JAPAN
Originally a friend of mine introduced me to Japanese anime. The more I watched the more I liked it, and the more I watched the more I wondered just what they were really saying, since I was watching basically only subtitled shows.
So I decided to try and learn some Japanese. As I started to do that I began also to read up on Japanese culture and found that to be just as interesting, so on this page I want to put some sources of information for you if you also want to explore Japanese topics.
I'm breaking down my information on Japan into the following sections:
Informational material on Japan
Ainu
Anime
Asahi magazine
Bathing
Beckoning Cat
Bowing
Bunraku
Burakumin
Business and Economics
Business cards
Company housing
Comparisons between Japan and the U.S.
Crime
Culture
Doramas and Movies
Education
Families of Japan video
Family Register
Fascinating Japanese inventions
Festivals and holidays
Food
Government
History
Hotels
Ikebana
Internment Camps for Japanese-Americans during World War II (extensive section)
Japanese music
Japanese Landscape
Japanese terms
Kabuki
The Kimono
Kyogen
Language
Lolita Fashions
Names
Names of Japan
National Anthem of Japan
National Flag of Japan
Noh theater
Pachinko
Phones
Police
Reading material in Japan
Seven Lucky Gods
Sex matters
Shopping in Japan
Social concepts
Social structure in the past
Suicides
Sumo
Synopses of books and articles on Japan
Tatami
Tea Ceremony
Tengu
Toilets
Ukiyo-e prints
Unity
Women in Japan
World War II and Japan (extensive section)
Yakuza
MY REVIEWS OF SOME BOOKS ON JAPAN (other than on World War II)
Dogs and Demons: Tales from the Dark Side of Japan
Japanese Schoolgirl Inferno
Learning to Bow: An American Teacher in a Japanese School
Office Ladies
Servants, Shophands, and Laborers in the Cities of Tokugawa Japan
Supernatural Japan
SOME ARTICLES ON JAPAN
Japanese Women - National Geographic, April 1990
Young Japan, National Geographic, July 1914
SOME ESSAY-TYPE THINGS I WROTE ON JAPAN
My thoughts on American business influence on the future of Japanese schools
My thoughts on Japanese vs. American education
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