(Smile File) Japanese city has genius and cool way of teaching kids respect for their elders

Forget about baseball or Pokemon cards.  Kids in Japan can now collect Elder Superheroes cards!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You know, a lot of kids grow up and they
admire superheroes or sports figures or whatever. While the town
of Kouara, Japan, has come up with a clever way
of teaching young kids about respecting their elders by creating
trading cards featuring grandpa's They're kind of like trading cards,
like Pokemon trading cards. They feature pictures of real life

(00:21):
members of the community, like retired firefighters and all kinds
of other stuff, and their special skills and abilities are
listed on the back and then the kids trade them.
That is really neat, isn't that a like we can
learn so much from our elders, I know,