CULTURE SPECIFIC ITEMS TRANSLATION STRATEGY IN ONE PIECE: ROMANCE DAWN by Andrean Susanto

“…The result was nine CSIs found in One Piece: Romance Dawn that refers to Japanese culture.Five CSIs were written in its original Japanese word, one CSI was translated into Indonesian word, while three CSIs were shown in pictures. …”
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Becoming an Aikidoka: Acculturation and Essentialism in the Practice of Aikido by Kevin Siah-Yeow Tan

“…Based on an ethnographic study conducted from 2002-2005 in Canada, this paper argues that the practice of Aikido within a specific community of practitioners does not simply exist as a medium for acquiring martial knowledge, but is also a viable conduit for acculturating or essentializing aspects of Japanese culture and identity. This is made possible in light of the highly embodied and corporeal dimension of Aikido practice, which requires one to develop the necessary dispositions and strategies for the construction of an Aikido habitus. …”
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Vittorio Pica japoniste: critica militante e collezionismo fra letteratura e arte by Lacagnina, Davide

“…Pica was among the first critics to show a relevant interest in Japanese culture, under the influence of French criticism and especially of the Goncourt brothers. …”
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Shaping Darkness in hyakki yagyō emaki by Raluca NICOLAE

“… In Japanese culture, the yōkai, the numinous creatures inhabiting the other world and, sometimes, the boundary between our world and the other, are obvious manifestations of the feeling of fear, “translated” into text and image. …”
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Documentation et conservation-restauration d’un autel bouddhique en bois laqué et doré, provenant du Japon by Violaine Brard

“…The research focused on raising understanding  how this object has been transferred from  the Japanese culture  into a French collection that has been developed by Georges Labit a traveller and collector of the late nineteenth century. …”
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La glocalisation de la protection du patrimoine folklorique : l’exemple des coutumes liées à la riziculture dans le nord de la péninsule de Noto by Akira Kikuchi

“…This paper will explore the issue of heritage and its preservation through an analysis of certain customs relating to rice growing, the “substrate of Japanese culture”. It will focus on the “cultural landscape” formed by the terraced rice fields of the Noto Peninsula (Ishikawa Prefecture), and the “archaic” local thanksgiving festival (Ae no koto or “receiving festival”). …”
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Religious and philosophical system "Ise monogatari zui" by S. V. Kapranov

“…Richard Browring called "Isi monogatari" one of the most important and at the same time one of the most mysterious texts of Japanese culture. Created at the beginning of the tenth century, at a turning point, at the dawn of the early and mature phases of Hayan's days, this work was one of the first written in classical Japanese, one of the first works of the genre of monogatari, the first work of the genre Uta-monogatari, and others like that. …”
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Dziecięce i młodzieńcze fascynacje Tanizakiego Jun’ichirō światem teatru kabuki by Marcelina Leśniczak

“…Tanizaki, born into merchant’s family in Tokyo, was educated from his early childhood by his mother and grandfather – who both shared a refined taste, with respect to traditional Japanese culture ad especially Japanese theater. This article is based on Tanizaki’s essays, memoirs where he describes his interest and passion for theater in great detail. …”
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Migrant and Minority Nostalgia in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Circle K Cycles by Micheli, Grazia

“…In the face of social marginalisation and the hegemonic pressures of Japanese culture to conform to a standard of ‘pure Japaneseness’, Japanese Brazilians reinforce their attachment to Brazil, which they express in the form of nostalgia, or saudade. …”
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Can Pop Culture Allay Resentment? Japan’s Influence in China Today by Yuqing Wu

“…In China, despite the traumatic collective memory relating to militaristic Japan during World War II, an increasing number of Chinese young adults have developed an obsession with Japanese culture, due to its export of anime, movies, pop music, and other popular culture. …”
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Japonia Jerzego Grotowskiego i Tadeusza Kantora by Zbigniew Osiński

“…<p>The paper focuses on the relation between two prominent theatre artists – Jerzy Grotowski and Tadeusz Kantor – and the Japanese culture. The text is divided into five parts: 1. …”
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Twórczość Harukiego Murakamiego w świetle zjawiska transkulturowości - muzyczne studium przypadku by Anna Duda

“…Moreover, this fact does not only result from his original style of writing but from the character of Japanese culture. I have employed this fact as a key to deciphering to what extent Murakami’s writings are postmodernist.…”
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Linguistic Representation of Emotions in Japanese and Hungarian: Quantity and Abstractness by Márton SZEMEREY

“…After a brief summary on the recent emotional researches connected to Japanese culture and language, the concept of Linguistic Category Model is introduced. …”
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Boundary Work in Japanese Religious Studies: Anesaki Masaharu on Religious Freedom and Academic Concealment by Avery Morrow

“…I demonstrate some difficulties with identifying an esoteric category in modern Japanese culture, suggesting that the problem is one of discursive boundaries within the humanities. …”
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A study on the consumption of Japanese fashion among young Singaporean females. by Chan, Melissa Mei Shan.

“…The love for Japanese fashion also seems to be something that is tied to the appreciation of Japanese culture- or at least, its popular culture. On those grounds, I will explore the ways in which Japan has successfully created an attractive international image. …”
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Unsur Budaya Dalam Terjemahan Bahasa Jepun Ke Bahasa Melayu : Analisis Karya Konosuke Matsushita [P306.A3 N842 2008 f rb]. by Amzah, Normalis

“…‘Japanese Language symbolizes Japanese Culture’ and ‘Cultural Elements is a crucial aspect in translation’. …”
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Hindi Haiku: A Study of Shifts in Moods by Mallika Tosha

“…This study explores the philosophical inclination, formative deviation and cultural variation of haiku as it travelled from Japanese culture to the Indian culture.…”
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The Neutral View: Roland Barthes’ Representations of Japan and China by Piers M. Smith

“…The first book can be seen as a highly polished "fictional" or aestheticized rendering of Japan and Japanese culture; the latter, on the other hand, is largely unmediated by the same aesthetic and aestheticizing concerns. …”
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Common names decreased in Japan: Further evidence of an increase in individualism by Yuji Ogihara, April Dye

“…These results were consistent with the previous research, which further increases the validity of the finding that Japanese culture became more individualistic.…”
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Choirs in Two Countries — A Study of Community Music Therapy for the Older Adults in Norway and Japan by Hiroko Kimura, Yumi Nishimoto

“…This research focuses on how Japanese culture affects the implemention of Community Music Therapy (CoMT), by comparing the results of questionnaires carried out with groups of older adults in Norway and Japan. …”
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