I am in a Japanese Culture class and need to pick some aspect of Jap history or culture and make an argument to why it is significant.
This class is full of fucking weaboos who for the majority are writing about anime or jpop.
Please help me pick a fucking topic.
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The conflict of the rise and fall of the samurai era? Fuck if I know bro, I don't know much about Japan.
Shota
kawaii neko shoujou (･ω･)!!!!!!!!!!!!
the nukes
talk about the nukes, and why it's important
The Curse of Colonel Sanders (カーネルサンダースの呪い):
Write about the really fast gook stabbing at incredibly hihg speed and how he saved Japan from the commies.
Bury it deep Yamaguchi.
The pussification of Mighty Nippon
Bushido code and life of a samurai
I actually wanted to post this but couldn't find it at the time.
Some of these are interesting but it has to be fucking 8 to 10 pages
For once, something smart posted by a leaf
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The most patrician of all aesthetics.
You could also do Japanese poems and their influence on Ezra Pound.
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the nuking of japan and how it altered their dna to turn into NEETs from the lengendary samurai
Do about samurai. Busbido, the development and symbolism of the daisho, all sorts stuff to talk about.
Why ard you in a jap cultyre class if you aren't weaboo trash?
Talk about how they are ethnically homogeneous which allows for their culture and country to be very unified and responsive. And how it would be great for any state to aspire for this.
I need a humanities class but only need two credit hours. World Civilizations: Japan sounded interesting. Turns out its just fucking weebs. Even the fucking instructor is a fat weeb.
bury it deep, yamaguchi
is that real footage?
Hahahahaahahahaha
Hang on...
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAH
As a Japanese major staying up too late rn, that's funny.
I am learning hiragana and katakana and I cannot understand how anyone thought a writing system without spaces was a good idea. My name can't even be directly rendered in japanese as their phonetic alphabet has no way to produce it the way it should really be pronounced.
>he hasn't learned ・yet
Baka.
m8 do it about their isolationism and how quickly they changed afterwards, and how that affected their culture
not politics fuck off with your cancer
Decided to just do it on the nukes lmfao. Fuck it.
Question for everyone: What is the significance of Pepe in this picture? Is he mocking weaboo stuff or planning some sort of mischief or what. Is he supposed to represent like a middle aged dorito-eating basement dweller who is perfectly happy with wallowing in his own crapulence? Or does it have no meaning. Is it really just a picture of a frog with a mischievious expression and that's all there is to it.
Genki genki
You're still here? Go be a blockhead somewhere else, Joe.
Get out
Japs love pre-teen girls in sexy outfits, the younger the better they say
write about the meiji restoration. I wrote about this, and I found it very interesting.
So... it's funny because he is such an incongruous figure, or because he is like a big fat guy in his 30s and he likes anime but it really contrasts and is disturbing in a way?
You have to go back
Kiddie porn acceptance, just copy and paste starting from page 33 issuu.com
I ask because in the picture, Pepe is depicted so much larger than the anime girl. Almost an imposing, sinister figure. Or just fat?
or Yakuza tatoos
Meiji restoration.
Talk about the Bataan Death March and mak ure to point out that the Japs make sure that only the strongest one would survive because they are fans of survival of the fittest.
Yes. They couldn't cut the feed in time and the whole thing was broadcasted on live TV. The flash you see is from a journalist that later won the Pulitzer equivalent for photography.
Rape of Nanking
"Vegetarian Men"
Meiji restoration is good, do that one OP
Google Unit 731
Yes I was going to say this as well, especially the Bakumatsu period leading up to the Meiji restoration. Very interesting stuff.
If you're looking for a real topic, look into how the US occupation after WW2 (without the influence of the Soviets) helped them rebuild their country.
it's a good success story tbqh. it gave us anime
unit 731
Peal harbor, and guilt the japanese gooks into submission.
Why not Little boy and Fat man?
I honestly think Japanese history is really fascinating
Yeah, it aired on TV.
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Inejiro, the guy getting stabbed, had a platform that was basically "Fuck America, commie China #1."
>Asanuma was widely criticized for a 1959 incident in which he visited Communist-controlled Mainland China and called the United States "the shared enemy of China and Japan" during a speech in Beijing. When he returned from this trip he wore a Mao suit while disembarking from a plane in Japan, sparking criticism even from Socialist leaders.
Otoya, the guy stabbing, was 17 and killed himself in custody after writing "Seven lives for my country. Long live His Imperial Majesty, the Emperor!" on the wall of his cell.
If only I had seven lives.
Bury it deep, Yamaguchi!
Do it on the Sengoku Jidai period. This was fundamental to Japanese history and the evolution of it's culture and society, since the establishment of the Tokugawa Shogunate made Japan become significantly more closed and less receptive to outside trade and influence.
They were sad when Mcarthur left. Kind of interesting how the axis countries bounced back and became decent places.
Do your own homework.
But definitely mention how Picasso and Van Gough and many Ceramacists were were influenced by Japanese and Korean culture and art_, some of the biggest leaps in composition and material science in Europe were Kickstarted by French and Dutch exposure to Asian culture
Jesus's Japanese Brother
Sengoku era. Talk bout the Rise of Nobunaga, his rise to power, his betrayal and the significant cultural impacts he had on Japan. Don't talk about just the Samurai. Talk about the politics.
Talk about the Bataan Death March or Unit 731
Marshall Plan is quite interesting as well as far as post WW2 stuff goes
Checked. Also FPBP.
When japs got rekt in the pacific and by 2 atomic bombs.
Sengoku Jidai?
Weebs will know about it though. But its the funnest time period japan ever had.
Or maybe just talk about how the japs utterly destroyed the britbongs in WW2 until the Americans came and even then it was a hard war.
Me too. I used to live there and me and my co-worker used to travel to different lectures and historical sites whenever we had vacation. He really loves the Edo period, so that is his main focus as far as the stuff that he showed me. I'm more interested in Nara period and then the transition from the Heian period (defined by very strong Chinese influences) and the gradual progression from that through the Kamakura, Muromachi, Azuchi, into the beginning of the Edo period; to me, this is what really beings to shape what we know and consider to be "traditional" Japanese culture.
Do the Mishima Incident. Yukio Mishima is Sup Forums incarnate. todayifoundout.com
Search the term japonism or Japanesme, and fall down the rabbit hole of the influence Japan and by proxy Korea had on everything from 17th century onward. I'm ceramics you see a flow of korea->japan->france->North Carolina
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burry it deep daddy, i'm mean,, daddyguchi
>i need to pick a time period in japan thats important halp meh
dont be a nigger every one knows that meji > than all others
when the Portuguese came they created a shitfest, so Japan then freshly unified under the Tokugawa dynasty decided to heavily regulate trade, causing Japan to be mostly isolated for a couple hundred years. You can also just write about the Tokugawa dynasty and how they changed the social structure of japan by reducing noble power
Bakumatsu or Boshin War.
For fun reading, William "Weeaboo" Adams or Commodore "all your borders" Perry.
Because they were countries full of proud people and believed in nationalism over globalism. Germany has been cucked now unfortunately but you can still see it in grorious nippon.
Quit trying to posture. You're on Sup Forums, you're a fucking weeaboo. Kill yourself.
I always wanted to build my own anagama kiln. There's nothing quite like looking into a 3000 degree fire you stoked with wood you chopped
Not for long.
Also user if you are interested look into Motoori Norinaga. He is a an excellent source of you are interested in Japanese ideas surrounding Japanese literature and poetry and the idea of 物の哀れ mono no aware. There is actually a book about that I read called The Poerits of Motoori Norinaga. Drinking pic related now so I'll have a drink for you.
>Poetics of Mootori Norinaga
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Also if you like Adventure games, go here
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and download and play this game. Has a lot of cool history and has English subtitles. A pretty bizarre and fucked up game. Haven't be able to find the original Japanese version but it's still great.
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do it on the rise in hikikomoris in Japan
which is tied to Japan's perfectionist culture and familial ties where parents still pay for their worthless out of shame and hopign they'll get a job or go to school
this way you'll trigger your whole class by implying how weebism is tied to hikikomoris (which it is)
and you'll also get an A for writing about a subject that no one else thought of and probably your teacher never heard of
unless he/she is a nip
Write about the samurai and their bushido code. For bonus points, bring a "katana" (cheap western LARPer's edition) to class
yes please
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BURY IT DEEP YAMAGUCHI!!
>Otoya, the guy stabbing, was 17 and killed himself in custody after writing "Seven lives for my country. Long live His Imperial Majesty, the Emperor!"
wow, can I press F more than once? I want to pay very much respects
Kaizen-it's why their goods are great. Fun fact, it was an American that set them on the path!
Discrimination of Fukushima residents.
>literally every faggot bringing up the most obvious nip related subject
>samurais
>implying half the class won't write about samurais
Yes, demonstrate ceremonial suicide.
I know this is from a chink film, but it looks cool as hell regardless
>tfwywn be part of the jap imperial army
You could approach it from a historical perspective, noting historical events that have influenced the world in some way. For instance, after WWII, Japan was in shambles. However, they were able to bounce back and become an economic power that rivals even the US. And how some developing countries look to that point in Japanese history to find their path to becoming a developed country. I suppose that's both historical and economic.
You can also approach it from a religious perspective. Animism, ancestor worship, Shintoism, Buddhism, and how these philosophies/religions brought forth other philosophies/religions/ideas after passing through the Japanese lens and influencing the world in some way, like Zen Buddhism, Bushido, and so on.
Or you can just watch Begin Japanology. Looking at their YT channel, there's this vid on Yoshoku: Japan-style Western cooking. Then you can approach it how the Japanese takes in these foreign ideas, make it their own, and export it to the world as uniquely Japanese. Like how they borrowed India's curry and make a Japanese variant that doesn't taste, smell, and look like Indian BO and diarrhea. And that omelette they make with rice and ketchup, that they borrowed from the West.
If you also have to make a presentation out of it, you can troll some of the weebs in your class by tricking them into revealing their weeb level and humiliate themselves in some way.
You also want to consider that most of those religious things (outside of Animism and Shintoism) come from Chinese culture, including Zen Buddhism.
Suicide Forest.
Bonus points if you can find the stats on % of single ronery otaku that hange themselves there.
Hard data, numbers, pictures of hikkomoris. Attempt to keep a calm, professional face at your weebtastic class' reactions.
Do one on the Japanese automotive industry and Japan's contribution to motorsports or some shit if you want to do something kinda relevant to modern culture.
-your friend, /o/.
Am kind of interested to hear other students' topics.
Japanese mythology and native religions
Spaces are completely unnecessary in Japanese. In fact, they're unnecessary in general. Latin used to be written without spaces.
And it was fucking unreadable unless you already knew what was in it. Same with Hebrew. They had a companion text to explain what in their holy book
Talk about the Imperial Japanese Navy. Make it as interesting as possible and don't you ever bring up Kancolle in it.