Shinkansen Route Map - nippon.com
WEBMar 16, 2024 · Discover the history and expansion of Japan's high-speed train service, the Shinkansen, with this interactive route map and informative features.
The Evolution of the Japanese Anime Industry | Nippon.com
WEBDec 20, 2013 · In recent years, Japanese animation has become popular around the world. Industry veteran Yamaguchi Yasuo, who has been involved in anime production for half a century, traces the history of ...
The Japanese School System | Nippon.com
WEBJan 11, 2016 · In Japan, education is compulsory roughly from the age of 6 to the age of 15. The school year begins in April, so almost all children who have turned 6 by April 1 each year enter elementary school ...
Fujii Kaze: The Biggest Japanese Musical Phenomenon Since Utada …
WEBFeb 2, 2021 · The latest superstar on the Japanese music scene is singer-songwriter Fujii Kaze, tipped by many as the biggest talent to emerge since Utada Hikaru. A talk with Matsuo Kiyoshi, one of Japan’s ...
How the War with Japan Saved the Chinese Communist Party
WEBJul 27, 2021 · The Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–45) was a devastating ordeal for China, but it was also, paradoxically, the salvation of the Communist Party of China. On the eve of the July 1937 Marco Polo ...
Oda Nobunaga and the Struggle to Unify Japan | Nippon.com
WEBJan 8, 2020 · Oda Nobunaga was born in 1534, in the middle of the Warring States period (1467–1568). The Ashikaga clan had established the Muromachi shogunate in 1338, but its control in the east of the ...
Crime and Punishment in Japan: A Holistic Perspective
WEBJun 3, 2020 · Under Japan’s Code of Criminal Procedure, police have 48 hours after an arrest to transfer the case to the public prosecutor. The prosecutor then has up to 24 hours to either charge the suspect ...
Japan’s Emperor and Imperial Family | Nippon.com
WEBOct 26, 2021 · Emperor Emeritus Akihito and Empress Emerita Michiko on January 1, 2023. (Courtesy the Imperial Household Agency) Crown Prince Fumihito (second from left), Crown Princess Kiko (second from right ...
The State of Recovery in Tōhoku 10 Years after 3/11 - nippon.com
WEBOn March 11, 2021, Japan marks precisely 10 years since the Great East Japan Earthquake brought powerful shaking to much of Japan and smashed the Tōhoku region’s Pacific coast with a massive ...
”The light of hope”: Japanese same-sex couple overjoyed by …
WEBMar 22, 2021 · For Jenny and Narumi, who plan on a life together and have held a non-legally binding marriage ceremony, it was much more personal. “I felt light, the light of hope,” said Narumi, 27. Both she ...