Japanese culture

Edmund Burke has said that Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it. After Pearl Harbor in World War II, nearly 120,000 Japanese-Americans were stripped of their belongings, property, and businesses very similarly to the Jews being put into the ghetto by the Germans. Since the Iranian Hostage Situation, the 1993 World Trade Center and the 9/11 attacks, Muslim and Arabian Men, Women, and Children were against based on their religion and ethnicity. Some have even been arrested unfairly…

cherry blossoms, once bloom fall, the smell of rice in the air. Busy one half, memorizing the other, this is Japan. I hope to visit this fascinating and vast place one day and really experience the style that they wear. I want to be emerged with the culture they have. Taking in an eyeful of the surroundings they are engaged, but that has only been in contrast of the technological advances that they have achieved in. That is really what makes japan unlike no other country in the world. Going to…

“Japan is changing”. This is how media tells in Japan. I was born and raised in Japan and speak fluent Japanese. Until I was eighteen years old, I just knew only one foreigner who was my English teacher in my high school and I have never meet people who are mix-race with Japanese. Japanese call them “Hafu” which projects an ideal; English ability, international culture experience, and different body structures—long legs, big eyes, or high tone hair color. In the TV show, there are many Hafu TV…

after being suspect in their motive for coming to Japan, Golovnin and his companions are held captive in Japan for a little over two years, until they can be proven innocent of the allegations. This travel experience, give the reader perspective Japanese prisons, government, and foreign diplomacy, rather than it focusing on cultural day to day happenings and scenery like with most travel experiences. Not only does it provide this unique perspective, but also paints the western traveler in Japan…

called this as “super-specialized”. (43) Japanese character is very unique compared to American. Here is summary of chapter 3, ‘the unique Japanese character’. Honne and Tatemae is important elements to describe and understand Japanese. Tatemae is “expressed orally by the individual”, Honne is “what they really think”. Garcia says these are obvious at nomikai which is casual drinking they go with coworkers. Virtue of Humility is also important to Japanese. No matter how high their status is,…

The horrors of Internment camps had become a reality to many Japanese-Canadians in World War Two, along with the racism and ill treatment the Issei [first generation Japanese-Canadians] and Nisei [second-generation Japanese-Canadians] had faced. The idea of this discrimination ending with the end of the war was farfetched. In fact, many are still trying to build and expand their identity today. Life indeed became different to Japanese-Canadians as how they had known it before World War Two, and…

Some of the Japanese men even joined the army because it was the only way to get out of the camp. “The only way out was joinin’ the army. And supposedly, some men went out for the army, signed on, and ended up flyin’ to Japan with a bomb” (Shinoda) it’s here that you get a sense of how desperate these men were to get out that they’d betray their own homeland for freedom. This was the first instance of Japanese American soldiers, “Japanese Americans were now permitted to form…

The Japanese arrived in the United States to be able to get more options to be successful, although when they made it to the U.S. No one knew how to speak Japanese, no one knew much about their culture. They were not accepted right away because people were very eerie of them. It was more of rude eyes staring at the Japanese, they’d have to go through a lot of discrimination while the other people in the United States are doing their own thing to not accept them. In these days of this generation,…

the internment of Japanese American citizens.There are many reasons in which it was not justified, such as that Japanese Americans assimilated to American culture which proves that they wanted to be apart of America. They even wanted to bring their families with them, that shows that they want to show their new life to their families. Most of all, the internment of Japanese American citizens was not justified because there was little evidence that they were a threat. Japanese Americans…

Written in 1981, Obasan explores the negative treatment Japanese-Canadians experienced in the internment camps during World War Two. Kogawa uses three women (Obasan, Aunt Emily, and Naomi) to illustrate the perspectives that the different generations have in regards to Canadian multiculturalism and how it relates to Japanese-Canadians. In the article “Joy Kogawa’s Obasan: Canadian multiculturalism and Japanese-Canadian Internment”, the author Laura K. Davis examines Obasan through a lens…