japanese history-writting?
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Even during the seclusion, Japan had some trade going on, but exclusively with a few peoples.\n\nAnyways, I think you should mention something about it giving Japan a strong sense of unity or nationalism that other countries don't necessarily have. Or say something about how it allowed them to preserve their own culture longer than other countries that began extensive trading with other countries earlier.
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If you want a program to read text and speak Japanese then try this.\n\nhttp://www.kanji.de/VoiceOfJapan.htm\n\nOr if you have a worpress blog then you can post the text to it and add a plugin to translate a page to various languages including Japanese as on the page below.\n\nhttp://www.coolwebpagetools.com/blog/index.php\nJust click on the Japanese flag to translate.\n\nRegards\n\nRob
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http://japanese.about.com
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http://www.ayusastudyabroad.org/japan...
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No, in terms of script and language no.\n\nThe Japanese Writing Language in whole consists of 3 different sets of characters: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji.  Though Hiragana and Katakana are basically the same phonetic letters, they are spelled differently in their sets to distinguish original words from borrowed words.\n\nHiragana is the curved phonetic script that is used for most of the language for japanese-domestic words like you (anata) or me (watashi) (note: "anata" and "watashi" are romanji, romanized-letter style of dictating japanese, not as great as usage of the hira/kata style). \n\nKatakana is the straight phonetic script that is used for "borrowed words" from other countries (mostly USA) and sounded onomatopeicly, like hotel would be "ho-te-ru" and the US would be "A-Me-Ri-Ka".\n\nKanji are ideograph characters that are borrowed from Chinese characters (in the Simplified Chinese set, not Traditional). They stand to be used as substitutes for words in japanese that are objects or ideas for the most part. (The symbol for Tokyo 東京 is really the kanji for "Too-Ky-Yoo".) However, Hiragana and Katakana can be used in place of Kanji with no misunderstanding. Kanji is more substitute fillers.\n\nSidebar: Hirugana are the little scripts that are beside Kanji words in educational books. This helps the student familiarize themselves with the sounding of the word and memorization of the Kanji.\n\n\n\nBy Contrast, Chinese Characters, or Hanzi, is made of of nothing but tens of thousands of ideograph characters. Originally, the characters were pictures that evolved into pictographs and eventually into ideographs, for the meaning.  A meaning or work could be as simple as one character (car=車, or che) or as long as the meaning goes (WMD = 大規模毀滅性武器 daguimo huimiexing wu qi). Hanzi is all about memorizing, to know the words. But the characters do not give you an idea of what the word sounds like. Thats where Pinyin and Zhuyin come in.\n\n\nOriginally, to understand what the character sounds is, one would use the Zhuyin phonetic system. Like the hiragana phonetic system (where all script letters represent sounds like ka, no, ru), the Zhuyin (or BoPoMoFo) system is script letters that represent sounds that are used to make up the combined sound of a letter. (mom would be ㄇㄚㄇㄚˋ, or MAMa)\nEarly school children were originally taught this system first to familiarize themselves with the sounds, and towards high school just memorize the sounds that go with the character (to the point of innate skills). Taiwan and certain countries still embrace this method limitedly, because alot use Pinyin instead.\n\nPinyin is a different school of chinese phonetics. It uses roman letters instead of Zhuyin script to garner the sounds (similar to Romanji for japanese). This was developed so more of the West would be able to learn chinese without trying to use the Zhuyin system. (like Mom would be Mama, sorta).  Mainland China embraces the Pinyin system (as well as simplified text, where Kanji most resembles).\n\n\nIn summary, Japanese and Chinese do not share the same script, but originally, like most SouthEast Asian countries (*cough* Korea) Japan borrowed a large portion of the characters from China and heavily evolved it into the hiragana, katakana, and kanji sets of today. Chinese still stems into two schools of writing, with the Simplified Hanzi, and the Traditional Hanzi.
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There are two main ways of writing japanese, hiragana and katakana not including the hiroglyphics/picture words. It is a pretty complex language unless you only wish to speak it but I would advise you order a book and CD or take a course somewhere.
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First off, I didn't go to college to study history, but I enjoy writing.   I like entertainment writing as a hobby.\n\nWhen I read your short paper, your writing makes it sound like you know your material as well as a historian, but the paper is very, very dry.    I really couldn't follow the paper to well, even reading very slow, because it seemed like there were many topics being introduced into the same paragraph.   A paragraph should contain one topic.\n\nMaybe you think all this information fits, and if it does, you introduced too much at one time.   Try to break this down a little bit and make it a little simplier to read.   It seems like, people think that what makes a good writer is hard to comprehend sentences, but that is just the opposite.\n\nI'll give it to you, you certainly know your history, but try to make it a little fun.   Break it up a little bit and make it easy to read, so everyone is able to read it.
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Quickly:\nEach are headed out by a leader. Japan has an emperor and Europe has a king. Neither controlled a huge amount of power for small regions and so that power was handed down to others.\n\nIn Japan there was the shoguns and in Europe they had their lords. Working under the lords were knights and the Japanese version of a knight is the samurai.\n\nAt the bottom were peasants for both Europe and Japan, though merchants were even below that in Japanese feudal society.
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Try google.com...in both web and images..\n\nAs example...Google will give u a good reference....e.g.\n1.  Azhar b. Hj. Mad Aros, “Pendudukan Jepun di Tanah Melayu 1941-1945:  Satu Kajian Mengenai Bibliografi  (Japanese Occumpation in Malaya 1941-1945:  A Short Research on Bibliografi).  Jurnal Malaysia dari segi sejarah, Bil. 27-1999 pg. 1-10.\n\nThen u could go to UM library to search for the Journal...\n\nHope
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http://www.japanguid.com/ is going to help u to find a friend of Japanese. Good luck.
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google type in : Japenese cuisine history
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Well, I think that my own observations and conversations with Japanese people for over 15 years is reliable so here goes...\n\nThe younger generations of Japan have grown up in a democratic and basically free society. Amongst these generations, you'll find two things:\n\n1. People that love the way things are.\n2. People that look back and, having forgotton the attrocities of WWII, wish for things to go back to the old ways. These people are very very much in the minority.\n\nAmongst the very older generations, it is not hard to find resentment, especially amongst males. I have spoken with several and they told me stories of their schools teaching them anti American/Western 'morals' that were coupled with horror stories of how westerners are. Amongst older women, many are greatful for the freedom they found with the occupation.\n\n-TGW-
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You should also get an electronic dictionary, many Japanese people carry them a well.  The following sites may be of some help though, PopJisyo and WWWJDIC:\n\nhttp://www.popjisyo.com/WebHint/Portal_e.aspx\nhttp://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/wwwjdic.html
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You should first know your learning style: can you learn from a language CD, person, book, etc.\n\nFocus on how you learn best.  If you can pick up differences in speech from a CD, Barnes and Noble/ Borders etc sell some really good tutorials.  Pimsleur is a set I have had success with.\n\nNext find a person or circumstance you can practice the verbal skills you are picking up.  Asian Societies/Japanese societies, etc.  practice. practice and practice some more.\n\nAs far as the written.  Pick up a set of books that teach written Japanese.  Start with Hiragana, then katagana, and finally Kanji.
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hiya,\n\ntry\n\nhttp://www2.mylot.com/?ref=onetopdesigner\n\nthere are quite a few japanese on there, its like a blog like this one that you get paid for asking and answering. try it
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♡I'm not Japanese but have lived here over 8 years, is that OK? Check out these sites for useful info about Japanese culture. The last site is good and covers many topics such as Geisha, Music, Samurai, Language, weddings, tea ceremony... Hope it helps!♡ \n\nhttp://www.explorejapan.com/jculture.htm\nhttp://www.amphi.com/~psteffen/fmf/culture.htm\nhttp://www.japaneselifestyle.com.au/culture/culture.html
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A little homework help, chel?\n\nOkay.\n\nnot a - the basic characters and meanings are shared between the two countries\n\nnot b - both peoples have considerable love and respect for parents and ancestors.\n\nnot c - considerable respect for the merchant class especially beginning in feudal Japan, to today.\n\nI would say D - the Japanese promote by measuring one's accomplishments and skills...not by how one would do on an exam.\n\nDEFINITELY NOT E