Unscrambling acronyms – Australia-Japan relations

• The resource is valuable for supporting the year Historical knowledge and understanding content description that has a focus on the influence of overseas developments such as Bollywood as students are given the opportunity to see the influence of Bollywood on two Australian movies.
• This resource is of significant value to support the implementation of the Asia and Australia's engagement with Asia priority in History and English, with particular emphasis on the first organising idea, the peoples and countries of Asia are diverse in ethnic background, traditions, cultures, belief systems and religions; the third organising idea, the peoples and countries of Asia have contributed and continue to contribute to world history and human endeavour; the sixth organising idea, Australia is part of the Asia region and our histories from ancient times to the present are linked and the seventh organising idea that Australians play a significant role in social, cultural, political and economic developments in the Asia region.
• This resource is valuable as it provides teachers with strategies to support the implementation of the Intercultural Understanding capability, especially learning about and engaging with diverse cultures in ways that create connections with others and cultivate mutual respect.
• This resource is valuable as it provides activities that develop students' ability to chronologically sequence key events that have influenced and built relations between Australia and Japan.

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