Essays on Japanese Culture

Did you know that every day over eight million people travels on a plane? It’s a massive statistic, but, in this day and age, it’s hardly surprising. Japan has an enormous population, with three major cities: Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka. Around 19.7 million people visit…

Culture is about the way we are living. It incorporates our qualities, convictions, traditions, dialects and conventions. Culture is reflected in our history, in our legacy and by they way we express our thoughts and innovativeness. Our way of life measures our personal satisfaction, our…

Located in the region of East Asia near the Korean Peninsula, Japan is a 1.2 hours flight from the United Kingdom, and a 14 hours flight from New York. With more than 370 thousand km2, it is only a little smaller than the state of…

In 1912, the external powers of western foreigners had an extensive impact on traditional Japanese culture. The Meiji Restoration began with the collapse of the Tokugawa Shogun and the reinstatement of the Japanese emperor Mutsuhito. This led to the transformation of feudal principals and culture…

Abstract Japanese families and relationships are different from American culture. The following paper will describe the key differences in American and japanese culture, along with the similarities they contain. Yosuke Mikasa was interviewed on November of 2016 in order to gain a secondary opinion from…

War, what is it good for? While Edwin Starr may say that it is good for “absolutely nothin,” war can allow us to better understand past civilizations. This stems from the importance many civilizations placed on certain codes for their warriors to follow. Warrior codes…

Among the various beliefs shared by the Japanese psyche, a lot could not escape the provisions of the Meiji era, which proclaimed the following slogan: bunmei kaika (civilization and enlightenment). As the Japanese government desired to westernize the country, it had to question the foundations…

Japan is ranked among the 10th most populated countries with 1.5% of foreign workers. So expanding the company there was challenging yet not impossible. The apparel industry in Japan is one of the largest in the world, to be more precise, is the fourth largest…