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Fall 2012 Presenter: Yudai Fujino ESL 156 Comparative Culture Studies Instructor: Lyra Riabov Slide 2 Outline Geography and Location Traditional clothes Traditional event Typical Food Natural Disaster Slide 3 Eastern Asia, island chain between the North Pacific Ocean and the Sea of the Japan Coordinates; 36 North, 138East They have the four largest islands which are Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku, and Hokkaido Slide 4 Kimono we use this in formal event such as coming-of- age ceremony Yukata we use this in summer party or when we go seeing fireworks Slide 5 Tanabata Japanese star festival, everyone write down own wish on the paper and hang it on the tree Setsubun Bean-Throwing festival, we can eat a thick roll sushi, and throw bean Slide 6 Sushi raw fish on the rice Nattou gluey bean Takoyaki ball-shaped snack contains octopus inside Slide 7 Matcha bitter green tea Mochi Japanese rice cake Osechi Traditional food, various food in the special box Slide 8 2011 Tohoku earthquake and Tsunami Magnitude 9.0 and earthquake intensity 7 Fatalities number is over 15,000 Slide 9 Reference http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=ja http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A1 %E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%9A %E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8 http://www.teikokushoin.co.jp/statistics/j apan/index03.html http://www.tokyo-skytree.jp/ http://www.tokyo-skytree.jp/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setsubun Slide 10 Thank you for listening!!!!!