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Sep 5, 2008 · Japanese Culture. This document provides an overview of Japanese culture, including its geography, history, traditions, customs, and education system. Japan is an island country located in East Asia consisting of over 3,000 islands. Traditionally, Japan had isolated itself from foreign influence but opened up in 1854 and began industrializing.
- Introduction
- ‘Japan’
- Stratified Japan
- ‘The Japanese’
Reams have been written to question, explore and define ‘Japan’, ‘Japanese culture’ and ‘the Japanese’, both by Japanese scholars and by foreign observers of Japan. Most of it is based on an unwitting existential assump-tion that ‘Japan’, ‘Japanese culture’ and ‘the Japanese’ are ‘things’ out there, whose objectively verifiable forms need only be a...
‘Japan’ cannot be dissociated from Japanese culture, since Japan is not just a physicalentity.Japanasachainofislandsismeaningfulonlywhenculturally interpreted. Current conventional thinking is that Japan consists of the four major islands of Honsh ̄u, Ky ̄ush ̄u, Shikoku and Hokkaid ̄o, plus the Ry ̄uky ̄u Islands (Okinawa) and some small islands s...
Cultural interpretations of ‘Japan’ clearly emphasise the socially and polit-ically stratified nature of this country. For example, cultural narratives of ‘Japan’ evoke a country of four seasons: spring with cherry blossoms, a summer of sweltering heat, autumn with beautiful foliage colours and a bitterly cold winter. But these evocations are biase...
The conventional approach to the question of who the Japanese are is to identify them in terms of a number of objective criteria, such as state affiliation,34 language and cultural competence. A person who was born in Japan of Japanese parents, is a native speaker of Japanese, and embodies Japanese culture through enculturation and socialisation pr...
Introducing Japanese culture and customs in English: Children as teachers Chizuko Aiba Tokyo Denki University Machiko Fujiwara Seigakuin University Brian Byrd Seigakuin University Reference data: Aiba, C., Fujiwara, M., & Byrd, B. (2008). Introducing Japanese culture and customs in English: Children as teachers.
Jun 12, 2023 · The Japanese Language. Japanese is spoken by 125 million people worldwide. It’s also one of the most difficult to master, with three writing systems, grammar structures much different from English and an entire subsection of hierarchical language. Japanese is considered a language isolate, meaning it has no relationship to any other language.
LANGUAGE IN JAPAN. The dominant spoken language is Japanese (Nihongo) which is the sixth most spoken language in the world with more than 99% of the population using it. Linguistically, Nihongo is related in syntax to the Korean language although in spite of the similarities, both contemporary languages are incomprehensible to one another.
Impact on Japanese culture. Because Japanese culture sees nature as divine and as intertwined with human life, the frequent disasters that have plagued the nation since its settlement have had a deep impact on the Japanese psyche. Nature is feared and respected in Japanese culture as something that is untamable.
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