Journal articles: 'Japanese poplar'

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Han, Gyu-Seong, Youn-Il Kim, and Kyoung-Tae Mun. "Briquetting from Japanese larch and Hyunsasi poplar." Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology 40, no. 1 (January 25, 2012): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.5658/wood.2012.40.1.1.

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Kim, Keonho. "Predicting nail withdrawal resistance and bearing strength of cross-laminated timbers from mixed species." BioResources 16, no. 2 (April 20, 2021): 4027–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.15376/biores.16.2.4027-4038.

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The increasing demand for sustainable architecture has led to a growing interest in wood structures. Hence, ensuring their structural stability and strength performance is an imperative. This study investigated the nail bearing strength and withdrawal resistance of mixed cross-laminated timber (CLT) using Japanese larch and yellow poplar layers. The mixed CLT was composed of three larch laminas (major) and two yellow poplar laminas (minor). The bearing strength of the mixed CLT decreased as the ratio of the thickness of the minor lamina to nail depth increased. The nail withdrawal resistance differed in the penetration and axial directions of the laminas. In the direction perpendicular to the grain, the withdrawal resistance load of the yellow poplar lamina was measured to be 1.45-times that of the larch lamina. The withdrawal resistance of the mixed CLT with the yellow poplar layer was 17% higher than that with larch. Therefore, the length of the nail used for the mixed CLT should be selected based on the thickness of the minor lamina to achieve efficient bearing and withdrawal resistance of the nail connection.

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Tsuyama, Taku, and Keiji Takabe. "Distribution of lignin and lignin precursors in differentiating xylem of Japanese cypress and poplar." Journal of Wood Science 60, no. 5 (July 17, 2014): 353–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10086-014-1417-z.

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Li, Ying, Brian K. Via, Tim Young, and Yaoxiang Li. "Visible-Near Infrared Spectroscopy and Chemometric Methods for Wood Density Prediction and Origin/Species Identification." Forests 10, no. 12 (November 27, 2019): 1078. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f10121078.

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This study aimed to rapidly and accurately identify geographical origin, tree species, and model wood density using visible and near infrared (Vis-NIR) spectroscopy coupled with chemometric methods. A total of 280 samples with two origins (Jilin and Heilongjiang province, China), and three species, Dahurian larch (Larix gmelinii (Rupr.) Rupr.), Japanese elm (Ulmus davidiana Planch. var. japonica Nakai), and Chinese white poplar (Populus tomentosa carriere), were collected for classification and prediction analysis. The spectral data were de-noised using lifting wavelet transform (LWT) and linear and nonlinear models were built from the de-noised spectra using partial least squares (PLS) and particle swarm optimization (PSO)-support vector machine (SVM) methods, respectively. The response surface methodology (RSM) was applied to analyze the best combined parameters of PSO-SVM. The PSO-SVM model was employed for discrimination of origin and species. The identification accuracy for tree species using wavelet coefficients were better than models developed using raw spectra, and the accuracy of geographical origin and species was greater than 98% for the prediction dataset. The prediction accuracy of density using wavelet coefficients was better than that of constructed spectra. The PSO-SVM models optimized by RSM obtained the best results with coefficients of determination of the calibration set of 0.953, 0.974, 0.959, and 0.837 for Dahurian larch, Japanese elm, Chinese white poplar (Jilin), and Chinese white poplar (Heilongjiang), respectively. The results showed the feasibility of Vis-NIR spectroscopy coupled with chemometric methods for determining wood property and geographical origin with simple, rapid, and non-destructive advantages.

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Newcombe, George. "Genes for Parasite-Specific, Nonhost Resistance in Populus." Phytopathology® 95, no. 7 (July 2005): 779–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/phyto-95-0779.

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Nonhost resistance is hypothesized to protect plants in a nonspecific manner. For highly specialized parasites, this hypothesis applies not only to distantly related plants but also to resistant congeners of the host species. Congeners of Populus spp. were hybridized to create two interspecific hybrid poplar pedigrees (i.e., Populus trichocarpa × P. deltoides and P. trichocarpa × P. maximowiczii). The pedigrees were planted in a randomized, replicated “common garden” on Vancouver Island so that they were exposed to parasites of the native P. trichocarpa. Monogenic and oligogenic resistance to two ascomycetous, parasitic fungi (i.e., Venturia inopina and a Taphrina sp.) segregated in a parasite-specific manner in each pedigree. However, these resistance genes were not inherited from the native host, P. trichocarpa. Instead, resistance was inherited from the allopatric, nonhost congeners, P. deltoides (eastern cottonwood) and P. maximowiczii (Japanese poplar). Thus, we found that major genes condition parasite-specific, nonhost resistance, as has been true in earlier studies of this kind with additional parasites of Populus spp. The selective force responsible for evolutionary maintenance of such genes is unknown.

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Jamieson, L. E., S. Dobson, J. Cave, and P. S. Stevens. "A survey of armoured scale insects on kiwifruit shelter." New Zealand Plant Protection 55 (August 1, 2002): 354–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.30843/nzpp.2002.55.3932.

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Scale infested kiwifruit continues to be a problem despite regular monitoring and spraying Shelterbelt trees may be a source of scale insect infestations in kiwifruit vines A survey of armoured scale insects in 12 common species of shelterbelt trees used in kiwifruit orchards was carried out Bark samples were removed and the density of scale insects and species composition was determined Japanese cedar as a shelterbelt species is unlikely to be a significant host for scale insects whereas Balsam poplar willow and leyland cypress were more likely to host high populations Shelterbelts in Northland Auckland and Gisborne generally had higher levels of scale insects than the same species in the Bay of Plenty and Nelson Greedy or latania scale (Hemiberlesia spp) was found more frequently than oleander scale (Aspidiotus nerii)

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Kim, Yoon Soo, Kwang Ho Lee, Jong Sik Kim, and Adya P. Singh. "Lignin masks the presence of fibrillar network structure in the cell corner middle lamella (CCML)." Holzforschung 69, no. 1 (January 1, 2015): 121–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/hf-2014-0032.

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Abstract The presence of fibrillar structures (FS) in the cell corner middle lamella (CCML) regions was demonstrated in several species of plants. The FS in the CCML of bass wood, oak wood, and bamboo became clearly visible after removal of lignin by wood decay fungi. The occurrence of FS in the CCML was also confirmed by examining early stages of cell wall formation in silver poplar, Japanese red pine, Arabidopsis and alfalfa. The fibrillar texture became increasingly less defined with the onset of lignification as the interfibrillar spaces were masked by lignin polymers and the fibrillar network became embedded within the lignin matrix. The FS stained positively with PATAg and ruthenium red, which is interpreted to be an indicator of the presence of structural polysaccharides (non-cellulosics and pectins). Our work demonstrated that fibrillar network is a characteristic feature of CCML of plant cell walls that is clearly visible prior to lignification of this cell wall region, but becomes invisible after the deposition of lignin.

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Hanba, Yuko T., Shin-Ichi Miyazawa, Hiroyuki Kogami, and Ichiro Terashima. "Effects of leaf age on internal CO2 transfer conductance and photosynthesis in tree species having different types of shoot phenology." Functional Plant Biology 28, no. 11 (2001): 1075. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/pp00102.

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We examined the changes in leaf anatomy and some physiological characteristics during leaf expansion and maturation. Three deciduous tree species having different types of shoot phenology, maple (Acer mono Maxim.; ‘flush’ type), alder (Alnus japonica(Thunb.) Steud.; ‘successive’ type), and Japanese poplar (Populus maximowiczii A. Henry; ‘successive’ type), were studied. Leaf CO 2 assimilation rate at high irradiance (P max) and CO 2 transfer conductance inside the leaf (g i) varied significantly with leaf development. There were strong positive relationships between P max) and g i for all of the species. The variations in g i were partly related to those in the surface area of chloroplasts facing the intercellular airspaces, while some other factors that related to liquid phase conductance may also contribute to the variation in g i . The developments of mesophyll cells were accompanied by the concomitant increase in chloroplast and Rubisco content in Alnus and Populus (successive types).

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Strasser, Sabiene. "Home, Militarism and Nostalgia in Japanese Popular Song from 1937 to 1945." Vienna Journal of East Asian Studies 2, no. 1 (December 1, 2011): 115–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/vjeas-2011-0011.

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Abstract The article focuses on the representation of wartime Japan as a home (and home country) by analysing contemporary popular songs. Within this frame I show examples of how the Japanese state managed to influence the Japanese people through propaganda songs in order to gain the people’s moral support for the war effort. My essay aims further at drawing a picture of Japan’s musical world from the latter half of the 1930s to the end of World War II, as a detailed consideration of popular music and its surroundings always allows us to interpret much more than expected at first view. In addition, I consider the mass media as a supporter of Japan’s ideological aims. The history of radio and record companies is firmly interwoven with the efforts of the Japanese state to manipulate people during the war years. The contribution from artists must also be considered an important part of this mosaic.

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Mladenović, Katarina, Ivan Milenković, Tatjana Ćirković-Mitrović, and Ljiljana Brašanac-Bosanac. "Evaluation of the condition of dendrological species in Academic park in Belgrade." Sustainable Forestry: Collection, no. 73-74 (2016): 19–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/sustfor1673019m.

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This paper presents the results of the conducted evaluation of the health condition and seed yield of the dendrological species in Academic Park in Belgrade. Both scores for each individual tree and average scores for all trees within each plant genus under observation were analyzed. The health condition of 126 trees belonging 19 genera was examined while the seed yield was assessed for the total of 132 trees. The best as-is health and physiological condition was observed in the following species: nettle trees, honey locusts, pagoda trees, cedars and individual ginkgo and tulip poplar trees. Horse chestnuts, Eastern black walnuts and birch trees proved less resilient to biotic and abiotic damages. Japanese pagoda trees had the best seed yield. There were no significant differences in fruit-bearing between the two years of research, although there were different scores at the individual level. Of all deciduous species recorded, which were prevailing, about 60% had very good seed yield in both years of monitoring, while some 20% of trees bore no fruits. Coniferous trees had higher fruit-bearing score in 2015 (47.4%) than in 2016 (43.0%), whereas about 10% of all conifers bore no fruit at all.

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Jude, Gretchen. "Japan's Nightingale Geisha Singers: Listening to Women Through Audio Media." Malaysian Journal Of Music 9 (November 27, 2020): 101–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.37134/mjm.vol9.8.2020.

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This paper examines the emergence and disappearance of Japan’s geisha kashu recording stars over the course of the 20th century, delving into their extensive body of audio recordings, which includes songs by some of Japan's most important early popular composers. Clarifying the distinction between geisha and the geisha recording stars, this paper traces the relationship between “traditional” Japanese musical forms (specifically, the complex of short shamisen songs long associated with geisha) and the popular genres that also comprised the geisha stars' repertoire. While historical audio media provide a valuable resource for scholars and fans alike, unconscious habits and unexamined discourses of listening may lead to the replication of orientalist and sexist stereotypes—and ultimately a superficial experience of the music. As a corrective to such tendencies in audience reception, this paper gives an overview of the key cultural and historical contexts of the geisha recording stars, including their contributions to the careers of several of well-respected composers. Attending to the sometimes difficult circumstances faced by geisha recording stars (and their geisha sisters) may rectify the image of these critically neglected women artists, ultimately providing a necessary counterpoint to the predominance of male musicians and male-centred musical genres in the Japanese canon.

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Gripentrog, John. "Power and Culture." Pacific Historical Review 84, no. 4 (November 1, 2015): 478–516. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/phr.2015.84.4.478.

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This study explores how the Japanese government endeavored to shape American public opinion through the promotion of Japanese aesthetics in the several years following the Manchurian crisis—and, importantly, how this “cultural diplomacy” was received by Americans. At the center of Japan’s state-sponsored cultural initiative was the Society for International Cultural Relations (Kokusai Bunka Shinkōkai, or KBS). By drawing attention to Japan’s historically esteemed cultural traditions, Japan’s leaders hoped to improve the nation’s image and leverage international power. Critical American reviews and general-interest articles on KBS programs proffered images of a society imbued with a profound sense of artistic sophistication. To this end, the KBS’s cultural diplomacy tended to reinforce a popular assumption among Americans that Japan’s body politic in the 1930s was meaningfully divided between “moderates” and “militarists.” Japan’s cultural diplomacy, however, was undermined from the start by an irreconcilable tension: to simultaneously legitimize regional expansionism and advance internationalist cooperation. After the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in the summer of 1937 and subsequent proclamations that presumed Japanese hegemony in Asia, naked aggression rendered any lighthearted cultural exchange increasingly irrelevant. Indeed, KBS activities in the United States dwindled—a point that made clear the limits of cultural diplomacy.

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Okamoto, Rei. ""Fuku-chan" Goes to Java: Images of Indonesia in a Japanese Wartime Newspaper Comic Strip." Asian Journal of Social Science 25, no. 1 (1997): 111–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/030382497x00077.

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AbstractThis article will discuss how a wartime Japanese comic strip portrayed Japan's war against the Allied troops, the natural settings, customs and cultural forms of Java, and the relationship of the Japanese and the Javanese. The discussion is based on a textual analysis of a popular newspaper comic strip, "Fuku-chan" (Little Fuku), during the three-month period in 1942 when Java was the focus of the strip. A close analysis of this widely read newspaper strip reveals how images of Indonesia - a newly occupied, unknown place - were introduced to the Japanese audience at the early stages of World War II (1941-1945).

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Mettler, Meghan Warner. "Gimcracks, Dollar Blouses, and Transistors: American Reactions to Imported Japanese Products, 1945-1964." Pacific Historical Review 79, no. 2 (May 1, 2010): 202–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/phr.2010.79.2.202.

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This article examines the changing extent of the Cold War's influence on popular American perceptions of goods made in Japan. Although the National Security Council recommended in 1948 that the United States rebuild Japan's devastated economy to strengthen an anti-communist ally in East Asia (and America's position there), U.S. merchants, consumers, manufacturers, and journalists did not consistently go along with this official economic policy. The American press initially depicted the Japanese economy as needing assistance and producing only cheap, inconsequential products, but as Japan's economy began to recover in the mid-1950s and Japanese manufacturers produced better quality goods, concerns over competition revived racialized wartime rhetoric. Japan's emergence as a successful exporter of high-end merchandise by the 1960s seemed to prove the strength of American-style free market capitalism.

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Wu, Yuqing. "Can Pop Culture Allay Resentment? Japan’s Influence in China Today." Media and Communication 9, no. 3 (August 5, 2021): 112–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/mac.v9i3.4117.

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In China, despite the traumatic collective memory relating to militaristic Japan during World War II, an increasing number of Chinese young adults have developed an obsession with Japanese culture, due to its export of anime, movies, pop music, and other popular culture. Based on interviews with 40 Chinese and Japanese young adults, this work examines how contemporary pop culture and historical war memories related to Japan influenced Chinese young adults, who had to reconcile their contradictory sentiments toward the Japanese government, people, and culture. The success of Japanese pop culture in China also shows how the allegedly apolitical, virtual sphere of entertainment has helped build Japan’s soft power through shaping a cool image of Japan in Asia and worldwide.

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Izutsu, Mitsuko Narita, and Katsunobu Izutsu. "Why is Twitter so popular in Japan?" Internet Pragmatics 2, no. 2 (July 16, 2019): 260–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ip.00030.izu.

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Abstract Across the countries of the world, Japan can rightly claim to be a great “Twitter nation” (Akimoto 2011). Japanese people like to tweet anytime and anywhere. Although the popularity of Twitter in Japan is often associated with the large information capacity of Japanese character sets (Wagner 2013), Neubig and Duh (2013) prove that this is not necessarily the case. Our research compares two sets of data (300 tweets for each) posted by Japanese and Americans, and demonstrates that Japanese tweets contain more monologic features, or show a higher degree of monologicity, than Americans’ tweets. Also, more than 60% of the sentence-ending forms in the Japanese tweets do not encode explicit addressee orientation. The study reveals that it is not the Japanese unique character sets, but the grammatical devices for monologization that linguistically allow Japanese users to enjoy the fullest benefits of online anonymity and addressee underspecification provided by Twitter.

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Shamoon, Deborah. "Teaching Japanese Popular Culture." ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts 17, no. 2 (April 1, 2010): 9. http://dx.doi.org/10.16995/ane.204.

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Tamayo, David. "The Perilous Borderlands." California History 97, no. 2 (May 1, 2020): 59–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ch.2020.97.2.59.

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This article examines four decades of anti-Japanese paranoia in popular American media, particularly in California, from the early 1900s to the eve of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. It illustrates the overlooked influence that this hysteria had in shaping American perceptions of Japanese immigrants in Baja California, Mexico, and the consequences of those views for these borderlands prior to 1941. Drawing on California and U.S. national newspapers, contemporary novels, and U.S. government records, the article shows that the presence of Japanese immigrants in Baja California was for decades used as a pretense by American interest groups seeking to annex the peninsula. Beneath these alleged security concerns were strong economic interests, among which obtaining sole control over the Colorado River figured prominently. Decades of annexation calls based on a supposed Japanese threat, this article argues, influenced the Mexican government's 1942 decision to place its citizens of Japanese descent in internment camps.

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Afanasov, N. B. "Japanese Popular Culture and Digimodernism." Omsk Scientific Bulletin. Series Society. History. Modernity 5, no. 4 (2020): 48–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.25206/2542-0488-2020-5-4-48-56.

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The article addresses the socio-philosophical interpretations of Japanese popular culture. Pointing out the unique position of the latter, the author believes that the experience of a number of successful Japanese projects that have become global phenomena can be used by social and cultural theorists to analyze modernity. The article refers to the genesis of Japanese popular culture in the mid-90s of the XX century, when the most popular part of Japanese pop culture in the West — anime — embodied the postmodern canon. However, a closer look reveals that the optics of postmodernism, which by the end of the XX century had already ceased to be advanced research optics, may not be enough for analysis. A number of phenomena, among which the author highlights the Pokémon media franchise, require a different research approach. As a relevant methodological optics, the article refers to the concept of «digimodernism» by the British theorist Alan Kirby. With the help of its main provisions, it is shown that Japanese popular culture was at the forefront of the cultural process, offering several interesting finds to modernity. After analyzing the socio-philosophical reasons for the success of Pokémon, the author points out that the concept of digimodernism has some applicability for the analysis of modern cultural phenomena, аnd a number of ideas of Alan Kirby about the autistic nature of modern digital civilization could be found as reflected in the culture

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De Ferranti, Hugh. "‘Japanese music’ can be popular." Popular Music 21, no. 2 (May 2002): 195–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s026114300200212x.

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Traditional genres, modern popular music, ‘classical’ concert music and other styles of music-making in Japan can be viewed as diverse elements framed within a musical culture. Bourdieu's concept of habitus, and Williams' of dominant, residual and emergent traditions, are helpful in formulating an inclusive approach, in contrast to the prevailing demarcation between traditional and popular music research. Koizumi Fumio first challenged the disciplinary separation of research on historical ‘Japanese music’ and modern hybrid music around 1980, and the influence of his work is reflected in a small number of subsequent writings. In Japanese popular music, evidence for musical habitus and residual traits of past practice can be sought not only in characteristics typical of musicological analysis; modal, harmonic and rhythmic structures; but also in aspects of the music's organisation, presentation, conceptualisation and reception. Among these are vocal tone and production techniques, technical and evaluative discourse, and contextual features such as staging, performer-audience interaction, the agency of individual musicians, the structure of corporate music-production, and the use of songs as vehicles for subjectivity. Such an inclusive approach to new and old musical practices in Japan enables demonstration of ways in which popular music is both part of Japanese musical culture and an authentic vehicle for contemporary Japanese identity.

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Bakdur, Ali, Fumito Masui, and Michal Ptaszynski. "Big data analytics - towards the enrichment of content tourism for revitalization of Japanese rural area." MATEC Web of Conferences 169 (2018): 01008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201816901008.

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Japan's domestic travel and tourism industry expenditure has been declining gradually since 1998 (from 33.5 in 1998 to 21.6 trillion JPY in 2016). Our research purpose is to construct a data analysis model to transform the collected data to a meaningful graphical format by using big data analytics techniques to discover anomalies and sustainable development possibilities for economy and tourism of Japan's rural areas, with a particular focus on the prefecture of Hokkaido, subprefecture of Okhotsk. To strengthen the reliability of this model we apply popular Monte Carlo simulation combined with Bayesian statistic and implement it on an Apache Spark platform to acquire results within the span of the study. Through this research, we focus on observing and analyzing interests, expectations and tendencies of Japanese people living in rural areas. From such collected information, we can obtain reasons for the decline of this sector’s impact on Japan’s economy. Measuring public awareness has become more efficient since the content generator role has been passed on to ordinary people. Therefore, the analysis of Big Data with the use of data science techniques has become important to comprehend human behavior from multiple points of view, including the scientific, economic, political, historical and sociological.

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Hang, Xing. "The Shogun's Chinese Partners: The Alliance between Tokugawa Japan and the Zheng Family in Seventeenth-Century Maritime East Asia." Journal of Asian Studies 75, no. 1 (December 2, 2015): 111–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021911815001540.

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During the seventeenth century, an alliance took shape between Japan's Tokugawabakufuand the Zheng organization of southeastern China and Taiwan. The Zheng, especially under the half-Japanese Koxinga in the 1650s, were ideal partners because of their domination of maritime East Asian trade, privileged access to much-coveted Chinese goods, and commitment to Ming restoration against the Manchu Qing, a popular stance in Japan. The organization jointly administered the Chinese community at Nagasaki with thebakufu, and received aid in Japanese armaments and probably mercenaries. Starting in the 1660s, the alliance unraveled amid the depletion of silver to purchase Chinese goods, the rise of a robust domestic market in Japan, and the destruction of the Zheng by the Qing. This article portrays Japan's “isolation policy” (sakoku) as a dynamic process, from active involvement overseas to withdrawal, based upon rational assessments of the international climate and subject to contestation from local and foreign players.

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GAYLE, CURTIS ANDERSON. "China in the Japanese Radical Gaze, 1945–1955." Modern Asian Studies 43, no. 5 (September 2009): 1255–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x08003867.

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AbstractJapanese images of China have much to tell us about the way Japan sees its own modernisation and its place in the international system. Contrary to popular belief, Japan did not turn unabashedly toward the USA after 1945. During the first decade after World War II, a number of important Japanese radical historians and thinkers decided that modernisation could be accomplished without the help of the West. Just when many in Japan were looking to America and Europe as exemplars of modernisation, others looked instead to revolutionary China and its past struggles against Japanese colonialism in the construction of a very different historical position from that ordinarily associated with the early post-war years. Certain Japanese historians, inspired by the push toward decolonisation in Asia, set about writing the history of the present in ways that aligned Japan with modern Chinese history. Even though China had just been liberated from Japanese colonial rule, Japanese Marxists saw their own position—under American imperialism—as historically and politically congruous with China's past war of resistance against Japan (1937–45). Through campaigns to develop a kind of cultural Marxism on the margins of Japanese society, they sought to bring about post-war Japanese ‘national liberation’ from American hegemony in ways that consciously simulated past Chinese resistance to Imperial Japan. Replacing Japan's own cultural Marxist traditions from the pre-war era with the more palpable and acceptable example of China, they also hoped a new form of Asian internationalism could remedy the problem of Japan's wartime past. The historical irony associated with this discursive twist deferred to future generations the problem of how the Left* would come to terms with the past.

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Samad, Muhammad Riduan Bin. "Perceptions of ASEAN Youth Towards Japan: Impact on the Japanese Economy." IKAT: The Indonesian Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 3, no. 2 (March 23, 2020): 157. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/ikat.v3i2.51710.

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In exerting soft power to pursue its economic interests in Southeast Asia, Japan has been challenged by its regional rivals. In retaining its position, Japan needs to win the hearts and minds of ASEAN youths, a generation moving toward the middle class with significant purchasing power. Hence, a three-month online survey and a series of focus group discussions were conducted to gather information and perspectives about Japan from 222 youth respondents from the ten ASEAN countries. It was found that ASEAN young generations have a good impression of Japan and Japanese people, even though most of them have never been to Japan or personally interacted with a Japanese person. This perception has been built most effectively by Japanese popular culture, including animation and manga. However, youth development and exchange programs, and interactions with Japanese people are less influential factors, especially for those who are from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. Thus, exposures to Japanese products and services to ASEAN young generations have not only contributed to the Japanese economy but also contributed to the positive perception toward the country. Given tighter government budgets, streamlining Japan’s soft power strategy will help it win over ASEAN youths for its future economic prosperity.

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Funabashi, Eric. "Japanese Immigrants’ Pantry." Gastronomica 21, no. 2 (2021): 52–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2021.21.2.52.

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This article explores the role of cookbooks in supporting the creation of new eating habits and identities during the Japanese immigration to Brazil. When Japanese immigrants first arrived in Brazil in 1908, the local food represented a major barrier to their acclimation in the new country. Unknown ingredients and disgust for popular seasonings like pork fat and garlic prevented Japanese immigrants from preparing familiar meals and caused drastic changes to their diets. After nearly three decades improvising meals, Japanese immigrants started to better incorporate Brazilian ingredients into their eating habits when an alliance between the Brazilian and the American governments in 1937, and Japan’s defeat in World War II pressured them to adopt Brazil as their new home country. As Japanese immigrants internalized a new mindset focused on making Brazil their permanent home, cookbooks written by immigrants not only taught them how to use Brazilian ingredients, but also reflected immigrants’ improvements in building a higher-quality lifestyle. This article analyzes cookbooks written by Japanese immigrants in tandem with private diaries and recipes to examine the complex process of creating new eating habits as well as new Brazilian Nikkei identities.

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Vétu, Guillaume. "Animist influence and immutable corporeality: Repositioning the significance of Japanese cinematic zombies." East Asian Journal of Popular Culture 7, no. 1 (April 1, 2021): 115–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/eapc_00042_1.

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In terms of zombie film output, Japan’s is perhaps the second largest in the world after the United States and above the United Kingdom. Yet only a relatively small number of these films have received academic attention. Having sourced and verified an exhaustive catalogue of over 160 feature-length Japanese zombie films produced between 1959 and 2018, and through recent field work in Japan, including personal interviews with local film, media and folklore scholars and professionals, this article constructs a clearer overview of this uncharted corpus. It presents some of the most predominant cultural specificities of Japanese zombie films and their compelling narrative and stylistic heterogeneity. Previous assertions confined these films to a ‘cult’ sub-genre, restricting the Japanese monsters they feature to mere western imports; however, this article demonstrates that Japanese cinematic zombies defy simple categorization and repeatedly challenge some of the key posits at the centre of zombie studies, especially regarding their defining characteristics. The Japanese folklore and literary tradition in particular provides a new lens through which these popular fictional ‘Others’ can be (re-)examined, uncovering new significance and offering new insights into both Japanese and western cultures.

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Petrovic, Novica. "Western popular music turning Japanese." Nasledje, Kragujevac 13, no. 35 (2016): 225–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/naslkg1635225p.

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Kelly, William W., Richard Gid Powers, and Kato Hidetoshi. "Handbook of Japanese Popular Culture." Monumenta Nipponica 45, no. 4 (1990): 506. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2385395.

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Atsuko, Kimura. "Japanese corporations and popular music." Popular Music 10, no. 3 (October 1991): 317–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0261143000004670.

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It has been a long time since Japan was first considered an economic power. Japanese automobile, electronic and computer companies have entered the world market and are now competing fiercely with each other. Their financial power and technologies are focused both domestically and overseas, and their launch into culture through advertising strategies is another facet of that power which has emerged since the 1980s (Un'no 1990).

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Junko, Kitagawa. "Some aspects of Japanese popular music." Popular Music 10, no. 3 (October 1991): 305–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0261143000004669.

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In 1959, the Conlon report, a presentation of United States government policies in relation to Asian cultures, stated the following about Japanese culture (in a section titled ‘Social change’):Developments within and among the various Japanese social classes suggest the dynamic, changing quality of modern Japan … No area of Japan, moreover, is beyond the range of the national publications, radio, and even TV. New ideas can be quickly and thoroughly disseminated; it is in this sense that Japanese culture can become more standardised even as it is changing. Many of the changes look in the direction of the United States; in such diverse fields as gadgets, popular music, and fashions. American influence is widespread. And this is but one evidence of the general desire to move away from the spartan, austere past toward a more comfortable, convenient future.

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Yokodaido, Satoshi. "Constitutional stability in japan not due to popular approval." German Law Journal 20, no. 2 (April 2019): 263–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/glj.2019.16.

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AbstractThe Japanese Constitution has never experienced any amendment since its enactment in 1947. This article claims that the reason is not the Japanese people’s support of it from the heart. The hypothesis presented in this article is that many other political, structural and cultural reasons have gradually deprived the Constitution’s normative force among people, and have made constitutional amendment unnecessary in Japanese politics.

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NAGY, Stephen Robert. "Japanese Martial Arts as Popular Culture: Teaching Opportunity and Challenge." Asian Studies 3, no. 1 (July 24, 2015): 83–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/as.2015.3.1.83-102.

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Japanese martial arts, here after Japanese budō, are popular cultural icons that are found in films, comics, video games and books. Teaching Japanese budō at university offers a novel way to teach about East Asian and in particular Japanese culture, history, and philosophy while including ideas about the globalization and the localization of culture. Question though remains as to how and what should we teach about the popular culture of Japanese budō at the university level? This paper found that a comprehensive approach to teaching about budō was effective. By using many kinds of materials and the incorporation of opportunities to experience budō and to try budō, students were better able to grasp the historical, cultural and religious characteristics of budō.

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Benesch, Oleg. "CASTLES AND THE MILITARISATION OF URBAN SOCIETY IN IMPERIAL JAPAN." Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 28 (November 2, 2018): 107–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0080440118000063.

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ABSTRACTCastles are some of Japan's most iconic structures and popular tourist destinations. They are prominent symbols of local, regional and national identity recognised both at home and abroad. Castles occupy large areas of land at the centre of most Japanese cities, shaping the urban space. Many castles have their roots in the period of civil war that ended in the early seventeenth century, and now house museums, parks and reconstructions of historic buildings. The current heritage status of Japan's castles obscures their troubled modern history. During the imperial period (1868–1945), the vast majority of pre-modern castles were abandoned, dismantled or destroyed before being rediscovered and reinvented as physical links to an idealised martial past. Japan's most important castles were converted to host military garrisons that dominated city centres and caused conflict with civilian groups. Various interests competed for control and access, and castles became sites of convergence between civilian and military agendas in the 1920s and 1930s. This paper argues that castles contributed both symbolically and physically to the militarisation of Japanese society in the imperial period. The study of these unique urban spaces provides new approaches to understanding militarism, continuity and change in modern Japan.

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Rahmi, Mauliddhea Sakina, Nandang Rahmat, and Amaliatun Saleha. "POSTHUMAN IN JAPANESE POPULAR CULTURE: VIRTUAL IDOL HATSUNE MIKU." AICLL: ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE 1, no. 1 (April 17, 2018): 81–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.30743/aicll.v1i1.12.

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Idol is a popular young entertainer in Japan. The development and changes of idol’s generation are pretty fast because of the fan’s demands for perfect idols that meet their desire. The strategy to fulfill the demands of the idol which have deficiency (as a human) is to make virtual idols. Their presence started to replace idol, which means virtual idol is part of the product of Japanese’s popular culture. This research is intended to descript the virtual idol’s posthuman value as a virtual product that mixed with human reality. The object of this research is Hatsune Miku’s concert Magical Mirai 2016. She is one of the virtual idol who is still developing until now. This research used cultural studies approach and cybersemotic method (Piliang, 2010) to read Hatsune Miku’s posthuman value. The result of the study shows Hatsune Miku has posthuman value manifested on her appearance and voice. The posthuman values illustrated on Miku are her appearance that shows Japanese young women ideal body and her voice which can be controlled by anyone who has the software.

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LANCASHIRE, TERENCE. "J-POP’S ELUSIVE “J” Is Japanese popular music Japanese?" Perfect Beat 9, no. 1 (October 3, 2015): 38–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/prbt.v9i1.28679.

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Northwood, Barbara M. "The influence of Japanese popular culture on learning Japanese." East Asian Journal of Popular Culture 4, no. 2 (August 1, 2018): 189–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/eapc.4.2.189_1.

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Chozick, Matthew. "Eating Murasaki Shikibu." Journal of World Literature 1, no. 2 (2016): 259–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24056480-00102009.

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The fifth-century transmission of China’s sophisticated writing system to Japan prompted a cascade of textual and literary developments on the archipelago. Retrofit to support Japanese phonetics and syntax, a hybrid script and literature evolved; from this negotiation of texts emerged Murasaki Shikibu’s The Tale of Genji in eleventh century Kyoto. While Genji is celebrated today as Japan’s enduring national classic, it fell out of print for much of two centuries preceding its first translation into Victorian era English. This paper examines how interregional exchanges of translations and scripts have amplified the critical and popular success of Genji. It will be argued that English translations of Genji helped to provide a stylistic and typographic model for reintroducing the text to modern Japanese readers as a mass-market novel. In theorizing about such matters, the Japanese concept of reverse-importation will be introduced and intercultural transferences are contextualized within Oswald de Andrade’s notion of cultural cannibalism.

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Nugroho, Bhakti Satrio. "American Cultural Imperialism in 1960s Japan as Seen in Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood." Jurnal Lingua Idea 11, no. 1 (June 4, 2020): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.20884/1.jli.2020.11.1.2361.

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Haruki Murakami is mostly well-known for his many works and is considered as one of the most influential writers in Japan. One of his greatest works is a nostalgic novel Norwegian Wood which named after The Beatles song, Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) in their album Rubber Soul (1965). It becomes #1 bestselling novel in Japan. This novel resembles many aspects of “Americanization” of Japanese young adult life in the 1960s Japan which was strongly influenced by American popular culture. Many Japanese in this novel adopt Western culture which was popular in the United States. Hollywood and American music became central part of the main story in Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood. By using cultural imperialism theory, this research focuses on the imposition and glorification of American culture in 1960s Japan which is celebrated as part of central storyline. American cultural imperialism can be seen in dissemination and glorification of American popular culture and American way of life (lifestyle) among Japanese young adults. Furthermore, they create many social and cultural changes. It is further helped by the post-war Japanese’s inferiority after losing to the United States in World War II. In fact, Western thoughts and beliefs are part of “American gifts” during U.S occupation which disseminate even after the end of occupation. Thus, this historical postcolonial relationship between Japan (as the colonized) and the United States (as the colonizer) massively supports “Americanization” of 1960s Japan which results a loss of identity and a cultural dependency of Japan toward the United States.

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Widiandari, Arsi. "Perkembangan dan Globalisasi Video Game Jepang." KIRYOKU 3, no. 2 (June 24, 2019): 71. http://dx.doi.org/10.14710/kiryoku.v3i2.71-76.

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(Title: Development and globalization Japanese Video Game ) Today, many Japanese cultural product are developing and become popular in the community, for example Japanese music, movie, anime and video game. Japanese creative industry has a big potential in economy sector and can not be underestimated. One of Japanese culture product that become popular is Japanese video game it self. Video game are considered as the pioneers of the modern game industry. This paper will discuss the development and dissemination of Japanese video game with the viewpoint of globalization.

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Pennington, Lee K. "Wives for the Wounded: Marriage Mediation for Japanese Disabled Veterans during World War II." Journal of Social History 53, no. 3 (2020): 667–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shaa011.

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Abstract Japan’s armed invasion of China in July 1937 catalyzed the creation of new welfare services for the rapidly escalating number of Japanese disabled veterans. Among those reforms was the emergence of public and private marriage mediation services that aimed to introduce potential brides to disabled veterans and create independent households for men with severe war injuries. Acting through the Greater Japan Disabled Veterans Association and Patriotic Women’s Association, the Japanese state established formal procedures for arranging such marriages. Concurrently, private matchmakers created marriage mediation services expressly for disabled veterans. Public and private marriage mediation efforts sought the multifaceted rehabilitation of disabled veterans and contributed to total war mobilization on the Japanese home front. In the process, wartime marriage mediation for disabled veterans reinforced contemporary social customs and gender norms by positioning women within married households to support their husbands. However, women possessed an extraordinary degree of personal agency because their consent was needed to produce marriages intended to benefit wounded servicemen and the war effort. This essay examines the origins of marriage mediation services for Japanese disabled veterans as well as popular wartime depictions of such endeavors and their female participants.

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Welker. "Introduction: Queer(ing) Japanese Popular Culture." Mechademia: Second Arc 13, no. 1 (2020): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5749/mech.13.1.0001.

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Kogawa, T. "New Trends in Japanese Popular Culture." Telos 1985, no. 64 (July 1, 1985): 147–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.3817/0685064147.

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Stevens, Carolyn S. "Touch: Encounters with Japanese Popular Culture." Japanese Studies 31, no. 1 (May 2011): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10371397.2011.559898.

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Pellitteri, Marco. "Book review: Teaching Japanese Popular Culture." Animation 15, no. 2 (July 2020): 199–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1746847720937446.

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박진수. "Japanese Translation of Korean Popular Songs." 아시아문화연구 48, no. ll (December 2018): 151–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.34252/acsri.2018.48..006.

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Flamiano, Dolores. "Japanese American Internment in Popular Magazines." Journalism History 36, no. 1 (April 2010): 23–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00947679.2010.12062812.

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Bardsley, Jan. "Purchasing Power in Japanese Popular Culture." Journal of Popular Culture 31, no. 2 (September 1997): 1–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0022-3840.1997.00001.x.

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Dusinberre, Martin. "Writing the on-board: Meiji Japan in transit and transition." Journal of Global History 11, no. 2 (June 3, 2016): 271–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1740022816000097.

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AbstractThis article uses the history of Japanese emigrants to Hawai‘i as a lens through which to examine Japan’s engagement with the outside world in the late nineteenth century. Focusing on a single journey from Yokohama to Honolulu in 1885, it reconstructs the transit of two migrant labourers as they entered an ‘in-between’ state – between regimes of labour, between freedom and coercion, and between local and national identities. These migrant experiences challenge the teleological discourse of Japanese ‘progress’ that was so popular among political elites across the world in the 1880s, and that was embodied by the very materiality of the ship in which the labourers travelled. But the ‘in-between’ also speaks to the historiographical need to fill the silences that exist between archives across the Pacific Ocean, and thus to the wider challenges of writing global history.

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Whelan, Christal. "Shifting Paradigms and Mediating Media: Redefining a New Religion as "Rational" in Contemporary Society." Nova Religio 10, no. 3 (February 1, 2007): 54–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/nr.2007.10.3.54.

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Japanese new religions sometimes undergo a radical alteration in doctrine or orientation during the course of their development. This article focuses on the politics of representation within the deliberate transformation of a Japanese new religious movement known as GLA or God Light Association from a popular shamanistic neo-Buddhist form of religiosity to an increasingly "rational" and psychological religion. This paradigm shift revolved around the contested practice of past-life glossolalia promoted by the religion's founder as proof of reincarnation. Direct or mediated representation of this phenomenon, serving initially as a locus of power, came to be viewed negatively as expressive of GLA's roots with Japan's folk religious past. Unsuitable for the new secularized target clientele in an age of globalization, representations of this behavior and the man who fostered it were gradually suppressed and history was re-inscribed.

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Chau, Nguyen Thi Hoai. "Study about the change of “IE” traditional Japanese family through the research on the change of Japanese family grave “IE haka”." Science & Technology Development Journal - Social Sciences & Humanities 5, no. 2 (June 23, 2021): 1044–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.32508/stdjssh.v5i2.674.

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In the background where there are many factors affecting Japanese families such as the decrease of children, the change of family structures, gender concept, etc., "family'' has become a noticeable issue attracting much attention nowadays. The type of Japanese traditional family named "IE'' was officially regulated in the law during the Meiji period. After the war, the legal status of "IE'' was eliminated; however, in reality, "IE'' still remains popular. In fact, "IE'' is always considered an important keyword to understand the Japanese family system. In this paper, the author studies about the change of "IE'' through the research on the Japanese family grave "IE haka'' in Japan. "IE haka'' was formed based on "IE'' family background; therefore, doing research on the change of Japanese family grave "IE haka'' makes it possible to clarify the characteristics and trend of IE in Japan. The research outcomes showed that in the post-war period, "IE'' was no longer regulated in law; however, the stable sustainability of "IE haka'' system reflects that traditional family "IE'' has firmly rooted in Japan's culture and society until now. Meanwhile, in the current changing context, "IE haka'' shows deep basic changes including the increase of simple structures, simplification of ancestor worship rituals, etc. Through it, "IE'' could be seen to have fundamentally changed and even been predicted to decline in the future.

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