Japanese popular culture

literature can have a significant impact on the perception of cultures that we do not personally live in. These two mediums of communication are often overlooked, but can greatly change the perception of a place or culture. As human beings we are very susceptible to being influenced by our emotions and feelings, and art and literature both affect these two things. People often fall to the popular stereotype of the Chinese and Japanese people being rash and unloving. "Dreaming of Li Po" by Tu…

twentieth century resulting in the change of national values, primarily within the Western World, one must examine the importance of representation. Analysing the usage of myths and its influence on cultures, shaping values within societies to studying…

The world has been changing rapidly through the development of technology , easier connection with diverse people and free access to information.Within all of these benefits , the culture became an important aspect of globalization. However, cultural globalization meaning as the spreading of ideas, and values around the world, is debatable in different point of views.This essay will cover the positive side of it in American society. In the early 1960s,Marshall McLuhan, the Canadian critic…

Many artist are inspired by someone or some type of culture and in the video “Converging Cultures”, it shows how certain events in history shapes famous artist and styles. The video mainly focused on how Western art was affected by Eastern culture and art. Famous artist like Van Gogh, Da Vinci and more all show signs of having converging cultures in their work, and especially in the 18th and 19th century when impressionism became popular. The painting I am going to be discussing that has cross…

Cultures are traditionally studied as systems comprised of spatially co-present individuals sharing similar social practices and ideologies, with the environment they inhabit being considered the center of their traditions and beliefs. With this understanding of culture, distinction between cultures can be decided territorially through the recognition of state controlled borders. Through this understanding of culture, container theories have largely pervaded research into international…

In Japan, he is often admitted the greatest writer in modern Japanese history. He has had a profound effect on almost all of important Japanese writers…

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,…

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…

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…

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…