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the day before the official beginning of spring
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festive day for children of 3, 5, and 7 years of age
November 15 |
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compulsory education; from elementary school to middle school (from age 6 to age 14/15; 9 years) |
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へいきんじゅみょう
average life span |
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National Founding Day
2月11日 |
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on the day of the spring equinox |
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Constitution Memorial Day
5月3日 |
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Respect for the Aged Day
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day of the autumn equinox |
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Health Sports Day
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Labour Thanksgiving Day
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The Emperor's Birthday
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ratio of junior high school students going on to senior high school |
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ratio of students going on to a university education |
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飲酒(drinking alcohol)
喫煙(smoking)
選挙での投票(voting in elections) |
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part-timer ratio |
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paper door with cross bars |
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alcove where art or flowers are displayed |
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sliding paper door without cross bars |
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380,000 square kilometers |
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北海道(ほっかいどう)
本州(ほんしゅう)
四国(しこく)
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北海道(ほっかいどう)
東北(とうほく)
関東(かんとう)
中部(ちゅうぶ)
近畿(きんき)
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中国(ちゅうごく)
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percentage of Japanese who live in Tokyo, Osaka, or Nagoya |
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Paleolithic culture
30,000 BCE |
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300 BCE
- started growing rice |
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Kohun Period (300 BCE - 710 CE)
538 - Buddhism reaches Japan
604 - Shoutoku Taishi builds first road |
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Nara Period (710 - 794)
710 - Nara became the capital
712 - Kojiki, Japan's first historical book, was written |
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Heian Period (794 - 1185)
794 - Kyoto became the capital
996 - Sei Shounagon wrote The Pillow Book (makura no soushi)
1008 - Murasaki Shikibu wrote The Tale of Genji (genji monogatari) |
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Kamakura Period (1192 - 1333)
1192 - Minamoto no Yoritomo unfied Japan
- Kamakura became the capital |
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Muromachi Period (1333 - 1568)
1333 - Kyoto became the capital again
1397 - Kinkakuji was built
1543 - Guns first brought to Japan
1549 - Christianity reaches Japan |
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Azuchi-Momoyama Period (1568 - 1600)
1573 - Oda Nobunaga unifies Japan
1582 - Oda is killed
1590 - Toyotomo Hideyoshi unifies Japan |
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Edo Period (1600 - 1868)
1603 - Tokugawa Ieyasu unifies Japan
1639 - isolationism begins
1853 - Commodore Perry arrives in Uraga |
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Meiji Period (1868 - 1912)
1868 - Meiji Restoration
1889 - Great Japanese Imperial Constitution
1894 - 1895 - Sino-Japanese War
1904-1905 - Russo-Japanese War
1905 - Natsume Souseki writes I Am a Cat (waganai ha neko de aru) |
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Showa Period (1926 - 1989)
1929 - Great Depression
1937 - 1945 - Japan-China War
1941 - 1945 - Pacific War, i.e. WWII
1945 - atom bomb drops on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
1946 - Constitution of Japan - US Occupation
1953 - Start of television broadcasting
1964 - opening of the Tokaido Shinkansen line |
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Taisho Period (1912 - 1926)
1914 - WWI
1923 - Great Kanto Earthquake |
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Heisei Period (1989 - present)
1994 - Ooe Kenzaburou won Nobel Prize for Literature
1995 - bubble economy dies and the worst recession since the end of WWI starts
2000 - Shirakawa Hideki wins Nobel Prize for Chemisty |
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sharing a restaurant bill |
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