Japanese children's songs Japanese culture has, as most do, many songs that are taught to children. Some of these are nursery rhymes, but some have a cultural background. In this blog, Murahara sensei reflects on one such song that is particular to hometown of Kagoshima in southern Japan. Please read this amusing blog, and learn some Japanese vocabulary. Listen to the video to practice some Jap...
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Japanese children's songs Japanese culture has, as most do, many songs that are taught to children. Some of these are nursery rhymes, but some have a cultural background. In this blog, Murahara sensei reflects on one such song that is particular to hometown of Kagoshima in southern Japan. Please read this amusing blog, and learn some Japanese vocabulary. Listen to the video to practice some Jap...
Local Star festivals The Tanabata festival is also known as the Star Festival is celebrated on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. It originally came from the Chinese Qixi Festival and celebrates the story of two star-crossed lovers that can only meet once a year on this day. It is believed that if that evening is cloudy, the lovers cannot meet that year and have to wait another year to ...
Buddhism in Japan Buddhism is one of the two official religions of Japan (Shintoism being the other) and has been practiced in Japan since 552 AD. Buddhist temples can be found all over Japan, and there is a high concentration of these religious sites in the cities of Kyoto and Nara. In this Japanese learner's blog by Oosawa sensei, she introduces a central feature of many temples; the 5 storie...
Kawaii goods in Japan The word Kawaii in Japanese can be translated as cute or adorable. The word seems to have morphed into a universal expression which encompasses a lot of typically Japanese trends. There are many goods made in Japan that are designed to be cute. Their target audiences are usually young girls, but there are many objects including road construction site markers that defy under...
Mechanical pencils in Japan Japanese school children tend to write their assignments in pencil. This is true all the way up to university. In the British education system pens (more specifically fountain pens) were used during our childhoods, so finding High School and university papers written in pencil is a cultural surprise. The use of pencils means that pencil sales tend to be high and many ...