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Onee Kotoba and The Inner Feelings A Potentially New Component To Sexual Identity 
Okada, Kentaro (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
In Japan, there are some homosexual people who prefer to use the feminine speech style which almost no real women use anymore. Their feminine speech style is known as Onee Kotoba. The aim of this study to investigate why ...
Problems with the concept Satoyama: A critical review of satoyama as a concept in conservationism 
Ruud, Jon Magnus (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
This paper is a critical review of the concept of satoyama, the traditional cultural landscape of Japan. There are many academic papers presenting the positive aspects of satoyama, especially with an environmentalist or ...
Traditional Festival as a Tourism Event: Stakeholders’ Influence on the Dynamics of the Sendai Tanabata Festival in Japan 
Shen, Yujie (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Expression, Visibility, and Safety How do members of Tokyo’s LGBT community navigate their existence within Japanese society? Restricted Access
Hessen, Robin (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
'Tama Between Realms': Riding the Cat Train Through Rural Japan - A Cultural Study of Tama the Stationmaster 
Videsjorden, Silje Karina Scott (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
This thesis explores the phenomenon of Tama the stationmaster, and how we can understand her popularity and story. Tama was a cat who was appointed stationmaster of a small train station, in the rural outskirts of Wakayama. ...
50 ways to say “No” in Japanese 
Maciejewski, Daniel Maciej (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
The aim of this study was to investigate how Japanese people say no without directly saying no in refusals. The research examines a variety of strategies used by Japanese people in specific refusal situations and if these ...
‘Homeplace of the Heart’: Fireflies, Tourism and Town-Building in Rural Japan 
Haugan, Ellen Benedicte (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
This thesis discusses hotaru no sato (firefly villages) and the various ways in which they relate to fireflies and regional revitalisation. Fireflies have long wielded the imaginations of Japanese people, from featuring ...
Case-alternation with Japanese adjectives: A cognitive transitive perspective 
Schaanning, Johannes Grøvdal (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
The aim of this thesis is to explain the observed case-alternation occurring with the three Japanese predicates suki 'like', kirai 'dislike' and hoshii 'want' from a Cognitive Linguistic standpoint. These three predicates ...
Discource about jindai moji (the script of the divine age) in Tokugawa Japan 
Zyrenkova, Elizaveta (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
It is a well known fact that the contemprorary Japanese is written with hiragana, katakana and the Chinese characters. There is a theory that claims that an ancient alphabet existed in Japan before any of the aforementioned ...
First-Person Pronouns in Japanese Language From Normative Explanations to Actual Usage 
Milicia, Silvia (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Japanese language presents a wide range of first-person pronouns, all glossed into “I” in the English translation. This study focuses on the first-person pronouns watakushi, watashi, atashi, atai, washi, jibun, boku, ore, ...
“What we have to do is to face the things that hurt and sadden us” - Remembering the past and responsibility in The Silent Cry 
Petznick, Lisa Anne Christine (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
One of the most exciting aspects of literature is how literature deals with subjects and topics in the real world. In this thesis I will examine how Ôe Kenzaburô's novel The Silent Cry deals with the topics of remembering ...
The ubiquity of ‘role language’ in Japanese writing — the use of feminine sentence ending particles in English-Japanese literary translations 
Karlung, Ingvild (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
The aim of this thesis is to find how frequently the feminine sentence ending particles are used in the translation of English literature into Japanese and to compare its frequency to that of the real-life speech by women ...
Loss in Picture Books about the Tōhoku Earthquake 
Boberg, Ingvild (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
This thesis consists of an analysis of two Japanese picture books about death of a loved one during the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami on March 11th, 2011. I apply a broad theoretical framework to place the picture books ...
The Translation of Sounds: How Japanese Onomatopoeias Found in Manga Are Translated to English and Norwegian 
Unhjem, Kine Hagemann (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Localization of Undertale, An American Video Game, Into Japanese 
Jørstad, Maria Christina (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
In this thesis we will examine the localization of the American RPG-title video game Undertale, a video game created and published by Toby Fox in 2015, in the context of language phenomenon in Japanese fiction and translation ...
Representations of China in Japan - Portrayals of China in the 2014 National Diet 
Alsaker, Terje Skjefrås Terashima (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
The following master’s thesis Representations of China in Japan - Portrayals of China in the 2014 National Diet is a study of the rhetorical role that China inhabits within the discourse of the Japanese National Diet of ...
From the Barents Sea to the Japanese Dinner Plate: The Agency and Adventures of the Snow Crab 
Engen, Elisabeth Sjo (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
In this thesis we will follow the snow crab on his adventures across the globe. It is a thesis with significant weight placed on discussions regarding the agency and interpretations of the snow crab’s role in different ...
Clusters in Japan: A Tri-Level Analysis 
Eikenes, Dan Haave (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Ellipsis in Japanese 
Vollan, Anne Sofie (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
International Cooperative Education in Japan - Challenges and Hindrances 
Kvarven, Vibeke Henriette (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
The Factions of the LDP: Saviour Turned Destroyer 
Enoksen, Jan Aleksander (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
During the period of the so called "1955-system", which covers to bulk of the period analysed in this paper, and to some extent also after 1993, the LDP has been described as "a coalition of factions", factions which in ...
The History of English Education in Japan - Motivations, Attitudes and Methods 
Løfsgaard, Kjersti Aasness (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
In today's globalised society English is vital to international communication and cooperation and English education therefore holds a central spot in education systems worldwide. In this thesis I look at the history of ...
Moral Education in Japan The Coming of a New Dawn, Abe s New Moral Education 
Bolton, Kristoffer Hornburg (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
This thesis studies the current debate surrounding moral education in Japan, choosing to focus on the criticism of the Abe administration s proposed educational reform. Moral education has received criticism for being ...
Dealing with Non-standard in Translation Japanese role language into Norwegian Restricted Access
Terada, Yu (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
The aim of the thesis is to explore ways to represent the rich and detailed person images/speech characters that are evoked from non-standard language in the Japanese work in Norwegian language. In Japanese fictional works, ...
Changing paradigms: On the adjectivalization of the verb chigau in Japanese 
Worku, Michael Tesfaye (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
This thesis explores recent changes in the conjugation of the Japanese verb chigau. These changes have resulted in the emergence of several innovative forms based on conjugational formants and auxiliaries normally reserved ...
Mounted Archery in Japan: Yabusame and the Modern Setting 
Wood, Morgaine Theresa (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Summary Described in in a few words, yabusame is a form of mounted archery that in the modern period, and up until very recently, served exclusively as a shrine rite and warrior ceremonial, performed almost as exclusively ...
The Japan association of bereaved families: Special interest politics and the war bereaved in postwar Japan Restricted Access
Holm, Patrik (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Only a little polite? A review and analysis on the use of the 'semi-polite' nai desu in modern Japanese 
Gjesvold, Nils Christian (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
This thesis explores a rather new and somewhat colloquial style of polite language in Japanese, which will mostly be referred to as the semi-polite or nai desu form. In most grammars and textbooks we are usually taught ...
Tension and Conflict in the Construction of the Senkakus: Japanese Discourses Reproducing and Transforming Japan's View on Self and Other Restricted Access
Yennie, Wrenn (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Old Japanese Plant Names 
Mæhlum, Petter (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Målet med denne oppgaven er å se på gammeljapanske plantenavn og hvordan de kan bidra til vår helhetlige forståelse av gammeljapansk, og spesielt det folketaksonomiske systemet, og navngivningsmotivene bak plantenavna i ...
The Modern Samurai: Martial Studies & the Modernization of the Japanese School System 
Nieves, Frank Stephen (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
The focus of this thesis investigates the development and modernization of one of Japan s oldest moral systems known as bushido (the way of the warrior) and its incorporation into the Japanese school system during the ...
The Evolution of the Japanese Period Film. Jidaigeki from 1997 to 2012 
Gustavsen, Vibeke Oseth (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
Japanese Women s Language: Identity, gender, and real language use in contrast to language ideology 
Vranic, Anja (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
Japanese women s language is a concept encountered daily in Japanese society and, perhaps most interestingly, in Japanese language studies. Students are informed that there are such concepts as women s language and men ...
A Comparative Study of Symbolic Words in Japanese and Korean 
Shin, Jungho (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
The Japanese and Korean vocabularies include several thousand symbolic words and they are nearly the only native vocabulary not penetrated by Sino-Japanese or Sino-Korean. Symbolic words (including onomatopoeia) are used ...
A Study on the Translation of the Norwegian 'det er' to Japanese 
Almnes, David Abraham Bramwell (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
This paper investigates the possibilities of significant links or similarities between Norwegian and Japanese. Twice 100 pages from two Norwegian novels were paired with their Japanese translations and investigated for ...
Changes in a Changeless World : Continuity and Discontinuity in Japanese Enka Music 
Hellås, Gaute (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
This thesis seeks to investigate changes and continuity in the Japanese musical genre enka. Enka is a form of sentimental ballad music which is said to sing the heart/soul of Japan. An enka song is made to sound very ...
Kannonkyô Hayayomi Eshô : From a focus on doctrine and practice to a focus on learning Restricted Access
Bauer, Magnus Krogstad (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
This thesis seeks to investigate how notions of learning are expressed in the Oslo copy of Kannonkyô Hayayomi Eshô from 1739. This book was a popular text that sold very well during the Edo period, when printed books spread ...
Japanese traditional tattooing in modern Japan 
Gamborg, Dag Joakim (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
This paper seeks to demonstrate that the contemporary practices of Japanese traditional tattooing are a living continuation of its practices in the past Edo period and post war era through the 80’s It does this by focusing ...
The Era of Koizumi's Right-Wing Populism : A study of ideology, political practice and rhetoric in Japan 
Lindgren, Petter (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
Denne oppgaven handler om høyrepopulism i Japan
A Critical Analysis of Natsuo Kirino's Grotesque 
Nyborg, Øyvor (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
This study is based on the Japanese novel Grotesque (Gurotesuku) by Natsuo Kirino. I use Judith Butler’s theories of gender performativity and interpellation as a framework to analyze the four main female characters, the ...
Diego Collado's Niffon no cotõbani yô confesion : A Translation and Mini Grammar Restricted Access
Johansen, Thomas Jo (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
Zero particle and particle drop in Japanese 
Aamodt, Tami (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
Partikler i Japansk språk viser gramatiske og semantiske forhold mellom substantiver, men i muntlig tale mangler ofte partiklene. Noen forskere påstår at dette fenomenet er bare “particle drop”, mens andre hevder at det ...
Changes in Japanese attitudes toward North Korea since "9/17" 
Hanssen, Ulv Are Rynning (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
This thesis sets out to explore how Japanese attitudes toward North Korea have changed since North Korean leader Kim Jong-il admitted that North Korea systematically abducted Japanese citizens during the 70s and 80s. The ...
Skjels år og alder: ideologiske myter og menneskets lodd gjennom auga til to tragiske humanistar : Ei komparativ analyse av Ôe Kenzaburô og Dag Solstad sine omgrep om eksistensialisme og det å frigjere seg gjennom myter Restricted Access
Lien, Geir Ivar (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
Eg vil med denne oppgåva freiste å vise og gjere greie for eksistensialismen i den tidlege forfattarskapen til Ōe Kenzaburō1 2 (1935-) generelt, og skissere dynamikken mellom det aktive og det passive politiske3 mennesket ...
Sense of cultural identity in Shinkoku, Kôkoku, and Bukoku thoughts in the Edo period : The case of Yamaga Sokô and Buyô Inshi 
Gundersen, Daniel (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
In the Edo period, there was an increase in people who started to question what it meant to be Japanese. This kind of cultural identity can be seen in thoughts on Japan as “Shinkoku” (“the land of the kami/gods” or “Divine ...
Space and Time in the Eitai Setsuyô Mujinzô : Collective identity and imagined community in early modern Japan 
Remvik, Steffen (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
This thesis seeks to investigate how collective identity and community are imagined through a book called Eitai Setsuyō Mujinzō. This is a book in the so called setsuyōshū genre, a kind of household encyclopedia/dictionary ...
"Ainu Hajimeta Bakkari" : Just started being Ainu. Young Ainu and their perspective of their own identity 
Holtan, Sissel Stormo (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
The topic of this Master Thesis is about Ainu - a group of indigenous people from the northern part of Japan. The focus is on Ainu aged in their late 20’s and early 30’s and how and to what extent their people’s dismal ...
Verb Phrase Ellipsis in Japanese : Towards a Functional Approach 
Haugen, Øyvind Kveine (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
Selv om det er enighet rundt det faktum at en elidert (slettet) verbfrase (VP) må være lik sin antesedent (syntaktisk referent), finnes det få om noen tilfredsstillende formuleringer av hvordan ellipsis foregår. Denne ...
Rearticulating Japanese Cinematic Style : Exemplified by Contemporary Japanese Melodrama 
Syversen, Robin (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
Japanese cinema has always been valued by film theorists as an alternative filmic expression of the highest quality. Nevertheless, Japanese cinema is never described with the same respect as European and American filmic ...
How is the consciousness of human rights among Japanese children formed in the context of Japanese philosophy and education? 
Ringdal, Yuko Yamaguchi (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
When Japanese children learn about human rights at school, it appears to be focused on duty rather than human rights. The Confucian Philosophy influences the way of Japanese thinking related to human rights. This thesis ...
Chinese keywords of modernization : loanwords from Japanese? : a critical analytical survey 
Wang, Lei (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
Due to the continuous language exchange between China and Japan in a long history period, the loanwords from Japanese can often be seen in modern Chinese. As a widespread sociolinguistic phenomenon, it is confirmed that ...
Hikikomori - a generation in crisis : investigations into the phenomenon of acute social withdrawal in Japan 
Nesser, Lars (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
This thesis is an investigation into the phenomenon of acute social withdrawal in Japan, a phenomenon popularly referred to as 'hikikomori'. In both Japanese and international media, the phenomenon has received much attention ...
Strategies of authentication in Japanese experimental music 
Larsen, Fredrik Andreas (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
I denne oppgaven har jeg valgt å ta for meg på hvilken måte japanske eksperimentelle musikere forholder seg til krav om autensitet. Det finnes ingen klar definisjon på autensitet, og inneholdet i ordet kan i stor grad ...
Shōchū at the Izakaya or Drinks in the Pub? : Dealing with the Foreign in the Translation of Contemporary Japanese Fiction 
Larsen, Yngve Johan (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
No matter which languages a literary translator handles, he or she is bound to encounter words that represent objects or concepts specific to the source language culture. In most instances, such an element will be unknown ...
Japanese Definitions of Development Aid Related Concepts : 'Ownership' vs. 'Self-Help' 
Holm, Kim Robin (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
After several years of development aid being ruled by conditionality, the international trend in discussion revolving around development co-operation and aid efficiency has gradually shifted focus towards the concepts of ...
Language Homogeneity in the Japanese Wikipedia 
Skevik, Karl-André (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
Det Internet-baserte leksikonet Wikipedia er en potensielt veldig nyttig informasjonskilde, men det er naturlig å være skeptisk til et leksikon der alle kan gjøre endringer. Flere undersøkelser har vært gjort for å finne ...
Mitt eget hjem : En studie av boligens betydning som velferdsgode i Japan, sammenlignet med perspektiver fra Norge og Italia Restricted Access
Winther, Cathrine Skogholt (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
Denne oppgaven handler om boligens betydning i Japan. Japan ble et samfunn av boligeiere i årene etter andre verdenskrig, grunnet en målrettet offentlig boligpolitikk. I dag er boligen et av velferdsstatens viktigste goder, ...
Statlig revisjon på japansk : en studie av den japanske riksrevisjonen 
Ørvim, Bjørn Martin (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
De fleste har hørt om riksrevisjonen, men de færreste vet kanskje hva en riksrevisjon faktisk gjør. En riksrevisjons rolle er å kontrollere hvordan den utøvende myndighet anvender statelige midler på veiene av nasjonalfo ...
Ideality and Reality : The Body as Social Criticism in Tsushima Yûko's Child of Fortune 
Solhaug, Hanne Katinka (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
This thesis is an analysis of the Japanese novel Child of Fortune (Chôji) that was written and published in the late 1970s. The author Tsushima Yûko is relatively unknown to the Western public although she is considered ...
Converting hierarchies : an analysis of power structures in Ôe Kenzaburô's "Pinch Runner Dossier" 
Tørring, Magne (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
Ôe Kenzaburô (1935) is one of the most influential and significant Japanese writers of the postwar period. In 1994 he became the second from his country to receive the Nobel Literature Prize, an event which increased ...
Words for Women's Work : A contrastive study of words in Japanese and English for tasks associated with women working within the home 
Vestre, Sissel Kværne (Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2007)
This study is about the words used for women’s work within the home, in Japanese and English. The aim is to see whether there is something in the language used which undermines respect for the women who performer the tasks ...
Fujikô i møte med en ny tid. : Utviklingen av Maruyamakyô i Meiji. Fra folkereligiøsitet til sekt-shinto. 
Knutsen, Kari (Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2007)
For det Japanske samfunnet markerte det politiske maktskiftet i 1868 starten på store omveltninger. I løpet av få år ble landet endret fra et føydalt samfunn til en enhetlig moderne stat. Det ble gjort store forandringer ...
The diversity of Japanese causatives : An analysis of the actual usage 
Pedersen, Miyuki Tsuruta (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)
Traditionally, coercion and permission are regarded as prototypical functions of Japanese causatives from both a theoretical and a pedagogical point of view. With nine years of experience as a Japanese language teacher, ...
The status of marriage as an institution in modern society : a comparative study of Japan and Norway with a focus on gender equality 
Svendsen, Hanne Knarvik (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)
The status of marriage as an institution in modern sociology: A comparative study of Japan and Norway with a focus on gender equality. This research looks into the modernization process of marriage and how it has been ...
Butoh: on the edge of crisis? : a critical analysis of the Japanese avant-garde dance form in a postmodern perspective 
Hassel, Tara Ishizuka (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)
BUTOH: ON THE EDGE OF CRISIS? A Critical Analysis of the Japanese Avant-garde Dance Form in a Postmodern Perspective Butoh was part of the Japanese post-war avant-garde art movement, but what role does the avant-garde ...
Relasjonsbygging mellom japanske og norske bedrifter 
Baumgarten, Carl-Fredrik (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)
SAMMENDRAG Temaet for oppgaven min er relasjonsbygging mellom japanske og norske bedrifter. Jeg har lenge interessert meg for hvordan vi kommuniserer og kommer overens med representanter for kulturer som persumptivt er ...
Japans bistand til Burma 
Tumyr, Pål Gilje (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)
Japans bistand til Burma Japans bistand til Burma startet i 1954, da de ble pålagt å betale krigsskadeerstatning til Burma. Burma er etter hvert blitt et av de landene som Japan gir mest bistand til, og det er ingen andre ...
The dialogue between modern art and calligraphy 
Wold, Inger Merete (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)
Abstract In this thesis I investigate the meeting between Western art and the art of Japanese painting and calligraphy. Based on the question of what impact the meeting of modern art has had on the development of modern ...
Japanese comics : the reasons for their popularity and place in the popular culture 
Moe, Anders (Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
The Japanese comics industry is several times larger than that of comparable nations, and in the past ten years, it has made inroads in the west. This paper analyzes the reasons for the vast success of the Japanese comics ...
The legalization of Hinomaru and Kimigayo as Japan's national flag and anthem and its connections to the political campaign of "healthy nationalism and internationalism" 
Bruaset, Marit (Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)
The main focus of this thesis is the legalization of Hinomaru and Kimigayo as the national flag and anthem of Japan in 1999 and its connections to what seems to be an atypical Japanese form of postwar nationalism. In the ...
 
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