‘History’ Archives
Japan with Hidden Cross – Ken Joseph (Jr.)
This book was very interesting for me. I've already read some books about history of Japanese religions and immigrants from other parts of the world. The Author, Ken Joseph and Ken Joseph Jr. explained how our history education has had a lot of lack in teaching religion of Japan, and the people of Japan. We Japanese learn that Buddhism [...]
Tengu- The shadow of Jewish in Japan
In Japan, there are many strange creatures in the tale of history, in the old books, and sometimes it's still visible as statue in temples or shrines. Tengu ( see photo) is one of the strange creatures living in the legend of Japan. Tengu is believed to live in the steep mountains and he is strong with much knowledge for life. Please see [...]
Jedaism in Japan 2
There is an old and original religion called SHINTO in Japan. This was born probably more than 2000 years ago in Japan. It's related with Emperor of Japan. SHINTO shrine honors its God but it's not visible from us human. We don't have idol worship at shrines of SHINTO samely as Judism. There are uncountably large number of Shinto shirines in [...]
Hidden History-Jews in Japan 1
When I first heard about the rumor about Jewish people in Japan, I didn't care at all. They often told me that in the ancient time of Japan, groups of Jews came to Japan and they started building up the country of Japan by their own background. How could I believe it at the first time ? But now, I believe it. I don't know how many people [...]
Mayor of Hiroshima City met President Obama
Recently the news about Japan-US relationship is not always good. That's because of the problem of removal of American base in Okinawa island first of all, and secondly, the new leading political party wants to get closer to Asian countries rather than staying with the USA only. Interestingly, impression of president Obama is not bad at all [...]
Futemma, Okinawa base goes where ?
US -JAPAN relation is not as good as the past 50 years. It's often said recently because of the issue of removal of Okinawa Military Base of the USA. Japan and the USA once agreed to move it to the new place in the man-made ocean base in FUTEMMA of OKINAWA. This agreement was made by the previous Japanese leading party, Leberal Democratic [...]
New Adults’ Day in Japan
Seijin no hi, or New Adults' Day is the day when we celebrate the new adult people in the year. People who become 20 years old in the year are celebrated for the growth and future happiness in Japan. The day was set on 15th of January some years ago, but nowadays, it's on the 2nd Monday in January each year, and it's a national holiday of [...]
Japanese Calligraphy History
HOW DID JAPANESE CALLIGRAPHY GROW ? Calligraphy's original birthplace is China in the history. Japan was influenced by China in its use of the character and also in Calligraphy, or Shodo in Japanese language. The Chinese had original character and it's believed that Japan imported their character as Kanji. After that, Kanji grew Japanized [...]
Poland & Japan relation
This topic is totally from my personal taste. It's not a news topic but my thought about Poland. Without any reasons,I often think Poland may be close to Japan in human nature or nationality. That's because I have a friend from Poland and she has a similar emotional character as we Japanese have. She doesn't know anything about Japan, [...]
Mexico-Japan friendship 400th anniversary
This year is 400th anniversary of Japan-Mexico friendship. It means Japan and Mexico have been in friendship since 1609. It's such a long time ! I still remember that Japanese football team won the bronzemedal in Mexico Olympic and a weight-lifting player of Japan, Yoshinobu Miyake got a gold medal then. Just recently, I met with an [...]
