The kimono is a traditional form of clothing worn by Japanese women and men. There are many different forms of Japanese kimono. The word kimono literally as known as "clothing"‚ and up until the mid 19th century it was the form of dress worn by everyone in Japan. Between 30 and 100 days after a child is born‚ the parents‚ siblings‚ and grandparents visit a shrine together to report the child’s birth. The baby is dressed in a white under-kimono. On top of that kimono‚ the baby wears a brightly coloured
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Clash of Civilizations THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS Samuel P. Huntington Foreign Affairs. Summer 1993‚ v72‚ n3‚ p22(28) from the Academic Index (database on UTCAT system) COPYRIGHT Council on Foreign Relations Inc. 1993 THE NEXT PATTERN OF CONFLICT World politics is entering a new phase‚ and intellectuals have not hesitated to proliferate visions of what it will be--the end of history‚ the return of traditional rivalries between nation states‚ and the decline of the nation state from the conflicting
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MEDIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION T R A N S C R I PT EDWARD SAID THE MY TH OF ‘ THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS’ Challenging media EDWARD SAID The Myth of ‘The Clash of Civilizations’ Executive Producer & Director: Sut Jhally Editor: Sanjay Talreja Featuring a lecture by Edward Said Professor‚ Columbia University and author of Orientalism Introduced by Sut Jhally University of Massachusetts-Amherst Media Education Foundation © MEF1998 2 PART ONE – INTRODUCTION Thank you very much. I’m
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the example of America and Britain. Japanese people travelled to abroad to learn while instructors came from the West to Japan to teach. The majority of today’s enterprises have established at that time. Japan has become the most developed country in Asia. Japan had the second largest economy till 2010 but China has overtaken Japan as the world’s second largest economy. Japan has held this title for more than 40 years. As the man say in the BBC video Japanese are afraid of doing something different
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Japanese Militarism The recent spat between Japan and China is the latest in a series of outbursts between the two nations. What started as a Chinese objection to Japanese interpretation of history especially with reference to the latter’s acts against China during the fourth quarter of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century‚ has now snowballed into a major controversy which could threaten the fragile relationship between them. The current episode started simmering when
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orical • Prepare an essay outline in response to each essay question 1. How far did the Japanese Occupation period represent an improvement in the fortunes of the nationalists? • Nicholas Tarling (ed.)‚ The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia Vol 2 Part 2 (Cambridge University Press‚ 1999)‚ chapter 6‚ section “World War II and Japanese Occupation” 2. “The Japanese Occupation had so dramatically altered the colonial landscape that independence was a foregone conclusion
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It is interesting to find that only some political economists emphasize the fact that Japanese colonialism in Korea played a large part in the development of a high-growth economy. In both readings we get to see that Japanese colonialism greatly differed from European colonialism. In one way‚ this is because European colonialism rarely introduced heavy industry into the economy‚ or even pushed the economy with such a heavy hand. As well‚ Japan left Korea with a relatively high level
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The origin of the ninja is obscure and difficult to determine‚ but can be surmised to be around the 14th century.[4] However‚ the antecedents to the Ninja may have existed as early as the Heian[5] and early Kamakura eras.[6] Few written records exist to detail the activities of the ninja. The word shinobi did not exist to describe a ninja-like agent until the 15th century‚ and it is unlikely that spies and mercenaries prior to this time were seen as a specialized group. In the unrest of the Sengoku
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Main components of every civilization: 1. government and laws 2. formal religion 3. language 4. agriculture (irrigation‚ domestication of plants‚ etc) 5. specialized skills (pottery‚ clothing‚ etc) 6. trade (to acquire what you do not have and cannot make‚ but need) 7. economic system (bartering or currency‚ etc). Factors that give rise to civilization: A. Geographical location 1. All four of the major centers of early civilization (were China‚ India‚ Mesopotamia‚ and Mesoamerica) arose
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A Definition Of Civilization by Philip Atkinson All Human inventions are first thoughts before they become things. So the creations of communities such as cities‚ governments‚ armies‚ as well as communal achievements such as conquests and discoveries— everything that goes to make a civilization — must spring from a community ’s thoughts. Hence: Civilization: is the tangible expression of a communal understanding. Communal Understanding: is that single understanding allowed by the set of values
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