Japanese language

Is Japan immune to social change? An essay on similarities and differences in the: society, culture and economy of the home islands, across Doctor Akagi and Akira. In this essay I will compare and contrast the Doctor Akagi and Akira. These two films, produced respectively 1988 (Akira) and 1998 (Doctor Akagi), show Japan in a time of crises, with destruction on the horizon. Throughout both the plot each film ventures in all aspects of society, from neo-slums to tech villas in Akira; to country…

differs greatly amongst the country it originates from. It is imperative for people to recognize the significant amount of differences there are in daily rituals and lifestyle between the Chinese and Japanese, even those that immigrated to America or were descents of immigrants. Chinese-Americans and Japanese-Americans have long been bundled together, when in reality there is a great amount of variation between them.…

fifty percent of people want to learn a language that is different from the language of their hometown. The Japanese 1110 in Thompson River university is good at the cultural communicate and the basic skill check. Everyone studies seriously, which pay attention to the class and hard working. The way that the teacher teaching is helping the student. Learning the language of different countries is another country is both interesting and hard things. The Japanese 1110 class starting in the autumn…

during the 1950’s, after the Japanese bombed pearl harbour, causing tension between the Japanese and Americans, instigating severe racial discrimination against the American Japanese descents. David Guterson exemplifies these encounters through the characterisation of Hatsue who is faced with dilemma of her identity being either Japanese or American. Hatsue’s relationship with Ishmael and the existing racial tension plays a key role in Hatsue’s detachment from her Japanese culture. Guterson uses…

consistently changing and being influenced. I am not saying that Japanese culture has not changed over the years, but America is a melting pot, meaning that is influenced by hundreds of different ideas and beliefs making these two countries almost like night and day. One big example about the difference of American and Japanese culture is our views of the individuals…

affair. My interest in Japan was aroused in 2014 when a friend introduced me to a YouTube channel focused on Japanese culture. The channel’s presenter was a JET programme participant who still lives in Japan. From that point onwards, I developed a curiosity towards Japan, which has consequently led to an admiration for Japanese…

The first episode of Star Trek aired on NBC on September 8, 1966. It promised to follow the starship Enterprise, operated by the NASA-like organization Starfleet, around the universe for five years as it, according to the show’s opening, “explore[s] brave new worlds, seek[s] out new life and new civilizations, and boldly [goes] where no man has gone before.” (SOURCE) Although the “Original Series”, as it later came to be called, was doomed to cancellation after three seasons, five other series…

also changed the way Americans viewed and treated Japanese Americans. These resentments and mistreatments of Japanese immigrants, began long before the bombing of Pearl Harbor ever took place. These biases were even present here, in the state of Washington. After the attacks on Pearl Harbor, many viewed the Japanese- Americans as threats to the country and how they should be treated became a subject of debate in popular magazines at the time. Japanese, suppressed within the United States during…

the consistent suicide issue in the Japanese society was due to their misconceptions of stress. The key to depression is the overwhelming stress that one can face; therefore the misconceptions of stress could very well lead to the general unawareness of depression that the Japanese society possessed. In “ The Nature of Stress” , Selye explained how stress is not necessarily a reaction…

Not everyone served their country by fighting the Axis Powers on the front line. Many did their part in their hometown and Dorothy Haener was one of them. She contributed to the war effort by working in a plant and inspecting B-24 parts. Even growing up, Dorothy was exposed to the expectation that women were to aspire to marriage and raise a family while their husbands worked. She also noticed that many men thought women were inferior to them and were even lower in their eyes if they were…