Text: Noah Oskow “Hajichi: the Banned Traditional Tattoos of Okinawa” Unseen Japan. https://unseenjapan.com/hajichi-the-banned-traditional-tattoos-of-okinawa/
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Some elements of this text to consider:
- This text is fairly long and would likely be adapted (shortened / simplified) for a Paper 1 text
- How feature articles differ from news articles
- The use of illustrations near the top of the text
- The audience for this article given the topic and the website where it was published
- How the text starts with a first-person perspective of a local Okinawan and the role this person (Mim) plays throughout the text
- The switch partway though the article to a more historical / factual focus and how it later returns back to Mim
- The inclusion of a list of sources at the end of the text and the reasons for including this information
- The biographical information about the author