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The Ninjas that often appear in Japanese period dramas were undercover fighters who were active from the Sengoku period to the Edo period.

At first, castles were defensive bases, but later shoguns and samurai started living in them.

When sumo wrestling first became popular in Japan 1500 years ago, it was a ritual used to predict the outcome of crop harvests.

There are no specific rules for enjoying Japanese gardens.

Kimonos are Japan's traditional national dress.

As the name suggests, "manga kissa" are cafes stocked with lots of manga.

Don Quijote is probably the world’s only discount store that sells both Louis Vuitton bags and sex toys.

Kaiten-zushi is the term used for sushi on small plates that goes round on a conveyor belt.

Ameyoko is the name of a popular shopping street. It's about 400 meters long from JR Ueno Station to Okachimachi Station.

Maid cafés are cafés in which the waitresses dress in maid uniforms and treat the customers as if they were their "masters".

Japanese electrical appliances are world-famous for working well, having lots of functions, and being low-cost.

100 yen shops are shops in which all the products, such as foodstuffs and daily goods, are 100 yen.

Food samples are the plastic models of food that you see in glass cases outside restaurants.

Completed in 2012 at a height of 634 meters, Tokyo Skytree is the tallest building in Japan.

Since ramen noodles came to Japan from China in the Meiji period, the Japanese have changed them very much.

Introducción a la cultura japonesa

Einführung in die japanische Kultur

La cultura tradizionale che non muta mai e quella pop in continua evoluzione.

A World of Beauty: Tales from Pavlysh contains 19 charming little tales about the beauty of the natural world, and how nature supports all living creatures. A chicken hatches some duck eggs. A rowan tree welcomes some beautiful crested birds to feed on its berries. A blade of grass slumbers through the winter and awakens to joyfully greet the spring. In some of the stories, people engage with this beauty. A child admires the magic beauty of a snowflake, “a six-pointed star, so beautiful and shiny, that a fairy-tale master might have cut it from a plate of silver”.

Evolution Theory comes with the cell growing and evolving from it through Earlier Apes all the way to the Neanderthals and the Homo sapiens which characterize as Modern Humans/Speech who have migrated out of Africa at least three and possibly four times (e.g. Homo erectus, Homo heidelbergensis and two or three times for Homo sapiens). Recent evidence suggests these dispersals are closely related to fluctuating periods of climate change, this is the scientific approach. But based on the religious approach, some religions still believe that there is a God who created a Man, then took out his ...