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The Americanization of Japanese Culture, 2002.
Examines four different aspects of the Japanese culture to explain the process of "Americanization" of Japanese culture.
1,275 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 1 source, $ 48.95
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The following paper is an analysis on the 'Americanization' of Japanese culture. Four distinct areas of culture will be analyzed, and in turn, some general analysis will be presented in terms of assigning the causes for this trend. In particular, focus will be given toward understanding how this process must be understood with the 'transformation of identity' that had been taking place in this context.
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Japanese Culture, 2007.
This paper discusses Japanese culture in the past and present.
1,469 words (approx. 5.9 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 48.95
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This paper takes a look at the post-modern Japanese cultural society and its effects. The paper focuses on cultural deviations that did not exist in the past. The paper examines Japanese youth culture, women's role in Japanese culture as well as Japanese pop culture.
Outline:
Abstract
Introduction
Youth Culture
Role of women
Popular Culture
Conclusion
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"The youth culture in Japan has evolved a lot since the last fifty years. Youth culture was quite restricted due to the strong influence of the military. The Japanese defeat during World War II badly affected the Japanese society. Japan did make a lot of progress through industrialization and urbanization, which brought an increase to the middle class. The youth culture was disillusioned with life there and this sparked a lot of protests against the political structure. The youth community was looking to implement communal values originating from the rural communities and not urban values."
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Japanese Culture Influenced by Sport, 2006.
An examination of the influence American sport has on Japanese culture.
1,082 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 37.95
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The paper discusses the similarities between Sumo wrestling, martial arts and baseball. The writer notes that one of the influences on the Japanese culture is in connection with cheering. The writer details similarities and differences between Japanese and American sports events. The writer explains that the Japanese, who are usually more staid than Americans, cheer quite boisterously at sports events. In conclusion the writer states that American sports have influenced Japanese culture in all areas, including in the business culture, which is seen in the use of brand promotions at sports events.
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"One example of the way American sports has influenced Japanese social forms is the way Japanese fans participate in cheering. The Japanese are generally courteous and take care not to embarrass a person before a group. They are especially polite when greeting strangers, and are slow to express their feelings to outsiders. However, none of these customs are evident in cheering at a sports event. "As such, the game here is slower paced and more strategic in Japan than its American forerunner. Also, Japanese teams revolve around their managers, who put their players through rigorous practice routines and spend a lot of time on the field during games in strategy sessions. Finally, baseball in Japan is more of a collective enterprise, and players don't receive the same attention and adulation that their colleagues in the United States enjoy."
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Japanese Culture, 2006.
A look at Japanese culture focusing on the teachings of The Buddha.
3,123 words (approx. 12.5 pages), 7 sources, APA, $ 90.95
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This paper researches Japanese culture, a culture primarily based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, known as The Buddha, in his work "The Eightfold Path". According to this paper, The Buddha was not Japanese but, probably, Nepalese and while he is believed to have lived from 543 to 483 B.C.E., some hold that he lived a century later.
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How Buddhism Creates a Unique "Built Environment"
Japanese Ritual is What Transforms 'Nothing' Into 'Something.'
Smaller Artifacts and Buddhism/Spirituality
Symbolic Carvings on Useful Items: Synthesis
Borrowing From Another Asian Culture
The Final Frontier of Spirituality: Metaphysics and Quantum Physics
Synthesis
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"Like so much else in Japanese culture, it is not what it seems, but rather a symbolic combination of the mundane (hair ornamentation) with the sublime, or, as Jones puts it, "transforming the ordinary object into something extraordinary. The object's relationship with its surroundings and its own purpose are integral to kazari" (Jones, 2003, p. 4626), a fact that brings this, too, into the metaphysical realm suggested by the brief passage from The Eightfold Path.
The genius of the Japanese is also cited as their ability to incorporate elements from other cultures and make them not only their own, but central to the Japanese way of life. "Most aspects of Japanese culture came at one time from China--the tea ceremony, for example--and ... shows Japan's fascination with China in the 15th and 16th centuries"
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Anime as a Part of Japanese Culture, 2007.
An analysis of the history of animation as part of Japanese culture.
1,378 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 46.95
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This paper discusses the history of film animation in Japan. Particularly, it discusses anime produced by Japan's Studio, Giblias, and whether it plays a part in Japanese culture. The paper concludes that though Japanese animation has it's roots in western animation, it has developed and continues to do so in a very different direction and that it draws on its own cultural influences like kabuki theater and woodblock prints as well as developing it's completely unique style.
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"By the 1990's anime took a more serious turn that in my opinion is not present in modern day western animation. While still outputting light-hearted so called children's anime, studios began to release more intellectual sophisticated anime such as Anno Hideaki's television series Neon Genesis Evangelion and Miyazaki Hayao's film Princess Mononoke. These films often touched on themes and issues that modern Japanese faced. To truly explain the Japanese nature of these films I believe that an in depth look at one of them in necessary."
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Japanese Medieval Culture and Women, 2005.
Three essays on different aspects of medieval Japanese culture and the subjugation of women.
2,760 words (approx. 11.0 pages), 12 sources, APA, $ 95.95
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This paper examines three essays on different aspects of medieval Japanese culture that use legends to subjugate women - the blood pool hell to which all women are damned by virtue of their biology, the Five Obstructions which are the five states of enlightenment which women cannot achieve after death because of the inferiority of their gender, and the use of images of women being transformed into snakes and dragons to tell stories about women's threats to men.
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"This paper considers the positive and negative effects of Buddhism for women in the medieval and early Edo periods through the introduction oft he apocryphal text known as the Blood Pool Hell Sutra. The rise of popularity of the sutra was connected to ..."
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Buddha and the Japanese Culture, 2002.
Discussion of the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism and their influence on Japanese culture.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 44.95
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The most fundamental beliefs of Buddhism can be understood by what are referred to as the Four Noble Truths. This paper will identify these Four Noble Truths and show how they have influenced Japanese society, cultural attitudes, and way of life.
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Religion in Japanese Culture, 2007.
This paper discuses two major religions in Japanese culture---Shinto and Buddhism.
825 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 29.95
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This paper explains that religion in Japan is an amalgamation of various historical influences that has evolved over the last approximate 2000 years. The paper states that the major religions are Shinto, Daoism, Buddhism and more recently Christianity. The author points out that the historical relationship between Japan's imperial symbol and the Shinto faith is causing an ongoing international disturbance in contemporary foreign relations between Japan and its war-time victims. The paper relates that Buddhism, which has been predominant in Japan's culture because of its very early association with Confucianism, was never complicated by any connection with the divinity of the Emperor; thus, for Japan's neighbors, Buddhism is largely viewed as a common cultural thread.
Table of Contents:
Overview
Shinto
Buddhism
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"Japan's Prime Minister, Junichiro Koizumi, has taken it upon himself to visit the Yasukuni Shinto Shrine in Japan on several occasions. Ostensibly, Koizumi's visits to the Yasukuni Shrine are to pay respects to Japan's war dead, which is a fairly innocuous act in itself but because of the religious, national, and historical combination of Shinto and the Japanese state, this act is viewed as disrespectful by Japan's war-time victims. Although Shinto had been associated with the state and the imperial throne since the 4th century A.D., in 1868 Shinto was made the official religion during the Meiji Restoration and in 1869 the Yasukuni Shrine was erected."
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A History of Japanese Pop Culture, 2004.
A look at the role of karaoke in Japanese culture.
846 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 30.95
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This paper explores the role of karaoke in Japan as not only a form of entertainment, but a means for carrying out business. The paper contrasts Japanese perceptions of karaoke as a means to develop camaraderie to that of American perceptions, which view karoake as a form of entertainment and a way to establish one's self as a local talent.
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"The differences in perception of Karaoke are due in part to the different socialization rituals that exist in Japan and among Americans. In Japan for example, typically individuals conduct a method of meetings referred to as "ringisei" where each member attempts to "achieve consensus rather than score points" (Shimatachi, 102). Consensus building is in fact a staple of solid relational building in the Asian culture. Part of the Karaoke process in Japan includes taking into account the musical preferences of guests, as a proper host would do, and sharing appropriate compliments or jokes after a performance to thank the host for entertaining appropriately (Shimatachi, 102)."
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Japanese Culture and Nursing, 2006.
An evaluation of an interview of a Japanese-American student and the information gathered regarding its implications for nursing care.
1,543 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 50.95
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This paper evaluates the Japanese culture through interviewing a young woman who attends graduate school at the University of Notre Dame. Through the course of the interview, a number of personal and culturally sensitive factors, including socio-economic factors, lifestyle, family values, religious preferences, health beliefs and practices and childbearing and parenting practices are assessed in order to provide for a cultural assessment. In doing so, culturally competent nursing interventions are introduced to provide for a positive health experience.
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" In the 2000 census, 796,700 residents of the U.S. identified their "race" as Japanese (Reeves and Bennett, 2004). When the question of identifying her race was introduced, Ms. J identified herself as Japanese. She expressed a strong cultural bond to the Japanese culture even though she and her family have been living in the United States for some time now. Although Ms. J is from a relatively affluent Japanese home, and is 23 years old, she is still living with her parents, and intends to do so until she married. This is quite common in Japanese culture and not seen as evidence of immaturity, but respect, regardless of her own personal state of affluence (Friedman, Bowden, & Jones, 2003). She stated that her parents became angry at any attempts upon Ms. J to share an apartment with a friend, even though Ms. J's friends were 'nice girls,' according to the admittance of her parents."
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Imamura's "The Pornographers" and Japanese Culture, 2008.
A review of the psyche of the protagonist in Shohei Imamura's film, "The Pornographers."
1,710 words (approx. 6.8 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 55.95
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This paper examines Shohei Imamura's most well-known film outside of Japan, the 1966 film, "The Pornographers." It views the film from the perspective of a series of interlocking journeys through the psyche of the protagonist. The paper suggests that the journey that Imamura's protagonist takes through this often nonlinear narrative structure is what makes the story so compelling, both as a film and as an example of Japanese culture in the middle of the 20th century.
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"The closure to Ogata's long and oftentimes nonlinear psychic journey comes when Ogata makes a life-sized "sex doll," at the cost of great time and effort, in a vain hope to cure his (no doubt psychologically-induced) impotence. This is a powerful image in the film, and shows as well as anything else the transformation of the character's inner obsession into outer, material manifestations. On the surface, it seems that Ogata has reached his final destination: in leaving the real world with real women, he continues to suffer from flashbacks and his lifelong isolation and masochistic traumas seem no closer to resolution. Yet he continues to manipulate his appetite for sex, as if Imamura were using Ogata to make the statement that such primal appetites are in fact fundamental and unavoidable. As he drifts out to sea in his boat, the audience must sense a new and final journey has begun."
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Japanese Cultural and Nursing Assessment, 2005.
This paper discusses Japanese culture and its relationship to nursing assessments of patients from this culture.
1,380 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 46.95
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This paper explains emphatically that problem of communicating in English is the first and most obvious factor to be considered in nursing interventions with Japanese-Americans. The author points out that, when working with Japanese family members, physicians should remember that the traditional hierarchy is the father of the house, then the oldest adult son, then the mother and only then the daughter. When health decisions must be made by the family, the physician should withdraw to allow the family to have an open discussion in private. The paper relates that Buddhist and Shinto religious beliefs influence this population's feelings about illness and death.
Table of Contents
Presentation of Client and Scenario
Socioeconomic Factors
Lifestyle
Family Values
Religious Preferences
Heath beliefs and Practices
Childbearing/Parenting
Conclusion
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"It is important for a nursing practitioner to keep this in mind as, in the 2000 census, 796,700 residents of the U.S. identified their "race" as Japanese. Thus, it is useful for all nursing practitioners, particularly those residing on the West Coast to keep abreast of Japanese cultural traditions. Also, even when residing in Japan, Japanese first-generation immigrants have traditionally seemed less eager than other immigrant groups to assimilate into the hegemonic culture. One measure of this is that compared to other Americans of Asian background, a lower percentage of Japanese elders speak English. "In 1990, only 36% said they did not speak English very well." ''
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Japanese and Chinese Cultural Elements, 2006.
A discussion regarding the nature and culture of Japan and China.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 8 sources, $ 62.95
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This paper discusses how for years, researchers have argued about the nature and character of Asian culture in general and that of Chinese and Japanese culture specifically, for various reasons. Though both countries are part of the collective Asian culture and all that that categorization implies: collectivistic, homogeneous, Confucian and industrious, they are also polarized differently from each other. The paper further discusses how in this respect, it is paramount to examine each market differently, or rather, from a different perspective. For Japan, it is perhaps best to examine from a socio-cultural point of view. In Japan it is conformity to cultural folkways and mores that are perhaps more problematic since it is a democratically run economy with constitutionally supported civil rights.
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Culture of American and Japanese Youth, 2002.
This paper looks into the ways in which youths are influenced by culture. The writer asserts that the level of influence differs greatly between Japanese and American adolescents.
842 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 29.95
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Culture gives or teaches a person the acceptable behavior patterns, influences a society's arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought. The writer uses this definition of culture in asserting that Japanese youth have a strong sense of culture passed down through ancient ritual and respect for elders. The paper further proves that American youth do not have this strong tie to the past.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Youth and Universal Phenomena
Peer Group Identification
Identity
Conclusion
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"A study was conducted in which high school ages youth were asked to rank probable professions and there level of prestige. When the questionnaire was first done, they were identical; the question written in English, then translated into Japanese. The researchers found that in this area, cultural aspects played an important role. Most of the Americanized questions were misunderstood or not relevant to the Japanese youth. The questionnaires had to be redone in order to conduct the survey (Ramsey and Smith 476). However, once the questionnaires were properly done, the two groups showed striking similarities, the top five of each set of youth sharing four of the same occupations. The four shared were College Professor, Medical Doctor, Lawyer, and Corporate Executive, all have high pay and social status in common (Ibid 477)."
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Cultural Ethnography of the Japanese Geisha, 2007.
This paper describes the history, training and life of the Japanese Geisha.
3,003 words (approx. 12.0 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 88.95
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This paper examines the ethnography of the Japanese Geisha. Additionally, it highlights many subtopics of the Geisha culture such as history and training, customers and skills, fashion, and modern-day and western influences. The paper includes an annotated bibliography with descriptions of sources used.
History of the Geisha Culture
Becoming a Geisha
Geisha Talents and Those Who Enjoy Them
Geisha Appearance
Modern-Day Geisha and Western Influence
Conclusion
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"Geisha hair, Geisha makeup, Geisha grace: Geisha is a pleasing profession envied by women and adored by men. She is a living work of art; a doll adorned in satins and silks. Her entrance anywhere has movie star status and everyone wishes to be a part of her world: the flower and willow world. The Geisha profession is a time-honored tradition that has gradually changed into its own intricate culture. In this essay, I will explore the various complexities and mysteries of the Geisha culture by addressing the following areas: Geisha history, training, talents and customers, traditional dress, and Geisha in the modern world. I will clarify any misconceptions one may have about this beautiful and mysterious culture."
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