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Yōkai (妖怪, "strange apparition") are a class of supernatural entities and spirits in Japanese folklore.The kanji representation of the word yōkai comprises two characters that both mean "suspicious, doubtful", [1] and while the Japanese name is simply the Japanese transliteration or pronunciation of the Chinese term yaoguai (which designates similarly strange creatures), some Japanese ...
Japanophilia is a strong interest in Japanese culture, people, and history. [1] In Japanese, the term for Japanophile is "shinnichi" (親日), with "shin (親)" equivalent to the English prefix 'pro-' and "nichi (日)", meaning "Japan" (as in the word for Japan "Nippon/Nihon" (日本)). The term was first used as early as the 18th century ...
The Japanese share superstitions with other Asian cultures, particularly the Chinese, with whom they share significant historical and cultural ties. The unluckiness of the number four is one such example, as the Japanese word for "four" 四 romaji: shi is a homophone for "death" kanji: 死.
The Japanese "national character" has been written about under the term Nihonjinron, literally meaning 'theories/discussions about the Japanese people' and referring to texts on matters that are normally the concerns of sociology, psychology, history, linguistics, and philosophy, but emphasizing the authors' assumptions or perceptions of ...
Since otaku were often seen as strange people who behaved differently from the rest of society, denpa became widely associated with otaku culture in Japan and the Akihabara scene. Eventually, the term denpa began to encompass anyone who seemed quirky or out of tune with reality, as if these people were being hypnotized or controlled by ...
Nihonjinron (日本人論: treatises on Japaneseness) is a genre of ethnocentric nationalist literary work that focuses on issues of Japanese national and cultural identity. [1] [2] Nihonjinron posits pseudoscience such as Japanese being a "unique isolate, having no known affinities with any other race", and has been described as racist.
In Japanese culture, social hierarchy plays a significant role in the way someone speaks to the various people they interact with on a day-to-day basis. [5] Choice on level of speech, politeness, body language and appropriate content is assessed on a situational basis, [6] and intentional misuse of these social cues can be offensive to the listener in conversation.
Kisaragi Station (Japanese: きさらぎ駅, Hepburn: Kisaragi-eki) is a Japanese urban legend about a fictitious railway station. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The station first came into the news in 2004, when the story was posted on the internet forum 2channel .