Tag: Japan

Public holidays Date Holiday January 1 New Year 2nd Monday in January Adult Day February 11 Day of the founding of the state March, 20 Beginning of spring April 29 Day of green May 03 Constitution Day May 5 Children’s day 3rd Monday in July Navy Day 3rd Monday in September Reverence to old age…

Shintō [ ʃ -, Sino-Japanese] der, -, Shintoism, Shintoism, Kami no michi [-mit ʃ i; Japanese “Way of the Kami (deities)”], the totality of the original religious ideas of the Japanese, which essentially emerged from the conscious experience of nature. Mythology: According to aceinland, the Shintō is the autochthonous religion of Japan and is characterized by…

In the war period the best Japanese cinema refused to support or propagate imperial militarism and took refuge in the past (creating the genre geido-mono, biographies of artists of the Meiji era), in films about children (shonen-mono), in the love stories, in family intimacy and in appeals to humanity. Indeed, in the trilogy Shanghai, Nanjing,…