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Hinamatsuri Dolls
ResourceHina dolls on display to celebrate Hinamatsuri (Doll Festival) on March 3rd.
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Origami Hina Doll Instructions
ResourceThese easy-to-follow instructions show how to make origami hina dolls to celebrate Hinamatsuri, or the Doll Festival.
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Easy Recipes
ResourceThese easy Japanese recipes are suitable for use in the elementary classroom. In addition to introducing Japanese culture, they can be used to reinforce math and nutrition concepts.
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Japan's Forests: Good Days and Bad --Rhythms of Damage and Recovery -
EssayJapan historian Conrad Totman provides an overview of Japanese history from the viewpoint of the relation between humans and forests. This view of history incorporates the relationship between environmental, political, technological, and economic history.premodern Japan
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Is that really funny? - humor and identity in Japan and China
EssayCambridge University historian Barak Kushner looks at how to use the humor to understand how Japan and China have understood one another. Includes references to good primary sources.
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The Japanese Missions to Tang China, 7th-9th Centuries
EssayFrom 630 to 894, the Japanese court sent a number of official envoys to Tang China. These missions profoundly affected Japan's government, economics, culture and religion. This essay helps clarify how cultural interaction between Japan and China worked during this early era -- an essential element for understanding and teaching East Asian history in the 7th-9th centuries.
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Tanabata: Japan's Star Festival
ResourceTanabata: Japan's Star Festival
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Hideyoshi's Ear Mound and Surrounding Area (inset)
ResourceThis hill covers the noses (or ears, depending on the source) of over 40,000 Koreans killed by Japanese soldiers in an attack on the Korean peninsula in the 1590s.
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Hideyoshi's Ear/Nose Mound
ResourceThis hill covers the noses (or ears, depending on the source) of over 40,000 Koreans killed by Japanese soldiers in an attack on the Korean peninsula in the 1590s. (unobstructed photo)
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Area Surrounding Hideyoshi's Ear Mound
ResourceView of the area surrounding the hill that covers the noses (or ears, depending on the source) of over 40,000 Koreans killed by Japanese soldiers in an attack on the Korean peninsula in the 1590s.
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