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  2. Culture of Japan - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese "national character" has been written about under the term Nihonjinron, literally meaning 'theories/discussions about the Japanese people' and referring to texts on matters that are normally the concerns of sociology, psychology, history, linguistics, and philosophy, but emphasizing the authors' assumptions or perceptions of ...

  3. Japanese values - Wikipedia

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    Japanese values are cultural goals, beliefs and behaviors that are considered important in Japanese culture. From a global perspective, Japanese culture stands out for its higher scores in emancipative values, individualism, and flexibility compared to many other cultures around the world. There is a similar level of emphasis on these values in ...

  4. Kishōtenketsu - Wikipedia

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    In Japan, it was called kishōtengō (起承転合), from which the English word derives. Back in China, after the baguwen lost favor with the fall of the Qing Dynasty , and due to its difficulty, a revival of the qichengzhuanhe form came back in popular education, relabeled as "kaiduan-fazhan-gaochao-jieju" (beginning, development, climax ...

  5. Toshiko Kishida - Wikipedia

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    "Daughters in Boxes" analyzed and critiqued Japanese society and its treatment of Japanese girls. The absence of women's rights in Japan sparked the feminist and reformist movement of which Kishida Toshiko was a major part. Kishida's speech challenged the cultural norms of Japanese society in general. The speech also cemented the place of women ...

  6. Sano no Chigami no Otome - Wikipedia

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    Sano no Chigami no Otome (Japanese: 狭野茅上 娘子, c.700) was a Japanese poet during the Nara period, whose love poems appear in the Man’yōshū, [1] the oldest existing anthology of Japanese vernacular poetry. [2] A low-ranking palace attendant, she was also known as Sano no Otogami no Otome (狭野弟上 娘子). [1]

  7. Music Review: The Japanese House on love, heartbreak and a ...

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    The result is a sweetly melancholic chronicle of a cycle of falling in and out of love, and a celebration of the dog who got her through it. The album slides smoothly between dreampop, '70s ...

  8. Ishin-denshin - Wikipedia

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    The introduction of this concept to Japan, via China, is related to the traditions of Zen, where the term ishin-denshin refers to direct mind transmission of Buddhist dharma. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] According to Zen tradition, the concept of ishin-denshin can be traced back to the initial dharma transmission between Gautama Buddha and Mahākāśyapa ...

  9. Nihonjinron - Wikipedia

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    Nihonjinron (日本人論: treatises on Japaneseness) is a genre of ethnocentric nationalist literary work that focuses on issues of Japanese national and cultural identity. [1] [2] Nihonjinron posits pseudoscience such as Japanese being a "unique isolate, having no known affinities with any other race", and has been described as racist.