Explore a life rooted in traditional Japanese culture, carried with pride into the modern age. From ancient rituals and ...

As influences that would undermine the development of a strong and unified state, such roles were often perceived as a threat to Japanese culture by conservatives and traditionalists as well as by the ...

While no longer an everyday garment, kimonos are still an iconic part of modern Japanese culture. Photograph by Molly Ferrill Visitors who would like to shop for kimono-inspired fashion firsthand ...

“Ainu Identity and the Early Modern State.” Geographies of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Japan.Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. 110-126. Kaempfer, Engelbert. “The Situation of the ...

Part of what’s going on is simply the globalization of taste, culture, cuisine and the way that, in the modern world, you can get almost anything everywhere. But Japanese Americana is more than ...

This immersion introduces students to the language, customs, and cultural aspects (history, art, literature, politics, anthropology, and music) of Japan. The immersion consists of three language ...

A new study suggests that modern Japanese have descended from three ... in the Jomon people known for their distinctive pottery culture (c. 14500 B.C.-1000 B.C.) and the Yayoi people with their ...

Introduction to listening, speaking, reading, and writing in Japanese and to the culture of Japanese-speaking regions. This course meets three (3) hours per week in the classroom and requires at least ...

as one History and Culture class is offered a semester. Modern Japanese Society (HP/LANG 3151) is offered twice a year, with one of these classes being a study abroad opportunity.