From the bustling market of Akihabara to the Stock Exchange, Tokyo will inspire and stimulate students' interest in business and economics. The capital of Japan is the hi-tech centre of the world consumer electronics industry.
Subject Focus:
- KS 4: See how Tokyo became the centre of high-tech industry.
- KS 4: Understand how businesses operate in and adapt to a competitive, global market environment.
- KS 4: Compare methods of business organisation.
- KS 5: Examine the workings of financial markets and stock exchanges and how trading affects the economy and peoples' lives.
Student Outcome:
- Explore the possibilities of doing business in a global context.
- Place the role of stock markets in economies.
- Compare and contrast the different ways businesses and economies are organised around the world.
- Appreciate the importance of sustainable business practices.
- Understand what factors have combined to make Japan an important global economic centre.
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