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| | CIA - The World Factbook -- Japan |
 | | For 250 years this policy enabled Japan to enjoy stability and a flowering of its indigenous culture. | | | In 2005, Japan began a two-year term as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council. | | | Japan attacked US forces in 1941 - triggering America's entry into World War II - and soon occupied much of East and Southeast Asia. |
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http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ja.html
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| | Alternative culture |
| | Even though the majority of alternative culture is American, other countries have contributed to it, most notably Japan. | | | One of the original missions of Alternative culture was to bridge the gap between audience and artist, especially in the case of Fugazi, as well as making music without the macho attitude that came with hair metal. | | | Many people involved in alternative culture, including both artists and fans, had not been excepted into the more popular circles in school, had been bullied by others and had felt out of place. |
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http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/a/al/alternative_culture.html
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| | Japan Travel Guide, Japanese Popular Culture, History and Japanese Etiquette |
| | CULTURE: Aromatherapy may be all the rage these days, but kodo, the art of incense, has been around for centuries and is one of the three major Japanese traditional arts. | | | Japan Travel Guide, Japanese Popular Culture, History and Japanese Etiquette | | | Spring is one of the most beautiful times to see Japan, when hanami - cherry blossom viewing - takes over the whole country. |
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http://www.japan-zone.com
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| | TheJapanesePage.com - Japanese for FREE -- How to Wow! with language, culture, kanji, and grammar |
| | - This site features lessons on all aspects of Japanese language and culture | | | REAL LIFE IN JAPAN - Hironobu Akabuchi looks at bits of Japanese culture that are usually not discussed in textbooks about Japan. | | | Discover the culture of Japan, the picturesque districts of Tokyo and the treasures of Kyoto.(A bilingual site: English/French.) |
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http://www.thejapanesepage.com/booklink.htm
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| | A Virtual Travel to Japan - Nippon Country Profile, Travel and Tourism |
| | Collection of art works and antiquities from Japan and other Asian countries. | | | The site referes to pictures of beautiful women in Japanese art - Bijinga. | | | While retaining its time-honored culture, Japan rapidly absorbed Western technology during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. |
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http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/japan.htm
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| | Teaching Guide for Japan Pop! Inside the World of Japanese Popular Culture |
| | Selected chapters are also appropriate for courses on Japanese music and visual arts (manga, anime, TV and film), and courses which deal with the export and globalization of popular culture. | | | Investigate and critique a particular work, artist, or form of Japanese popular culture. | | | Inside the World of Japanese Popular Culture is suitable as a textbook for university-level courses on modern Japanese society and Japanese popular culture. |
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http://www.mesharpe.com/pop_guide.htm
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| | Amazon.com: Theories of Culture in Postmodern Times: Books: Marvin Harris |
| | Theories of Culture in Postmodern Times, September 22, 2000 | | | In a chapter inappropriately titled Origins of Capitalism Harris explores an excellent cultural materialist explaination of the rise of feudalism in Europe and Japan which was, as he says, the basis for the rise of capitalism. | | | His critiques of postmodernism and sociobiology, are compelling. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0761990216?v=glance
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| | Culture Briefing: Japan — A traveler's guide to Japanese culture and customs |
| | Culture Briefing: Japan gives you current, in-depth information, found in no other single publication, to help you understand the culture, values, beliefs and customs of the Japanese people. | | | Culture Briefing: Japan helps you figure out the Italians by penetrating below their society’s surface to reveal the customs and established ways of life in Japan. | | | (The Chicago Tribune selected Culture Briefing: Japan as its travel resource Pick of the Week.) “Culture Briefing: Japan provides the least expensive trip to Japan you’ll ever take. |
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http://www.inqtraveler.com/pages/pubstore/pscbja.html
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| | Japan |
| | Part of the time, I was in Tokyo attending seminars about Japan's educational system and its culture. | | | While in Japan, I was able to learn a great deal about the Japanese educational system and about some of Japan's culture and traditions. | | | I spent 18 days in Japan as a guest of the Japanese Government thanks to the Fullbright Memorial Fund Teacher Program. |
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http://www.k111.k12.il.us/king/japan1.htm
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| | Love Manga»Blog Archive » Wednesday News |
| | Yale University Press is the publisher for Japan Society’s current exhibit, Little Boy: The Arts of Japan’s Exploding Subculture, curated by acclaimed contemporary artist Takashi Murakami, who also edited the catalogue. | | | About a month back I picked up on an article on the Japan Society exhibition Little Boy: The Arts of Japan’s Exploding Subculture. | | | Now the Publishing Weekly is running an article on the catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition. |
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http://www.manga.omoikitte.com/2005/05/185
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| | USIA - Portrait of the USA, Ch. 11 |
| | For better or worse, many nations now have two cultures: their indigenous one and one consisting of the sports, movies, television programs, and music whose energy and broad-based appeal are identifiably American. | | | The first major composer of popular music with a uniquely American style was Stephen Foster (1826-1864). | | | In the late 1940s a new, more cerebral form of mostly instrumental jazz, called be-bop, began to attract audiences. |
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http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/factover/ch11.htm
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| | JAPAN |
| | A Reader's Guide to the Arts of Japan Included are descriptions of more than 450 of the best publications on Japanese art; excluded are writings not available in English and (with a few exceptions) doctoral dissertations. | | | Daruma Publishing, Japan "Quarterly all-colour magazine on the art and antiques of Japan, costing US$35 a year or equivalent [...] mailed world-wide. | | | 6th year [22 issues - ed.] of publication in Kobe, Japan. |
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http://asnic.utexas.edu/asnic/countries/japan
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| | Encyclopedia: Japan |
| | The imperial court later moved briefly to Nagaoka, and later Heian-kyo (now Kyoto), starting a "golden age" of classical Japanese culture called the Heian period which lasted for nearly four centuries and was characterized by the regency regime of the Fujiwara clan. | | | The Hojo clan (北条氏) in History of Japan is a family of regents of the Kamakura Shogunate. | | | Japan's average temperature for the summer time is 30°C, and for the winter, it is 4.7°C. Because of its great length from north to south, its climate varies from region to region: the far north is very cold in the winter, while the far south is subtropical. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Japan
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| | Japan Korea Kimchi Dispute |
| | On the other hand, there is the opinion that the recent Japan's penchant for kimchi will be a bridge between two cultures. | | | Japan and Korea have not willingly exchanged their cultures because of the sad history; however, this kimchi issue would be a good chance for Japan to have interest in Korean traditions and cultures. | | | Secondly, this issue is a matter of culture as well. |
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http://www.american.edu/TED/kimchi.htm
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| | Study Abroad Japan |
| | Study Abroad in Japan: The Faculty of Comparative Culture consists of two departments: The Department of Comparative Culture, which houses all the humanities and social sciences, and the Department of Japanese Language and Studies, which concentrates on Japanese Language, culture, and society. | | | Sophia University, one of the foremost of Japan's private universities, prepares individuals from different countries, backgrounds, and traditions to recognize the fundamental unity of the human race and to work for the concrete achievement of that unity. | | | International Studies in Japan: The Pacific Rim is widely predicted to become the major theater of international trade in the 21st century. |
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http://www.studyabroad.com/simplehtml/white/Japan.html
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| | South Korea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Korea forms a peninsula that extends some 1,100 km from the Asian mainland, flanked by the Yellow Sea (West Sea) and the Sea of Japan (East Sea), and terminated by the Korea Strait and the East China Sea to the south. | | | South Korea's chaebol are often compared with Japan's keiretsu business groupings, the successors to the pre-war zaibatsu ("chaebol" and "zaibatsu" are Korean and Japanese pronunciations of the same Chinese characters). | | | Confucianism is also small in terms of self-declared adherents, but the great majority of South Koreans, irrespective of their formal religious affiliation, are strongly influenced by Confucian values, which continue to permeate Korean culture. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korea
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| | Beliz Brother, Mei-ling Hom, and Kim Yasuda: Celebrating the U.S. - Japan Creative Artists Exchange Fellowship Program |
| | By the time she received the fellowship to live and work in Japan, Brother had earned recognition for projects like Culture and Agriculture (1996) where she involved residents of a Seattle housing project in the creation of an ongoing market garden; and Witness (1995), a sculptural installation that explored the phenomenon of war blindness. | | | Her art is characterized by collaborative ventures where she initiates active participation in the development of her art, whether working with community members or other professional artists. | | | Beliz Brother is an artist who not only highlights the complexity of interchange and interaction, but also seeks to incorporate this very process into the creation of her work. |
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http://www.janm.org/exhibits/jusfc/beliz_brother/beliz.html
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| | Brazil Culture in Brazil - Brazil Visa Service |
| | Japanese immigration began in 1908, and today Sao Paulo has the largest Japanese community outside of Japan. | | | The influence of Brazilian Indian music was absorbed and diluted, as was so much that derived from Brazil 's indigenous cultures. | | | In the Northeast is the highest concentration of Afro-Brazilians, with Salvador as its cultural capital. |
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http://www.visaexpress.net/brazil/the_culture.htm
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| | Culture of Korea |
| | Because of its unique geographical location, Chinese culture filtered into Japan through Korea; a common cultural sphere of Buddhism and Confucianism was thus established between the three countries. | | | Calligraphy, the art of brush writing, is a traditional art form in Korea which has exerted a strong influence on social and cultural life and is still highly respected today. | | | The current trend in Korean art is the harmonious combination of traditional and modern styles, revealing the historical roots and influences of Korean art. |
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http://www.geocities.com/maitravel/culko.htm
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| | Japanese Art & Architecture: An Annotated Directory of Internet Resources |
| | A National Gallery of Art Teaching Program, "developed in conjunction with the exhibition Edo: Art in Japan 1615-1868, [and providing] an overview of art and culture in the city of Edo" | | | The Influence of Japanese Art On Western Culture | | | Japan's first national art museum, "devoted to the collection and preservation of art works and related reference materials of the 20th century in Japan and other parts of the world" |
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http://newton.uor.edu/Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/japan-art.html
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| | Japanese Art and Architecture Books |
| | The Confusion Era: Art and Culture of Japan During the Allied Occupation, 1945-1952 (Asian Art and Culture) ~ | | | The Art and Architecture of Japan (Pelican History of Art) ~ | | | The Arts of Japan: Ancient and Medieval Vol 1 ~ |
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http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Towers/9151/books/artbooks.html
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| | Japan Reference |
| | Sign up to one of the liveliest Japan-related communities and join discussions about Japanese culture, traditions, language, politics, or engage in friendly chit-chat. | | | The most extensive online travel guide of Japan in English | | | Why do Japanese talk so much about marriage ? |
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http://www.jref.com
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| | South Korea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Korea forms a peninsula that extends some 1,100 km from the Asian mainland, flanked by the Yellow Sea to the west and the Sea of Japan (East Sea) to the east, and terminated by the Korea Strait and the East China Sea to the south. | | | In recent years, Korean pop culture has gained massive popularity in many parts of Asia, earning the name Hallyu or "Korean Wave". | | | Joseph Stalin forced thousands of ethnic Koreans residing in or near Vladivostok and Khabarovsk to relocate to the Central Asian part of the U.S.S.R., fearing Korean collaboration with the Japanese, while the majority of the Korean population in Japan was brought/kidnapped there as forced labor during the colonial period. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korea
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| | Asia Times Online Community and News Discussion - Bush to Hold Talks with Koizumi .....a Close Ally |
| | That term is a bit more colorful and a little more attuned to the culture of the Far East. | | | The alliance benefits both the US and Japan, so in the forseeable future, Japan will remain a lapdog or key ally, if you prefer, of the United States. | | | Had WW II not ended so quickly, tne USSR would have invaded from the north, maybe from the west also, and perhaps Japan would have been North and South Japan, a la Korea. |
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http://forum.atimes.com/topic.asp?whichpage=-1&TOPIC_ID=4451&REPLY_ID=77262
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| | Japan Travel Guide, Japanese Popular Culture, History and Japanese Etiquette |
| | Japan Travel Guide, Japanese Popular Culture, History and Japanese Etiquette | | | Japan travel guide, information on Japan and Japanese culture. | | | Through our partnership with Amazon.com, we are offering an exclusive Japan Zone version of the award winning Alexa Toolbar - FREE! |
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http://www.japan-zone.com/index.shtml
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| | The Japan Times Online |
| | News / Business / Opinion / Arts and Culture / Life in Japan | | | In short, Tezuka and his disciples not only made manga an enduring obsession with Japan's Baby Boomers, who boosted sales of fat weekly and biweekly comics to the millions in the 1960s and '70s, but produced manga that adults could enjoy without embarrassment (though men might hesitate to take some racier ones home). | | | One of these is Tadayuki Imanishi, an Osaka-based artist who won the Chiba Tetsuya Prize awarded by Weekly Morning last year. |
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http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fl20030323a1.htm
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| | Japan, my Japan! |
| | Study of Japanese Language and Culture (Nagoya University, Japan) | | | My Japan - a series of episodes by an Australian living in Japan. | | | Japan for Dummies - a humorous description of everyday life in Japan. |
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http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Japan.html
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| | Sushicam : Japan Photo Blog & Fine Art Prints |
| | Nikkei View -- A weekly column of pop culture and politics from a Japanese American perspective | | | Jpassion.net -- Dynamic imagery of funky Japanese street fashion, culture and informative features by Japan photographer Pat Lyttle, showing a passion for Japan | | | Japanese Streets -- Follow Japanese Street Fashion trends of trendy Japanese youths roaming Japan's big cities |
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http://www.sushicam.com/links.htm
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| | Contemporary culture of South Korea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | While The Simpsons is the best known back-room product of Korea, many other popular foreign animation series (Futurama, King of the Hill from the USA, and also many Anime from Japan) have had the basic animation, in-betweening, and coloring done in Korea. | | | Popular artists who diverge from the traditional K-pop sound include Lee Jung Hyun, a female techno artist; 1TYM, a four-member rap troupe; and Wax (Korean band), a female alternative rock group. | | | Many South Korean parents consider it to be essential that their sons and daughters attend private institutes (Korean:학원) to learn a variety of subjects, ranging from the study of Chinese characters to music, art and English. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_culture_of_South_Korea
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| | Kid's Culture Corner-Germany |
| | This charming tale of the blending of two cultures (Japanese and American) emphasizes the importance of patience and understanding in the process of adaptation. | | | For grades 3-6, this book offers an exciting way to teach abstract concepts of geography and culture through concrete art activities. | | | This hands-on book gives children the chance to make art for display or artifacts to wear or use, with cultural clues to encourage exploration of the cultural significance. |
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http://www.aupairinamerica.com/kcc/kcc_library.htm
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Topic: Culture of Japan