Japan

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Japan

• Writing, Pastimes, Food More

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Where is Japan?
Map source http//www.lib.utexas.edu/
maps/world.html Perry-Castañeda Library Map
Collection
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Two cities
Matsuyama --captial of Ehime prefecture
Tokyo--capital of Japan --population 12
million, about 10 of Japans total population
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Matsuyama

• Matsu means pine trees, yama means mountain
• City emblem

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From Matsuyama

• Hime-daruma dolls
• Iyo-Kasuri (indigo)

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Kikuma Tobe (near Matsuyama)

• Kawaraclay roof tiles
• Onigawademon tiles
• Tobe pottery

Photo ContaxG Pages (http//contaxg.com/files/2
730/Contaximages_0050600.jpg)
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Japanese Writing

• Japanese writing system
• Kanji
• Originated from China
• Many words developed from pictorial
  representations of words
• Some Kanji symbols were developed from pictures
  (see Kids Web Japan)

sun moon bright(also clear)
land of the rising sun
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Japanese theater

• Kabuki theatertraditional
• Now only male actors, trained from very early
• Rotating stage, footbridge
• Shout out

Photo (http//web-japan.org/factsheet/kabuki/hist
ory.html)
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Pop culture fun

• Manga
• Origami
• Sumo Sumo is a Japanese style of wrestling and
  Japan's national sport. It originated in ancient
  times as a performance to entertain the Shinto
  gods. Many rituals with religious background are
  still followed today. (http//www.japan-guide.co
  m/e/e2080.html)
• Diet
• Cards

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Food
Itadakimasu

• Gohan rice food/meal
• Chopsticksetiquette, who knew?
• Never leave the chopsticks stuck into the rice
  bowl or use them to pass food from one person to
  another as this is reminiscent of funerals where
  incense is stuck into bowls of rice and the
  burned bones of the dead are passed from person
  to person among the family.
• (http//www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A29327)

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Traditional foods

• The traditional Japanese breakfast is a bowl of
  rice, a bowl of Miso soup and some side dish.
  Miso soup is made by dissolving fermented soybean
  paste in fish or seaweed stock. Tofu is one
  common ingredient, but Miso soup can have many
  other different kinds of ingredients in it. In
  modern Japan , many people also eat Western-style
  breakfast including toast and coffee.
• Embassy of Japan (http//www.us.emb-japan.go.jp/e
  nglish/html/faq/08/food.htm1)

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Fast Food

• Sushi
• Sushi gallery
• McDonalds ads http//www.mcdonalds.co.jp/sales/c
  mlib/
• Ronald McDonald is a girl?!
• http//www.mcdholdings.co.jp/pressroom/news/2004/p
  romotion/promo10mcg_cm.html

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Snacks

• Wagashi--Japanese sweets cakes!
• Pocky Pretz
• Wasabi peas

(Photo http//www.glico.co.jp/)
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Sites to go to

• Virtual Museum of Japanhttp//web-japan.org/museu
  m/menu.html
• Kids Web Japan
• http//web-japan.org/kidsweb/index.html
• Embassy of Japan, Washington D.C.http//www.us.em
  b-japan.go.jp/english/html/index.htm

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Sites continued

• Japan Fact Sheethttp//web-japan.org/factsheet/in
  dex.html
• Japan-guide.com
• http//www.japan-guide.com