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A list of Citizendium articles, and planned articles, about Culture of Japan.
Japan
にほん • 日本 • にっぽん
Nihon or Nippon
Regions
Hokkaido
Honshu
Tohoku
Akita • Aomori • Fukushima
Iwate • Miyagi • Yamagata
Kanto
Chiba • Gunma • Ibaraki
Kanagawa • Saitama • Tochigi
Tokyo Greater Tokyo Area
Chubu
Aichi • Fukui • Gifu
Ishikawa • Nagano • Niigata
Shizuoka • Toyama • Yamanashi
Kansai
Hyogo • Kyoto • Mie
Nara • Osaka
Shiga • Wakayama
Chugoku
Hiroshima • Okayama
Shimane • Tottori • Yamaguchi
Shikoku
Ehime • Kagawa
Kochi • Tokushima
Kyushu
Fukuoka • Kagoshima
Kumamoto • Miyazaki
Nagasaki • Oita • Saga
Ryukyu Islands
Okinawa
History
Culture

Contents

Parent topics

  • Japan [r]: East Asian country of about 3,000 islands; world's second-largest economy; population about 127,000,000. [e]
  • Culture [r]: UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (2002) defined culture as "... the set of distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual and emotional features of a society or a social group..." that "encompasses, in addition to art and literature, lifestyles, ways of living together, value systems, traditions and beliefs". [e]

Subtopics

  • Japanese language [r]: (日本語 Nihongo), Japonic language spoken mostly in Japan; Japonic family's linguistic relationship to other tongues yet to be established, though Japanese may be related to Korean; written in a combination of Chinese-derived characters (漢字 kanji) and native hiragana (ひらがな) and katakana (カタカナ) scripts; about 125,000,000 native speakers worldwide. [e]
  • Shinto [r]: Add brief definition or description

Popular culture

Visual arts

Clothing

Cuisine

  • Sushi [r]: (寿司, 鮓 or 鮨) any food made with vinegared rice in Japanese cuisine; may include raw or cooked vegetables, raw fish (刺身 sashimi) or other ingredients, and is typically served with soy sauce and wasabi (わさび or 山葵). [e]

Sports

Other related topics

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