Demographics of Japan

challenged, opened my mind and provided phenomenal field experience. I was able to teach a class of 5th graders, be independent and do field work on my own in an entire week, while getting the opportunity to work with peers who were actually form Japan and China . I initially came into this class hoping just to fulfill a writing requirement, but I I came out receiving so much more. Being able to see the world from various perspectives. Being in this class gives students the chance to be…

South Korea, my country, is famous for a hardworking nation. Because of the hardworking culture, our labor rights laws are not much guaranteed like the United States. The laws might be firm, but they are not enforced, at least. Thus, when we think about Western European countries, America, and Canada, we envy their good system like 8-hour workdays, maternity leave, or overtime pay. As an Industrial-Organization psychology student, I learned about the good labor system in America. In my major…

I have traveled around the world many times and lived in different countries and I was fortunate enough to see life in different ways and the art of language is something I find fascinating. Languages such as Cantonese, Japanese, and even Thai look beautiful and so does their culture and I wanted to adopt that style for my own. A big influence that may sound odd is the fact that I collected soda cans when I was in foreign countries because I loved the way the brand names looked in that country’s…

Naruto is a Japanese animation series created by Masashi Kishimoto in 1997. Yet the series never hit American viewers until 2005. Before that time, it was still circling around Japan in Akumara Jump, a Japanese magazine, when it the series was first created. It took off in Japan by 2002 and Viz Media later licensed the series for production in North America. It was three years later that the series finally aired in the United States and ultimately gave birth to one of the most successful manga…

Analysis to “A Visit to The Yoshiwara” by Hishikawa Moronobu The image’s name is “A Visit to The Yoshiwara” which painted by a Japanese artist, Hishikawa Moronobu: First Master Of Ukiyo-E. It was painted in the late 1680s and it used hand scroll, ink, color, and gold on paper. The reason why this image is a good example for this paper is because of its unique painting’s style. Specifically, this hand scroll painting, which unfolds in fifteen self-contained episodes, is the longest (with the…

In this essay, I am going to be discussing the topic of genders in Japanese religions. I will be focussing especially on how some Japanese religions discriminate gender. In Japan, it is very common that families affiliate themselves with multiple religions. The most common would be that most practise both Buddhist and Shinto rites. With there being over 128 million of a population in the country, it is understood that over 211 million people had registered for religions in the country. This…

century, it would take another fourteen centuries before it would officially be addressed by local officials in Okinawa. After this first official recognition in 1905, the martial art has grown into a competitive sport, that has been documented in Japan and around the world through various forms of media. This exponential growth…

Takashi Murakami uses a juxtaposition of American Pop Art and Japanese Manga to create a conceptual idea of how Japanese culture is viewed. Murakami uses his artwork to express a social commentary on how he feels the values of Japanese people changed after World War 2, as he believed the traditional values were dismissed and the idea of global consumerism became more important. He argues his point through a new style of art that he created called the Superflat. Murakami uses his characters to…

A Tsunami is a series of waves in a water body caused by an earthquake, volcanic eruption, or other underwater explosions. This type of natural disaster is terrifying and can cause truly devastating effects. An event like this happened in the Indian ocean in 2004. The tsunami was in effect of a massive earthquake with a magnitude of Mw 9.1–9.3. This earthquake is the third largest earthquake to have ever been recorded on a seismograph. The Tsunami happened in 2004 on the 26th of December, also…

Gozen (mother), his wife’s name was Nohime, and he had 18 children and ten of them had the first name of Oda. He was known for his brilliance and dominance. He had many accomplishments but was all around known for changing the way war was fought in Japan. The author states in the article that “Oda developed, implemented, and expanded the use of long pikes, firearms, ironclad ships, and castle fortifications in accordance to the expanded mass battles of the period”. At the age of five, Oda…