Japan Story: In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present

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One of those city collections is The Book of Tokyo, a perfect introduction to the world of Japanese short story writing. Kamishibai is a traditional form of Japanese street theatre in the form of picture card storytelling. Unlike children’s storybooks, the text is written on the reverse of illustrated cards so that the story can be easily read while pictures are shown to the students. As creating and using Kamishibai hones speaking, listening, reading and writing skills, they have many cross-curricular applications. Japan Story Travel is a Destination Management Company (DMC), specializing in boutique style, bespoke travel services for decerning travelers to Japan.

Scary Stories: 7 Japanese Tales That Will Chill You To The Bone Scary Stories: 7 Japanese Tales That Will Chill You To The Bone

Around the 3rd century BC, the Yayoi people from the continent immigrated to the Japanese archipelago and introduced iron technology and agricultural civilization. [2]Another story, The Long Dream, shows us a man in a hospital bed who lives entire lives every time he dreams. When he wakes, his body has aged as well, eventually turning him into an impossibly ancient, horrifyingly morphed thing. The second story, Pregnancy Diary, details the feelings and experiences of a young woman as she watches her sister (and sister’s husband) go through a pregnancy. It’s unnerving and discomfiting at times, as all three tales in this Japanese story story collection are. Picnic in the Storm by Yukiko Motoya

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The Pre-Ceramic era was followed by two better-recorded cultures, the Jōmon and the Yayoi. The former takes its name from a type of pottery found throughout the archipelago; its discoverer, the 19th-century American zoologist Edward S. Morse, called the pottery jōmon (“cord marks”) to describe the patterns pressed into the clay. A convincing theory dates the period during which Jōmon pottery was used from about 10,500 until about the 3rd century bce. Of the features common to Neolithic cultures throughout the world—progress from chipped tools to polished tools, the manufacture of pottery, the beginnings of agriculture and pasturage, the development of weaving, and the erection of monuments using massive stones—the first two are prominent features of the Jōmon period, but the remaining three did not appear until the succeeding Yayoi period. Pottery, for example, first appeared in northern Kyushu (the southernmost of the four main Japanese islands) about 10,500 bce, in an era that is called the Incipient Jōmon period. While continental influence is suspected, the fact that Kyushu pottery remains predate any Chinese findings strongly suggests that the impetus to develop pottery was local. Jōmon is thus best described as a Mesolithic culture, while Yayoi is fully Neolithic. Inspired by myths and folklore, with occasional reference to Buddhism and the many deities of Shintoism, these stories feature half-humans born in the ocean depths and people possessed by the spirits of gods and ancestors. Emperor Hirohito's sixty-three-year reign from 1926 to 1989 is the longest in recorded Japanese history. [216] The first twenty years were characterized by the rise of They were championing a form of constitutional monarchy in which people’s rights would be carefully elaborated and protected.”

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One tale tells of a woman who is given the transformative powers of witchcraft, and she turns them on her cheating, worthless husband.