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The participants in this study are separated into three different groups, namely Japanese, NES Americans with more than three years of Japanese courses and NES Americans with Japanese courses. The participants were asked to read three Japanese folktales, Urashima Taro, Bamboo- Cutter’s Tale and Click-Clack Mountain, and were asked to answer short-answer survey questions regarding three folktales as well as the general questions about the Japanese folktales. the survey responses were typed and tallied by themes of responses. The result showed that there are differences in comprehension of the Japanese folktales between NES American readers and Japanese readers. Also, the NES American readers with more than three years of Japanese courses’ comprehension was similar to Japanese readers than NES American readers without Japanese courses.","abstract_html":"This thesis investigates perceptions of Japanese folktales by readers from different cultural backgrounds. 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