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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Japanskt mál og menning"”.
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An Overview of Stereotyped Portrayals of LGBT+ People in Japanese Fiction and Literature: Analysis of the historical evolution and commercialization of BL and yuri genres, and social practice of its consumer culture
This essay will explore the history of the portrayal of LGBT+ people in Japanese fiction, starting from The Tale of Genji, a novel from the early 11th century that is widely considered to be the first classic in history, and to the proper establishment of what is known as the BL (boys’ love) and …
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The Masculine Ideal: Achieving Masculine Legitimacy in Contemporary Japan
It is the aim of this thesis to explore how men can achieve masculine legitimacy, or success, in contemporary Japan. Since the economic rise of the postwar period, the salaryman has been deemed the epitome of masculine success in Japan, but recent studies have highlighted the challenges to …
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Anime as an adaptation. Anime‘s approach to the original source
Anime is a big part of Japanese culture. While some anime have original storylines, most of them are adapted from various other sources. The goal of this research is to find out how anime that are based on other sources approaches the original work. For this researched many manga and Light Novels …
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The history of loan words in Japanese and their effect on the Japanese language
Throughout history, Japan has been a very isolated country. Periodically Japan has opened relations with other countries where both language and culture were heavily influenced. From Chinese influence since the 5th century until European influence a thousand years later, currently the biggest …
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Japanese-Korean Relations: Historical Ideas of Superiority and their effect on Current Relations with the Koreas
This thesis will be a detailed account of Japanese-Korean relations from prehistory to the present. It will describe the good relations between the Japanese Archipelago and the Korean Peninsula until the 7th century AD and why they changed for the worse as ideas of Japan’s superiority began to …
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Japönsk menning á Íslandi
Á síðustu árum hefur japönsk menning vakið heimsathygli, en Japan er heimaland ninja og samúræa, sem margar bíómyndir hafa fjallað um, auk súmó glímu og Godzilla. Einnig hefur japönsk matarmenning lagt undir sig heiminn, en finna má sushi staði í öllum helstu borgum heimsins auk þess sem japanskar …
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Afneitunarstefna í opinberri umræðu um stríðsglæpi japanska hersins í seinni heimsstyrjöldinni
… japanska hersins í seinni heimsstyrjöldinni og leitast við að sjá hvaða þátt þeir sem hallast undir söguskoðun afneitunarstefnunnar eða svokallaðir afneitunarsinnar hafa átt í umræðunni. Hugtakið afneitunarstefna (e. historical denialism) er hugtak úr smíði sagnfræðingsins Henry Rousso sem …
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The 47 Loyal Retainers: The Heroification of Illegality
… attacked another, Kira Yoshinaka, within the shogun’s palace where drawing weapons was forbidden. Asano failed to kill Kira and received the punishment of death by seppuku so his retainers took it upon themselves to avenge their master and launched an attack on Kira’s household and slew him, for …
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Japanese American Internment: A Great Injustice
The internment of Japanese Americans during World War II (WWII) is a period in American history that is generally not given due attention. The purpose of this essay is to research and gain understanding of how such an incident could take place, what internees had to go through, and the impact it …