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The document provides information about cross-cultural understanding of Japan. It discusses Japan's flag featuring a centered sun symbol, its location in Northeast Asia surrounded by water, and its primary language of Japanese written in three alphabets including kanji, hiragana, and katakana. It also summarizes that Shinto and Buddhism are the main religions in Japan, traditional families comprise a mother, father and their children, and New Year's is a major celebration along with seasonal matsuri festivals.

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Ccu Japan

The document provides information about cross-cultural understanding of Japan. It discusses Japan's flag featuring a centered sun symbol, its location in Northeast Asia surrounded by water, and its primary language of Japanese written in three alphabets including kanji, hiragana, and katakana. It also summarizes that Shinto and Buddhism are the main religions in Japan, traditional families comprise a mother, father and their children, and New Year's is a major celebration along with seasonal matsuri festivals.

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CROSS CULTURE

UNDERSTANDING
JAPAN
Sausan Fauha Surya (18202241068)
Sofia Nur Hanifah (182022410

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Flag

The Japan flag was officially adopted on January 26, 1870. The centered sun symbol (called
Hinomaru) has been an important part of Japan's flag for thousands of years. The white field is
symbolic of honesty and purity.
Location
0f Japan

Japan is an island country


located in Northeast Asia and
surrounded by the Pacific
Ocean, the Sea of Japan, the
East China Sea, and the Sea of
Okhotsk. With a land area of
around 377,883 square
kilometers (as of 2002), Japan
ranks 59th out of the world's
191 countries in terms of land
area size.
Kanji
Language logographic Chinese characters

The national language is Ja


panese, which is the primar
y spoken language across
the country. Old Japanese,
or “Kanbun”, originated fr Hiragana
om China and the earliest J
apanese text, the “Kojiki,” w A phonetic Japanese alphabet
as written in the early 8th c
entury and was written prim
arily in ancient Chinese ch
aracters. Modern Japanese
developed during the Edo p Katakana
eriod, between 1603 and 1
868. Modern Japanese con a phonetic alphabet used for foreign words.
sists of three alphabets: The development and widespread use of Kat
akana is illustrative of Japan’s recent adopti
on of Western cultures, ideas and words.
Religion
There are two main religions in Japan: Shinto and Buddhism. Shinto is a Japanese
religion, while Buddhism was imported in the 6th century from China. A recent poll
found that 39% of Japanese people identify as Buddhist, 3.9% as Shinto and 2.3% as
Christian.

Family
The traditional family unit in Japan is called “Kazoku,” comprising of a mother,
father and their children. Traditionally, the Kazoku often live with their elderly
parents. However, more recently, three generation household numbers have fallen
in favor of more modern arrangements.
Celebrations

In Japan, the largest holiday is the New Year’s celebration. During spring and
summer, celebrations for the gods of the land and sea, or Matsuri, take place.
Each town holds its own Matsuri, and these celebrations are widely attended by
all.
Stereotypes
There isn’t a country in the world immune from stereotypes. All people form opinions about
places and their inhabitants based on whatever they can glean from the food, tourism, and art of
the culture. But not all sweeping generalizations have to be mean and unfounded.
Here are the most common adjectives that Westerners chose when characterizing the people of
Japan.

#. Punctual
Japan takes its time management very seriously.

#. Hard-working
A hard-worker or “hataraki-mono” is definitely a common word that classifies a Japanese mindset.

#. Grouping
Unlike America, where group work is often disliked because sharing the workload with other students inevita
bly means that it gets divided unequally, Japanese students thrive off of it. They prefer not to have to voice th
eir opinions alone, but would rather share ideas with their peers and make a group decision.

#. Clean
Japanese students clean their schools by themselves. No janitors, just students hauling trash bags, s
weeping the steps, and wiping down the halls with washcloths for a good 30 minutes each day. Mo
st storefront owners sweep up the sidewalks and streets outside their stores, too.
Wedding Ceremony
Japanese Shinto ceremonies

Traditional Shinto ceremonies, which account for around one in six of Japanese weddings, are held in
the main building of a shrine. A priest performs a ritual purification for the couple, then announces their
marriage to the Kami (神, "gods" or "spirits") of the shrine and asks for their blessing. The bride and
groom take three sips each from three cups of sake, a ritual called sansankudo.
Japanese brides, sometimes painted white as a sign of purity before the gods, wear a kimono which is
either shiromuku ("pure white dress"), irouchikake ("colorful outer robe"), or kurobikifurisode, the bl
ack and patterned kimono once worn at weddings of the nobility during the Edo period (1603–1868),
with either an open white watabōshi or a tsunokakushi Grooms wear a black crested haori jacket and
loose, skirt-like hakama with a vertical stripe.

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