Minasan Konnichiwa!!!

This is Tatjuana Hackett. I just wanted to say hello and let you all know that I am now part of the blog generation. I hope your research is going well. Have a great Labor Day and see you all next Thursday at the Movie.

Interesting Site

Someone told me an interesting internet site, "At Home In Japan: What No One Tells you."
http://nealrc.osu.edu
http://athome.nime.ac.jp
http://athomejapan.com

you can check it.

Movie Review

This is Shoji.
Next week (Sept.6th) you attend the Japanese Film Festival during the class time.
Also, you have to write a short movie review (a few paragraph-long) as the assignment.
Please post your movie review on this blog within one week from the movie day.

Movie Review and Japanese Language Class

This is Shoji.
I'm just letting you know a bad news if you are taking a Japanese Language class.
Every Japanese language class gives you an extra point if you write a reflection paper for the movies at the Japanese Film Festival, right?
However, if you are taking my Japanese Culture class (Japanese 3209, this class), you write the movie review for this class as the assignment anyway, so you cannot the extra credit for the Japanese language class.
Sumimasen (I'm sorry).

Geography: islands and regions of Japan

4 main islands
Hokkiado, Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu

8 main regions
Region in Hokkaido island
-Hokkaido region
Regions in Honshu island
-Tohoku region
-Kanto region
-Chubu region
-Kinki region
-Chugoku region
Region in Shikoku island
-Shikoku region
Region in Kyushu island
-Kyushu region

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Hokkaido region (major city: Sapporo)
-Hokkaido was inhabited by the Ainu people and not included in Japan proper until 17th century.
-Hokkaido is noted for its dramatic and unspoiled scenery, which includes active volcanoes, large lakes, and vast virgin forests.

Tohoku region (major city: Sendai)
-Tohoku is largely mountains, and most cities are concentrated along the Pacific and Sea of Japan coasts.

Kanto region (major city: Tokyo =capital city of Japan)
-Kanto is the most heavily populated region and is the political, economic, and cultural center of the nation.
-In 1603, Tokugawa, Ieyasu (1543-1616) completed the unification of Japan, and established the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo (=Tokyo). This is the beginning of Tokyo as the center of Japan. In 1868, at the period of Meiji Restoration, Edo was renamed to Tokyo and officially became the capital city.

Chubu region (major city: Nagoya)
-Chubu is located at the geographical center of Japan.
-The climate of Chubu is mild on the Pacific side, but the Sea of Japan side has long snowy winters.

Kinki region (major cities: Osaka, Kyoto)
-Kinki is the second most important industrial region.
-Osaka is the industrial and financial center of western Japan.
-Kyoto had been the capital city before Tokyo (from 794 to 1868), and it is a veritable historical and traditional storehouse.

Chugoku region (major city: Hiroshima)
-Chugoku is a mountainous region.
-Hiroshima is the first city being exposed to the atomic bomb attack (1945).

Shikoku region (major city: Takamatsu)
-Shikoku is the smallest of Japan’s four main islands.

Kyushu region (major city: Fukuoka)
-The climate of Kyushu is mild to subtropical with heavy precipitation and frequent typhoon.
*Okinawa belongs to Kyushu island.

This is Shane Burke. Just making sure that i have registered into the blog properly and that my name is correct.

Shane

This is Christopher Lachey, my posting name is "Topher". It's just a shortened version of my actual name.

Taiko-drum group

just an annnouncement.
next year, january 25th, a professional japanese taiko-drum group is coming to charlotte.
the performance is probably held at UNCC, and it's free.
600-1000 people are expected to come see them.
please ask me the info when it draws closer if you are interested.

your name on the blog

this is shoji.
if you want to make up your name on the blog, that's fine as long as the name includes some part of your actual name so that i can recognize you.

所持先生、

　　　　　分かりました。　私の名前はも変えた。

The Name Game

Awwww! :( ...I really wanted my name to be Uchiha Saya! I wonder if it would be okay if I changed it to Uchiha Talisa? Its still my name...well part of it. :)

-Uchiha Talisa :D

Sorry Shoji

Sorry Shoji I just saw your blog about using my real name. Is there a way to change it? By the way this is Chris Wooten. Sumimasen.

Name on the blog

Hi, this is Shoji.
I forgot to tell you one more thing in the class today.
When you decide your name that appears on the blog, can you do with your actuall name so that I can recognize you?

Suggested topics for the geography-presentations

Here are just the ideas for your geography presentaions.
*You don't really have to pick up the topic from this list. If you want to present something you think interesting, that's great.

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Hokkaido region
Ainu people
Northern Territorial Problem w/ Russia (“Hoppo Ryodo”)
Sapporo Olympic
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Tohoku region
Date, Masamune (a Samurai)
Minamoto no Yoshitsune (a Samurai) and Fujiwara Clan
Nebuta Festival in Aomori prefecture
Shogi (Japanese Chess-like game) in Tendo-city
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Kanto region
Tokyo as the capital city
Tokugawa Ieyasu (a Samurai)
Takeda Shingen (a Samurai)
Minamoto no Yoritomo and Minamoto no Yoshitsune (Samurais)
Buddha statue in Kamakura city
Boshin War in Aizu Wakamatsu city (at the end of Edo era = the end of Samurai’s period)
Niko Saru Mawashi (traditional Monkey performance)
Meiji Shirine
Yasukuni Shrine problem w/ other Asian countries
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Chubu region
Nagoya Castle
Nagano Olympic
Hokuriku region
Tokugawa Ieyasu (a Samurai)
Oda Nobunaga (a Samurai)
Uesugi Kenshin (a Samurai)
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Kinki region
Kyoto as the old capital city
Nara as the old capital city
Kobe city
Osaka city
Buddha statue in Nara city
Ise Shrine
Osaka Castle
Toyotomi Hideyoshi (a Samurai)
Great Awaji-Hanshin Earthquake
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Chugoku region
Hiroshima (atomic bomb)
Itsukushima Shrine
Izumo Shrine
Mori Motonari (a Samurai)
Takeshima / Tokushima problem w/ Korea
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Shikoku region
Sakamoto Ryoma (key person for the Meiji Restoration)
Konpira Do Temple
Seto Ohashi (Bridge b/w Shikoku and Honshu)
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Kyushu region
Nagasaki (atomic bomb)
Dejima (trading port in the Edo era) in Nagasaki
Satsuma clan and Choshu clan (at the time of Meiji Restoration)
Saigo Takamori / Okubo Toshimitsu / Takasugi Shinsaku / Katsura Kogoro (Samurais at the time of Meiji Restoration)
Okinawa problem w/ U.S.
Origin of “Kamikaze” (Mongolian attacks on Kyushu)

Welcome to Japanese 3209 blog

Welcome to Japanese 3209 blog.