Japanese Adult Video Proliferation
With the growing connectivity of the world wide web, JAV has received exponential growth in exposure to the West. With the growth of porn tube sites, many tube sites focus on the JAV niche, the most prominent in North America being sites like Youporn, and fast growing new JAV-only tube sites such as YouJav.com.
Magazines are, [...]
Japanese Pornography and JAV
Japanese pornography has some unique features which separate it from pornography in other countries, especially Western pornography. It is quite common and frequently translated and exported to Western cultures because of its large spectrum of themes and media.
The concept of “pornography” may have emerged in the Edo period when every form of popular culture flourished. [...]
Japanese Samurai History
Samurai (侍?) is the term for the military nobility of pre-industrial Japan. According to translator William Scott Wilson: “In Chinese, the character 侍 was originally a verb meaning to wait upon or accompany a person in the upper ranks of society, and this is also true of the original term in Japanese, saburau. In both [...]
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuclear attacks near the end of World War II against the Empire of Japan by the United States at the executive order of U.S. President Harry S. Truman on August 6 and August 9, 1945, respectively. After six months of intense fire-bombing of 67 other Japanese cities, [...]
Yakuza from a Mafia to Japan Art
Yakuza from a Mafia to Japan Art
The term “Yakuza” comes from a Japanese card game, Oicho-Kabu (played with hanafuda or kabufuda cards). The worst hand in the game is a set of eight, nine and three. In traditional Japanese forms of counting, these numbers are called Ya, Ku and Sa, thus the origin of the [...]
