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An elementary school class in Japan. In Japan, elementary schools (小学校, Shōgakkō) are compulsory to all children begin first grade in the April after they turn six—kindergarten is growing increasingly popular, but is not mandatory—and starting school is considered a very important event in a child's life.
A homeless man in Shibuya, Tokyo. In Japan, relative poverty is defined as a state at which the income of a household is at or below half of the median household income. [1] ...
The name for Japan in Japanese is written using the kanji 日本 and is pronounced Nihon or Nippon. [11] Before 日本 was adopted in the early 8th century, the country was known in China as Wa (倭, changed in Japan around 757 to 和) and in Japan by the endonym Yamato. [12]
The Jakarta Japanese School (JJS; ジャカルタ日本人学校 Jakaruta Nihonjin Gakkō; Indonesian: Sekolah Jepang Jakarta) is a Japanese international school in Pondok Aren, South Tangerang, Indonesia.
He introduced simple, rough, wooden and clay instruments to replace the gold, jade, and porcelain of the Chinese style tea service that was popular at the time. About one hundred years later, the tea master Sen no Rikyū (千利休, 1522 – April 21, 1591) introduced wabi-sabi to the royalty with his design of the teahouse. "He constructed a ...