Shinkansen Route Map - nippon.com
WEBMar 16, 2024 · Discover the history and expansion of Japan's high-speed train service, the Shinkansen, with this interactive route map and informative features.
The Japanese School System | Nippon.com
WEBJan 11, 2016 · In Japan, education is compulsory roughly from the age of 6 to the age of 15. The school year begins in April, so almost all children who have turned 6 by April 1 each year enter elementary school ...
Oda Nobunaga and the Struggle to Unify Japan | Nippon.com
WEBJan 8, 2020 · Oda Nobunaga was born in 1534, in the middle of the Warring States period (1467–1568). The Ashikaga clan had established the Muromachi shogunate in 1338, but its control in the east of the ...
Traditional Japanese Patterns - nippon.com
WEBFeb 17, 2020 · Here are some of the best-known traditional Japanese patterns. This pattern was favored by samurai for use in auspicious crests because it was a play on words. (to capture nine castles). It holds ...
Mount Fuji’s History of Eruptions | Nippon.com
WEBApr 3, 2019 · Mount Fuji is a Japanese icon, and at 3,776 meters the country’s tallest peak. Its elegant symmetry, spreading outward like a hand fan from summit to base, is the result of repeated occurrences ...
Breaking the Dress Code: The Changing Role of Japanese School …
WEBNov 6, 2018 · Female school uniforms began to change in the 1920s, with Western-style clothing increasingly becoming the norm. Many students at the time enthusiastically welcomed sailor suits, helping establish ...
“Kamon”: Japan’s Family Crests - nippon.com
WEBFeb 10, 2023 · Japanese family crests known as kamon were first used by the aristocracy over a thousand years ago, but over time they were adopted by samurai, merchants, and many others. Today, there are thought ...
Mishima in the World: 50 Years Later - nippon.com
WEBNov 2, 2020 · suicide in 1970, which made him notorious in the remotest corners of the globe, his image was overshadowed by his provocative, and after all incomprehensible act, and attention in Japan and abroad ...
The Meiji Restoration: The End of the Shogunate and the Building …
WEBNov 29, 2018 · The year 2018 has seen many events in Japan marking 150 years since the Meiji Restoration. While the year 1868 was crucial to the fall of the shogunate and the establishment of a new government ...
The State of Recovery in Tōhoku 10 Years after 3/11 - nippon.com
WEBOn March 11, 2021, Japan marks precisely 10 years since the Great East Japan Earthquake brought powerful shaking to much of Japan and smashed the Tōhoku region’s Pacific coast with a massive ...
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