Culture Shock Experienced by the Main Character in the Picture Book The Way We Do It in Japan

Culture shock is a phenomenon that can be experienced by anyone, including children, when interacting with a different culture. This phenomenon is represented in the picture book The Way We Do It in Japan by Geneva Cobb Iijima and Paige Billin-Frye through the main character, Gregory, an Asian-American child who moves from America to Japan and encounters cultural differences in daily life. This study aims to analyze how cultural differences between Japan and America are represented, how the stag