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The official currency of Japan, the Japanese Yen (JPY), is the third most traded currency in the foreign exchange market. The word yen means “circle” or “round object.”. Yen was officially adopted by the Meiji government in 1871 as part of the modernization policy of Japan’s economy.
For nearly three decades Japanese Culture has garnered high praise as an accurate and well-written introduction to Japanese history and culture. This widely use...
- Paul Varley
Oct 9, 2021 · National characteristics, Japanese, Japan -- Civilization -- 20th century Publisher Boston : Tuttle Pub. Collection internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English Item Size 664.1M
Jan 28, 2010 · 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 assumption that 'Japan', 'Japanese culture' and 'the Japanese' are 'things' out there, whose objectively verifiable forms need only be ascertained.
- Harumi Befu
- 2009
- 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...
ve in this sophisticated yet highly readable text. This book explores the breadth and diversity of Japanese society, with chapters covering class, geographical and generational vari-ation, work, education, gender, inorities, popular culture, and the establishment. Updates include an exploration of the ‘Cool Japan’ phenomen.
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exposed to Japanese culture, history, and philosophy through the English transla-tions of primary documents as found in Sources of Japanese Tradition (Tsunoda, de Bary, and Keene). In the preface to the first edition, the editors remarked that “since the arts of Japan have such a unique importance in the modern world — indeed,
