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    DBQ Essay Asian societies largely relied on cultural borrowing to form their governments, traditions, and societies. These documents show cultural diffusion through Japan borrowing ideas from China regarding government, different perspectives on others cultures, and the outward perceptions on each culture. Documents two and four focus on what cultural borrowing does to help grow governments. Documents one, three, and five discuss how the perspective of each country from the outside can help or…

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    In Japan’s Comfort Women, subtitled the Sexual slavery and prostitution during World War II and the US occupation, the author Yuki Tanaka unearths a topic largely undiscussed throughout history. Published by Routledge in 2002, Tanaka goes into depth about the history of the exploitation of thousands of women used as comfort women, a euphemism for sexual slavery, for Japanese soldiers. The book is broken up into six chapters, including an epilogue, which focus on the different areas regarding…

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    Many contemporary Japanese beliefs and values have a religious background. Despite the fact that 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…

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    Soba Research Paper

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    Okinawan Soba is made up of Chinese noodles with Japanese flavoring and soup. I relate to Okinawan soba because Okinawa is closer to Japan than to China, even though my father’s ancestors are from Taiwan or the Chinese noodles. I believe that I identify more to my Japanese side because I lived in Japan for the first few years of my life, I even went to a Japanese-speaking school during Kindergarten. In Japan a candle-lit ceremony is held, that is called the Bon Odori or Bon…

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    Kyoto Research Paper

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    Kyoto; Japan Kyoto was the ancient capital of Japan containing 250 000 people, give or take a few. Kyoto was established in 794. Kyoto was divided into four parts, the East, West, South and North ends, Kyoto covers 827.90 acres of Japan's land. Kyoto consists of various of seasons, summer dad could get very hot while winter days were average. Kyoto was the place of culture and art, woodblock paintings by artisans had become very common, Zen gardens and Geishas became popular. Kyoto was known for…

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    Facts About Gagaku

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    Background Info on Gagaku Gagaku is a fusion of music and dance. Instrumentalist passed down their roles from generation to generation and performed for the imperial families. Although we are not entirely sure when it began, we know it was formally organized around the Tenth Century. Gagaku has three forms songs along with chanted poetry or Kayō, instrumental or Kangen, and dances along with music or Bugaku. Today we will be exploring Kangen. The music is mainly monophonic with moments of…

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    Horserider Theory

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    one called Horserider theory argues that Korean people invaded Japanese islands where no state is presented and bring them advanced political, cultural, material and technology after conquest. The argument suffers from weakness including arbitrary division between historical period, misinterpretation of the evidence and neglect of some important archives. Bringing in information from written records, a reversed…

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    Comfort Women Essay

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    found out that there is a one disastrous history of Korea. The disastrous history is about “military comfort women” during World War Two when Korea was under Japanese rule. In fact, a ‘comfort woman’ is an inappropriate word for the female victims; a ‘sex slave’ is the correct term. Although the sex slave is the right term, people use the ‘comfort women’ because it is well known by many people and sounds smoother than the sex slave. When Korea was under Japanese rule,…

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    experiences. I was supposed to grow up in a small, countryside of Korea. My biological father and my mother finalize a divorce and I find myself making a home in America. I traveled the world at a young age, it was not my choice, but it was my life in a new family, as I became a military child. Coming to America, I look and understand the meaning of culture, but I could never look back and settle for the life I would have had in Korea. The most significant memory of…

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    A Gesture Life Summary

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    A Gesture Life is about a Korean man Franklin “Doc” Hata, who was adopted at a young age and raised in a Japanese family. Hata is in his seventies, and lives in a suburban town, Bedley Run. He is content with his big house, and the relationships he has made from owning a local medical supply shop, “Sunny’s”, which he sold to a young couple. Hata begins to have flashbacks to his time serving for the Japanese army in Burma. He hides his Korean origins during his time in war, until a group of…

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