Category: Japan

Japan Arts and Architecture 1

Japan Arts and Architecture Part I

Jōmon period The phase of formation of civilization in Japan covers a long period, and it is the clay production that distinguishes the Neolithic cultures. The Jōmon culture, already present in the Paleolithic age,...

Japan Architecture 2

Japan Architecture Part II

The features that the Japanese architectural culture will assume emerge from the overlapping of the reorganization of the centers affected by the earthquake with the formulation of a vast plan of interventions in the...

Japan Architecture 1

Japan Architecture Part I

Architectural historiography relating to modern and contemporary Japanese production takes into consideration, from 1868 to today, at least three distinct phases concerning: the first the Meiji period (1868-1912); the second the period between the...

Japan Archaeology 2

Japan Archaeology Part II

Mound tombs take on even greater importance due to the scarcity of human settlements in this period. Reproductions in clay of houses and the drawing of four of them on a mirror from the...

Japan Archaeology 1

Japan Archaeology Part I

Archeology dates back in Japan to 1878, when heaps of shells found in Omori, between Tokyo and Yokohama, together with fragments of terracotta and stone objects allow, also on the basis of subsequent finds,...

Japan Anthropology 3

Japan Anthropology Part III

At the end of his research, Baelz distinguished two types in Japan, one fine and the other massive. The former would have a somewhat taller stature, slender forms in general, thinness, more elegant and...

Japan Anthropology 2

Japan Anthropology Part II

According to EZINESPORTS, the color of the skin is yellowish, which in its shades goes on one side towards the light tones of European and on the other towards dark yellow or brown. Exceptionally...

Japan Anthropology 1

Japan Anthropology Part I

It can be said that the knowledge of the somatology (or anthropometry, as a metric study of external characters) of the Japanese is less advanced than that of their anatomy. In fact, this can...

Japan After World War II

Japan After World War II

Employment regime. – In accordance with the quadripartite declaration of Potsdam, the conditions of surrender and the plan of the American government of 6 September, the gen. Douglas Mac Arthur, proceeded with his troops...

Japan after 1960 2

Japan after 1960 Part II

The ratification of the mutual security treaty with the United States of 1960 and the climate of turmoil it aroused in the country are the starting point for all the events of this period....