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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 of 2017, the student will meet…

Many Hawaiian visitors want to purchase a lei to take back home, but newcomers to the island might not know which type is best to buy. The leis most tourists are familiar with are typically made of natural foliage including seeds, flowers, and leaves, but other types are made from sea or land shells. The staff at Leis By Ron, located in Honolulu, HI, discuss if you should buy a shell or flower lei souvenir. Plumerias and orchids are some of the most commonly used flowers in a lei. Fresh flower…

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,…

“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…

Traditionally, Anime is defined as animation only created in Japan. With the creation of Rwby, Rooster Teeth Productions has single-handedly redefined the traditional definition. Rooster Teeth Productions cooperated with Moyreak (Monty) Oum to create Rwby in thus ushering in a new era of Anime. It is a story of four young girls trying to find their place in the world, all while battling monsters, facing their inner demons, and balancing their social lives. The shows main protagonistic team for…

been to Japan twice, once for an intensive Japanese study program at Kyoto Sangyo University, and for an entire year studying abroad at Sophia University in Tokyo. Both experiences were extremely enriching, eye opening, and changed my life, as I was able to experience a culture that is totally different from that of my own. As life in the Japanese countryside is radically varied from that of the cities, I would like to experience that aspect of Japanese life and culture firsthand. I have already…

create prejudice. Fears of unfamiliar customs, differences in religion, and personal appearance issues created prejudices exhibited by the Japanese and the “barbarians”. The Japanese people called Americans the “foreign devils—the barbarians” (4). Fear was created in the Japanese because of their unfamiliarity with the American customs. In the book, the Japanese felt the Americans’ customs made them barbarians. They killed animals for shoes (26). Americans sat on benches rather than the floor…

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…

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…