Culture of Japan

all cartoon series in Thailand are from Japan, so Japanese culture normally shown in animation are familiar for Thai kids, especially 90’s kids. Children can learn what Japanese culture is, what the difference between Thai and Japanese. I think those Japanese cartoons, not only Doraemon have influence Thai society since all animations that we could find to in 90’s came from Japan. People view Japan as a cute and cool country, so it is not surprising that Japan is the country Thai travel to the…

SLIDE 2: The first relationship between Portugal and Japan started in 1543. The first explorers were Portuguese traders António Mota, Francisco Zeimoto and António Peixoto. When the Portuguese explorers arrived they landed in the southern archipelago of Japan. They were the first Europeans to discover Japan and established a relationship and trade with it. This was called the Nanban trade. The Portuguese and Japanese relationship and trade found the port of Nagasaki in 1571, through the deal of…

accompanied with. Japanese, Korean, and Malaysian people learned this beautiful art from the Chinese and created their own unique versions of it. For this paper I will be focusing on the Japanese from of Sumi-e painting, specifically the history and culture behind it. Although modern day sumi-e paintings can include colors, the traditional art of sumi-e paintings involves only the color black. In oriental paintings black is considered the simplest of all colors.…

The Narrator, a young man graduating from college, is undergoing a transition that is analogous to the major changes of the Meiji reform. He is young, and full or life, much like the modernization that was gripping Japan at the time; the rush to modernize was especially in major cities like Tokyo, where the Narrator spends the bulk of their time. The next age group, holding Sensei and K, are trapped in a battle between modernization and more traditional values. They…

Religion is additionally an important element and dimension the makes up the Japanese culture. Japan’s religious background is not always easy to grasp and can consequently present itself as unclear to western cultures. Outside of the indigenous spirituality of Shintoism, Buddhism arrived in Japan from Korea around the 6th Century, while the minority religion of Christianity was brought to Japan ten centuries later by Jesuit missionaries (Crane, Bruce, Salmon, Eich, & Brandewie, 2012). Japan’s…

differences between the American and Japanese culture. One must never assume that any one culture is the same, even if the two culture appear similar on the surface. American and Japanese cultures appear similar on the surface. But if one looks any deeper than surface level, it is very easy to see that the two cultures are as different as any two cultures can be. In this section three key differences will be discussed between American and Japanese culture. The author will also discuss barriers…

modern-day Japan is a largely secular society, various religions have a hand in the shaping of Japanese society, including, but not limited to, Shintoism, Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism. Of the following, Shintoism and Buddhism can arguably be called the most influential, and while only Shintoism is indigenous to Japan, today, the influence of Buddhist culture compares to that of Shintoism (Dolan 1992). Shintoism, or the way of the gods, is more a mix of beliefs and practices indigenous to…

An Unexpected Endemic Disease: The Internal Modernity Crisis of Samurai in Modern Japan If a survey were conducted across the globe that asked participants to describe what they felt was the defining characteristic of Japanese culture, the Japanese samurai would most likely be the top response. In modern Japan, the legacy of the medieval samurai is at the heart of the Japanese culture. Depictions of samurai’s absolute loyalty, high regard for honor, and continual analysis of shame, can be…

large amounts of land, then granting smaller pieces of land to nobles. In return for the land, the nobles promised to fight for the lords if they were called upon. The warriors of Europe were Knights. The warriors of Japan were Samurai. After a civil war, the man with the most power in Japan was the Shogun. In Europe, the Catholic Church held the most power, as most of the population was Catholic. In both countries, the Samurai and Knights were the heart and soul of the warrior class. Honor and…

between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result.” Japan had always felt endangered by western countries when they began to sail and explore Asia in the sixteenth century and did not want strong western powers affecting their culture and social structures. They only opened their coast to the western world when they felt that they would only be able to keep their culture if they allowed for western technology to come into Japan and help it modernize. They began to work more closely…