in fiction than in real life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: In Lucky Star and Azumanga Daioh I noticed when the teenage cast goes on a non-scholastic trip, their homeroom teacher acts as a chaperone for the group. Does this normally happen in Japan, and do Japanese students have a close relationship with their homeroom teacher? Or is this a situation added to the story [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-john"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}