Text: https://internationalnohinstitute.com/category/training/ Replicability can be extremely in the arts, particularly if a participant is involved in a traditional art. In this replicability allows the knowledge of traditional Japanese Noh theater to be passed on over time. Replicability plays a much different role in this kind of specific example than it Read more…
Text: “Methods of Expression.” https://nomurakakejiku.com/lesson_lineup/methods-of-expression This website shows how different traditional Japanese painting materials and methods results in different kinds of works of art. The final paintings are to some extent a result of the methodologies chosen. However, the knowledge that the artist wishes to express (and the knowledge the Read more…
Text: “NASA’s New Shape-Shifting Radiator Inspired by Origami” This specific example has an interesting connection to May 2023 TOK essay prescribed title #3. This is an instance where a group of scientists has looked outside of their “bubble” into Japanese art and have used what have learn to improve the Read more…
The following piece of art by Kaori Wakamatsu is an example of a piece of art that is not tied to a specific historical individual person or event. It does, however, make of use elements from Japan’s history and it is an interpretation of the past. To what extent does Read more…
Text: “Japan’s population plummeted by 640,000 in 2021 for biggest drop on record.” Japan Times https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/04/15/national/population-drop-japan-record/ Extract: “Japan’s population totaled 125,502,000 as of Oct. 1, down 644,000 from a year earlier to mark the biggest decline on record in the rapidly graying nation, government data showed Friday. The population dipped for Read more…
Text: “Publishers revise textbook phrases about ‘forced’ Korean laborers.” Asashi Shimbun. https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14585864 There have been a number of ongoing issues between Japan and Korea over Japan’s colonial occupation of Korea and how those issues are addressed in textbooks. In Japan textbooks for school use must be approved by the central Read more…
Text: “Japan: From vaccine hesitancy to vaccine success.” BBC.com Extract: “With just seven weeks to go until the Olympics, only 3.5% of Japan’s population had been fully vaccinated. While friends in the UK were merrily posting vaccine selfies on social media, here in the capital Tokyo, we were joking we Read more…
Text: “How Japan’s new PM is promising a ‘new capitalism.’” BBC.com Extract: “Japan’s new prime minister, Fumio Kishida, has sold his plan to redistribute wealth in the country as the “new capitalism”. But some critics on social media suggest the plan sounds more like socialism to them – even dubbing Read more…
The outcome of a professional wrestling match is decided ahead of time and many of the individual moves in a match are rehearsed and practiced in advance. The “facts” clearly indicate that there is no real competition where each participant has a chance to win. To what extent though, can Read more…
Text: “These Century-Old Stone “Tsunami Stones” Dot Japan’s Coastline.” Extract: “At the edge of Aneyoshi, a small village on Japan’s northeastern coast, a 10-foot-tall stone tablet stands, carved with a dire warning to locals. “High dwellings are the peace and harmony of our descendants,” the rock slab says. “Remember the Read more…