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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
Picturesque Japan or Land of the Mikado (1910)
Picturing Japaneseness: Monumental Style, National Identity, Japanese Film
Schoolgirl Confidential
Servants, Shophands, and Laborers in the Cities of Tokugawa Japan
Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs
Supernatural Japan
Tama, the Diary of a Japanese Girl


SOME ARTICLES ON JAPAN

Friendly Journeys in Japan, National Geographic
Japan, Child of the World's Old Age, National Geographic

Japanese Women - National Geographic, April 1990

Motor Trails in Japan, National Geographic
Tokyo To-day, National Geographic

Young Japan, National Geographic, July 1914

Women's Work in Japan

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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