Bento

By. Ahmadi

About of Bento

Bento is a takeout, normally in a box has of rice, fish,meat and many vegetables.

Bento are used by kids or workers as a packed lunch or by families on day travels, for classespicnics and sports etc. The bento, made at house, is wrapped in a furoshiki.

Bento Style

Bento can be really elaborately arranged in a model .

1.      Character bento or called kyaraben

Kyaraben is usually decorated like anime characters, characters from manga or video game characters. 

2.      Picture bento or called oekakiben

Oekakiben is decorated  like animals, buildings or monuments,  people and object like plants and flowers.

Type of Bento

·         Makunouchi

·         Noriben

·         Sake bentō

·         Shidashi bentō

·         Tori bento

·         Hinomaru bento

·         Tōge no Kamameshi bento

·         Shōkadō bentō

·         Chūka bentō

·         Kamameshi bentō

·         Hokaben

·         Hayaben

·         Ekiben 

Homemade Bento

·         Type 1

Use meat or fish, and prepared ingredients that used in for decades like frozen shumai, fried korokke, etc.

·         Type 2

Also identified as cute bento, character bento or entertaining bento, etc. This variety of bento has garnered the many attention outside of Japan, because bento are so visual.

·         Type 3

Bento that is respects the ingredients. Of the focus is on traditional Japan foods. 

This bento as a fresh vegetables, Organic food,whole grains and any more.

Other artciles : Anime and Highlights  Japan

Anime

By. Ahmadi

Meaning Anime

Anime  is the Japan abbreviated pronunciation of animation.

Anime is unique, the animation films of Japan to be different from those in America.. And also many Japanese animation or Anime series have been televised in North America due to anime increasing popularity in the West.

Nearly almost goes without saying that Japanese animation is becoming increasingly in demand outside of its homeland.


Anime History

At the stop of World War II, many Japan parents had contact with western culture .Peoples  in the starting of profession began to know the comic in its modern form.

Shotaro Ishinomori, Osamu Tezuka and Leiji Matsumoto is the major artists who were included with this.
Anime started at the begin on the 20thcentury, as soon as Japanese filmmakers experimented .

Following a few productive adaptations of anime in foreign markets in the 1980. in the 1990, anime gained greater acceptance in those markets and a even more on the 21st century.


Favorite Anime

Anime has become a famous entertainment import into the world. Several of the well-known anime tv series were :

1.      Guilty Crown

2.      Fate/Zero

3.      One Piece

4.      Fairy Tail

5.      Mirai Nikki

6.      Hellsing U

7.      Black Rock S

8.      Naruto

9.      Bleach

10.  Lagrange

11.  Beelzebub

12.  High School(DxD)

13.  Ao no Exorcist

14.  HunterXHunter

15.  D Koukousei no Nichijou

16.  Sket Dance

17.  RagnaroK (The Animation)

18.  Nurarihyon (Sennen Makyou)

19.  D. Yakumo

And Now, Anime also used in tv series, films, video games and any more.

Anime is currently famous in many regions.

Highlights of Japan

By. Ahmadi

A few information about Japan :

Japan, it is Geography

Japan is divided from the Sea japanese by the east coast of Asia. Japan is archipelago in the Pacific and with four main island are :

1.       Hokkaido

2.       Honshu

3.       Kyushu

4.       Shikoku

This country has a total of 6.852 islands extending along the Pacific coast of East Asia.

Together accounting for ninety-seven percent of Japan's land area. Japan has the world's 10th-biggest population, Together with over 127 million people. The larger Tokyo area, that comprises of the de facto capital town of Tokyo and many surrounding prefectures, is the biggest metropolitan town in the world, having over thirty million residents.

Japan  >> Human Populations

Population in japan is predicted at around 127.3 million. Japanese people is Lingiuistically and culturally homogeneous, composed of 98.5% ethnic Japanese,with little populations of foreign workers.

Japan  >>Premier city (Largest)

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1.      Tokyo

2.      Yokohama

3.      Osaka

4.      Nagoya

5.      Sapporo

6.      Kōbe

7.      Kyōto

8.      Fukuoka

9.      Kawasaki

10.  Saitama

11.  Hiroshima

12.  Sendai

13.  Kitakyūshū

14.  Chiba

15.  Sakai

16.  Niigita

17.  Hamamatsu

18.  Kumamoto

19.  Sagamihara

20.  Shizuoka

Japanese >> Politic, Federal Government 

Power, strength of the Emperor is really unlimited, Japan is constitutional monarchy. Although sovereignty is vested in the Japanese persons.

Japanese legislative organ is the “National Diet”, a bicameral parliament. The Diet includes a House of Representatives having more than 400 seats, selected by way of popular vote any 4 years and plus a House of Councillors with over 200 seats.

Minister in Japan is the head of federal govt and is specified by the Emperor after appointed by the “National Diet” from among its members. 

Historically, in the past influenced by China law, the Japan legal system created independently during the Edo period .

Local Weather of Japan

The local weather of Japan is predominantly temperate, However differs greatly from north to south.

Japan's geographical features divide it into 6 principal climatic specific zones: Pacific Ocean, Hokkaidō, Central Highland, Sea of Japan, Seto Inland Sea, and Ryūkyū Islands. 

1.       Natsu

2.       Fuyu

3.       Haru

4.       Aki

Japan Cuisine

Japanese cuisine is identified for its focus on seasonality of food such as Sushi, gyudon,  udon, takoyaki and more.

Culinary

1.       Takoyaki

2.       Sushi

3.       Dessert (Japan snack)

4.       Sukiyaki

5.       Tempura

6.       Udon

7.       Onigiri

8.       Mochi

Japan Art

Japanese architecture  with use of slidding doorway  that break down the difference variance house and outdoor and indoor space and Tatami mats.

Japan’s painting are between the most ancient of the Japan arts, with early figurative arts relationship back to at minimum over 300 BC.

Japanese  sculpture typically of wood.

Japanese comics is a comic book format that is today popular within and outside Japan. Manga inspired animation for television and film is called anime.

And more.     

Japan and Sports Activities

1.       Sumo

2.       Judo

3.       Kendo

4.       Karate

5.       Baseball

6.       Football

Japan Musics

Japanese music  is diverse and eclectic such as koto and instrumens. Favorite music in post-war Japan has been intensely inspired by European and  Americans trends and European and Americans trends led and also contributed to the revolution of J-Pop.

Japan Culture

Japan culture has improved greatly from its origins, combines influences from America, Asia and Europe. Traditional Japanese arts like bunraku, noh, kabuki, ikebana, tea ceremony and more.

Japan Religion and language

84–96 %of the Japanese population subscribe to Shinto  or Buddhism. However, just only 30% of the japanese persons identify themselves as belonging to a religion.

Fewer than 1 % of Japanese are Christian.

And By using Hiragana, Kanji, and Katakana Over 90 % of the people speaks Japan’s as their first language.

Ethnic groups 

98.5% Japanese

0.5% Korean

0.4% Chinese

0.6% other

Sights of Japan

·         Best

1.       Fuji

2.       Harajuku (Shibuya)

3.       Osaka Castle (Osaka)

4.       TMG, Metropolitan Government

5.       Lake Kawaguchi

6.       Running Glico  in Osaka

7.       Doraku Crab in Osaka

·         Theme Park

1.       Studios Japan

2.       Tokyo Land (Disney)

3.       DisneySea

4.       City Walk (Osaka)

·         Temple

1.       Sensoji Temple (Tokyo)

2.       Meiji Shrine (Tokyo)

3.       Kiyomizudera

4.       Sanjusangendo

5.       Shitennoji (Osaka)

Japan is a fantastic, intoxicating blend of contrasts: traditional and contemporary, ancient and modern, natural and industrial urbane and rustic,  chaotic and peaceful.