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    Female Mill Workers

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    During the industrial revolution there were many unfortunate situations occurring in the mills. Although being nearly 6,000 miles apart and despite many cultural differences, the experiences of the female mill workers in England and Japan were fairly similar. Both English and Japanese female mill workers worked long hours in poor conditions with low pay. Also the woman's young sons and daughter were sent to work in mills. The women at the mills had gotten used to the long hours and low pay that…

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    Susan Derges was born in London in the year of 1955. All of her work is mostly visual metaphors. She captures the relationship between nature and self. In one article it said the, “she endeavors to capture both visible and invisible scientific and natural processes. The physical appearance of sound, the evolution of frogspawn or the reflection of the moon and start on water.” Most of her famous work is her capturing water that goes into river and shorelines. Lately she works on photographs that…

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    Cherry Blossom Essay

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    Cherry Blossom is Japanese festival. In Japanese term, cherry blossom known as "Sakura". The flower of genus Prunus trees bloom in the spring season, which consider as Cherry Blossom. These are White and Pink flowers. The Cherry Blossom is assumed to be a native of the Himalayas. It looks marvelous when the Cherry trees bloom at its peak. You must visit it once. National cherry blossom festival Washington DC In 1912 Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo had gifted 3000 Cherry trees to City of Washington…

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    Gender Inequality In Japan

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    Japan is heavily influenced by Confucian ideals and the society's traditional ideals are of heavily based on the Confucian principle that "men are superior to women." Although some parts of the world have begun to to progress beyond these stereotypical view on gender roles, Japan is still highly traditional. It is the norm in Japan to expect the men to be the primary breadwinner of the household, who supports the family…

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    No-No Boy

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    The novel, No-No Boy by John Okada is about the Inability to function as either Japanese or American. The novel focuses on Ichiro, who is a twenty-five-year-old Japanese man released from prison camp and jail for refusing to join the U.S. Army. The novel is set in Post World War II and is narrated in a third-person point of view. The narrator shares the story of Ichiro, who is a first generation Japanese American. Ichiro struggles to find his place in society and after Pearl Harbor is bombed…

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    The Slaughter of Dolphins People think that dolphins are the friendliest creatures in the ocean and no one would hurt them or even kill them. Well they are actually being killed right now. The dolphin are being slaughter in a place called Taiji, Japan. Taiji is a small town with a big secret. If you didn’t look closely, you would think they love dolphins and whales (“The Cove”). The capture of dolphins and of the killing of dolphins all started when the show called “Flipper” came out in 1964.…

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    Upon the middle ages (400 to 1400 A.C) lived the samurai, the loyal warriors of Japan, and the knights, the religious warriors of Europe. Though they may be on opposite sides of the world, they do not acknowledge each other’s existence, similarities were mere coincidences, and the two display little correlation among each other. The knights and samurai differentiated upon their training, had dissimilar loyalty policies and codes, and diverse perspectives of death. Although the samurai and…

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    Geisha Research Papers

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    entertaining people using the fine arts. To become a geisha, the process begins with making the decision to becoming a geisha. In the early ages of the geisha, their training would have begun at the age of 13, but because of different laws and reforms in japan, it now starts at the age of 16. In making that decision, they agree to move away from home, live in an okiya (a geisha house), and learn the intense ways of the geisha. A girl who begins her training before the age of 21 is called a…

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    Shrine, the Witness of Japanese Religion, Culture and Art Japan is very famous for both its traditional culture and its modern culture. Talking about traditional Japanese culture, shrine is one of the things that people would think of the most; and talking about modern Japanese culture, people would usually think about anime, games, etc. but even in these modern culture, there is still a high rate that shrine would exist. When people walk in Japan, they could find a lot of shrines. The size of…

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    On March 11, 2011 Japan was rattled by a powerful earthquake and tsunami. When the tsunami hit Sendai, Japan thousands of lives were changed forever. The tsunami claimed thousands of lives, destroyed thousands of homes, businesses, and roads and left behind an excessive amount of debris. The impact of the tsunami also caused a major power outage which in turn caused a major nuclear meltdown/explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. With the devastation of that day and the days…

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