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Objection!: Ace Attorney And The Japanese Criminal Courts, Emmalee A. Ellison
Objection!: Ace Attorney And The Japanese Criminal Courts, Emmalee A. Ellison
COLA Research and Creativity Conference
The Ace Attorney video game series is a game series developed by Capcom since 2001 that can be described as an interactive visual novel in the criminal courts. Despite claims that the Ace Attorney video game series is inaccurate to court proceedings, these arguments are made in comparison to the American criminal justice system, and not the Japanese courts that the series was originally modeled after. The Ace Attorney series holds relatively true to the happenings of the Japanese criminal justice system, except some scenarios are localized and exaggerated for the sake of video game drama and suspense. Moreover, since …
Female Spirit Possession And Sexuality In Genji Monogatari, Nolan Miller
Female Spirit Possession And Sexuality In Genji Monogatari, Nolan Miller
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In Murasaki Shikibu's Genji monogatari , the readers follow the protagonist, Hikaru Genji, on his journey of romance and political power within the Heian period's polygamist court (784-1185). Due to high ranking males in Heian court possessing sexual privilege, women are often neglected as their courtiers seek extraneous love affairs. A perplexing consequence of this permissible male lifestyle leads women to use the supernatural force of spirit possession or mono no ke. While many scholars conclude that insatiable female emotions unconsciously elicit spirit possessions, women who are involved in the act willfully push the boundaries of male sexuality through …
How Yutori Education System Affected Japanese Society, Jieying Zhou
How Yutori Education System Affected Japanese Society, Jieying Zhou
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The purpose of this paper is to analyze how yutori education system affected Japanese society in different fields. Yutori kyoiku (relaxed education), which was announced in 1998, is a change that the government decided to give younger Japanese:an education system with lower pressure. It was used in all Japanese schools for about twenty years. Through the growth of people who had yutori education, more Japanese people started to realize there are several negative effects caused by this policy in Japanese society. This paper will focus on the failure of yutori education and why it brought a different result from people’s …