Foreigners are tolerated in modern Japan, although they were banished for hundreds of years.
Those who have worked with machines to create modern Japan receive similar recognition from the Labor Ministry.
But if modern Japan has abandoned its national recreation, Moriyama, a conservative enclave in Kanazawa city, has not.
Sociologists claim the lyrics have caught a popular mood of the shared hardship experienced during the worst and longest recession in modern Japan.
The Meiji emperor then presided over the creation of modern Japan.
In order to understand the nature of this search--and to grasp its implications for modern Japan--it is necessary to look at some recent trends in Japanese historiography.
Published this week in the U.S. by Harper Collins (no one in Japan has yet agreed to translate and publish the work), Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan relies on diaries, memoirs and war-era documents that have been unearthed in Japan since the Emperor died in 1989.
If the crown prince and princess are turning to modern medicine, Japan is well-served by top specialists and the latest technologies.
Iwona has lectured all over the world including at the Toyama Museum of Modern Art in Japan, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp and the Louisiana Museum, Denmark.
The cults, it seems, like other businesses, are feeling the effects of the longest recession in Japan's modern history and have responded with strong-arm sales tactics.
There is such a thing as good deflation and, in mirroring late nineteenth century America, the experience of Japan is the authentic modern manifestation of the phenomenon.
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These raised the sea level, producing Japan's meandering modern coastline with its prolific crops of shellfish and edible seaweed, and also permitted the spread of deciduous forests, which provide a cornucopia of nuts, berries and shoots that do not run away.
That recipe, adds Cracco, is a good example of how the best modern Italian cuisine has been influenced by Japan.
In Japan, a country with a strong modern pacifist streak, winning the hearts and minds of the citizenry may be the military's biggest battle.
Whether you go traditional or explore some of the more modern takes on the onsen experience, getting into hot water in Japan is good, clean fun.
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In the mid-afternoon on Friday, March 11 the seismic sensors at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant in the Fukushima Prefecture of Japan registered the earliest indications of the largest earthquake in modern Japanese history.
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If Japan, too, can address its problems as the sort of modern society it fancies itself to be, the world will be greatly relieved.
Following a model used by Japan and Korea, China is also encouraging foreign automakers to bring modern emissions and safety technology and share it with their Chinese partners.
In Japan, where there is no native tradition of jewel making, some modern jewellers have resurrected techniques used to decorate Samurai swords. (Historically, the links between jewellers and armourers is close in many cultures.) The distilled and uncluttered purity of new Japanese jewellery is without equal.
"It is the corporate sector that is waking up from 10 years of complacency and is starting to invest in more modern technology to stay globally competitive, " says Jesper Koll, chief economist at Merrill Lynch Japan.
It's a reference to the pre-World War II forerunners of a corporate form whose modern iterations are better known as keiretsu, those vertically integrated manufacturing and trading cartels that gave Japan Inc. its fearsome reputation in the 1980s.
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So to spectacular Yokohama for the finale, with Japan's tallest building and the world's biggest ferris wheel as landmarks for a modern city.
She started sampling jazz and hip-hop at 18 in her native Japan and moved to the U.S. five years ago for more technical training in modern dance and ballet.
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