Japanese Culture Overview

     While you are in Japan, you may notice that there are plenty of ways to get around. Many people choose to ride bikes or walk places, some may choose to use a car if that suits them better. However, the main choice for most people is to walk everywhere. The reason for this is the incredible public transport system that is set up in the country. From simple bus systems to the intricate sprawling subway system of Tokyo to the quiet and speedy shinkansen, there are plenty of interesting ways to get around within Japan. I will go over a couple of these in this blog post. The Shinkansen     The first and most interesting form of transport that I will go over is Japan's own shinkansen system. The shinkansen is an incredibly fast bullet train that goes all around Japan's main 3 islands. It can reach a max speed of almost 200 mph and boasts its noise level and safety over similar trains of this speed.  A comparable system to the shinkansen would be the Eu...

     In April of 1979, the first episode of one of Japan's major cultural phenomena aired, that being Mobile Suit Gundam. It had a rocky start , with most people expecting a more combat oriented anime with massive robots. Instead, what they got was a drama centered around said robots, with realistic emotions and such. However, Gundam's ratings began to increase as soon as Bandai, a toy company at the time, bought the rights to the series, providing plastic model kits that were very easy to put together. Due to this ease in use, the plastic model kits helped sell the series as a whole, allowing for even more spin-offs and sequels to come out. The cycled back to more model kits being available to be bought and sold, and GUNPLA (Gundam Plastic Models) became a lucrative business .      I first got into GUNPLA through my friend. He was super into the main series and building the model kits of the robots from it, and consistently sent me updates as he fini...

     Hello, my name is Jude and welcome to my blog, Japanese Culture Overview! In this blog, I will be going over some of my favorite pieces of Japanese culture and language and what I like so much about them. In middle school, I got some of my first tastes of Japanese culture in the form of anime and manga. Ever since then, I have been learning more and more about Japan through the internet, video games, and other forms of media that I like to indulge in.     In high school, I spent my first couple years learning the Japanese language and I was taught a lot about the different parts of the culture that there is in Japan. A lot of things are much different in Japan than many other places, such as their relationship with religion , their amazing food, the hobbies and other things.     Japan is currently my number one spot that I want to visit due to the many amazing things to see there like the amount of abandoned buildings, the Shinto shrine...