Culture of Japan

In Japan one of the most commonly practiced religions is Buddhism It was imported to the country via the mainland of China and Korea in the 6th century. Since there are various types of Buddhism and within each there are different types of customs as well as beliefs. However, the major traditional customs of Buddhism include meditation, Buddhist worship, honouring the Buddha and the Sacred Mandala. Meditation in Buddhism is done with aim of calming one’s mind so that they can become more aware…

Imagine pure pandemonium, as people are running around frantically trying to escape a moving subway train. People are dropping all around and there is no place to go. What they once thought to be just another daily commute, turned out to be a day that would change their lives forever. No one had anticipated Sarin gas being on those trains. Who had committed such a despicable act? It would not be long before police officials would figure out who. While Aum Shinrikyo also attempted attacks…

People never seem to acknowledge that Asian Empires through the 16th-19th century were very different. Although they did have their commonalities, we can see how Japan, China, and Korea were very different both politically and socially. Asian Empires were more different than similar because of things such as their social mobility and structure of administration. These Asian Empires had many things in different politically but they also had their things in common. For China their methods of…

The Rise of Japan Before World War II Before and during World War II, Japan had a slogan that said, “to die for the Emperor is to live forever,” (“Voices of Many,” par. 4). This was one of many philosophies that pushed the Japanese people to go to war to fight for their country. With the mass of soldiers that Japan accumulated before World War II, it was able to conquer more land. This push made Japan a bigger political power, but it also made Japan a bigger target, eventually helping it to…

independent nation state, foreign ideas have riddled its constitutions, administration, and parliamentary government. Therefore, “Greece has never gone through the process of evolution of real political ideas” (Christodoulakis, 2015). This lack of civic culture in Greece has caused much political instability that still resides to this day. Greece for many years spent time trying to implement the English model of parliamentary government in Greece. However, unlike the English, the Greeks during…

Japan can thus be characterized as imperialist but also capitalist, and a colonizer but also a modernizer1. By the mid 1970’s North and South Korea, as well as Taiwan were success stories1. Both nations were advanced economically, through infrastructure…

On 11 March 2011, all international news broadcasts were fixated on Japan, for an unfortunate reason; a natural catastrophe that has struck the Tohoku region of Japan without warning. The calamity was instantaneously announced through viral videos, emails, Twitter feeds, social media and live broadcasts on both international and local Japanese news programs, with the global network news reporters clambering through the rubble (Bestor, 2013). This unprecedented natural disaster that has shocked…

lastly, were unequal compared to everyone else living in Canada, especially the white people. After Japan bombed the Pearl Harbour and attacked Hong Kong, enemy aliens, racial discrimination and deportation, and restriction were three main terms to describe Japanese-Canadians.…

Negotiation Analysis Negotiation Tsai Tzong-Fang (Kelly) I have stayed in Chicago for seven months. Everything like housing, school works, livelihood and so on are going well. However, I found something really inconvenient when I go to Costco or Target to buy some daily necessities. I always have to carry lots of stuffs home after purchase. I feel so tired about that especially in this chilly weather. Therefore, I decided to buy a car to solve this problem. Then, I asked my friends and parents…

fought. That’s what I’m doing here.’”(Guterson 391). Kabuo holds resentment towards the community due to the history of treatment of the neighboring Japanese community, while still maintaining his dignity of being Japanese. There is no shame in his culture, he holds shame with the American population as most of the citizens cannot see past appearance. However, throughout his trial he acknowledges that the term “Jap” automatically defines his persona which leads to a…