61. Japan An American teacher who spent three weeks in japan writes about her experiences. Site includes information on the country's system of education, its people, and culture and traditions. http://www.k111.k12.il.us/king/japan1.htm

My Trip to Japan: a 3 week never-to-be-forgotten adventure... by Helen DeWitt I spent 18 days in Japan as a guest of the Japanese Government thanks to the Fullbright Memorial Fund Teacher Program . Part of the time, I was in Tokyo attending seminars about Japan's educational system and its culture. Part of the time, I was in Utsunomiya City where I visited a variety of schools and experienced Japanese hospitality first hand. 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 was able to experience the warmth and genuine friendliness of the people who live across the ocean from me. I want to share a few of my experiences with you..... Click on the Underlined Topic that interests you....[pictures and text will follow] Be sure to click Back Button to return to this page for more choices. Japan... Japan [Map Info] Japanese Garden with carp [ New Otani Hotel] Sightseeing in Tokyo Supreme Court Diet Imperial Palace Asakusa-Sensoji Temple Subway system ... Welcome Reception for FMF teachers [Tokyo] Traditional Music [ the Koto and the Shakuhachi] Play Koto Online Sports Day at Jiyu Gakuen School Street scenes [nearJiyu Gakuen School] Sightseeing near Nikko: 5 story Pagoda Kegon Falls Mayor [ Utsunomiya City Hall] School Board [ Utsunomiya City] Welcome Reception for FMF teachers [ Utsunomiya City] Utsunomiya University Utsunomiya City Toyosato-Chuo Elementary School : Welcome Ceremony Typical Day Calligraphy Class Japanese Numbers ... OtherClass Pictures Utsunomiya City Toyosato Junior High School:

62. International Travel - Japan Travel Information Travel to japan tips, sightseeing, entertainment, dining, transportation, maps, culture, events, schooling, accommodation, history, and weather. Includes biweekly feature about japan. http://gojapan.about.com/

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63. Intersections: Male Homosexuality And Popular Culture In Modern Japan Analysis of modern Japanese queer identities and constructions. http://wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au/intersections/issue3/mclelland2.html

Male Homosexuality and Popular Culture in Modern Japan Mark McLelland Introduction There has recently been much discussion in the field of lesbian and gay studies about Dennis Altman's theory of 'global queering' which outlines the influence of the Civil Rights' Movement in the US and Europe on the development of lesbian and gay 'identities' which then, through the 'globalising' influence of post-industrial wage-based economies, consumerism, the mass media and tourism, in turn begin to affect indigenous understandings of homosexuality in societies where traditionally there has been no notion of a personal identity founded on the gender of sexual object choice. In this theory, the US is often assumed to be somehow in advance of the rest of the world and the models pioneered in that country for increasing the social space accorded to lesbian and gay lives are generalised as suitable models for lesbians and gay men in other countries to adopt. Japan, as the world's only fully 'modernised' non-western culture, is an important testing ground for Altman's theory. To what extent have indigenous Japanese understandings of same-sex desire, fashioned in a religious and political climate quite different from that in western countries, been influenced by western models of lesbian and gay identity? Until recently, it was impossible to answer this question for, even five years ago, there was practically no information available in English about homosexuality in modern Japan and there was only one book and a handful of academic papers concerning Japan's well-attested historical tradition of male homosexuality.

64. Folk Beliefs In Modern Japan: Table Of Contents Etext of the book edited by Inoue Nobutaka, Institute for Japanese culture and Classics, Kokugakuin University. http://www.kokugakuin.ac.jp/ijcc/wp/cpjr/folkbeliefs/

Folk Beliefs in Modern Japan Contemporary Papers on Japanese Religion INOUE Nobutaka, General Editor ASHIDA Norman HAVENS IKEGAMI Yoshimasa INOUE Nobutaka ISHII Kenji KAWAMURA Kunimitsu Translated by Norman Havens Originally published in 1994 by the Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics, Kokugakuin University. (ISBN4-905853-02-8) Table of Contents Preface by INOUE Nobutaka Introduction by INOUE Nobutaka Local Newspaper Coverage of Folk Shamans in Aomori Prefecture by IKEGAMI Yoshimasa The Life of a Shamanness: Scenes from the Shamanism of Northeastern Japan by KAWAMURA Kunimitsu Annual Events and the Transformation of Japanese Religious Life by ISHII Kenji Wayside Shrines at Urban Train Stations: Religion at the Crossroads by The Festival and Religion Boom: Irony of the "Age of the Heart" by The Changing Face of Japanese Folk Beliefs by Norman HAVENS $Date: 1999/03/09 02:00:30 $ Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics Kokugakuin University ijcc-webadmin@kokugakuin.ac.jp

65. H-Japan Discussion Network HNet discussion group dedicated to discussing Japanese history, culture, religion, and society, including contemporary issues with subject overview, archives, reviews, resources, journals, links to related lists and resources, search, and subscription details. English with Japanese mirror. http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~japan/

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66. Astronomy In Japan Historical and modern Japanese astronomy, and its place in Japanese culture http://www2.gol.com/users/stever/jastro.html

Welcome to Steve Renshaw and Saori Ihara's Astronomy in Japan Home Page Japanese Starlore and Astronomical History Astronomy Activities and Articles of Human Interest Astronomy Sites in Japan with Pages in English Sites of Interest in History of Astronomy and Cultural Astronomy ... ‰½ŒÌ‚±‚̃z[ƒ€ƒy[ƒW‚͉pŒê‚݂̂ŏ‘‚©‚ê‚Ä‚¢‚é‚Ì‚Å‚·‚©H (In Japanese) Last Updated January 16, 2003 Japanese Starlore and Astronomical History Return to Top Akemashite Omedetou Gozaimasu! The Sun, the Moon, and Happy New Year in Japan (Revised January 2003) Get Out Ogre! Come In Happiness! Setsubun in Japan; A Lunar "New Years' Eve" (Revised January 2003) Tani Jinzan and A Leonid Conflagration Earthly and Celestial Events "Meet" in Tokugawa Japan Orihime, Kengyuu, and Tanabata Japanese Traditions and Values Reflected in a Summer Festival Based on an Ancient Chinese Star Legend Images of Tanabata 2000 Yowatashi Boshi Passing the Winter Nights with Japanese Star Lore of Orion Takamatsu Zuka Kofun An Ancient View of the Sky from a Tomb in Asuka, Japan Controversy Continues (Supplement added April 3, 1997)

67. Sake-Drenched Postcards - Fads Fuel Cosplay Boom Delivers a weekly column that features Japanese culture as viewed through sake bottle glasses. http://www.bigempire.com/sake

Fads Fuel Cosplay Boom M arch is a time of intense activity for many Japanese workers. With the fiscal year coming to a close at month's end, most companies are busy either cooking their books or dressing-up stock portfolios with a few of the year's winners. To cap it off, there's the planning required for the multitude of parties used to welcome the arrival of the sakura blossoms to parks all throughout the country. The Captain , too, is busy. Not only does he have his own personal financial worries, but he is also the chief oddsmaker that bookies turn to for the over-under total for the number of sakura revelers hauled to Tokyo area hospitals due to alcohol poisoning. His formula, utilizing analytic and stochastic modeling techniques, has set this year's number at 80. (The surprisingly low figure is as a result of the high probability of rain during the key weekend dates and the relatively high monthly alcohol price indexes.) But make no mistake, when all is said and done, the Captain likes a good party. And this week he's all dressed-up and ready to go. Join him as he enters the world of "costume play" and finds out just what it's like to be on the other side of the mask and makeup. T his shop is the stuff of dreams.

68. Education And Culture japan Access, Detailed factsheet on japan's economy, culture and society. friend,An Englishlanguage monthly pictorial with in-depth articles and photos. http://www.mofa.go.jp/policy/culture/

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69. Contents Glossary of terms, discussion of issues, a FAQ, and a history of Japanese whaling and how it is part of the country's culture. http://homepage2.nifty.com/jstwa/index_e.html

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70. Ryukoku University Ryukoku University in Kyoto, japan. founded in 1639. Over 300 international students. Includes japanese culture and Language Program. http://www.ryukoku.ac.jp/english/english1/index.html

71. Slavoj Zizek Geert Lovink interviews Zizek in 1995 on the subject of Japanese culture and media. http://www.ntticc.or.jp/pub/ic_mag/ic014/zizek/zizek_e.html

InterCommunication No.14 1995 Feature Japan through a Slovenian Looking Glass Reflections of Media and Politic and Cinema Slavoj Zizek Geert Lovink Go Japanese GL : You have been to Japan. What's your opinion on the technological culture in this country? SZ : First I must say that I don't have my own positive theory about Japan. What I do have, as every Western intellectual, are the myths of reference. There is the old, right wing image of the Samurai code, fighting to death, the absolute, ethical Japan. Then there is the leftist image, from Eisenschtein already: the semiotic Japan. The empty signs, no Western metaphysics of presence. It's a no less phantasmic Japan then the first one. We know that Eisenschtein for his montage of attractions used Japanese ideograms. Then there is Bertolt Brecht as an exception. He took over elements like sacrifice and authority, and put it in a left wing context. Here in the West, Brecht was seen as someone introducing a fanatic eastern morality. But now there's in Suhrkamp Verlag a detailed edition of his 'Jasager' and his 'Lernst ke.' They discovered that all those moments the Western critics perceived as remainders of this imperial and sacrificing Japan, were indeed edited by Brecht. What they perceived as Japanese was Brecht.

72. PARAGUAY Information on Paraguayan culture, economy, and obtaining a visa. http://www.embassy-avenue.jp/paraguay/index.htm

73. Japan Directory:Culture Religion Religion. japan Directory Home Politics/Administration Industry/Economy Media/Publishing Society culture Academia/Education . http://jin.jcic.or.jp/jd/org/006000000.html

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74. Japan Stock Photography Specializing in images of the country and its culture. http://photojapan.com/index.htm

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75. Index Of /home/kogananda An entrance to hippie culture in japan choice of English or japanese language. http://www.pobox.org.sg/home/kogananda/

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76. MapZones.com Culture japan, culture, Back to Top. The japanese long have been intensely awareof and have responded with great curiosity to powerful outside http://www.mapzones.com/world/asia/japan/cultureindex.php

Country Info Japan Introduction Japan General Data Japan Maps Japan Culture ... Japan Time and Date Japan Culture Back to Top The Japanese long have been intensely aware of and have responded with great curiosity to powerful outside influences, first from the Asian mainland and more recently from the Western world. Japan has followed a cycle of selectively absorbing foreign cultural values and institutions and then adapting these to existing indigenous patterns, this latter process often occurring during periods of relative political isolation. Thus, outside influences were assimilated, but the basic sense of Japaneseness was unaffected, Buddhist deities were adopted into the Shinto pantheon. Japan's effort to modernize quickly in the late 19th and 20th centuries—albeit undertaken at great national and personal sacrifice—was really an extension of the same processes at work in the country for centuries. Japanese cultural history is marked by periods of extensive borrowing from other civilizations, followed by assimilation of foreign traditions with native ones, and finally transformation of these elements into uniquely Japanese art forms. Japan borrowed primarily from China and Korea in premodern times and from the West in the modern age. Japanese culture was exposed to ancient Chinese cultural influences beginning some two millennia ago. One consequence of these influences was the imposition of the gridiron system of land division, which long endured; it is still possible to trace the ancient place-names and field division lines of this system. Chinese writing and many other Chinese developments were introduced in the early centuries AD; the writing system underwent many modifications over the centuries, since it did not fit the Japanese language. Buddhism—which originated in India and underwent modification in Central Asia, China, and Korea before reaching Japan about the 6th century—also exerted a profound influence on Japanese cultural life, although over the course of time it was modified profoundly from its antecedent forms. Similarly, Chinese urban design was introduced in the layouts of the ancient capital cities of Nara and Kyoto but did not proliferate in the archipelago.

77. Association For Japanese Culture Specializes in doing school presentations on japan. http://www.ajc-japaneseculture.org

Welcome to the Home Page of the A ssociation for J apanese C ult ure Studying about Japan? Our programs make learning about Japan Fun!! What is A.J.C.? Our Location Programs for School Trip Booking Procedure ... LINKS ABOUT JAPAN

78. Japan Information Network:Top A fun approach to a guide. Lots of current information.Category Regional Asia japan Society and culture...... japan. japan Access, Concise introductions of typical topics relatedto themes such as japanese geography, economy and culture. japan http://www.jinjapan.org/

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79. Endo Shusaku Article by Philip Yancey, on Shusaku Endo's struggle to reconcile Japanese culture with the faith he could not renounce. http://www.baobab.or.jp/~stranger/mypage/endo.htm

Endo, Shusaku 1923 - 1996 A descrption of Christianity in Japan would not be complete without including Japan's greatest Christian writer. Here Is Philip Yancey's article about the man and his works that helped inspire the novel "The Jesus I never knew" ARTICLE: Japan's Faithful Judas, Part 1 Shusaku Endo's struggle to give his faith a Japanese soul. By Philip Yancey At one point in history, Japan seemed the most fruitful mission field in all of Asia. Francis Xavier, one of the seven original Jesuits, landed there in 1549 and spent two years establishing a church. Within a generation, the number of Christians had swelled to 300,000. Xavier called Japan "the delight of my heart ...the country in the Orient most suited to Christianity." As that century came to an end, however, the shoguns' revulsion over the divisions among Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch Christians led to a change in policy. The shoguns expelled the Jesuits, required that all Christians renounce their faith and register as Buddhists, and began to harass any who disobeyed. The first executions soon followed, and the age of Japanese

80. VIRTUAL JAPANESE CULTURE japan has a rich cultural tradition, and many pastimes have been handeddown from one generation to the next. Some of the most popular http://www.jinjapan.org/kidsweb/virtual.html

Japan has a rich cultural tradition, and many pastimes have been handed down from one generation to the next. Some of the most popular ones are introduced here, and they are set up so that you can actually "try them out" on the Web. You'll need the Shockwave plugin before you can start. If you don't have it, you can download it HERE Latest issue: BENTO Try folding paper into different objects with ORIGAMI Arrange cut flowers beautifully in IKEBANA If you're ready for a real challenge, try writing Japanese letters with a brush in SHODO (calligraphy). You can also try playing a traditional Japanese tune on a KOTO Or maybe you'd like to try shaping and caring for a BONSAI Want to have fun for the New Year? Then try this traditional Japanese toy: FUKU WARAI Take a shot at producing a beautiful UKIYO-E woodblock print. Try a game of mounted archery in Design your own beautiful KIMONO outfit. Try your hand at JUDO , a traditional Japanese sport. Pack your own Japanese lunch in a BENTO box.

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