2. 日本,
literal meaning: "the sun's
origin"
Known as the "Land of the Rising
Sun", Japan is now an economic
powerhouse with three centuries of
history and culture marked.
3. • Matsuri
• Festival where
participants
adore, worship and
communicate with
the gods
The day before the start of
spring in the old Japanese
calendar, the habit is
spreading and throwing
beans to drive away demons
or bad luck.
4. The
religion of Japan is not very defined,
because the Japanese do not believe in
a particular religion. But mainly
practiced: Buddhism and Shintoism
5. Valentine's Day
Party Girls or the wrists
One of the peculiarities
presented in Japan is that
only women give gifts,
usually chocolates
Held to ask the girls grow
up and be happy in the
future
6. Star Festival
White Day
Two stars located on
opposite sides of the
Milky Way doomed to be
separated, are only once
a year, on July 7
It is celebrated one
month after Valentine's
the men who have
received gifts on
Valentine returned the
favor in the form of gift
7. Karate
空手道
Karate: kárate (空
手 道 karatedō, "
the way of the
empty hand ") is a
modern martial art
of Japanese origin.
arises officially in
1933, from existing
combat systems on
Okinawa and was
popularized
in
Japan by Gichin
Funakoshi.
8. Is a unique fighting type in the world that was
invented by the Japanese, as ceremonious and
spectacular. Warriors weigh hundreds of pounds
and trained a lifetime to increase both their
strength and their body weight
9. ORIGAMI
Origami (
) is the art of Japanese
origin.
According to Eastern philosophy, origami
brings calm and patience who practice
common feature of many therapies based on
manual exercise.
10. JAPANESE TRADITIONS
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Remove shoes
when entering of
each house, hotel
or restaurant
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Bowing to
show respect.
Using a bicycle
continuously for short
trips.
11. •Earthquakes are common in Japan.
•One study showed that seismic
disturbances, especially minor
nature, occurring more than three times
a day.
•The eastern coasts are vulnerable to
major earthquakes affecting large
areas and are usually accompanied by
large tsunamis.
12. The earthquake of
magnitude 8.9 occurred
on Friday, March
11, 2011 in Japan is
among the most
powerful since the early
twentieth century.
13. Japan has 53 active nuclear reactors, nuclear power plants grouped in 17
The mortal danger to living things by radioactivity lasts hundreds of years.
14. The rural Japan suffered the damage caused by the
nuclear accident and tsunami
More than 20,000 hectares of fertile land in the northeast Japanese, the
livelihoods of entire villages have been useless after the tsunami of
March 11, of 2011, to which is now added the ban on growing in soils
with high radiation.