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    followed by a tsunami caused the destruction of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant releasing radioactive material into the. In 2011 it was reported that long-lived radioactive cesium had contaminated 11,580 square miles of the land surface of Japan 4,550 of which had a radiation level that exceeded Japan’s allowable exposure rate of 1 millisievert per year .The Japanese government then raised the allowable exposure limit to 20 mSv in order to avoid evacuation of badly irradiated areas.…

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    CONTENTS : ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1 : Temporary and permanent in relation to materiality • What is considering temporary and what permanent in Japanese buildings? • How this flexibility of habitation is created? CHAPTER 2 : Relationships between the interior and exterior • How this transition of two spaces is achieved by the human senses? (Visual marking of spaces – inside/outside) • How the building does merges with the surrounding environment? What textures are created from this…

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    spread throughout the world The Ainu, an indigenous people of Japan, traditionally had facial tattoos, as did theAustroasians. Today, one can find Atayal, Seediq, Truku, and Saisiyat of Taiwan, Berbers of Tamazgha (North Africa), Yoruba, Fulani and Hausa people of Nigeria, and Māori of New Zealand with facial tattoos. Tattooing was popular among certain ethnic groups in southern China, Polynesia, Africa, Borneo, Cambodia, Europe, Japan, the Mentawai Is-lands, MesoAmerica, New Zealand, North…

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    little people informed or prepared. First of all, Meyer addresses a magnitude-9.0 earthquake on the current coast of Oregon and Washington. On January 26, 1700, the Pachena Bay citizens died from a flood and a tsunami crashed into the east coast of Japan 10 hours later as results from the earthquake. A similar earthquake possibly happening is a widespread theory that many are trying predict. In addition, the article discusses the research and statistics found…

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    When Kotaro told me about how he had and is struggling with seniority rule (i.e., custom of respecting the elders) in Japan, I remembered my experiences in junior and senior high schools. As opposite to two participants, I did not have problems with keigo. Maybe that was because I watched many Japanese drams that contained characters to use keigo very often (e.g., campus-life stories). However, for the first few months at my junior high school, I could not understand why many of the seniors were…

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    People might not want to live in South Korea because it is right in between Japan and China. If there was to be a war between China and Japan, South Korea would most likely get involved, whether they want to be or not. People may not like the fact they could get involved in wars and move to other countries. Since South Korea is big in the auto industry, they…

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    negative and superior feeling toward the Japanese. There are various reasons why there are these negative sentiments towards the Japanese (and vice versa) but some can be that it may lie in the struggle for power and influence in Asia between China and Japan. Another reason may be because there are still sentiments from the wars that they have been in and the land that they have fought for. Another reason could be the political struggles within China itself; there is nurture of anti-Japanese…

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    What foreigners usually know about Japanese Samurai is these warriors were fearsome in the combat, extremely disciplined and followed a strict code of honor that they even were prepared to kill themselves if they broke its rules. And so, Samurai were relied by their government, also landowners. The film Tasogare Seibei (Twilight Samurai) relating some aspects of the life of Samurai near the end of Edo era gives audiences a more deepen knowledge. Firstly, I’d like to begin with the position of…

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    Dejima yujo de-Kawari no zu (Deshima Prostitute with Fan) is a woodblock print by an anonymous artist in Nagasaki, Japan c. 1800. The print was purchased from C.R. Boxer in 1951, collected by J.C. Pabst and is currently held in the British Museum collection in London. Deshima Prostitute with Fan is a good example of Nagasaki-e prints, which are recognizable through their depictions of Dutch people, ships and exotic animals. A derivative of the popular Ukiyo-e print genre, Nagasaki-e prints were…

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    to the imposition of foreign customs. An example of this response is evident in Korea, during its time under Japanese imperial rule as the Korean national identity was forged in protest to the assimilative nature of Japanese rule in the 1920s, as Japan sought to…

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