Tokyo

opportunities and coaches to play baseball. I accidentally found an organization which has been established by the Tokyo University students. They were not only giving away baseball equipment, which they gather from people who needn’t them, but also giving opportunities to come to Japan to play in a professional baseball…

Her father was a classic pianist before he worked at Yokohama Specie Bank. The family moved to San Francisco, California because her father was transferred. In 1937, Yoko went back to Japan with her father and enrolled at The Gakushuin School in Tokyo. When she was 18 years old, her family came to New York again, and she studied at Sarah Lawrence College where she met her first husband, Yoshi Ichiyanagi.[footnoteRef:2] [2: “Yoko Ono”, Wikipedia, Last Modified November 10, 2015, Accessed November…

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 had the privilege of living in both major cities, Kyoto and Tokyo, but…

The idea of the ninja, a masked figure dressed in black, an assassin cloaked by night, as stealthy as a tiger, has existed throughout history. This idea has fascinated and captivated us to the point where ninjas exist in modern pop culture. Movies depict easily recognizable martial arts heroes such as Bruce Lee. However, not everything we think we know about these shadow warriors is true. Most people today have no idea where or why the ninjas originated and many confuse misconceptions with fact.…

This has also involved coordination with other universities from Western Australia to organise quiz evenings to engage with students both from Edith Cowan University and Tokyo City University. In addition to his work with student groups and programs internally at ECU, Liam volunteers at St Simon Peter Catholic Primary School in Ocean Reef, assisting with their Robotics program, which uses LEGO Robotics kits to introduce…

framework of the Japanese or more precisely the Harajuku culture would be the “Decora” subculture. Decora fashion, originated in Harajuku in the late 1990’s and gained recognition when acclaimed Japanese photographer, Shoichi Aoki, documented the Tokyo street fashion in his magazine FRUiTS and STREET. Harajuku is rife with some of the most eccentric fashion trends in the world…

gets stressed when things go wrong, I will learn a lot from my sister who is much more carefree and spontaneous. I think we will both mature and grow during our time together. Lastly, next year in March, I will be going to Tokyo, Japan for two months with a gap program called EF Tokyo. I will be taking the most intensive language course they offer. With this, I hope to achieve fluency in Japanese and the confidence that I can succeed in any environment. My life experiences have molded me into…

Japan (Purba, 2001). Both countries relations have been running well since the end of World War II despite of the invasion by Japanese to Indonesia. The official relationship was started in 1951 that Indonesia acquired ¥288 billion from Japan after Tokyo reached a decision to remunerate war restitution to South East Asian countries, and had an agreement for economic cooperation between two nations with total ¥140 billion (Malmström, 1996). In addition, Indonesia received Japan’s foreign aid for…

Underground In the spring of 1995, Japan faced a catastrophe that would forever embed itself in the history of the nation. This event was the 1995 Tokyo Sarin gas attack. During this event Sarin gas was released in the Tokyo subway system resulting in twelve dead and thousands injured. This attack was conducted by five members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult (Aum). In his book Underground, Haruki Murakami interviewed the victims and ex-members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult in order to discover what…

implementation of film and literary techniques support the conveyance of these ideas which ultimately fashion the ever-present theme of isolation. While the setting of the texts are polar opposites they both work to highlight isolation in comparable ways. Tokyo is the most populated…