Shinkansen Route Map - nippon.com
WEBMar 16, 2024 · Line Route Distance Top Speed Shortest Travel Time; Tōkaidō Shinkansen: Tokyo–Shin-Osaka: 552.6 km: 285 km/h: Tokyo–Nagoya: 1 h 33 m Tokyo–Shin-Osaka: 2 h 21 m
The Evolution of the Japanese Anime Industry | Nippon.com
WEBDec 20, 2013 · In recent years, Japanese animation has become popular around the world. Industry veteran Yamaguchi Yasuo, who has been involved in anime production for half a century, traces the history of ...
The Japanese School System | Nippon.com
WEBJan 11, 2016 · In Japan, education is compulsory roughly from the age of 6 to the age of 15. The school year begins in April, so almost all children who have turned 6 by April 1 each year enter elementary school ...
How the War with Japan Saved the Chinese Communist Party
WEBJul 27, 2021 · The Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–45) was a devastating ordeal for China, but it was also, paradoxically, the salvation of the Communist Party of China. On the eve of the July 1937 Marco Polo ...
Japan’s Emperor and Imperial Family | Nippon.com
WEBOct 26, 2021 · Emperor Emeritus Akihito and Empress Emerita Michiko on January 1, 2023. (Courtesy the Imperial Household Agency) Crown Prince Fumihito (second from left), Crown Princess Kiko (second from right ...
Mount Fuji’s History of Eruptions | Nippon.com
WEBApr 3, 2019 · Mount Fuji is a Japanese icon, and at 3,776 meters the country’s tallest peak. Its elegant symmetry, spreading outward like a hand fan from summit to base, is the result of repeated occurrences ...
Japan’s Idol Industry - nippon.com
WEBYamaguchi Momoe, the duo Pink Lady, and Matsuda Seiko were among the most popular pop music idols of the 1970s and 1980s. The niche they carved out in the Japanese entertainment industry is now ...
Oda Nobunaga and the Struggle to Unify Japan | Nippon.com
WEBJan 8, 2020 · Oda Nobunaga was born in 1534, in the middle of the Warring States period (1467–1568). The Ashikaga clan had established the Muromachi shogunate in 1338, but its control in the east of the ...
Crime and Punishment in Japan: A Holistic Perspective
WEBJun 3, 2020 · Under Japan’s Code of Criminal Procedure, police have 48 hours after an arrest to transfer the case to the public prosecutor. The prosecutor then has up to 24 hours to either charge the suspect ...
“Taiko” Drums - nippon.com
WEBOct 8, 2016 · The instruments originally came to Japan from continental Asia. The oldest drums in the country have been discovered at sites dating back to the Jōmon period (ca. 10,000 BC–300 BC). was used in ...