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Changing Views Of Tattoos In Japan, Kara White
Changing Views Of Tattoos In Japan, Kara White
COLA Research and Creativity Conference
The purpose of this presentation is to discuss the views of Tattoos in Japan, the areas in which the views are changing and whom it affects. Tourism is an ever-growing important aspect of economic income in Japan. There are various activities within Japan that can be confined to those who do not have tattoos or tattoos too large to cover. Due to this there can be a loss in tourism income. With the Olympics approaching in 2020 it has cause the Japanese government to consider modifications in their policies concerning tattoos and there have been recent changes to the restrictions …
Japanese Environmentalism Reflected Through Princess Mononoke, Joseph Smith
Japanese Environmentalism Reflected Through Princess Mononoke, Joseph Smith
COLA Research and Creativity Conference
Recently, Japan has led political negotiations toward creating stronger and more impactful environmental policies. Nevertheless, it still faces many environmental issues. Hayao Miyazaki’s 1997 animated film Princess Mononoke (もののけ姫Mononoke-hime) encapsulates the negative implications of destroying nature for the sake of economic gain. Here, the audience can derive many environmental issues. For example, acts such as deforestation can lead to an excessive demand for trade of timber, resulting in endangered species. This presentation will explore the impact of environmentalism in Princess Mononoke with greater detail, including the adverse effects people encounter through losing access to nature.
Feminism And Mythology: Hiratsuka Raicho And Japanese Feminism, Edris Akers
Feminism And Mythology: Hiratsuka Raicho And Japanese Feminism, Edris Akers
COLA Research and Creativity Conference
In the early 1900s of Japan, Hiratsuka Raicho started a journal called Bluestocking. In its early years, it focused on women’s literature. Soon after, the focus of the journal shifted to women’s issues. In one of the first issues, Raicho made reference to Japan’s creation myths in an attempt to stress the suppression of women’s rights in Japan. Raicho’s dialog regarding women’s reproductive health stirred innumerable conversations within the community. Through her poetry she made clear her own feelings on women’s rights of the time period. I will introduce the ode to mythology in feminism in Japan in the …
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
COLA Research and Creativity Conference
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
COLA Research and Creativity Conference
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 …