Historically, Chinese legal governance has been through criminal codes that specify punishments for actions taken against the state or society. Following the First Opium War (1839-1842), power struggles between China and ...

This thesis examines to what extent Confucianism is still apparent in modern Korea by comparing the 12th century work Family Rituals with the modern Korean drama A Gentleman’s Dignity. Korea has been modernizing rapidly ...

Chikamatsu Monzaemon’s classic bunraku (puppet) plays found their new theater in the younger Japanese film industry of the 1950s and 60s. This fascination with the traditional aspects of Japanese society and life ran ...

In Japanese media, culture, and society, the idea of hikikomori is glorified, inaccurate, and misunderstood. There are a plethora of images in Japanese media that depict men and women in their homes, purposefully separating ...

Although both China and Japan had a tradition of four categories of people, it has been commonly believed that Japan, unlike China, did not have a literati class. However, by carefully analyzing the influence Chinese ...

This thesis will discuss the significance of Wataya Risa’s novel Install (インストール) and conclude with a translation the beginning of the text. The story follows Asako, a seventeen year old girl sick of high school life and ...

In 2008, amidst the continued presence of gays and transsexuals in Japanese media after the "gay boom" of the 1990s, a "New Half' transsexual individual by the name of Tsubaki Ayana wrote a memoir entitled Watashi, ...

Within the Heian period, nikki bungaku, diary literature, began to be produced in great numbers. Written by female members of the court, the prime purpose of nikki was their use as a form of political power. As there was ...