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Convert Western years to Japanese years - 0 views

  • The Japanese year is written with the name of the reigning Emperor followed by the year of his reign and the kanji character for "year" (nen).
  • The first year of an Emperor era is called gannen instead of ichi nen. The characters for gannen are 元年. So Heisei 1 is 平成元年
  • Japanese dates are written in the order of year month day.
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  • Currently in Japan, both the Gregorian calendar years (e.g., 2004) and Japanese nengo are used.
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Sociological Images » Seeing is Believing - 0 views

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    Zeer interessante blog die beelden in de media analyseert.
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Keizer van Japan - Wikipedia - 0 views

  • De traditionele rol van de Keizer van Japan, de Tenno, is eerder vergelijkbaar met die van een paus of hogepriester dan met die van een regeringshoofd. Hij heeft vooral religieuze functies binnen de Shinto, een Animistische religie die specifiek is voor Japan. Het woord 天皇 Tenno is afgeleid van mikado wat de naam was van een keizerlijk heerser, van het begin van de historie tot het midden van de twintigste eeuw.
  • In de jaren tussen de twee wereldoorlogen misbruikten de militaire machthebbers het aanzien van de Tenno. De nadruk werd sterk gelegd op zijn goddelijke afstamming en daarmee werd ook Japan een goddelijke natie. Na de ineenstorting van Japan in 1945 ontkende de Showa keizer[1], in het Westen bekend als keizer Hirohito, onder Amerikaanse druk dat hij een god was en nam hij genoegen met een strikt constitutionele en representatieve taak.
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Marketing Asian Women To Anti-Feminist Men - 0 views

  • Asian people, both men and women, are often stereotyped as more feminine than white people.  Asian men are seen as small and less muscular than white men; Asian women are seen as more passive and deferential than white women.
  • The idea, specifically, that Asian women are more passive and deferential than white women, has been used to explain white men’s fetish for Asian women, Western men’s sex tourism in Asian countries, and Western men’s use of Asian mail-order bride services.  
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YouTube - With subtitles : Manners when entering Shinto shrine - 0 views

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      Een filmpje over het handenwassen bij een shinto-schrijn dat een iets andere handelswijze aanbeveelt dan het filmpje dat we in de les gezien hebben. Ter info.
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History of womens Sumo (Female Single Combat Club) - 0 views

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    Gewoon FYI.
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Knock it off: Global treaty against media piracy won't work in Asia - 0 views

  • That partnership between content provider and consumer is exactly what's missing in the Western world's debate over intellectual property, where movie studios and record labels talk about their customers as potential criminals. In Asia, media companies have a much closer and more interactive relationship with fans, treating them as partners in evangelizing their products -- even when that means blurring the lines of copyright restrictions. Kai-Ming Cha, manga editor of Publishers Weekly, notes that Japan's media industry has "developed a detente" with fans. She points to the example of doujinshi -- amateur "homage" publications that depict popular anime and manga characters in original, sometimes pornographic storylines. "They realize these unauthorized spinoffs help to build the fandom, and ultimately drive sales of the original," she says.
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    "That partnership between content provider and consumer is exactly what's missing in the Western world's debate over intellectual property, where movie studios and record labels talk about their customers as potential criminals. In Asia, media companies have a much closer and more interactive relationship with fans, treating them as partners in evangelizing their products -- even when that means blurring the lines of copyright restrictions. Kai-Ming Cha, manga editor of Publishers Weekly, notes that Japan's media industry has "developed a detente" with fans. She points to the example of doujinshi -- amateur "homage" publications that depict popular anime and manga characters in original, sometimes pornographic storylines. "They realize these unauthorized spinoffs help to build the fandom, and ultimately drive sales of the original," she says. "
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In Tough Times, the Humanities Must Justify Their Worth - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • The study of the humanities evolved during the 20th century “to focus almost entirely on personal intellectual development,” said Richard M. Freeland, the Massachusetts commissioner of higher education. “But what we haven’t paid a lot of attention to is how students can put those abilities effectively to use in the world. We’ve created a disjunction between the liberal arts and sciences and our role as citizens and professionals.”
  • “There’s a lot more to a liberal education than improving the economy. I think that is one of the worst mistakes that policy makers often make — not being able to see beyond that.”
  • To Mr. Delbanco of Columbia, the person who has done the best job of articulating the benefits is President Obama. “He does something academic humanists have not been doing well in recent years,” he said of a president who invokes Shakespeare and Faulkner, Lincoln and W. E. B. Du Bois. “He makes people feel there is some kind of a common enterprise, that history, with its tragedies and travesties, belongs to all of us, that we have something in common as Americans.”
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  • As money tightens, the humanities may increasingly return to being what they were at the beginning of the last century, when only a minuscule portion of the population attended college: namely, the province of the wealthy.That may be unfortunate but inevitable, Mr. Kronman said. The essence of a humanities education — reading the great literary and philosophical works and coming “to grips with the question of what living is for” — may become “a great luxury that many cannot afford.”
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IT-competenties - Encyclopedie - 0 views

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    Just testing
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Japanese women struggle in recession - 0 views

  • "Our cases indicate a pattern where women are struggling to survive economically," Fujii said, adding that this trend is likely to persist and widen the gap between those who have stable careers and those stuck in part-time or contractual work. "Part-timers complain of mental depression, constant sexual harassment from male bosses and having to put in long hours to make enough money. Their lives are poor compared to career women," she said.
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Popularity of manga/anime buoys Japanese Studies in Romania - 0 views

  • Helped by the popularity of Japanese "manga" and "anime" among youths, the number of Japanese-language students in Romania totals about 1,600 today
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Design4Diversity.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views

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      hand gestures in manga?
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      *good that we're using manga then.
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      *good that we're using manga then
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      trend in manga-vertaling naar dichter bij origineel blijven -hoe correspondeert dat hiermee?
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      *how expressive are manga characters from the viewpoint of non-Japanese?
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Cross-Cultural Space: Spatial Representation in American and Japanese Visual Language - 0 views

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      quote! en meer zoeken over die theorie van visual language
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      aspecten van een situatie tonen eerder dan de actie
  • subjectivity can be encoded in a panel as a whole, shifting the viewpoint of the panel to a member of the fictive narrative.
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      subjectiviteit viewpoints
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  • Japanese children use aerial and close up (“exaggerated”) viewpoints en masse and were not found in the American children’s representations at all.
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      close-ups belangrijk: tonen emoties? (shonen van nabij bekijken)
  • Aerial High-angled Lateral Low-angled Ground-up American 1 (SD = 1.2) 9.7 (SD = 8.5) 82.1 (SD = 8.5) 6.1 (SD = 3.7) 0.25 (SD = 0.4) Japanese 1.2 (SD = 0.9) 14.9 (SD = 5.1) 73.4 (SD = 8.6) 8.9 (SD = 3.9) 1.3 (SD = 1.5)
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      blijkbaar zijn manga relatief gevarieerd qua perspectieven
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      dit klinkt gek, denkende aan shojo-layouts. bekijken -> aan afbeelding te zien: lijkt op eerste gezicht niet Japans, nee. is er rekening gehouden met zaken zoals shojo stijl, waar de frames vaak helemaal afwezig zijn??
  • Though the numbers are minor, American books seem to modify their panels with framing types more than Japanese books do.
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      statistieken voor close-ups, linken!
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      is relatief minder diepte in manga een gevolg van minder achtergrond?
  • a greater variation across authors for LRM categories than Japanese books do. I hypothesize that this variation can be attributed to a willingness of American authors to experiment more with the visual language as an “artistic” medium, as opposed to the Japanese usage of more of a communicative system akin to language (Cohn 2004)
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      heel interessant! worden manga in japan meer gebruikt voor 'communicatie', en comics in de vs meer voor 'artistieke expressie'? (ook superhero comics van dertien in een dozijn?)
  • An “Art” treatment emphasizes individualistic and innovative techniques for authors, while a “Language” system promotes shared techniques amongst a community.
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      gebruiken om erop te wijzen dat manga een 'taal' bevatten! -shared techniques wil niet zeggen minder originele inhoud, gaat over structural means
  • difference is recognizable in other domains such as drawing style. While American authors draw in dramatically varying ways, Japanese authors are similar enough in structure to belong to an overarching “Japanese style” that is recognizable at a glance.
  • Of course, the need for an explanation for variance at all is in part a curious one when dealing with the notion of languages, since usually languages are expected to vary.
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The Interpreter: Japanese Studies down - 0 views

  • "Japan has established a certain status as a member of the international community. Yet academics in these countries have yet to find a new theme for research into Japan," he said.Shirahata nominated Japanese animation and graphic novels, which have become very popular in western Europe, as one area which might prove to be a rich subject for future study.Japanese studies courses, as with study of any other culture, examine the nation's historical development from ancient times to contemporary circumstances, and consider which themes might offer valuable instruction for other cultures.The changes currently faced by many European countries as they grapple with modernization prompted by EU membership, may provide an opportunity to promote the study of contemporary Japan.
  • Yes, shift the focus on contemporary cool Japan stuff, the visual creation, manga, animation. Get hip. It is definitely the next frontier to go right away for Japan researchers.
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Japanese studies facing the chop in Europe - 0 views

  • "Japan has established a certain status as a member of the international community. Yet academics in these countries have yet to find a new theme for research into Japan," he said. Shirahata nominated Japanese animation and graphic novels, which have become very popular in western Europe, as one area which might prove to be a rich subject for future study.
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"Anime: Drawing a Revolution" is Garbage - 0 views

  • the reality is that most of the Naruto generation doesn't seem that interested in the cultural underpinnings of anime or manga. The era when anime was a fringe hobby is over, with easy availability and the Internet giving anime more mass-market success in America than it has ever had before. However, one side-effect of this is that the new generation of otaku don't seem that interested in examining anime as anything beyond the latest hot, hip show. I don't believe they have much interest in the seminal works of Tezuka, which is analogous to a self-described cartoon fan not knowing who Walt Disney is or why one would care.
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      Something we, as researchers, do tend to lose sight of. Anime and manga are not fascinating in and of themselves for the vast majority of fans. In all likelyhood, even most of the Japanese Studies students for whose benefit we're trying to incorporate manga into classes are not interested in the why and how of manga, let alone the educational benefits manga might offer. They just want to have fun reading or watching.
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    Included because of one interesting quote.
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