Tagged: Japan

RELIGION The history of Japanese religion is articulated in the relationships between Shintoism (➔ # 10132;) and Buddhism. This, arrived in Japan in the 6th century. not in the original form, but in that which...

Population and society According to localbusinessexplorer.com, Japan is among the first countries in the world by population density. With a territory slightly higher than the Italian one, it has more than double the residents....

The Japanese Empire currently includes the four islands of Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu with the surrounding smaller islands and the Amami Gunto (see table). Territorial losses sanctioned by the San Francisco treaty. –...

The enormous, continuous demographic development of Japan has given a strong impetus to emigration, which, weak in the first years of the opening of the country, has increasingly intensified with the increasing pressure of...

Statistical data on the population. – Attempts at an evaluation, necessarily approximate, of its population are not lacking in the history of the country. One of the first, if not the first, of which...

Poetry. – While the classical tanka continues to be cultivated, a new meter, even shorter (5-7-5), the haikai or epigram, arises in this era. Its parent is the renga or chain poem, in vogue...

The geography of the Japan is irregular and harsh, shaped by an intense and recent endogenous activity. The reliefs occupy more than 3/4 of the territory and, except for those of volcanic origin, are...

Navy. – The Japanese navy began to be organized on the English model around 1880, and was soon able to show its qualities during the wars with China and Russia. In the second above...

Japanese music, with its theoretical bases and its instruments, comes from the Sino-Korean school, which penetrated into Japan in the century. V to VII. The Chinese theory, which is so far from ours today,...

The industrial sector has represented, since the Meiji period, the foundation of the Japanese economy, and even today, despite the role progressively assumed by the tertiary sector, it participates for about 30% in the...