Japan has incorporated various foreign cultures, modifying them in its own manner to create a new, original culture. For example, Japanese people long ago imported KANJI (Chinese characters) to transcribe their language, but a few centuries later they modified KANJI and invented their own characters called KATAKANA and HIRAGANA . With the arrival of the Meiji period in 1868, putting an end to the period of isolation that lasted for 250 years under the Edo Shogunate, Japan opened its doors to foreign trade and diplomatic relations. In an instant, a flood of western cultures surged toward Japan and had a significant influence on various aspects of Japanese culture, from its language to its lifestyle. Furthermore, the end of the Second World W...
This paper is funded by the School of Doctorate Studies of the University Iuav of Venice and will be...
There has long been a tension between tradition and modernity in Japan. We can see this tension at w...
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Even before the dissolution of Shogunate and the Meiji Reforms around 1868, which opened Japan to th...
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[...] Lietuvių skaitytojui pateikiama studija neaprėps visų Japonijos estetinės minties ir įvairialy...
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Ever since the first performance of the British comic opera Mikado in 1885 Japan played an important...
The relationship between China and Japan is getting better as time goes by, but it is somehow diffic...
This paper is funded by the School of Doctorate Studies of the University Iuav of Venice and will be...
There has long been a tension between tradition and modernity in Japan. We can see this tension at w...
Dzięki działalności europejskich misjonarzy chrześcijańskich oraz handlarzy, w XVI wieku doszło do z...
Even before the dissolution of Shogunate and the Meiji Reforms around 1868, which opened Japan to th...
In 1853, Commodore Perry reopened Japanese ports to the rest of the world. Japanese products made t...
In this paper, I try to analyze the cultural gap between Japan and the West from a comparative liter...
[...] Lietuvių skaitytojui pateikiama studija neaprėps visų Japonijos estetinės minties ir įvairialy...
The paper describes the style and characteristics of Japanese products, analyses the main reason why...
Japanese popular culture has developed in many unexpected and fascinating ways. From contemporary po...
In this paper, the author outlines the accounts, including pictures and photographs, of foreigners i...
During the last pair of decades, Japanese culture has acquired a progressively greater importance am...
This paper sorts out the evolution and development of Japanese aesthetics chronologically, summarize...
The way the Japanese attribute the meaning to their world and how it becomes understandable to them ...
Ever since the first performance of the British comic opera Mikado in 1885 Japan played an important...
The relationship between China and Japan is getting better as time goes by, but it is somehow diffic...
This paper is funded by the School of Doctorate Studies of the University Iuav of Venice and will be...
There has long been a tension between tradition and modernity in Japan. We can see this tension at w...
Dzięki działalności europejskich misjonarzy chrześcijańskich oraz handlarzy, w XVI wieku doszło do z...