Japanese – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com Tue, 02 Dec 2025 03:24:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://brewminate.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cropped-BrewBLogo01-32x32.jpg Japanese – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com 32 32 Toshio Mori: Enduring Internment and becoming the First Japanese American to Publish a Novel https://brewminate.com/toshio-mori-enduring-internment-and-becoming-the-first-japanese-american-to-publish-a-novel/ Fri, 25 Mar 2022 14:28:32 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=172038 Mori wanted to be a “serious writer” – which, to him, meant getting published. Introduction Eighty years ago,

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]]> Feudal Japan: The Age of the Warrior https://brewminate.com/feudal-japan-the-age-of-the-warrior/ Mon, 24 Sep 2018 17:27:35 +0000 http://brewminate.com/?p=71121 Japanese imperial family / Wikimedia Commons The collapse of aristocratic rule ushered in a new age of chaos

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]]> A History of Natural Balance in Japanese Shinto Architecture https://brewminate.com/a-history-of-natural-balance-in-japanese-shinto-architecture/ Sun, 09 Sep 2018 17:33:57 +0000 http://brewminate.com/?p=69848 The Shinto shrine of Fujisan Hongu Sengen Taisha, Mount Fuji. The site’s most important shrine, it was first

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]]> Tea in Ancient China and Japan https://brewminate.com/tea-in-ancient-china-and-japan/ Sun, 09 Sep 2018 17:32:55 +0000 http://brewminate.com/?p=69857 The Japanese Tea Ceremony / Photo by mrhayata, Creative Commons Tea was first drunk by Chinese monks to

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]]> From Shoguns to Emperors: Japan’s Transformation from Edo to Meiji https://brewminate.com/japan-from-the-edo-period-to-the-meiji-restoration/ Sat, 18 Aug 2018 17:50:17 +0000 http://brewminate.com/?p=67725 Floats for the Kanda Festival, 1843 / Photo by Daderot, Edo-Tokyo Museum, Wikimedia Commons Looking at Japan’s growth

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]]> The Lingering Imperial Self-Identity of Japan as a Warrior Nation https://brewminate.com/the-lingering-imperial-self-identity-of-japan-as-a-warrior-nation/ Fri, 08 Jun 2018 17:46:32 +0000 http://brewminate.com/?p=61814 Japanese soldiers of the Sino-Japanese War. Wikimedia Commons As Japanese imperialism rose and fell, its leaders interpreted and re-interpreted a single distinctive concept: “bushido”. By

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]]> Educational Reform in 19th-Century Japan https://brewminate.com/educational-reform-in-19th-century-japan/ Sat, 05 May 2018 17:12:30 +0000 http://brewminate.com/?p=58903 Birds and Flowers of Spring and Summer, by Kano Eino / Suntory Museum of Art, via Wikimedia Commons By

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]]> The Art and Architecture of Ancient and Early Medieval Japan https://brewminate.com/the-art-and-architecture-of-ancient-and-early-medieval-japan/ Sun, 08 Apr 2018 17:47:30 +0000 http://brewminate.com/?p=57094 Old painting of Himeji castle / Wikimedia Commons Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 04.07.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief

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