Tag: Japan

– At a meeting, a bow is preferred, rather than a handshake. – At the entrance to private houses take off their shoes. – At home, they eat food with kami “hashi” sticks. – There are toilets “sitting” and “squatting”. – The bed is placed on the “tatami” and removed in the morning. – You can drink tea or eat soba noodles with a sipping sound. – When “sake” is…

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Population. According to the 1936 census, Japan proper counted 69,254,148 residents, with an increase of almost 5 million individuals in recent years. The total population of the empire was 97,697,655. with an increase of more than 7 million individuals, largely attributable to Japan proper and Korea. Among the cities that have seen an increase in recent years, Ōsaka and Tōkyō should be noted above all, but in reality it is…

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Starting from December 1948, that is, when the looming of the Communists’ victory in the civil war in China forced the USA to make the Japanese Empire a pillar of the new Far-Eastern equilibrium, the objective of the occupation policy in Japan, which had hitherto been the destruction of the pre-existing militarist and imperialist structures and the democratic re-education, became the economic recovery and the political and military strengthening of…

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Agriculture and farming. – According to behealthybytomorrow, 45% of the active population is still employed in agriculture. The land splitting, accentuated by the post-war agrarian reform, which made most Japanese farmers into small direct farmers (today 82% of the farmers own the land on which they work), is generally accompanied by the spread of the type of farm family, in which all valid members of each family are involved. These…

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According to beautypically, the traditional Japanese house, due to earthquakes, is almost entirely made of wood. In the cities it has as a rule two floors, in the countryside one. Only one or two sides of the external walls are in masonry, the rest consists of verandas or half-height windows that give light to the rooms. These, often numerous, are separated by movable walls (fusuma) which allow to vary their…

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According to barblejewelry, in the midst of so many difficulties that threatened to set Japan and the United States against each other, the European war came to mark a pause from which the former had to draw immense advantages: commercial, first of all, because its products will take the place of those of the European contenders on the markets of the Far East; territorial, then, because its participation in the…

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According to baglib, the first years of this era have passed for Japan in a vigilant and active peace. As things currently stand, his interests are based on China and Manchuria. China is basically a vast market where the products of its industries find almost unlimited consumption. In the absence of external threats to the territorial integrity and independence of that republic, as a consequence of Washington’s commitments, Japan has…

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Starting from the seventies, and more incisively after the eighties, in the “ Tokaido megalopolis ” (Tokyo-Yokohama-Kyoto area, etc.) the settlement relationships previously established between major poles and corresponding suburban areas changed. The spread of high-speed communication systems (such as highways and especially Shinkansen trains) and the thickening of the interaction networks between the different service sectors of the tertiary sector, has pushed the population to concentrate further in the more densely…

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Between 1897 and 1899 in Japan the first documentaries were shot on the streets of Tokyo and Kyoto. The first screening rooms were built a few years later, as well as the studios, starting from 1908. The films shot in the early silent years were almost entirely inspired by kabuki theater, and, as the tradition of this form of representation dictates, even on the screen they were called to play…

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In the two-year period 1980-81, Japan tried to adapt its economy to the effects of the second shock in 1979. In particular, between 1978 and 1980 the current account balance went from a surplus of $ 16.5 billion to a deficit of $ 10.7 billion, while the inflation rate rose to $ 7.5 billion. %. The adjustment was mainly implemented through the adoption of restrictive financial policies which, accompanied by modest wage…

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Until the global crisis of 2008-09, Japan was the second economy in the world in terms of GDP and, despite being overtaken by China in 2010, it still remains one of the first countries in the ranking of GDP per capita with equal powers. ‘purchase (PPA), with $ 37,683 (2014). After 2009, the Japanese economy proceeded in a fluctuating way: + 5% in 2010 was denied by −1% in 2011, followed by…

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From the above information on Japanese agricultural and industrial activities it is easy to deduce that the pace of expansion of the Japanese economy from 1949 to 1958 was very rapid. Between 1950 and 1951, industrial and agricultural production, as well as real national income, reached their respective pre-war levels (1934-1936 = 100); between 1953 and 1954, including income and real per capita consumption have returned to pre-war levels. Nor has the…

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Epoch of indigenous laws. – It goes from the legendary foundation of the empire, in the sec. VII a. C., until the end of the VI century d. C. In this era, Japanese society has a patriarchal basis, the political and social unity is the clan, each clan has its own task; over all clans the emperor predominates, whose family is the primeval clan, to which the others are subjected.…

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According to sportsqna, the article does not exist, the name has no grammatical gender, and, strictly speaking, no number either. The verb does not know person or number, but only tenses: p. ex. okonau, it means as much I act, how you act, you act, etc. This imprecision, which makes the thought of writers, especially the ancient ones, very indecisive, is often a great embarrassment to the European. All names,…

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Western music spread in Japan already at the beginning of the 20th century, mainly through the influence of the German and French schools. Of dominant importance throughout the first half of the twentieth century, and again – albeit in different forms – in the early postwar years, the so-called “ German school ” had its first representatives in a group of composers who had completed their studies at the Hochschule…

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Japan is an island state in the Far East. The name in the local language (Nippon-koku in the classical form; Nihon-koku in the common language) derives from the Japanese reading of the Chinese name of Japan, Jih Pen Kuo (” the country of the origin of the sun”). Japan, together with the homologous forms in the other Western languages, comes from the Zipangu corruption of the same name, introduced in Europe by Marco Polo. According to shoefrantics, the archipelagos that form the Japan…

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The economic situation in Japan is currently very weak. World War II severely damaged its industries; the export trade of manufactured goods is greatly reduced; the merchant navy, which contributed extensively in the pre-war period, with the services rendered abroad, to cover the trade deficit today has a minimal consistency; this complex of factors seriously jeopardized the balance of payments equilibrium and Japan was able to survive only thanks to…

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The history of modern Japan is closely connected with a process of strong and accelerated urbanization and industrialization that favors the Pacific Coast strip. The movement of the capital, operated by the Meiji government, is the sign of this planning will and initiates a historical phase of direct involvement of Japan in the interests, tensions and conflicts of the industrial capitalist area. According to plus-size-tips, the set of cities that…

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The sailing navy, which up to 1921 – in contrast to the trend of all the world navies – had marked an increase, is now in decline, and the total tonnage rises to about 300,000 tons. Most of the fleet (about 2,500,000 tons) is divided between 22 shipping companies, the most important of which are Nippon Y ū sen Kwaisha and Ō saka Sh ō sen Kwaisha ; followed by the Kokusai Kisen Kwaisha, the Kinkai…

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The very complicated relief and the humid and rainy climate of the town made the opening of roads, their maintenance and viability very difficult at all times. However, for a long time in history, the construction of communication routes is remembered. In 549 a. C., under the Emperor Suisei, tradition records the construction of some roads in Chūgoku; later, in 158 d. C., reigning the Emperor Kinmei, the great artery…

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Amidism was not until now officially represented in the country, although its doctrines had been more or less known, and even covered, by some of these reformers in their propaganda. Indeed, it seems that the statue sent by the king of Kudara to Japan in 552, the year that marks the introduction of Buddhism in the country, was precisely an image of Amida. The first Amidist sect appeared around 1000,…

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The constitution guarantees freedom of faith to all citizens, as long as this does not prejudice the maintenance of peace and public order or prevent the faithful from observing the laws. In addition to the ancient national religion, Shintoism, there are Buddhism, Confucianism and Christianity in Japan. The Shinto (v.) (From shin, god and t ō, street, doctrine) is, substantially, a mixed worship of nature and ancestors. It possesses divinity of the wind, of…

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At S. dei M. Hida, a mountainous territory rich in vegetation begins, consisting of granite rocks on which the intensity of erosion is visible, rarely higher than 1000 m. In height: it is the M. Chūgoku chain that crosses the peninsula of the same name and seems to continue in Kyūshū in the chain of M. Tsukushi, more varied in geological formations. To the south-east of Hondo, under the Alpine…

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Geologically, the islands of the Japanese archipelago represent nothing more than the highest portions of a vast mountain system facing the eastern coasts of the Asian continent, from which the intermediate depressions are detached from the seas occupying the depressions. In the Japanese stratigraphic series, all known systems are more or less completely represented, with the exception of the Archean. The oldest known formations still today belong to the Paleozoic,…

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A new phenomenon, which links literature even more to the development of information technologies, is that of keitai shōsetsu (novels on the mobile phone), productions of short narrative texts that are born with the 400-500 characters of a mobile phone screen and, through dedicated Internet sites, they reach a wide diffusion. They are mainly composed of girls between the ages of 15 and 25 who use pseudonyms to be able to freely…

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With the end of the war in 1945 and the regained freedom, there was an immediate revival of literary activities. Tendencies and ideas that had previously inspired the Japanese literary world reappear, which resumed with the international one the contacts interrupted during the conflict; periodicals that have already been suspended or suppressed come out again, others appear; they begin to write and publish authors who had already reached artistic maturity,…

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Around the beginning of the last fifty years, new currents begin to appear in the Japanese literary world and others already present are affirmed. Their common feature is a narrative aimed at objective reality, as opposed to the novel in the first person (Ich – roman, in Japanese watakushi sh ō setsu) which had already enjoyed undisputed domination. Among the most important is the Shinkankakuha (School of the new sense), in which the word meaning it indicates,…

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Apart from the censorship, the novel of manners had not been able to assert itself in Yedo, both because the intellectual element prevailed here, among which the tradition of good literature was alive and therefore lacked a taste for the obscene, and also because it he found himself competing with other genres that ended up taking over. First, among these, the jitsurokumono “authentic relations”, a kind of historical paraphrase, in…

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The Kannakusha, in their exaggerated admiration for Chinese things, went too far. Some even went so far as to give themselves a Chinese name, ashamed of having a Japanese one. The reaction could not fail and was nurtured by men who, for the fruitfulness of their writings and thought activities, had nothing to envy to their adversaries. The movement begins with a series of researches on ancient literature and then…

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The peace and prosperity established in the country by the Tokugawa created favorable conditions for the development of thought and studies. First, Ieyasu gave them the impetus. After his retirement (1605), he had many works collected and printed, founded libraries and a university, and surrounded himself with scholars who later held official positions. An essential feature of the time is that letters are democratized. The spread of education, mainly carried…

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