Japanese writing system

Toomey (1999) in her book gave example of Japanese people mark their identity by wearing specific uniforms they also show what kind of group they belong to. She pointed that students or people who work in business wear uniforms. Even those who are on holidays wear special kind of cloths to mark…

World War II was a very difficult time for almost everyone living in either the Allies’ or Axis’ countries, especially for people of Japanese descent living in Canada. The Japanese-Canadian internment is a defining moment in Canada because it shows how poorly the Canadian governments, politicians, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), and labour unions treated Japanese-Canadians. They had no freedom; were incarcerated in internment, road, or prisoners-of-war camps; and lastly, were unequal…

generation Japanese-American named Ichiro Yamada. The year is 1946 and Ichiro, a former undergraduate student at the University of Washington, returns home to Seattle after spending two years at an internment camp and federal prison. He was punished for refusing to serve in the Armed Forces and to swear allegiance to the United States. At that time, he became a “no-no boy.” The reason behind his resentment was because was mad over the fact that the United States’ government placed innocent…

permitted strong government control over individual actions. It basically prohibited public opposition to the government. Fines and imprisonment were in store for anyone who wrote, printed, uttered or published any false scandalous and malicious writing against the government. As a result of this law, 20 Republican newspaper editors were arrested and some were imprisoned. While the Sedition Act clearly violated individual protections under the first amendment of the Constitution, any type…

reconnaissance missions on the island of New Guinea in his personal memoir Fear Drive My Feet. Always fearing Japanese attack, Ryan had to tread carefully while gathering intelligence and interacting with the native peoples of New Guinea. While on the island, Ryan was given a variety of different tasks including, delivering messages, communicating with the locals, and commenting on Japanese movements. Fear Drive My Feet is a war story unlike any other. Peter Ryan’s unique point of view and…

course to my study of Japanese language and Multimedia, as well as benefiting me personally. The study tour aided my Japanese Language studies as it allowed me to properly immerse myself in the culture and ways of living, allowing me to use my language skills in a more natural environment. To this end it expanded my understanding of the Japanese way of life, and in what circumstances I should use certain aspects of their language. This allowed me to further my study into the Japanese culture 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…

involved in a kawaii mindset vulnerable to impulse buys, something that companies have realized with the multitude of consumer goods produced to target the cute aesthetic so enjoyed by Japanese youth. This has been the subject of criticism, as this is a rebellion against the traditional, more conservative Japanese society. The critics focus their attacks on the childish nature of members of kawaii culture…

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…