Demographics of Japan

Compare and Contrast between Chinese and Japanese in the colour word "green" Introduction This essay will be discussed in these aspects: (1) differences and similarities between Chinese and Japanese in colour word "green (青)" according to authoritative dictionaries; (2) factors lead to the differences. Additionally, the colour word “green” in this essay refers to “Qing” in Chinese and “Ao/ Sei (あお/ せい)” in Japanese, both of which share the same…

Food Culture in Japanese Animation - The Image of Family in “My Neighbor Totoro” The main character of “My Neighbor Totoro” is Satsuki; her family includes a mother who is absent due to being hospitalized and her father, who is a writer concentrated on his work. For that reason, the role of supporting the daily life of the family is posed upon Satsuki. Satsuki who is 10 years old is still a child. However, she is forced to bear the adult role for everyday life and takes care of her younger…

Japan is a small country, which is home to 127 million people. Japan is off the coast of Asia, separated by China by the east, or Japanese sea. The kanji characters that make Japan’s name translate to “sun origin”, which has caused Japan to often be called the land of the rising sun. Japan’s flag consists of a white background with an iconic red orb in the centre, which represents the sun from which its popular nickname is derived. Japan is a constitutional monarchy, where the monarch or…

the people would benefit if their houses were well designed. Though he is well known for his efforts in residential housing, Wright also made his mark in commercial buildings with some notable projects such as the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Japan. For Wright, Japan was ancient, unfamiliar, and striking; “A vast city channeled but with wide bare-earth streets swarming with humanity…lined both sides with blue-grey tile roofed two story wooden buildings… Scarlet and gold shuttered sedan-chairs, the…

Samurai and Knights Essay Maybe, the samurais and knights are both warriors, but that does not mean they are similar. In 1000 - 1500, during the medieval times, Japan built a warrior class called Samurai and Europe built a warrior class called Knights. They developed a thing called feudalism and they built a warrior class. Were the similarities greater than the differences or are the differences greater than the similarities? The similarities between samurai and knights were not greater than…

“Cool Japan” fund, is it completely useless or just poorly managed? The “burst” of the bubble economy in Japan at the beginning of 1990s crushed Japanese self confidence. Long recession, harsh Korean competition in steel, auto and electronics industries, with US also having the strongest leadership in “IT revolution” and rapid economic growth in China enhanced the depressive mood of “the Lost Decade”. However rumors of popularity of Japanese cultural products overseas, such as electronics for…

Finally, let me briefly discuss about the theoretical implication of the cosmopolitan publics that I have employed to analyze the Japanese experience of the global Sixties movement. As discussed, the concept was to capture cultural and communicational aspect of the social movements that cuts across the national border. If resituating this concept within the literature of global and transnational sociology, first of all, it was intended to focus on the aspects that have been neglected in the…

Political Culture in India and Japan. Introduction. Both India and Japan have majestic and unique cultures of their own kind. Both countries have a vast culture whose roots are dated back to centuries. Both the countries are well known for their culture. They have gained utmost respect from other parts of the countries due to their awe-inspiring culture. One can see culture as a baroque phenomenon which features morals, laws, knowledge, art, beliefs and all those other credentials that a man may…

Japan was to be a vital stop en route to China, but when approached the first time, the Japanese were unsettled. This unsettling was due in part to the way they were approached. The Japanese were then bullied and threatened with the same fate of the Mexican people if they refused to meet with the American diplomat. Fearful of what was shown by America, and what had taken place in China with Britain, Japan agreed to deal with America first. This was done…

In previous centuries Japan was ruled by the emperor and his imperial court, but during the late twelfth century the court began to lose their power to that of clans. Minamoto no Yoritomo, the leader of his clan and victor of the Genpei War, decided to locate his capital in Kamakura, while governing the sharing power of Japan with the Emperor Go-Toba, who gave him the title shogun, which resided in Kyoto. Thus, establishing the first warrior government with a new notion, as stated by Jeffrey P…