Explorations: Heavenly Machine: Japanese Culture: Eye tests in a school
Duration: 9 mins 16 secs
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Background to the Channel 4 Millennium Series ‘The Day the World Took Off’, shown in 2000. With thanks to Windfall Films
A routine eye test in a Japanese school in Tokyo. About one third of these schoolchildren, aged about eleven, are short-sighted (myopic). This is a far higher rate than in most Western societies. |
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| Created: | 2018-03-10 16:25 |
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| Collection: | A History of the World (The Day the World Took Off) |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | Prof Alan Macfarlane |
| Language: | eng (English) |
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